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This thinker's student Willem de Vries wrote a 2005 guide to his philosophy. This philosopher responded to Nelson Goodman's arguments about counterfactuals in the essay "Counterfactuals, Dispositions and Causal Modalities," and compared words to chess pieces in "Some Reflections on Language Games." This philosopher argued that "characterizing an episode or a state as that of knowing" means "placing it in the logical space of reasons," and refuted the "layer cake" view of scientific theories in Science, Perception, and Reality. He considered the problem of understanding a pink ice cube in an essay distinguishing the "manifest image" from the title concept, "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man." Another of his essays compares the thoughts of a being who uses language to molecules inside a gas, by describing people who have mastered a "Rylean language" and a genius named Jones. For 10 points, name this American analytic philosopher who criticized foundationalism as the ? "myth of the given" in "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind."
This thinker's student Willem de Vries wrote a 2005 guide to his philosophy.
{Wilfrid Sellars}