Brandom's Two-Ply Error

Coates, Paul and de Vries, W.H. (2010) Brandom's Two-Ply Error. In: Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism : Essays on Wilfrid Sellars. Oxford University Press (OUP), New York, pp. 131-145. ISBN 978-0-19-957330-1
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Robert Brandom’s discussion of Sellars’s two-ply account of observation in his Tales of the Mighty Dead makes several crucial errors that would make Sellars’s analysis of “looks”-sentences incoherent. Brandom does not recognise the difference in “level” between observation reports concerning physical objects and “looks”-reports, and he denies that “looks”-sentences are reports or even make claims. We argue that a careful reading of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind does not support Brandom’s interpretation, and show how to read Sellars properly on the analysis of such sentences.

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