Sellars on the Logic of Looks

Wilfrid Sellars, The Logic of Looks, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," The Analytic Tradition, Spring 2017

[@thattimestampguy]

0:25 Layer Cake Theory of Knowledge Graspings rest upon Sensations Sensings cause Graspings 2:25 “Well! Look here!” 5:55 Reality Looks/Appears to be Vs Is, Actually Is, not hallucinating 9:27 The Logic of “Looks.” 11:47 Standard Conditions for Perceiving Colors + Good Enough Light + Good enough Eyesight 14:40 Checker Board Optical Illusion.

[@billc3114]

I like Aristotle, Plato, and DeCartes myself. And Aquinas is good too, if you like theological philosophy and Aristotle.

[@wescleveland1067]

Is this prof awesome or what?

[@markbanse-fay7016]

Awesome.

[@wescleveland1067]

Well played!

[@sadashkk274]

Is he genius ???? Superbbbbbbb

[@williamcallahan5218]

It's so ironic in some ways to listen to this stuff when Chandrakirti and Vasubandu and the Buddhists had worked all this out centuries ago... Yogacara.

[@hss12661]

What have they figured out?

[@darkman619112]

yeah if you have ever been on a mediation retreat this is actually what they talk about, atleast the buddhists do.

[@syureyn4230]

Ruan Fernandes