The Review of Metaphysics, December 1st, 2003
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IN SCIENCE, PERCEPTION, AND REALITY, Sellars marvels at the power of fashion in philosophy, which all too often offers us the spectacle of a stampede rather than a careful sifting of gold from dross. (1) Sellars was worried that the flight from phenomenalism would lead to the familiar pendulum effect and so thwart his effort to "usher analytic philosophy out of its Humean and into its Kantian stage," as Rorty has put it. (2) Accordingly, Sellars's critique of the Myth of the Given aimed to show that what was really wrong with phenomenalism was nothing particular to the sense-data of the p...
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