Are there two grades of knowledge? Mythology of the given: Sosa, Sellars and the task of epistemology. I - Michael Williams

Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, Supplementary Volumes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-112

  Williams, Michael ^a   Sosa, Ernest ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60949515050     PISSN: 03097013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8349.00104     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Ernest Sosa, 'Mythology of the Given', History of Philosophy Quarterly, v. 14, n. 3 (July 1997), 275-286. Subsequent references to this paper are given in the text by page numbers in parentheses
2. See Roderick Chisholm, The Foundations of Knowing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1982)
3. This argument is taken from Sellars's paper 'Epistemic Principles' in H. N. Castañeda, ed., Action, Knowledge and Reality (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1975)
4. reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim (eds.), Epistemology: an Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell 2000), 125-133. References here are to this reprinting. Sellars presents this paper as further developing some central ideas of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (hereafter EPM)
5. citing Donald Davidson, 'A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge.'
6. The most convenient source for this important essay in now Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001). The quotation is on page 141 in this reprinting
7. Sellars, 'Epistemic Principles', p. 132; emphasis in original