Some Notes on Realism

Willem Devries: Sellars

Practical Reality The Causal Articulation of Practical Reality

1. Why?

a) Manifest Image/ b)Scientific Image

a) How we came to understand us as persons
b) Method of Postulation

- replacement process of a by b

a) Person is not a scientific kind

descriptive science conflicts (b) with prescriptive personhood (a)

What happens if we only used b?

b is rooted in normative structures... just using the framework of theoretical science?

We don't commit ourselves to the social structures that seem to be scientific (anthropological stance)

Norman:

What is conceptual realism?
It is about the form and not about the content?