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C1. Castañeda to Sellars, 29 October 1956 C1. Castañeda to Sellars, 29 October 1956
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S2. Sellars to Castañeda, 7 December 1956 S2. Sellars to Castañeda, 7 December 1956
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C3. Castañeda to Sellars, 15 December 1956 C3. Castañeda to Sellars, 15 December 1956
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C4. Castañeda to Sellars, 4 October 1959 C4. Castañeda to Sellars, 4 October 1959
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C5. Castañeda to Sellars, 1 June 1967 C5. Castañeda to Sellars, 1 June 1967
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S6. Sellars to Castañeda, 7 June 1967 S6. Sellars to Castañeda, 7 June 1967
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22 The Castañeda–Sellars Correspondence, 1956–1967
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Published:August 2023
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This correspondence consists of letters exchanged between Sellars and Hector-Neri Castañeda in 1956 and 1967. The 1956 correspondence deals primarily with the early (Methodos) version of “Intention, Imperatives, and the Logic of ‘Ought’” (IIO). Castañeda argues (contra Sellars) that there are valid inferences not only among intentions, but also among commands, promises, and other nonassertoric speech acts; and he further offers criticisms of various aspects of Sellars’s logic of intentions such as the requirement that the “shall”-operator may not appear within the scope of logical operators. The later correspondence concerns “Form and Content in Ethical Theory,” most of which was incorporated into Chapter 7 of Science and Metaphysics. Castañeda addresses what he takes to be ambiguities and weaknesses in Sellars’s logic of intentions, such as whether Sellars’s notion of “reasonableness” is a semantic or pragmatic value, why the shall-operator cannot embed, and whether Sellars is consistent in his projection of nomologicals into the practical realm. Both sets of correspondence contain Sellar’s replies to Castañeda’s arguments.
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