Sellars's Master Argument for Conceptualism.
This paper reconstructs what I call Sellars's 'master argument' for conceptualism regarding Kantian intuitions—a coherent argumentative thread that appears throughout his works beginning with Science and Metaphysics. In contrast to standard interpretations that focus primarily on the role of the cat...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 1557 - 1570 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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