In one work, this philosopher suggests that just as when following the a chess game by examining a recording of the moves made, we don't worry about imagining the intrinsic qualities of the chess pieces, neither should we worry about the intrinsic character of thoughts, but should focus instead on the patterns of their relationships.
In one work, this philosopher suggests that just as when following the a chess game by examining a recording of the moves made, we don't worry about imagining the intrinsic qualities of the chess pieces, neither should we worry about the intrinsic character of thoughts, but should focus instead on the patterns of their relationships. In another work, this philosopher attacks a certain branch of epistemology for conflflating the "inner episode" of pre-conceptually perceiving objects like a red triangle with an episode in which such perception counts as non-inferential knowledge. In one work, he discussed how a scientiÂfic framework for discussing external reality clashes with man's framework of perceiving himself "in the world", which he terms the "manifest image"; that work is Philosophy and the ScientifiÂc Image of Man. For 10 points, name this American philosopher who criticized sense-data philosophers' reliance on the "Myth of the Given" in his Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.
In one work, this philosopher suggests that just as when following the a chess game by examining a recording of the moves made, we don't worry about imagining the intrinsic qualities of the chess pieces, neither should we worry about the intrinsic character of thoughts, but should focus instead on the patterns of their relationships.
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars