Synoptic Fusion and Dialectical Dissociation: The Entwinement of Linguistic and Experiential Pragmatisms à la Wilfrid Sellars

dc.contributor.advisorPratt, Scott
dc.contributor.authorNaeb, Cheyenne
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-13T18:35:26Z
dc.date.available2021-09-13T18:35:26Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-13
dc.description.abstractThis work will attempt to examine the relationship between experiential and linguistic pragmatism through the lens of the twentieth-century Analytic philosopher, Wilfrid Sellars. I maintain that Sellars meta-linguistic nominalism and theory of both conceptual and non-conceptual representation, the latter being known as “picturing”, can stitch together the most vital components from both sides of the schism. I shall compare the thought of Sellars to that of two representatives corresponding to the two forms of pragmatism listed above, those representatives being John Dewey and Robert Brandom. Using Sellars’s famous critique of “the given” as a starting point, I assess whether either thinker falls prey to said critique. From thereon I examine both representatives’ relation to Sellars and where the differences and similarities lie. I conclude with a Hegelian interpretation of Sellars’s theory of representation as a preliminary sketch of a future “naturalized pragmatism.”en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/26622
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
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dc.titleSynoptic Fusion and Dialectical Dissociation: The Entwinement of Linguistic and Experiential Pragmatisms à la Wilfrid Sellars
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Philosophy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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