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Sellars in '70 at 90

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1971

A. H. Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario.

Extract

Roy Wood Sellars was born in Seaforth, Ontario in 1880. In 1970 he published two massive volumes. One is entitled: The Principles, Perspectives, and Problems of Philosophy; the other: Social Problems and Political Horizons. In the same year an extensive collection of his articles and essays, Principles of Emergent Realism appeared.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1971

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References

1 Pageant Press International Corp., New York, N.Y. 1970, p. 483. This volume is in three parts as follows: Introduction, Studies in the History of Philosophy and Theory of Knowledge; General Ontology and Cosmology; Human Life and Values. It is a revised version of Sellars' Principles and Problems of Philosophy published in 1926. Hereafter The Principles, Perspectives and Problems of Philosophy will be referred to as: P.P.P.P.

2 Aurora Publishers Inc., Nashville, Tenn. 1970, pp. 414. Hereafter this volume will be referred to as: S.P.P.H.

3 Compiled and edited by Preston Warren, W., Warren H. Green Inc., St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A., 1970, pp. 374Google Scholar. This volume has articles and essays under the following headings: Basic Explanatory Conceptions; The Development of Referential Physical Realism; The Mind-Body Test Case; Other Tests of Emergent Realism: The Theory of Truth and the Theory of Value; Other Tests of Emergent Realism; Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion. Hereafter this book will be referred to as: P.E.R.

4 Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 111., U.S.A., 1968, pp. 225. Hereafter this book will be referred to as: M.

5 M. xii-xiii. In his excellent chapter on the “Mind-Body problem” Melchert notes that in so far as Sellars deals with mind in terms of capacities and functions of the brain or body he has kinship with Ryle's The Concept of Mind.