...of ultimate concern. Similarly, "philosophy" can mean simply what Sellars calls "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the...together, in the broadest possible sense of the term." Pericles, for example, was using this sense of the term when he praised the Athenians for "philosophizing...

...knowledge or assumptions. We may perhaps say that philosophy is a discipline whose aim is to study and to understand "how things in the broadest possible...together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (Sellars, 1963a, p. 1). The aim of the special sciences, on the contrary, is to understand in what...

...of ultimate concern. Similarly, "philosophy" can mean simply what Sellai s calls "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the...together, in the broadest possible sense of the term." Pericles, for example, was using this sense of the term when he praised the Athenians for "philosophizing...

...residual interest in philosophy - that being philosophizing in Sellers's sense of "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the...together, in the broadest possible sense of the term" (Rorty 1982, p. xiv). An interest in methods has replaced concern for methodology. I am interested...

...been supposed to be, men who gave one a Weltanschauung — in Sellars' phrase, a way of "understanding how things in the broadest possible sense of the term...together in the broadest possible sense of the term." 82 (4) It might be that we would end by answering the question "Has philosophy come to an end?" with...

...(uppercase P) as a foundational discipline is rejected, philosophy (lowercase p) as "an attempt to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the...together, in the broadest possible sense of the term" 3 is affirmed as a legitimate intellectual quest. iPMN, p. 163. 3 See COP, p. xivf. The quote from...

...language, or whatever. If that sounds vague, it is. Wilfrid Sellars once defined the goal of philosophy as "to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest sense of the term."* 1 I am not sure I can improve on that. 8h The practice of philosophy is, like...

...search for what Wilfrid Sellars aptly called the synoptic vision, the attempt to see things as a whole: "The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is...together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (Sellars 1 963, p. 1 ). In order to achieve a synoptic vision of the whole, Sellars aimed to articulate...

...Role of Ideology in Philosophy "The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated," wrote Wilfrid Sellars, "is to understand how things in the broadest possible...together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (1963b: 39-40). Sellars' claim enjoys immense historical support. Presumably, as the activities of...

...the grandiose, quixotic projects of Philosophy in favor of the much more modest one of trying "to see how things, in the broadest possible sense of the...together, in the broadest possible sense of the term." Here is Rorty's account, for example, of the failure of Philosophy, which has made it necessary for...