Authors and Works Cited by Wilfrid Sellars
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Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)

  • Novum Organum (1620)
  • New Atlantis (1623)

    Baier, Annette

  • Sellars-Baier Correspondence, 1971-72.

    Baier, Kurt

  • "Good Reasons" and "Proving a Moral Judgment," Philosophical Studies 4, 1953.
  • "Is Punishment Retributive?" Analysis 16, 1955.
  • The Meaning of Life (Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Government Printer, 1957).
  • The Moral Point of View (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1958).
  • "'Could' and 'Would'," Analysis Suppl. vol. 1 (1963): 20-29. Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
  • "Moral Obligations," American Philosophical Quarterly 3, 1966.

    Baker, G. P.

  • (and P. M. Hacker) "Rules, Definitions, and the Naturalistic Fallacy," American Philosophical Quarterly 3, 1966.

    Balfour, James

  • A Defense of Philosophic Doubt (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912). Chapter, "On the Idea of a Philosophy of Ethics,"reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952).

    Barker, S. F.

  • Induction and Hypothesis: A Study of the Logic of Confirmation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957).

    Barnes, Winston H. F.

  • "A Suggestion about Value," Analysis 1 (1933). Reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952).
  • "Intention, Motive, and Responsibility," (symposium) Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 19 (1945).
  • "Ethics without Propositions," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 22 (1948).

    Barrett, W.

  • "On the Existence of the External World," Journal of Philosophy 36 (1939).

    Bayles, Michael D.

  • ed., Contemporary Utilitarianism (Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1968).

    Baylis, Charles A.

  • "Grading, Values, and Choice," Mind 67, 1958.

    Beardsley, Elizabeth L.

  • "Imperative Sentences in Relation to Indicatives," Philosophical Review 53 (1944).
  • "Determinism and Moral Perspectives," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 21, 1960.
  • "Moral Worth and Moral Credit," Philosophical Review 66, 1957.

    Behmann, H.

  • "Sind die Mathematischen Urteile Synthetische?" Erkenntnis 4 (1934).

    Bell, D. R.

  • "Impartiality and Intellectual Virtue," Philosophical Quarterly 15, 1965.

    Benn, Stanley I.,

  • "An Approach to the Problems of Punishment, " Philosophy 33, 1958.
  • (with Richard Peters) Social Principles and the Democratic State (London: G. Allen, 1959). Published in the U.S.A. by Collier books under the title Principles of Political Thought.

    Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)

  • Bentham's Theory of Fictions, ed. and intro. C. K. Ogden (Littlefield Adams, 1959).
  • Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)

    Bergler, Edmund

  • The Battle of the Conscience (Washington Institute of Medicine, 1948).

    Bergmann, Gustav (1906-1987)

  • "Outline of an Empiricist Psychology," American Journal of Physics 11 (1943).
  • "Pure Semantics, Sentences and Propositions," Mind 53 (1944).
  • "Psychoanalysis and Experimental Psychology," Mind 53 (1944).
  • "Holism, Historicism and Emergence," Philosophy of Science 11 (1944).
  • (and K. W. Spence) "The Logic of Psycho-Physical Measurement," Psychological Review 51 (1944).
  • "A Positivistic Metaphysics of Consciousness," Mind 54 (1945).
  • "Remarks on Realism," Philosophy of Science 13 (1946).
  • "Russell on Particulars," Philosophical Review 56 (1946).
  • "Symposium on Probability," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 6-7 (1945-6).
  • "Sense-Data, Linguistic Conventions and Existence," Philosophy of Science 14 (1947).
  • "A Note on Ontology," Philosophical Studies 1 (1950): pp. 89-92. Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
  • "Logical Atomism, Elementarism and the Analysis of Value," Philosophical Studies 2 (1951).
  • "Dispositional Properties," Philosophical Studies 6 (1955): 77-80.
  • "Intentionality," in Semantica, Rome (1955); reprinted in Meaning and Existence (Madison, 1960): 3-38.
  • "Propositional Functions," Analysis (1956). Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
  • "Some Reflections on Time," reprinted in Meaning and Existence (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960).
  • "Ineffability, Ontology and Method," Philosophical Review (Jan. 1960).

