{"product_id":"empiricism-and-the-philosophy-of-mind-9780674251557","title":"Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wilfrid Sellars\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MixGD\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MixGD\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Religion and Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Humanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, \u003ci\u003eEmpiricism and the Philosophy of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of \"knowledge by acquaintance.\" Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in \u003ci\u003eEmpiricism and the Philosophy of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of \"epistemology.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of \u003ci\u003eEmpiricism and the Philosophy of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45321052422295,"sku":"9780674251557","price":2548.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780674251557.webp?v=1769288847","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/empiricism-and-the-philosophy-of-mind-9780674251557","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}