Abbreviations

“Actions and Events,” Nous 7 (1973): 179-202. Contribution to a symposium on the topic at the University of North Carolina, November, 1969.

“Acquaintance and Description Again,” The Journal of Philosophy 46 (1949): 496-505.

“Abstract Entities,” Review of Metaphysics 16 (1963): 627-71. In PPME.

“Aristotelian Philosophies of Mind,” in Philosophy for the Future, edited by Roy Wood Sellars, V.J. McGill, and Marvin Farber (The Macmillan Co., 1949): 544-70. In KPT.

“Autobiographical Reflections: (February, 1973).” Published in Action, Knowledge and Reality, edited by H.-N. Castañeda (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975): 277-93.

“The Adverbial Theory of the Objects of Sensation,” in Metaphilosophy 6, edited by Terrell Bynum (Basil Blackwell, 1975): 144-60.

“Being and Being Known,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1960): 28-49. In SPR.

“Berkeley and Descartes: Reflections on the ‘New Way of Ideas’” (presented in 1974 in the Program in the History and Philosophy of Theories of Perception at Ohio State University). Published in Studies in Perception: Interpretations in the History of Philosophy and Science, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Robert G. Turnbull (Ohio State University Press, 1977): 259-311. In KTM.

“Behaviorism, Language and Meaning,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 61 (1980): 3-30.

“Classes as Abstract Entities and the Russell Paradox,” Review of Metaphysics 17 (1963): 67-90. In PPME.

“Conceptual Change,” in Conceptual Change, edited by P. Maynard and G. Pearce (D. Reidel, 1973): 77-93.

“Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and the Causal Modalities,” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. II, edited by Herbert Feigl, Michael Scriven, and Grover Maxwell (University of Minnesota Press, 1958): 225-308.

“Reflection on Contrary to Duty Imperatives,” Nous 1 (1967): 303-44.

“The Concept of Emergence,” (with Paul Meehl), in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. I, edited by Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven (University of Minnesota Press, 1956): 239-52.

“Comments on Mr. Hempel’s Theses,” Review of Metaphysics 5 (1952): 623-25.

“Concepts as Involving Laws and Inconceivable without Them,” Philosophy of Science 15 (1948): 287315. In PPPW.

Sellars’ notes for his Cassirer Lectures, published in KTM.

“Comments on Maxwell’s “Meaning Postulates in Scientific Theories,”” in Current Issues in The Philosophy of Science, edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961): 183-92.

Comments on McMullin’s “Matter as a Principle,” in The Concept of Matter, edited by Ernan McMullin (Notre Dame: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1963): 209-13.

“Conditional Promises and Conditional Intentions (Including a Reply to Castañeda),”in Agent, Language and the Structure of the World: Essays Presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda, With His Replies, edited by James E. Tomberlin (Hackett Publishing Co., 1983): 195-221.

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Bruce Aune," (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Annette Baier," 1971-72 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Hector-Neri Castañeda," 1961-1962 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Roderick Chisholm," 1956, item ITM.

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Roderick Firth," 1974 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Gilbert Harman," 1970 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Michael Loux," 1978, in Appendix of NAO.

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Ausonio Marras," 1972-1976 (unpublished).

"W.V. Quine to Wilfrid Sellars," 1972 (unpublished).

"Sellars-Rosenberg Correspondence on Ontology," 1972-1973 (unpublished).

"Rosenthal-Sellars Correspondence on Intentionality," 1965-1966, in Intentionality, Mind and Language, ed. Ausonio Marras (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972): 461-503.

"Wilfrid Sellars to Ruth Marcus," 1967 (unpublished).

"Letter to David Solomon," 1976 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and J.J.C. Smart," 1961, 1964 (unpublished).

"Correspondence between Wilfrid Sellars and Judith Thomson", 1979 (unpublished).

“The Double-Knowledge Approach to the Mind-Body Problem,” The New Scholasticism 45 (1971): 269-89.

