Pictures, Images and Conceptual Change, An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars' Philosophy of Science. Joseph C. Pitt

This paper suffers from a disconcerting generality. I need an excuse for wandering from Wittgenstein's Tractatus to Picasso's drawing of a Weeping Woman, via the philosophy of science and the theory of sense data. The thesis of the paper is that I have such an excuse. These are all areas where the concept of representation either exists in its own right, or has been found to be illuminating by philosophers. An important question is whether it could be the same concept in all these cases. I wish to claim that there is an illuminating common concept, even though to find it may require some fairly drastic modifications of some of the philosophical theses that are involved.

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Wilfrid Sellars. Presupposing. The philosophical review, vol. 63 (1954), pp. 197–215. - P. F. Strawson. A reply to Mr. Sellars. The philosophical review, vol. 63 (1954), pp. 216–231. - Max Black. Presupposition and implication. Kagaku tetsugaku eno michi (A way to the philosophy of science), Essays in the philosophical analysis IV, edited by Seizi Uyeda, Waseda University Press, Tokyo1958, pp. 433–448. - Vergil H. Dykstra. Philosophers and presuppositions. Mind, n.s. vol. 69 (1960), pp. 63–68.

Journal of Symbolic Logic ◽

10.2307/2963531 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 336-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael Dummett

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Philosophical Analysis ◽

Wilfrid Sellars ◽

Philosophical Review

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Wilfrid Sellars. Pure pragmatics and epistemology. Philosophy of science, vol. 14 (1947), pp. 181–202.

Journal of Symbolic Logic ◽

10.2307/2268166 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 57-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Virgil Hinshaw

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Wilfrid Sellars

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Representation and Conceptual Change

Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures ◽

10.1017/s0080443600000832 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 106-131

Author(s):

Andrew Harrison

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Change ◽

Philosophy Of Science ◽

Sense Data ◽

Common Concept

This paper suffers from a disconcerting generality. I need an excuse for wandering from Wittgenstein's Tractatus to Picasso's drawing of a Weeping Woman, via the philosophy of science and the theory of sense data. The thesis of the paper is that I have such an excuse. These are all areas where the concept of representation either exists in its own right, or has been found to be illuminating by philosophers. An important question is whether it could be the same concept in all these cases. I wish to claim that there is an illuminating common concept, even though to find it may require some fairly drastic modifications of some of the philosophical theses that are involved.

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