Buch | Kapitel
Sellars and Lewis on the given and empirical knowledge
pp. 199-217
Abstrakt
This chapter examines whether Lewis's account of "the given" is vulnerable to criticisms in terms of what Wilfrid Sellars called "the Myth of the Given." It is argued that the Myth of the Given involves several distinct aspects, but that Lewis's given is not "mythic" according to any of them. Lewis explicitly argues that the given only has an epistemological function insofar as it is interpreted. For that reason, it is epistemically efficacious for a conceptual framework only insofar as it is not epistemically independent of that framework. Hence Lewis's given is not vulnerable to Sellarsian criticism.
Publication details
Published in:
Olen Peter, Sachs Carl (2017) Pragmatism in transition: contemporary perspectives on C.I. Lewis. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Seiten: 199-217
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52863-2_9
Referenz:
Zarębski Tomasz (2017) „Sellars and Lewis on the given and empirical knowledge“, In: P. Olen & C. Sachs (eds.), Pragmatism in transition, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 199–217.