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The work develops expressivism about plans and intentions and treats collective intentionality through a detailed logic of intentions and an account of the categorical validity of normative expressions. It also reconciles the cognitive and motivating roles of moral judgment while grounding the approach in strict nominalism and naturalism, showing its relevance to contemporary debates in metaethics.","The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars  \nWilfrid Sellars’s ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars’s view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate of an expressivism of plans and intentions, and an early theorist of collective intentionality. He supplemented this theory with a sophisticated logic of intentions, a robust theory of the categorical validity of normative expressions, a subtle way of reconciling the cognitive and motivating aspects of moral judgment, and much more—all within a strict nominalism that preserves Sellars’s commitment to naturalism. The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars offers the first systematic treatment of this sadly neglected aspect of Sellars’s work and demonstrates that his ethical theory—just like his more widely discussed epistemology—has much to contribute to current debates.  \nJeremy Randel Koons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He has published widely in epistemology, metaethics, philosophy of religion, and other areas. His most recent book, The Normative and the Natural (coauthored with Michael P. Wolf), appeared in 2016.  \nRoutledge Studies in American Philosophy Edited by  \nWillem deVries,  \nUniversity of New Hampshire, USA  \nHenry Jackman,  \nYork University, Canada  \nToward a Pragmatist Metaethics  \nDiana B. Heney  \nSellars and Contemporary Philosophy  \nEdited by David Pereplyotchik and Deborah R. Barnbaum  \nPragmatism and Objectivity  \nEssays Sparked by the Work of Nicolas Rescher Edited by Sami Pihlström  \nThe Quantum of Explanation  \nWhitehead’s Radical Empiricism  \nRandall E. Auxier and Gary L. Herstein  \nPeirce on Perception and Reasoning  \nFrom Icons to Logic  \nEdited by Kathleen A. Hull and Richard Kenneth Atkins  \nPeirce’s Speculative Grammar  \nLogic as Semiotics Francesco Bellucci  \nPragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy  \nScott F. Aikin and Robert B. 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Nunziante  \nThe Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars  \nJeremy Randel Koons  \nFor more information about this series, [please visit: www.routledge.com](please visit: www.routledge.com)[ ](please visit: www.routledge.com)[/Routledge-Studies-in-American-Philosophy/book-series/RSAP](/Routledge-Studies-in-American-Philosophy/book-series/RSAP).  \nThe Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars  \nJeremy Randel Koons  \nFirst published 2019  \nby Routledge  \n52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2019 Jeremy Randel Koons  \nThe right of Jeremy Randel Koons to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77  \nand 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested  \nISBN: 978-1-138-70874-7 (hbk)  \nISBN: 978-1-315-20116-0 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon  \nby Apex CoVantage, LLC  \nFor Lucy and Abby  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments ix  \nIntroduction: Situating Sellars’s Ethical Theory in  \nthe Contemporary Landsc","cbCaims63y2Pe5KJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaims63y2Pe5KJ","pdf",1877408,3,1,371,"English","en",105,"# Introduction: Situating Sellars’s Ethical Theory in the Contemporary 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