The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom

by Chauncey Maher

Book Overview

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers--The Pittsburgh School--whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are distinctive because they occupy a norm-governed "space...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415804426
• ISBN13: 9780415804424
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"