Cavaliere, Claudia: Linguistic Rules and Rule-Following

In The Sellarsian Mind. New York: Routledge. forthcomingIn this article I examine Wilfrid Sellars’s account of linguistic rules and rule-following, with a special focus on how the topic emerges and develops in his earliest philosophical writings. In the first part of the article, I show how Sellars’s distinctively original approach to rules and rule-following is elaborated in the project of pure pragmatics in the late 1940s, through which he confronts Carnap’s idea of language as calculus and re