Wilfrid Sellars on Truth: Between Immanence and Transcendence

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...