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DeVries, Willem was born on September 16, 1950 in New York City.
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By Willem A. DeVries - Knowledge, Mind and the Given: Reading Wilfrid Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, Including the Complete Text of Sellars' Essay: 1st (first) Edition
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Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay by Willem A. Devries, Timm Triplett, Wilfrid Sellars (2000) Paperback
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Wilfrid Sellars (Philosophy Now)
(Wilfrid Sellars (1912-89) has been called "the most profo...)
Wilfrid Sellars (1912-89) has been called "the most profound and systematic epistemological thinker of the twentieth century" (Robert Brandom). He was in many respects ahead of his time, and many of his innovations have become widely acknowledged, for example, his attack on the "myth of the given", his functionalist treatment of intentional states, his proposal that psychological concepts are like theoretical concepts, and his suggestion that attributions of knowledge locate the knower "in the logical space of reasons". However, while many philosophers have begun to acknowledge Sellars's inspiration in their work, their interpretation of his thought has not always been the most accurate. His writings are difficult. Individually, his essays are complex and sometimes rely on doctrines and arguments he put forward elsewhere. Each of his articles is deepened and strengthened by seeing it in its systematic context, but he never wrote a unified exposition of his system, which therefore has to be pieced together from numerous disparate sources. Willem deVries addresses these difficulties specifically and provides a careful reading and remarkable overview of Sellars's systematic philosophy that will become the standard point of reference for all philosophers seeking to understand Sellars's hugely significant body of work.
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Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay
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"This book serves three purposes, and it serves them very well. First, it patiently, accurately and comprehensively supplies the necessary information about the historical and contemporaneous ideas, views, problems and theories which constitute the conceptual setting for Sellars's theses and argumentation. Second, it provides a careful and lucid section-by-section interpretative explanation of Sellars's own principal views and claims and, crucially, undertakes to support them. And third, it offers its readers the beginnings of an engaged critical discussion of Sellars's critique of givenness and epistemological foundationalism. What is particularly impressive about this work is its marvelous clarity...a highly polished, accessible text..." -- Jay F Rosenberg, Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Willem DeVries
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Willem DeVries, American philosophy professor. Named Fulbright District Lecturer University Vienna, 2005; Fulbright Doctoral fellow Fulbright Commission Germany, 1976-1977, senior research fellow 1982-1983, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995. Member American Association of University Professors, American Philosoph. Association, Society Philosophy and Psychology, N. American Kant Society.
Education
Bachelor, Haverford College, 1972. Master of Arts, University Pittsburgh, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1981.
Career
Assistant professor Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1979-1986. Mellon postdoctoral fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, 1986-1987. Visiting assistant professor Tufts University, Medford, 1987-1988.
Assistant professor University New Hampshire, Durham, 1988-1993, associate professor, 1993-1998, chair philosophy department, 1994-2000, professor, since 1998, director London Program, 2001—2002. Fulbright distinguished lecturer University Vienna, 2005. Project director Scientist as Humanist, Concord, New Hampshire, 1991-1993.
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Wilfrid Sellars (Philosophy Now)
(Wilfrid Sellars (1912-89) has been called "the most profo...)
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Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay
("This book serves three purposes, and it serves them very...)
- By Willem A. DeVries - Knowledge, Mind and the Given: Reading Wilfrid Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, Including the Complete Text of Sellars' Essay: 1st (first) Edition
- Knowledge, Mind, and the Given : Reading Wilfrid Sellars's "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," Including the Complete Text of Sellars's Essay by Willem A. Devries, Timm Triplett, Wilfrid Sellars (2000) Paperback
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Wilfrid Sellars (Philosophy Now)
Membership
Member American Association of University Professors, American Philosoph. Association, Society Philosophy and Psychology, N. American Kant Society.
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Son of Willem Cornelis and Jenny (Broekman) deVries. Married Dianne Kaplan, January 2, 1982. Children: Hadriel, Jeremy.
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American
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1972
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1981
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Named Fulbright District Lecturer University Vienna, 2005. Fulbright Doctoral fellow Fulbright Commission Germany, 1976-1977, senior research fellow 1982-1983, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995.Named Fulbright District Lecturer University Vienna, 2005. Fulbright Doctoral fellow Fulbright Commission Germany, 1976-1977, senior research fellow 1982-1983, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995.