Sellars' Concept of manifest and scientific image release_jr5yxkgixngpjoyma7vbh7ldqa

Abstract

The philosophical work of Wilfrid Sellars tries to make connection between American pragmatic philosophy and other philosophical traditions, like Plato's, Descartes' or Kant's. Although he focuses on explanation of the whole of our world, he doesn't ignore purely pragmatic questions of know-how. The central topic of his philosophy is the problem faced by any philosopher – dualistic character of our reality – two pictures of the same order of complexity, each of which tries to be a complete picture of man-in-the-world, and which, we must integrate into one vision. Sellars refers to these pictures as manifest and the scientific images of man-in-the-world. The manifest image is the primary and it is a refinement of what he calls the original image. The main difference of manifest image is that it doesn't include imperceptible entities – scientific image is therefore a specific idealization of manifest image. In this text we explain how Sellars tries to fuse these two images.
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