Consequences of Behaviorism: Sellars and de Laguna on Explanation

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 47 (2):111-131 (2017)
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I explore conceptual tensions that emerge between Wilfrid Sellars’ and Grace de Laguna’s adoption of behaviorism. Despite agreeing on various points, I argue that Sellars’ and de Laguna’s positions represent a split between normativist and descriptivist approaches to explanation that are generally incompatible, and I explore how both positions claim conceptual priority.

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Wilfrid Sellars.Willem deVries - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Grace de Laguna’s analytic and speculative philosophy.Joel Katzav - forthcoming - Australasian Philosophical Review.
Wilfrid Sellars.Jay Rosenberg - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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