Wilfrid Sellars

Gebundenes Buch

The Metaphysics of Practice

Writings on Action, Community, and Obligation

Herausgeber: Ferguson, Kyle; Koons, Jeremy Randel

Beschreibung

Wilfrid Sellars was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The Metaphysics of Practice brings together his writings on practical philosophy--published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence--with an editorial introduction explaining how the pieces fit into Sellars's philosophy as a whole.

Autor

Kyle Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Augustana College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he wrote his dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars's metaethical legacy. Ferguson completed an ethics fellowship in the Bioethics Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He has written or co-written a dozen articles and book chapters on metaethics, bioethics, and environmental ethics. Jeremy Koons is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar. Koons is the author of The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars (Routledge, 2019), the first in-depth work on this subject, and the co-editor (with Ronald Loeffler) of Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars's Practical Philosophy (Routledge, 2023). He has also written or co-written two additional books as well as two dozen articles and book chapters on metaethics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. His work has appeared in Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, and numerous other journals and edited volumes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 66mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780192866820
• ISBN-10: 0192866826
• Artikelnr.: 67863756