    Bergson, Henri (1859-1941)

  • Creative Evolution (1907).

    Berkeley, George (1685-1753)

  • A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)
  • Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. (1715)

    Berlin, Isaiah

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox : An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History (Reprint edition, 1993).

    Binkley, Luther J.

  • Contemporar!y Ethical Theories (New York: Citadel, 1961).

    Black, Max (1909-1988)

  • The Nature of Mathematics (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1933).
  • "Relations Between Logical Positivism and the Cambridge School of Analysis," Journal of Unified Science, 1939
  • "Conventionalism in Geometry," Philosophy of Science 9 (1942).
  • "The Semantic Definition of Truth," Analysis (1947).
  • "Some Questions about Emotive Meaning," Philosophical Review 57 (1948).
  • "Necessary Statements and Rules," Philosophical Review (1958): 313-41. Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
  • A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Cornell University Press, 1964).

    Blackstone, William T.

  • "Principle of Equality," Journal of Philosophy 62, 1965.

    Blake, Ralph Mason

  • "Why Not Hedonism? a Protest," Ethics 37 (1926-7).
  • "The Ground of Obligation," Ethics 38 (1927-8).

    Blanshard, Brand (1892-1987)

  • The Nature of Thought, 2 vols. (Muirhead Library of Philosophy, 1939).
  • "The Impasse in Ethics -- and a Way Out," University of California Publications in Philosophy 28, 1954. Reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, 2nd ed., ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970).
  • Reason and Goodness (London: Allen & Unwin, 1961). "'Good,' 'Right,' 'Ought,' 'Bad,'" reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, 2nd ed., ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970).
  • Reason and Analysis (London: Allen & Unwin, 1962).
  • Reason and Belief (London: Allen & Unwin, 1974).

    Blumberg, A. E.

  • (and H. Feigl) "Logical Positivism," Journal of Philosophy 28 (1931).

    Bohnert, H. G.

  • "The Semiotic Status of Commands," Philosophy of Science 12 (1945).
  • "Lewis' Attribution of Value to Objects," Philosophical Studies 1 (1950).

    Bosanquet, Bernard (1848-1923)

  • Some Suggestions in Ethics (Macmillan, 1918).

    Bradley, Francis Herbert (1846-1924)

  • Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (Macmillan, 1893). Click here to download
  • Ethical Studies (1876; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927).

    Braithwaite, Richard Bevan (190-1976)

  • "Verbal Ambiguity and Philosophical Analysis," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 28 (1927-8).
  • "Propositions about Material Objects," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 38 (1937-8).
  • "Belief and Action," Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 20 (1946).
  • Scientific Explanation (Cambridge University Press, 1953).

    Brand, Myles

  • (and Douglas Walton) ed., Action Theory (Dordrecht, 1976).

    Branden, Nathaniel

  • "Rational Egoism," The Personalist 51, 1970.

    Brandt, Richard

  • "An Emotional Theory of the Judgment of Moral Worth," Ethics 52 (1941-2).
  • "The Emotive Theory of Ethics," Philosophical Review 59, 1950.
  • "The Status of Empirical Assertion Theories in Ethics," Mind 61, 1952.
  • Ethical Theory: The Problem of Normative and Critical Ethics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959). "A Quasi-Naturalistic Definition," and "Ethical Relativism," reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, 2nd ed., ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970).
  • "Toward a Credible Form of Utilitarianism," In George Nakhnikian and H. Castaneda, eds., Morality and the Language of Conduct (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963).
  • "The Concepts of Obligation and Duty," Mind 73, 1964.
  • "A Utilitarian Theory of Blame," Philosophical Review 78, 1969.

    Braybrooke, David

  • "The Choice between Utilitarianisms," American Philosophical Quarterly 4, 1967.

    Brennan, R. E.

  • Thomistic Psychology, 1942.

    Brentano, Franz (1838-1907)

  • Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt (1874). A portion translated by D. B. Terrell as "The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena," in Realism and the Background of Phenomenology. Edited by R. M. Chisholm (Illinois: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1960).
  • The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong (1889). English translation by Cecil Hague (Westminster, A. Constable & Co., 1902).

