Notes:

{1} Wilfrid Sellars, "Foundations for a Metaphysics of Pure Process: The Carus Lectures," The Monist 64 (1981), 3, #3.

{2} Wilfrid Sellars, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind," in Science, Perception, and Reality (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1963), 127.

{3} Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979), xiii.

{4} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 126.

{5} Sellars, "Carus Lectures," 3, #4.

{6} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 129.

{7} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 157.

{8} Ibid., 160.

{9} Ibid.

{10} Ibid., 162.

{11} Ibid., 131.

{12} Sellars, "Carus Lectures," 11.

{13} Ibid., 11.

{14} Ibid., 12.

{15} Ibid., 21.

{16} James Cornman, Perception, Common Sense and Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975), 271.

{17} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 142.

{18} Sellars, "Carus Lectures," 12, #46.

{19} Ibid., 12, #47.

{20} Sellars, "Sensa or Sensings," 88, #24.

{21} Sellars, "Carus Lectures," 12, #45.

{22} Wilfrid Sellars, "Being and Being Known," in Science, Perception, and Reality.

{23} Roderick Firth, "Reply to Sellars," Monist 64 (1981), 97.

{24} William S. Robinson, "The Legend of the Given," in Action, Knowledge, and Reality, ed. H.N. Castañeda (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1975): 83-108.

{25} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 128.

{26} Robinson, "Legend of the Given," 108.

{27} Ibid., 105.

{28} Ibid.

{29} Ibid., 106.

{30} Ibid.

{31} Ibid.

{32} Ibid.

{33} H. H. Price, Perception (London: Methuen & Co., 1932), 139.

{34} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 129.

{35} Robinson, "Legend of the Given," 105.

{36} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 131.

{37} Robinson, "Legend of the Given," 86.

{38} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 141.

{39} Robinson, "Legend of the Given," 104.

{40} Ibid., 85.

{41} Ibid., 86.

{42} Ibid.

{43} Ibid., 87.

{44} Ibid.

{45} Ibid.

{46} Ibid.

{47} Ibid.

{48} Ibid., 92.

{49} Ibid., 93.

{50} Ibid., 102.

{51} Ibid., 102.

{52} Ibid.

{53} See Sellars, "Carus Lectures" and Firth, "Reply to Sellars."

{54} Robinson, "Legend of the Given," 93.

{55} Ibid., 103.

{56} Ibid., 102.

{57} Wilfrid Sellars, "Some Reflections on Language Games," in Science, Perception, and Reality (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1963), 333.

{58} Sellars, "Philosophy of Mind," 176.

{59} Charles G. Eschelbarger, "An Alleged Legend," Philosophical Studies 39 (1981), 230.

{60} C.I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1929), 38.

{61} Wilfrid Sellars, "Giveness and Explanatory Coherence," The Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973), 612.

{62} Sellars, "Giveness and Explanatory Coherence;" idem, "Structure of Knowledge;" idem, "More on Giveness and Explanatory Coherence," in Justification and Knowledge, ed. George Pappas, (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1979): 169-182; idem, "Carus Lectures."

{63} Wilfrid Sellars, "Is There a Synthetic 'A Priori'?," in Science, Perception, and Reality.

{64} Ibid., 310-311. Compare this with the following passage from W. V. Quine: "The observation sentence, situated at the sensory periphery of the body scientific, is the minimal verifiable aggregate; it has an empirical content all its own and wears it on its sleeve." "Epistemology Relativized," in Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 89.

{65} Sellars, "Carus Lectures," 20, #85.

{66} Wilfrid Sellars, "Mental Events," Philosophical Studies 39 (1981): 325-345.

{67} Lewis, Mind and the World Order, 63.

{68} Lewis, Mind and the World Order, 55.

{69} Roderick Firth, "Sense-Data and the Percept Theory," in Perceiving, Sensing, and Knowing, ed. R.J. Swartz (New York: Anchor, 1965), 248.