Simonelli, Ryan: Nominalism as Conceptual Phenomenalism: A Defense and Development of a Reading of Sellars

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. forthcomingOver a number of papers, I have developed what Robert Brandom calls a "conceptual phenomenalist" reading of Wilfrid Sellars's nominalism. According to this reading, general conceptual contents are phenomenal in the Kantian sense, to be contrasted with the particular material happenings that constitute the world, as it is in itself. In a recent paper, Chen Liang (梁辰) argues that this conceptual phenomenalist interpretation of Sellars misrep