“Empiricism and Abstract Entities,” in The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap (The Library of Living Philosophers) edited by Paul A. Schilpp (Open Court, 1963): 431-68.

“Epistemology and the New Way of Words,” The Journal of Philosophy 44 (1947): 645-60. In PPPW.

Essays in Philosophy and its History (D. Reidel, 1974).

“Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” in Minnesota Studies in The Philosophy of Science, Vol. I: The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, edited by Herbert Feigl and Michael Scriven (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956): 253-329. Presented at the University of London in 1956 under the title “The Myth of the Given: Three Lecures on Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.” Reprinted in SPR. Republished as a book with an introduction by Richard Rorty, and a study guide by Robert Brandom (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997). [(French translation) Empirisme et philosophie de l'esprit (Combas (France): l'Eclat, 1992)] [(German translation) Thomas Blume (Hrsg.) Wilfrid Sellars: Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes, Paderborn: Mentis, 1999.].

Form and Content in Ethical Theory, The Lindley Lecture for 1967 (Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1967). In SM.

“Fatalism and Determinism,” in Freedom and Determinism, edited by Keith Lehrer (Random House, 1966): 141-74.

“Foundations for a Metaphysics of Pure Process” (The Carus Lectures) The Monist 64 (1981): 3-90.

“Grammar and Existence: A Preface to Ontology,” Mind 69 (1960): 499-533. Two lectures delivered at Yale University, March, 1958. In SPR. Reprinted in The Problem of Universals, edited by C. Landesman (Basic Books, 1971).

“Givenness and Explanatory Coherence,” (presented at a symposium on Foundations of Knowledge at the 1973 meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division)). An abbreviated version is in The Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973): 612-24.

“Gestalt Qualities and the Paradox of Analysis,” Philosophical Studies 1 (1950): 92-4.

“...this I or he or it (the thing) which thinks,” the presidential address, American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), for 1970, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 44 (1972): 5-31. In KTM.

“On the Introduction of Abstract Entities,” in Forms of Representation, Proceedings of the 1972 Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Western Ontario, edited by B. Freed, A. Marras and P. Maynard (North Holland, 1975): 47-74.

“The Identity Approach to the Mind-Body Problem,” Review of Metaphysics 18 (1965): 430-51.

“Imperatives, Intentions, and the Logic of ‘Ought’,” Methodos 8 (1956): 228-68.

“Imperatives, Intentions, and the Logic of ‘Ought’,” in Morality and the Language of Conduct, a collection of essays in moral philosophy edited by Hector-Neri Castaneda and George Nakhnikian (Wayne State University Press, 1963): 159-214. A radically revised and enlarged version of IIO.

“The Role of Imagination in Kant’s Theory of Experience,” The Dotterer Lecture 1978 in Categories: A Colloquium, edited by Henry W. Johnstone, Jr. (Pennsylvania State University): 231-45. In KTM.

“The Identity of Linguistic Expressions and the Paradox of Analysis,” Philosophical Studies 1 (1950): 2431.

“Inference and Meaning,” Mind 62 (1953): 313-38. In PPPW.

“The Intentional Realism of Everett Hall,” (in Commonsense Realism: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Everett W. Hall, edited by E. M. Adams) The Southern Journal of Philosophy 4 (1966): 103-15. In PPME.

“Intentionality and the Mental,” a symposium by correspondence with Roderick Chisholm, in Minnesota Studies in The Philosophy of Science, Vol. II, edited by Herbert Feigl, Michael Scriven, and Grover Maxwell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957): 507-39. Reprinted in Intentionality, Mind and Language, edited by A. Marras (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1972).

“Is There a Synthetic A Priori?,” Philosophy of Science 20 (1953): 121-38. Reprinted in a revised form in American Philosophers at Work, edited by Sidney Hook (Criterion Press, 1957); also published in Italy in translation. In SPR.

“Induction as Vindication,” Philosophy of Science 31 (1964): 197-231.

“On Knowing the Better and Doing the Worse,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 10 (1970): 5-19. The 1969 Suarez Philosophy Lecture delivered at Fordham University. In KTM.

Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by P.V. Amaral (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 2002). In addition to Sellars’ Kant lectures, this volume includes lectures on Descartes, Locke, Spinoza (with an introduction by the editor), Leibniz, and a reprint of APM.

“Kant’s Views on Sensibility and Understanding,” Monist 51 (1967): 463-91. Reprinted as Chapter I of SM. The first of the six John Locke Lectures.

“Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience,” The Journal of Philosophy 64 (1967): 633-47. Presented in a symposium on Kant at the 1967 meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division).In KTM.

“Kant’s Transcendental Idealism” (presented at an International Kant Congress at the University of Ottawa). Published in volume 6, Collections of Philosophy (1976): 165181. In KTM.

Kant’s Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars’ Cassirer Lectures and Other Essays, edited and introduced by Jeffrey F. Sicha (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 2002). (This unpublished essay is listed as entry “1970” in Circulated Papers and Lectures. It was actually written in 1966 or 1967, but revised in 1970, or perhaps, late 1969.)

“On the Logic of Complex Particulars,” Mind 58 (1949): 306-38. In PPPW.

“Language, Rules and Behavior,” in John Dewey: Philosopher of Science and Freedom, edited by Sidney Hook (The Dial Press, 1949): 289-315. In PPPW.

“Logical Subjects and Physical Objects,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 17 (1957): 458-72. Contribution to a symposium with Peter Strawson held at Duke University, November, 1955.

“The Language of Theories,” in Current Issues in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1961): 57-77. In SPR. Reprinted in The Problem of Scientific Realism, edited by E.A. McKinnon (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).

“Language as Thought and as Communication,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1969): 506-27. Reprinted in Language and Human Nature, edited by P. Kurtz (Warren H. Green, 1971) with commentary by M. Dufrenne, E. Morot-Sir, J. Margolis, and E.S. Casey.

The Metaphysics of Epistemology: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by P.V. Amaral (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1989).

“Mental Events,” Philosphical Studies 39 (1981): 325-45. Contributed to a symposium of that title at the 1980 meeting of American Philosophical Association (Western Division).

“Meaning as Functional Classification (A Perspective on the Relation of Syntax to Semantics),” (with replies to Daniel Dennett and Hilary Putnam) Synthese 27 (1974): 417-37. Reprinted in Intentionality, Language and Translation, edited by J.G. Troyer and S.C. Wheeler, III (D. Reidel, 1974). An expanded version of BEB, “Belief and the Expression of Belief”, in Language, Belief, and Metaphysics, edited by H.E. Kiefer and M.K. Munitz (State University of New York Press, 1970): 146-158.

“More on Givenness and Explanatory Coherence,” in Justification and Knowledge, edited by George Pappas (D. Reidel, 1979): 169-182.

“Meditations Leibnitziennes,” A American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965): 105-18. An expanded version of the opening paper in a symposium on Rationalism at the May, 1958, meeting of the American Philosophical Association. In PPHP.

“Mind, Meaning, and Behavior,” Philosophical Studies 3 (1952): 83-95.

“Hochberg on Mapping, Meaning, and Metaphysics,” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy II, edited by Peter French, Theodore Vehling, Jr., and Howard Wettstein (University of Minnesota Press, 1977): 214-24.

“Metaphysics and the Concept of a Person,” in The Logical Way of Doing Things, edited by Karel Lambert (Yale University Press, 1969): 219-52. In KTM.

Naturalism and Ontology (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1980). The John Dewey Lectures for 1973-4. Reprinted with corrections in 1997.

“Are There Non-deductive Logics?” in Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, edited by Nicholas Rescher et al., Synthese Library (D. Reidel, 1970): 83-103.

“Notes on Intentionality,” The Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964): 655-65. Presented in a symposium on intentionality at the 1964 meeting of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). In PPME. Reprinted in Intentionality, Mind and Language, edited by A. Marras (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1972).

“A Note on Popper’s Argument for Dualism,” Analysis 15 (1954): 23-4.

