" Quiconque voudrait entreprendre l'histoire du déplacement qui eut lieu au sein de la philosophie analytique, depuis son commencement, aux alentours de 1950, jusqu'à son achèvement, dans les années 1970, aurait à mettre l'accent sur trois ouvrages fondamentaux : l'article " Two Dogmas of Empiricism " de W. Quine (195 1), les Investigations philosophiques de Wittgenstein (1954), et Empirisme et philosophie de l'esprit de Wilfrid Sellars (1956). De ces trois œuvres, le long essai de Sellars, riche et intriqué, (...) demeure le moins connu et le moins discuté. Les historiens de la philosophie anglo-américaine récente ont souligné l'importance de l'essai de Quine, qui mettait en question la notion de " vérité analytique ". Ils ont également souligné l'importance de l'œuvre du dernier Wittgenstein. [... ] Empirisme et philosophie de l'esprit a contribué à produire ce que Donald Davidson appelle "une rupture si profonde dans la pensée philosophique contemporaine que nous pourrions bien ne pas nous en apercevoir" ". (extrait de la préface de R. Rorty). (shrink)

Studies in Wilfrid Sellars' philosophy: Aune, B. Sellars on practical reason.--Castañeda, H.-N. Some reflections on Wilfrid Sellars' theory of intentions.--Donagan, A. Determinism and freedom: Sellars and the reconciliationist thesis.--Robinson, W. S. The legend of the given.--Clark, R. The sensuous content of perception.--Grossmann, R. Perceptual objects, elementary particles, and emergent properties.--Rosenberg, J. F. The elusiveness of categories, the Archimedean dilemma, and the nature of man: a study in Sellarsian metaphysics.--Turnbull, R. G. Things, natures, and properties.--Wells, R. The (...) indispensable word "now."--Van Fraassen, B. C. Theories and counterfactuals.--Harman, G. H. Wilfrid Sellars' Theory of induction.--Sellarsiana: Sellars, W. Autobiographical reflections.--Sellars, W. The structure of knowledge. Lecture I, perception. Lecture II, minds. Lecture III, epistemic principles.--Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophical bibliography. (p. 349-353). (shrink)

The purpose of this brief introduction is to describe the origin of the papers here presented and to acknowledge the help of some of the many individuals who were involved in the preparation of this volume. Of the eighteen papers, nine stem from the annual fall colloquium of the Depart ment of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario held in London, Ontario from November 10 to November 12, 1967. The colloquium was entitled 'Philosophical Logic'. After some discussion, the editors (...) decided to retain that title for this volume. Von Wright's paper 'On the Logic and Ontology of Norms' is printed here after some revision. A. R. Anderson commented on the paper at the colloquium, but his comments here are based upon the revised version of the von Wright paper. The chairman of the session at which von Wright's paper was read and discussed was T. A. Goudge. Aqvist's paper 'Scattered Topics in Interrogative Logic', and Belnap's comments, 'Aqvist's Cor rections-Accumulating Question-Sequences', are printed as delivered. The chairman of the Aqvist-Belnap session was R. E. Butts. Wilfrid Sellars' paper 'Some Problems about Belief' is printed as delivered at the col loquium, but 'Quantifiers, Beliefs, and Sellars' by Ernest Sosa is a revision of his comments at the colloquium. That session was chaired by G. D. W. Berry. Ackermann's paper 'Some Problems oflnductive Logic', as well as Skyrms' comments, are printed as delivered. (shrink)