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PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF MAN

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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Under 'things in the broadest possible sense' I include such radically different items as not only 'cabbages and kings', but numbers and duties, possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be, to use a contemporary turn of phrase, to 'know one's way around' with respect to all these things, not in that unreflective way in which the centipede of the story knew its way around before it faced the question, 'how do I walk?', but in that reflective way which means that no intellectual holds are barred. Knowing one's way around is, to use a current distinction, a form of 'knowing how' as contrasted with 'knowing that'. There is all the difference in the world between knowing how to ride a bicycle and knowing that a steady pressure by the legs of a balanced perso

PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF MAN PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF MAN Wilfrid Sellars Published in Frontiers of Science and Philosophy , edited by Robert Colodny (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1962): 35-78. Reprinted in Science, Perception and Reality (1963). THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUEST THE MANIFEST IMAGE CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE MANIFEST IMAGE THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE THE CLASH OF THE IMAGES THE PRIMACY OF THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE: A PROLEGOMENON PUTTING MAN INTO THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE I. THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUEST The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understan

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