CRITIQUE OF WILFRID SELLARS' MATERIALISM

CRITIQUE OF WILFRID SELLARS' MATERIALISM

by

Andrew Chrucky
DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEPARTMENT
OF PHILOSOPHY AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
February, 1990

For OLHA, my mother; KATHY, my wife; SERHII, my son

Table of Contents

Author's Note: I have reprinted my dissertation as it was written, but have added scattered annotations in brackets, ending with '(AC 1996)'. If I were to correct this dissertation, I would rewrite chapter 10, which was composed hastily to meet a fatal deadline, and I would expand on some of the other sections. For example, I was not aware of the influence of Edward Tolman's "puposive behaviorism" on Sellars; e.g., the expression "raw feels" is Tolman's. I would also give more prominence to the influence (and the independent thoughts) of Curt Ducasse, among other things.
Sellars' dot-quotes are expressed by bold periods. Logical connectors and quantifiers are all expressed by bold characters as follows:

--> = material implication
<--> = material equivalence
& = conjunction
~ = negation
v = disjunction
(x) = universal quantifier
(Ex) = particular ('existential') quantifier

-->	=	material implication
<-->	=	material equivalence
&	=	conjunction
~	=	negation
v	=	disjunction
(x)	=	universal quantifier
(Ex)	=	particular ('existential') quantifier