tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post8660269203644744223..comments2023-05-13T07:41:26.217-05:00Comments on SOH-Dan: An ObservationDaniel Lindquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-51270058223455126772008-11-17T21:34:00.000-06:002008-11-17T21:34:00.000-06:00They engage in more than a passing manner. In a fe...They engage in more than a passing manner. In a few places Quine does cite Sellars for something or other. <BR/><BR/>Sellars has a piece in Words and Objections (which was almost the name of my blog, till I found out that it was the name of that collection) and Quine has a reply. Quine has a piece entitled "Sellars on Behaviorism, Language, and Meaning" in the Jan. 1980 Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. Sellars has a reply to Quine on something in Synthese vol. 26. I expect that Sellars has an article responding to Quine on the rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction, but I'm not sure what it would be called.Shawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244930958211791213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-70262953796397506872008-11-12T01:33:00.000-06:002008-11-12T01:33:00.000-06:00Shawn: What are the places where Quine mentions Se...Shawn: What are the places where Quine mentions Sellars and vice-versa, if you can recall? I'm guessing they're just passing remarks? (I vaguely recall Quine mentioning Sellars in a footnote somewhere, offhand.)<BR/><BR/>Another place it occurs to me that Sellars and Quine would have contact is that they're both students of C.I. Lewis. Which makes their mutual ignoring even odder.Daniel Lindquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05443116324301716578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-6349846702198744972008-11-11T14:40:00.000-06:002008-11-11T14:40:00.000-06:00A cat hunting a bird understands spatiotemporalit...A cat hunting a bird understands spatiotemporality, and, arguably, it understands causation (as do any higher order mammals, if not most animals); when it catches the bird, doesn't it show some awareness of basic physics, velocity, force, inertia, etc? It would seem so. So do cats possess/partake in/connect with a synthetic a priori? It would seem so.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-2025880663597535722008-11-11T11:02:00.000-06:002008-11-11T11:02:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-24957168449567316122008-11-10T10:23:00.000-06:002008-11-10T10:23:00.000-06:00I didn't realize Sellars had studied under Quine e...I didn't realize Sellars had studied under Quine either. I'm still surprised at how little Quine and Sellars engaged each other in print, especially since they both responded to Carnap so much. I think I've seen only one article by each in which the other is mentioned. Possibly Sellars's time under Quine convinced him that there was too much distance between them to make criticism constructive. No clue.<BR/><BR/>The bit about Sellars avoiding ethics is interesting since normativity features so prominently in Sellars's overall view.Shawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244930958211791213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042142443470259188.post-31257644850289097072008-11-05T20:51:00.000-06:002008-11-05T20:51:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.com