“Naming and Saying,” Philosophy of Science 29 (1962): 7-26. In SPR.

“On Accepting First Principles,” in Philosophical Perspectives, 2, Epistemology, 1988, edited by James E. Tomberlin (Ridgeview Publishing Co., (1988): 301-14. This paper was written in the sixties but first published here. In KTM.

OAPK is Part I of the unpublished essay whose Part II is KTE. Published in KTM.

“Obligation and Motivation,” Philosophical Studies 2 (1951): 21-25.

“Obligation and Motivation,” in Readings in Ethical Theory, edited by Wilfrid Sellars and John Hospers (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952): 511-17. A revised and expanded version of OM.

“Ontology and the Philosophy of Mind in Russell,” in Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy, edited by George Nakhnikian (Duckworth, and Barnes and Noble, 1974): 57-100.

“On Reasoning About Values,” American Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1980): 81-101. One of three Tsanoff Lectures presented at Rice University, October 1978.

“Particulars,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 13 (1952): 184-99. In SPR .

“The Paradox of Analysis: A Neo-Fregean Approach,” Analysis Supplementary Vol. 24 (1964): 84-98. In PPME.

“Phenomenalism,” in Intentionality, Minds and Perception, edited by H-N. Castaneda (Wayne State University Press, 1967): 215-74. An abbreviated version of essay PHM.

Philosophical Perspectives (Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1967; reprinted in two volumes by Ridgeview Publishing Co.). 

“Pure Pragmatics and Epistemology,” Philosophy of Science 14 (1947): 181-202. In PPPW.

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1977).

Philosophical Perspectives: Metaphysics and Epistemology (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1977).

Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds: The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, edited and introduced by Jeffrey F. Sicha (Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1980).

“Physical Realism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 15 (1955): 13-32. In PPME. 

“Presupposing,” Philosophical Review 63 (1954): 197-215. Reprinted in Essays on Bertrand Russell, edited by E.D. Klemke (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1970): 173-89.

“Putnam on Synonymity and Belief,” Analysis 15 (1955): 117-20.

“Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man,” in Frontiers of Science and Philosophy, edited by Robert Colodny (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962): 35-78. In SPR.

“Quotation Marks, Sentences, and Propositions,” PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH 10 (1950): 515-25. In PPPW.

“Reply to Aune,” in Intentionality, Minds and Perception, edited by Hector-Neri Castañeda (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967): 286-300.

“Reason and the Art of Living in Plato,” in Phenomenology and Natural Existence: Essays in Honor of Marvin Farber, edited by Dale Riepe (The University of New York Press, 1973): 353-77.

“Review of Ernest Cassirer, Language and Myth,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 9 (1948-49): 326-29.

“Review of C. West Churchman and Russell L. Ackoff, Methods of Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy and Scientific Method,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 11 (1951): 149-50.

“Reply to Donagan,” an essay on fatalism and determinism (1971). Philosophical Studies 27 (1975): 14984.

“Reply to Dennett and Putnam” Synthese 27 (1974): 457-446. Reprinted in Intentionality, Language and Translation, edited by J.G. Troyer and S.C. Wheeler, III (D. Reidel, 1974).

“Reply to Marras,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1973): 485-93.

“Raw Materials, Subjects and Substrata,” in The Concept of Matter, edited by Ernan McMullin (The University of Notre Dame Press, 1963): 255-68 and 272-76; remarks by Sellars in 55-78, 120-21, 140-43, 241-43, and 495-6. RMSS is in PPHP.

“Realism and the New Way of Words,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8 (1948): 601-34. Reprinted in Readings in Philosophical Analysis, edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949). In PPPW.

“Review of Arthur Pap, Elements of Analytic Philosophy,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 11 (1950): 104-9.

“The Refutation of Phenomenalism: Prolegomena to a Defense of Scientific Realism,” in P.K. Feyerabend and G. Maxwell (eds.), Mind, Matter, and Method (University of Minnesota Press, 1966).

“Reply to Quine,” Synthese 26 (1973): 122-45.

