Heyndels, Sybren: Sellars's Metasemantics

In The Sellarsian Mind. New York: Routledge. forthcomingThis chapter offers a metasemantic reconstruction of Wilfrid Sellars’s philosophy of language. I argue that some of Sellars’s most important contributions are best understood as addressing three core metasemantic questions: the metaphysics of semantic values, the theory of meaning, and the grounds of semantic facts. His three central claims are that semantic values are functional roles played by expressions in a language; that ‘meaning’ is