Sellars on Foundationalism

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Daniel Bonevac

7 жыл бұрын

Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Part One, The Analytic Tradition, Spring 2017

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@thattimestampguy 9 ай бұрын

3:52 The Myth of The Given. 5:00 Sellars’ Background. *The Theory of The Given* 5:44 What Is Knowledge? 6:25 Knowing = Perceiving a certain way leads to the false conclusion that We are Never Wrong 6:43 Knowledge = True Opinion is wrong because 7:05 Being Right is not the same as Knowing why you’re right. People can guess and get it right. 7:35 Knowledge = Justified True Belief 8:25 Keep asking why until we reach “I don’t know.” 9:13 The Justification Justifies Itself. 9:35 These are Givens, Basic Foundationals. The Fundamental Knowings. 10:48 Graspings. • * Physical Laws [wait; no that requires lots of justification] 11:45 Chisolm’s Theory of Appearance 12:30 Beliefs Sensings 13:30 Sensibilty 15:20 Grasping & Sensing 1. Causal Relation I think because my senses 2. Justification Relation 16:50 Familiar and Unfamiliar Experiences 18:15 “That’s ridiculous.” “Well, I’ve grown to like it.” 19:00 Greater Appreciation came when concepts were acquired on how one is supposed to understand it. 20:26 2 Photographs superimposed on top of each other. Stuck together images. 21:54 Pre-Conceptual Sensations 22:25 Graspings, Non-Inferentials. It doesn’t stem from other beliefs. “It just does. It just does to me.” 23:45 Objectivity. Graspings that have Authority. Undeniability. 24:35 Matching Grasping To The World. 25:22 Gravity Confirmed Again ✅ Tell The Physics Department. 27:00 Describing Taste. 27:37 Inter-Subjective Agreement, a proxy for Objective Agreement. 31:03 Graspings are Necessary Conditions For All Empirical Knowledge 32:05 Sensings & Graspings 33:15 The Theory of The Given. Immediacy Theory. *Sellars Essay* 34:14 Sellars Essay 35:24 Layer Cake Structure 36:36 Data Sensation Connection, Relation. 37:29 Atomism -> Independence of Graspings. 38:42 Ajudication 40:17 The Absolute is Lazy 43:02 What is Sellars attacking? 44:31 Appropriate Conditions 45:57 Self-Correcting vs Resting On Foundation

@nathanwatson2608 7 жыл бұрын

So happy to see you posting the videos on Sellars!

@lukesellars7178 Жыл бұрын

I really like this! For more that one reason.

@noivatco 2 жыл бұрын

Cordial greetings ! Well, first of all, I would like to thank you for the service provided for free, here in Brazil, you can't find anything with this content, not even paying. That said, I leave here my request for the insertion of subtitles - it can be in English - in order to facilitate understanding

@martinsoto4662 2 жыл бұрын

Dan and his wife look so cute in that picture! I hope they had fun at that party

@hamzakhalifi6875 7 ай бұрын

Thank you professor for this illuminating lecture,out of which I have learned a lot.I have a question:Do you agree with Richard Rorty’s interpretation of Sellers’s attack on the given in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature?

@NATALIASOLEDADCHAVEZ 3 ай бұрын

Could you please, add autogenereter captions and translation for the video? Thank you from Argentina

@odowdma 4 жыл бұрын

very nice expos of epm

@philp521 3 жыл бұрын

Great lecture! I will be sure to pass it along. Out of curiosity, did you meet or take any courses with Sellars while you were at the University of Pittsburgh?

@PhiloofAlexandria 3 жыл бұрын

He was my dissertation director. So, I knew him well. And I took seminars with him on Pre-Kantian Philosophy and on the Theory of Knowledge.

@corvusrabenklang8608 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhiloofAlexandria Do you know Prof. Christopher Gauker? He is my professor for philosophy of the mind in Salzburg Austria. He told us that Sellars was also his dissertation director.

