Wilfrid Sellars on Truth
Between Immanence and Transcendence
Author: Stefanie Dach Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts.
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This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts.
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This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars’s notion of ideal truth.
Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist idea that the concept of truth cannot be understood independently from the norms and practices we find ourselves with and the realist idea that there is one ultimate truth about how the world is. Sellars is thus committed both to an immanent notion of truth and an ideal notion of truth. This book discusses these countervailing tendencies and tries to reconcile them. The author’s defense of Sellars’s notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellars’s texts. Additionally, the author defends several innovative claims with respect to Sellars’s thinking, for example, about the relative unimportance of his controversial concept of pictorial adequacy and about the neglected significance of considerations concerning context-sensitive expressions in his thought.
Wilfrid Sellars on Truth will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wilfrid Sellars, pragmatism, and questions about truth, naturalism, and scientific realism.
Chapters 3, 4, and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
This work was supported by the University of West Bohemia.
Critic Reviews
"We are haunted by the ideal of the truth about the world. If you are wondering where to begin or end in distinguishing 'immanent' from 'ideal truth', put Sellars on Truth at the top of your reading list. Analyses of ‘true’ and ’correct’ as context-sensitive expressions have led scholars to ask ‘who makes the rules around here?’ Bringing light to the otherwise dark claim that only a proper analysis of "truth as ideally assertible" enables "giving metaphysics its truly scientific turn", Dach ushers Sellars scholarship into its metametaphysical phase."
Luz Christopher Seiberth, University of Potsdam, DE
About the Author
Stefanie Dach is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of West Bohemia. She received her PhD in 2018 for a dissertation on Wilfrid Sellars. She has published a book about Richard Rorty and several articles about Wilfrid Sellars, particularly his practical philosophy, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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