    Bridgman, Percy W. (1882-1961)

  • The Logic of Modern Physics (Macmillan, 1927).

    Britton, Karl

  • "Are Necessary Truths True by Convention?" Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 21 (1947).
  • John Stuart Mill (Baltimore: Pelican Books, 1959).
  • "Utilitarianism: The Appeal to a First Principle," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 60, 1959-60.

    Broad, Charles D. (1887-1971)

  • Perception, Physics and Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1914).
  • "Is Space Euclidean?" Mind 24 (1915).
  • "Induction and Probability," Mind 27-29 (1918).
  • Scientific Thought (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1923).
  • Mind and its Place in Nature (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1925; Paterson, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1960).
  • Five Types of Ethical Theory (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1930; New York: Humanities Press, 1960; Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1965). Portions reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952).
  • "Is 'Goodness' a Name of a Simple Non-natural Quality?" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 34 (1933-34).
  • An Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy vol. I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933). Chapter "The "Nature" of a Continuant" reprinted in Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl and W. Sellars (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949) : Ch. 7: Particulars.
  • Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism (Cambridge University Press, 1934).
  • "Mechanical and Teleological Explanation," Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 14 (1935).
  • "Are There Synthetic A Priori Truths?" Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 15 (1936).
  • "Conscience and Conscientous Action," Philosophy 15 (1940).
  • "Kant's Theory of Mathematical and Philosophical Reasoning," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 41 (1941-42).
  • "Certain Features in Moore's Ethical Doctrines," Essay 1 in Schilpp (ed.) The Philosophy of G. E. Moore, 1942.
  • "Review of Julian S. Huxley's Evolutionary Ethics," Mind 53 (1944). Reprinted in Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl and W. Sellars (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949).
  • "Some Reflections on Moral-Sense Theories in Ethics," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 45 (1944-45): 131-166. Reprinted in Readings in Ethical Theory, ed. Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952).
  • "Some of the Main Problems of Ethics," Philosophy 21 (1946). Reprinted in Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl and W. Sellars (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949).
  • "Hägerstrom's Account of Sense of Duty and Certain Allied Experiences," Philosophy 26, 1951.
  • "Review of H. A. Prichard's Moral Obligation," Mind 60 (1951).
  • Ethics and the History of Philosophy (New York: Humanities Press, 1952).
  • "A Reply to My Critics," Philosophy of C. D. Broad, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (Open Court, 1959).
  • "G. E. Moore's Latest Published Views on Ethics," Mind 70, 1961.

    Brodbeck, May

  • "Towards a Naturalistic 'Non-naturalistic' Ethics," Philosophical Studies 2 (1951).

    Brouwer, L. E. J. (1882-1966)

    Brown, Charles D.

  • "Fallacies in Taylor's 'Fatalism,'" Journal of Philosophy 62, 1965.

    Brown, Stuart

  • "Duty and the Production of Good," Philosophical Review 61, 1952.

    Browning, D.

  • "The Moral Act," Philosophical Quarterly 12, 1962.

    Brunton, J. A.

  • "Egoism and Morality," Philosophical Quarterly 6, 1956.

    Buchler, Justus (1914-1991)

  • Charles Peirce's Empiricism (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939).
  • "Russell and the Principles of Ethics," in The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, ed. Schilpp (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1942).

    Bures, C.

  • "The Concept of Probability," Philosophy of Science 6 (1936).

    Burks, Arthur Walter (1915- )

  • "A Theory of Proper Names," Philosophical Studies , (1951): 31-44. Reprinted in New Readings in Philosophical Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellars and K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).
  • "The Logic of Causal Propositions," Mind 60 (1951): 363-382.
  • "Dispositional Statements," Philosophy of Science 22 (1955): 175-193.

    Burnet, John (1863-1928)

  • Early Greek Philosophy (1892)

    Burns, J. H.

  • "Utilitarianism and Democracy," Philosophical Quarterly 9, 1959.

    Butler, Joseph (1692-1752) -- C.D. Broad's biographical sketch

  • Sermons on Human Nature (1733)