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EMPIRICISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

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Wilfrid Sellars

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Note: This paper was first presented as the University of London Special Lectures on Philosophy for 1955-56, delivered on March 1, 8, and 15, 1956, under the title "The Myth of the Given: Three Lectures on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind."

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Edited in Hypertext by Andrew Chrucky

Reproduced with the permission of the University of Minnesota Press from: Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," in Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven, eds., Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume I: The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis (University of Minnesota Press, 1956), pp. 253-329. When the essay was reprinted in Wilfrid Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963), Sellars added a few notes which have been incorporated into the present version. I should also add that in the reprint British spelling was used.

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1. AN AMBIGUITY IN SENSE-DATUM THEORIES (Secs. 1-7)
   
2. ANOTHER LANGUAGE (Secs. 8-9)
   
3. THE LOGIC OF 'LOOKS' (Secs. 10-20)
   
4. EXPLAINING LOOKS (Secs. 21-23)
   
5. IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS: A LOGICAL POINT (Secs. 24-25)
   
6. IMPRESSIONS AND IDEAS: AN HISTORICAL POINT (Secs. 26-29)
   
7. THE LOGIC OF 'MEANS' (Secs. 30-31)
   
8. DOES EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE HAVE A FOUNDATION? (Secs. 32-38)
   
9. SCIENCE AND ORDINARY USAGE (Secs. 39-44)
   
10. PRIVATE EPISODES: THE PROBLEM (Secs. 45)
    
11. THOUGHTS: THE CLASSICAL VIEW (Secs. 46-47)
    
12. OUR RYLEAN ANCESTORS (Secs. 48-50)
    
13. THEORIES AND MODELS (Secs. 51-52)
    
14. METHODOLOGICAL VERSUS PHILOSOPHICAL BEHAVIORISM (Secs. 53-55)
    
15. THE LOGIC OF PRIVATE EPISODES: THOUGHTS (Secs. 56-59)
    
16. THE LOGIC OF PRIVATE EPISODES: IMPRESSIONS (Secs. 60-63)
    

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