This book is a revised version of Sellars' John Dewey Lectures for 1974. It is an "attempt to bring together in reasonably systematic form certain views on ontology, semantics and the philosophy of mind" that he had developed over the "previous thirty years."

This book is a revised version of Sellars' John Dewey Lectures for 1974. It is an "attempt to bring together in reasonably systematic form certain views on ontology, semantics and the philosophy of mind" that he had developed over the "previous thirty years."