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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2020  
         
  Article:   SCHLICK AND SELLARS ON OBSERVATIONAL KNOWLEDGE.

Authors:  ANTON CRIȘAN.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2020.3.09

Published Online: 2020-12-20
Published Print: 2020-12-30
pp. 163-181

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ABSTRACT: The aim of the present paper is to provide a comparative account of the manner in which Moritz Schlick and Wilfrid Sellars treat certain aspects surrounding the topic of observational knowledge. By considering Sellars’s allusions to Schlick’s epistemological undertaking within the context of his rejection of givenness, I evaluate the extent to which Schlick can be characterized as a traditional foundationalist. By emphasizing that this is not the case and that Schlick adheres to a non-standard version of epistemological foundationalism, I shed some light on those theoretical elements that allow for a convergence of opinions between the two authors to transpire.

Keywords: Schlick, Sellars, confirmations, the Given, observation reports.
 
         
     
         
         
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