Sellars on normativity

• Grant number: 15/00574-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2015
• End date: October 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Epistemology
• Principal Investigator: João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter
• Grantee: Marcelo Masson Maroldi
• Supervisor: Stephen P. Turner
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of South Florida (USF), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/24617-7 - An inferentialist approach to normativity, BP.DR

Abstract

Normativity is a fundamental question to Wilfrid Sellars's theoretical and practical philosophy. He adopts a pragmatic, inferentialist, naturalistic, and non-reductionist understanding of normative practices. However, Sellars's description of the process of institution of norms is incomplete since he does not explain the cognitive abilities necessary for the normative learning process to be successful. The main objective of this research is to investigate Sellars's approach to normativity and sought to show that a contemporary alternative to extend Sellars's theory of normative practices is to appeal to the connectionist approach to mindness. (AU)