Ryleans and outlookers: Wilfrid sellars on "mental states"

Midwest Studies in Philosophy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 239-265

  Rosenberg, Jay F ^a  

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EID: 61049482594     PISSN: 03636550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4975.2004.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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1. Reprinted in Science, Perception and Reality (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1963 & 1991), pp. 127-96. Citations, henceforth as "EPM," are to this appearance.
2. Nevertheless Sellars is also credited with having originally formulated it. Thus Alvin Goldman: "It is noteworthy that the first statement of the TT ['theory' theory] was in Wilfrid Sellars's paper "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," in "Folk Psychology and Mental Concepts," Proto Sociology 14 (2000), p. 7 (note).
3. "Folk psychology, as a theory," in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stan ford.edu/entries/folkpsych-theory/.
4. "Meaning as Functional Classification (A Perspective on the Relation of Syntax to Semantics)," in Intentionality, Language and Translation, J. G. Troyer and S. C. Wheeler, III, eds. (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974) = Synthese 27 (1974), pp. 417-37,
5. with replies to Daniel Dennett and Hilary Putnam = "Reply," Synthese 27 (1974), pp. 457-66. Cited henceforth as "MFC."
6. "Correspondence between Hector Castañeda and Wilfrid Sellars on Philosophy of Mind" (henceforth: "Corr"), edited by Andrew Chrucky, letter of April 3, 1961, Sellars to Castañeda, §10-11. Available at the Sellars website: http://www.ditext.com/sellars/.
7. First published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1969), pp. 506-27.
8. Reprinted as Chapter 5, pp. 93-117, of Wilfrid Sellars, Essays in Philosophy and Its History (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1974). Citations, as "LTC," are to the latter appearance.
9. In Keith Lehrer, ed., Freedom and Determinism (New York: Random House, 1966), pp. 105-39. Cited henceforth as "TA."
10. We shall have more to say about these themes later, but this is a good point at which to collate some additional references: Sellars' "Imperatives, Intentions, and the Logic of 'Ought'," Methodos 8 (1956), pp. 228-68;
11. "Actions and Events," Noûs 7 (1973), pp. 179-202,
12. reprinted as Ch. 10, pp. 189-213 of Essays in Philosophy and Its History (cf. note 10 above; later citations as "A&E" to this appearance);
13. and "Volitions Reaffirmed" in M. Brand and D. Walton, eds., Action Theory (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1976), pp. 47-66.
14. [Also in: A. O'Hear, ed., Current Issues in the Philosophy of Mind, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 83-99.]
15. Louise Röska-Hardy surveys Gordon's "simulation" idioms in "Self-Ascription and the Simulation Theory," cited in note 5 above. See p. 133.
16. Robert M. Gordon (RMG), "How to Think about Thinking," in M. Davies and T Stone, eds., Mental Simulation (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), p. 56.