@PhiloofAlexandria 2 жыл бұрын

@@corvusrabenklang8608 Yes!

@corvusrabenklang8608 2 жыл бұрын

@@PhiloofAlexandria oh cool. Your lectures helped me to get an "gut" (B) on Dr. Gaukers Exam. Thanks for that. 👍

@charliesteiner2334 4 жыл бұрын

Was really rooting for one of the students to say Occam's razor is foundational. Maybe not the right department :P

@joseairton922 4 жыл бұрын

Subtitles, please!

@nathanketsdever3150 2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Bonevac or others: Which of your videos should we watch to find out the problems and critiques of empiricism? Thanks!

@MS-il3ht Жыл бұрын

Just read Bonjour

@nathanketsdever3150 Жыл бұрын

@@MS-il3ht Can you provide a bit more context?

@MS-il3ht Жыл бұрын

@@nathanketsdever3150 well, he was originally all about a kind of empiricist coherentism and then shifted to a rather peculiar kind of rationalism. His book on this transition is definitely the best overview from such an angle.

@hss12661 10 ай бұрын

@@MS-il3ht BonJour is a Cartesian foundationalist. If you want a serious critique of empiricism from a coherentist meta-rationalist perspective listen to or watch Brandom or McDowell.

@Human_Evolution- 7 жыл бұрын

is Quines Web of Belief and or Holism the same thing as Foundationalism?

@n0tpossible 6 жыл бұрын

Its is actually the antithesis of foundationalism. It's says there is no foundation for knowledge to sit on but that all proposition must be taken in relationship with other propositions. You need the whole (holism) web to make any given statement true. And though there are beliefs that are close to the center of the web, if you changed the rest of the web enough you could change beliefs that are close to the center. The example he gave was making 7 greater than 1000.

@Human_Evolution- 6 жыл бұрын

Dakota J. Kant tried to build a foundation via methods like Kants Trident (various combinations of a priori, a posterior, synthetic, and analytic.) Quine rejected the strong meaning of these categories in his famous essay Two Dogmas of Empiricism. My confusion comes in the sense that I see the centrality of Quines Web of Belief as a foundation. Am I stretching synonymy too far here?

@n0tpossible 6 жыл бұрын

Human Evolution In my understanding, yeah the web of beliefs is the paradigm case for anti-foundationalism! I see where the misunderstanding is happening though and it's any easy thing to miss. In foundationalism you have all knowledge "sitting atop" something. Like the lecturer said it might be sense datum. This information is "self-evident" in that it needs absolutely no justification. Where Quine is going to say that any (and all) single piece of knowledge necessitates a whole web of beliefs. Quine would say "no piece of information is more self evident than another." The correlate to this is that any single piece of information can be changed if you change your web of beliefs enough. In Two Dogmas he proves this with the planets proof. In the foundationalist view we have a whole bunch of knowledge resting on one thing (the foundation), where in Quine we have everything resting on everything (no foundation). Does that make sense?

@havenbastion 2 жыл бұрын

Knowledge is justified belief, never true by some eventual hypothetical ultimate standard, always true in relation to a specific use-case. As sure as possible always counts as knowledge. Sufficient knowledge is all there ever can be, because information is infinite, and our minds not so much. When we're sure enough to accept the fact or take the action, that's the upper limit, because there's no reason to gather or integrate more information at that point.

@sfopera Жыл бұрын

"Analytic philosophy spent 50 years climbing s molehill and then spent 50 climbing down the other side." Discuss.

@findbridge1790 3 жыл бұрын

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@PhiloofAlexandria 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think the defaults changed without my knowing it. I'm going to fix that.

@PhiloofAlexandria 3 жыл бұрын

I think I found the setting. The ads during the video are awful. I think I've managed to turn them off, and to eliminate a few other obnoxious features.

@findbridge1790 3 жыл бұрын

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@findbridge1790 3 жыл бұрын

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