Sellars, practical reality, and practical truth
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F23%3A43968479" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/23:43968479 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12462" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12462</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/theo.12462" target="_blank" >10.1111/theo.12462</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sellars, practical reality, and practical truth
Original language description
Wilfrid Sellars is usually read as claiming that only the unobservable, theoretical objects which science would postulate at the ideal end of inquiry are real. Against this, Willem deVries has suggested that we can develop a notion of practical reality in the context of Sellars's philosophy which would pertain primarily to commonsense objects. I use deVries's suggestion as a foil to clarify Sellars's own commitments about the practical. I show that the notion of practical reality is not necessary to secure the ultimate legitimacy of practical concepts. We can retreat to the less committed notion of practical truth. I argue that the notion of practical truth may not be sufficient to ensure that ultimately legitimate practical concepts are commonsense concepts in Sellars's framework. Nevertheless, deVries's suggestion highlights that Sellars's vision of an ultimate conceptual system may have been richer than is often thought.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-04496S" target="_blank" >GA20-04496S: Constructing Pragmatism - Wilfrid Sellars and the Pragmatist Tradition</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Theoria
ISSN
0040-5825
e-ISSN
1755-2567
Volume of the periodical
89
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
571-591
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85153502842