Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency

This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency.

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Jeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University Qatar. He is the author of The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars (Routledge, 2019), and the author or co-author of two additional books as well as two dozen articles and book chapters on metaethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.

Ronald Loeffler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Grand Valley State University, USA. He is the author of Brandom (2018) and of articles in the philosophy of mind and language.

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Introduction Jeremy Randel Koons and Ronald Loeffler Part 1: Understanding Sellarsian We-intentions 1. Sellars on the Intersubjectivity of We-Intentions Stefanie Dach 2. We-Intentions and How One Reports Them Kyle Ferguson 3. Moral We-Intentions as Individualistic We-Attitudes Ronald Loeffler 4. Cracks in the Foundation: An Anscombean Critique of Sellars's Practical Philosophy Heath White Part 2: Naturalism and the Manifest Image: Extensions and Critical Engagements 5. Persons and Their Categories Willem A. Devries 6. 'Causal Reducibility' and Naturalism in Sellars's Conception of the Moral 'Ought' James R. O'shea 7. Norm, Nature, and Narrative: Stereoscopic Vision in Sellars and Danielle Macbeth Zachary Gabor 8. Practical Cognition, Motor Intentionality, and the Idea of the Good: Considerations of Denotational and Connotational Meaning Preston Stovall Part 3: The Moral Point of View and the Kingdom of Ends 9. The Community of Rational Beings Nicholas Tebben 10. Morality, Tribalism, and Value Danielle Macbeth 11. Sellars on External Reasons Jeremy Randel Koons. Index