PSIM questions 3 (last for PSIM):
1.
What important distinction separates what we know about our sensations/perceptions by
“introspection” and what we know about our thoughts?
2.
In what sense is introspection similar in both cases despite this difference?
3.
What possibility does this raise for fitting thoughts into the scientific image?
4.
What is the point of Sellars’ chess board analogy?
5.
What analogy are our concepts of our sensations/perceptions based on?
6.
How do these analogies differ? (See 1!)
7.
Why does Sellars think it’s so much harder to fit sensation/perception into the scientific image?
8.
Does Sellars endorse the incompleteness of our neurophysiology, or the “radical” form of mere
appearance regarding the ultimate homogeneity of sense contents?
9.
What features of the manifest image remain to be brought into or reconciled with the scientific image,
given the success of Sellars’ proposal for dealing with sensations?
10. What is the “free will” objection here? How does Sellars respond to it?
11. How does Sellars distinguish (mere) description from what is involved in regarding ourselves as
persons subject to norms (rights and duties)?
12. What is a “community intention”? How are they related to private intentions?
13. How does Sellars propose (in prospect) that we unify the scientific image with our view of ourselves
and our fellows as persons and members of a community?