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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

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  • In Wilfrid Sellars

    …publication of his essay “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” a critique of a conception of mind and knowledge inherited from René Descartes (1596–1650). Sellars there attacked what he called the “myth of the given,” the Cartesian idea that one can have immediate and indubitable perceptual knowledge of one’s…

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