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For Sellars, then, the order of meaning cannot be strictly ascribed to language or to praxis. Rather, by his account meaning depends on language, and language is no abstract structure or system, but i… more →
Wittgensteins, Heideggers, and Gadamers, Oh My!
South Carolina Republicans Use Jewish Stereotype to Defend DeMint
audiegrl wrote 1 month ago: Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) CBS News/Charles Cooper—With friends like these… Last week, St … more →
#147 Martin Cemetery
generationsgoneby wrote 3 months ago: Lascassas Quadrangle 2/3 mile north of Jefferson Pike East of Valley View Road 1/4 of a mile down a … more →
Oakeshott's Relativism
manwithoutqualities wrote 8 months ago: Attributions of relativism to Oakeshott are twofold: The first, and the more common attribution, is … more →
Adams: Doctor Atomic
takeall wrote 11 months ago: The longing to overcome human boundaries lead the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to begin an experi … more →
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claybomb wrote 2 years ago: For Sellars, then, the order of meaning cannot be strictly ascribed to language or to praxis. Rather … more →
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claybomb wrote 2 years ago: However, Sellars’ rejection of the Myth of the Given complicates this arrangement. Put schemat … more →
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claybomb wrote 2 years ago: The Ur-Hegelian of the Pittsburgh school, Wilfrid Sellars, offers a contrasting view. His most influ … more →
Lafont, Lafont, Lafont is on Fire...
claybomb wrote 2 years ago: Cristina Lafont’s Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure is quite a book. Against both thos … more →
Ooh Baby I Love Your Ways and Means
claybomb wrote 2 years ago: One puzzling aspect of the Sellarsian account of meaning I presented in my last post concerns the se … more →
It Was the Myth of the Given, That's Why We Must Learn to Live Alone
claybomb wrote 2 years ago: The 1997 edition of Wilfrid Sellars’ Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (originally publish … more →
