I describe how we might understand our ‘identity’ in the normative sense, through Wilfred Sellars’ framework from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. I connect this to discussions of Kantian understandings of the sources of our obligations.
All tagged Wilfred Sellars
A basic discussion of the role and conceptual space of philosophy, and how it relates to science.
The Buck Stops in the Space of Reasons
An essay that displays a basic comprehension of one of Sellars’ main ideas from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (The Myth of the Given).
An Asymmetry in Is/Ought
Statements about what is the case do not seem to imply what ought to be—but statements about what ought to be must imply certain things about what is the case. This post describes that observation, plus describes why I think the observation is helpful.