“Substance and Form in Aristotle,” The Journal of Philosophy 54 (1957): 688-99. The opening paper in a symposium on Aristotle’s conception of form held at the December, 1957 meeting of the American Philosophical Association. In PPHP.

“The Structure of Knowledge: (1) Perception; (2) Minds; (3) Epistemic Principles,” The Matchette Foundation Lectures for 1971 at the University of Texas. Published in Action, Knowledge and Reality: Studies in Honor of Wilfrid Sellars, edited by HectorNeri Castañeda (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975): 295-347.

Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes, The John Locke Lectures for 1965-66 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967). Re-issued in 1992 by Ridgeview Publishing Company.

“Some Problems about Belief,” in Philosophical Logic, edited by J. W. Davis, D. T. Hockney, and W. K. Wilson (D. Reidel, 1969): 46-65. Reprinted in Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine, edited by D. Davidson and J. Hintikka (D. Reidel, 1969): 186-205.

Science, Perception and Reality (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963). Includes hitherto unpublished essay, PHM, “Phenomenalism”. Re-issued by Ridgeview Publishing Company in 1991.

“Scientific Realism or Irenic Instrumentalism: A Critique of Nagel and Feyerabend on Theoretical Explanation,” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. II, edited by Robert Cohen and Max Wartofsky (Humanities Press, 1965): 171-204. In PPME.

“Some Reflections on Language Games,” Philosophy of Science 21 (1954): 204-28. A revised version is in SPR.

“Some Reflections on Perceptual Consciousness,” in Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, edited by R. Bruzina and B. Wilshire (1977): 169-185. In KTM.

“Is Scientific Realism Tenable?” (presented at a symposium at the 1976 Philosophy of Science Association Meeting in Chicago). Published in volume II, Proceedings of PSA (1976): 307-334.

“Some Reflections on Thoughts and Things,” Nous 1 (1967): 97-121. Reprinted as Chapter III of SM.

“Science, Sense Impressions, and Sensa: A Reply to Cornman,” Review of Metaphysics 24 (March, 1971): 391-447.

“A Semantical Solution of the Mind-Body Problem,” Methodos 5 (1953): 45-82. In PPPW.

“Sensa or Sensings: Reflections on the Ontology of Perception,” Philosophical Studies 41 (Essays in Honor of James Cornman) (1982): 83-111. Presented at a Colloquium at the University of North Carolina, October 1976.

“Seeing, Seeming, and Sensing,” in The Ontological Turn: Studies in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann, ed. by M.S. Gram and E.D. Klemke (University of Iowa Press, 1974): 195-210. The first in a series of three Matchette Lectures.

“Thought and Action,” in Freedom and Determinism, edited by Keith Lehrer (Random House, 1966): 105-39.

“Truth and Correspondence,” The Journal of Philosophy 59 (1962): 29-56. In SPR.

“Theoretical Explanation,” in Philosophy of Science: The Delaware Seminar, Vol. II (John Wiley, 1963): 61-78. In PPME.

“Towards a Theory of the Categories,” Experience and Theory, edited by L. Foster and J.W. Swanson (University of Massachusetts Press, 1970): 55-78. In KTM.

“Towards a Theory of Predication,” in How Things Are, edited by James Bogen and James McGuire (Reidel, 1983): 281-318. Presented at a conference on predication at Pitzer College in April, 1981.

“Time and the World Order,” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. III, edited by Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell (University of Minnesota Press, 1962): 527-616. A Metaphysical and Epistmological Analysis of Becoming.

“Volitions Re-affirmed,” Action Theory, edited by Myles Brand and Douglas Walton (D. Reidel, 1976): 47-66. Presented at a conference on action theory at Winnipeg, May, 1975.

“Vlastos and ‘The Third Man’,” Philosophical Review 64 (1955): 405-37. In PPHP.

Wilfrid Sellars: Notre Dame Lectures1969-1986, edited by Jeffrey F. Sicha and Pedro V. Amaral (Ridgeview Publishing Company, 2015).