Sellars and Kant: Kantian Experience in the Twentieth Century

In this chapter, Ranaee examines the influence of Kant’s philosophy on Sellars, considering both his exegetical analysis of Kant’s philosophy and areas where Sellars surpasses Kant. The chapter focuses on two key notions in Kantian philosophy: intuition and categories as products of the cognitive faculties of sensibility and understanding. It examines the following: (i) Sellars’s conceptualism regarding Kantian intuitions; (ii) the nonconceptual element he deems necessary for intuition; (iii) the role of imagination and image-models; and (iv) his revisionist interpretation of Kantian categories.