CFP: Davidson & Sellars

Call for Papers on Davidson and Sellars

We seek papers examining the relationships between the philosophies of Wilfrid Sellars and Donald Davidson for a volume projected to be published in the Routledge Studies in American Philosophy series.

Treatment of any aspect of the relationship between the thought of Davidson and Sellars is welcome.  General areas of concern are

•        The role of semantic theory in philosophical thought

•        The status and analysis of mentalistic language

•        Knowledge of mental states (one’s own and that of others)

•        Reasons and causes; the realm of law and the space of reasons

•        The idea of a conceptual scheme

•        Coherence in truth and knowledge

•        Actions and events

•        Predication

•        First-person authority

•        The mental life of animals

•        Ontology in Davidson and Sellars

•        Philosophical methodology

•        Relationship to significant historical figures/positions in Philosophy

Please send abstracts (250-500 words) along with a CV to Willem A. deVries ([email protected]) or Marc Joseph ([email protected]).

Have questions?  Ask Bill or Marc--same addresses.

We project the following timeline: deadline for submission of abstracts: October 1, 2022.  One month for reviewing and accepting proposals.  We plan to notify those who propose to write an essay by the beginning of November, 2022.  Drafts of the essays would then be due one year later, November 2023.