Write a paper (c. 5 pp. or 1500 words) on one of the topics below. In evaluating your papers, I will consider both your understanding of Sellars and your own thinking regarding the issues his essay raises, so be sure to give ample attention to presenting your own thinking. An important aspect of the latter is your success in discussing both sides of any issue you consider.

• The inconsistent triad Sellars presents on §6 and one of ways of resolving it that he discusses there.

• Sellars’ claim that “looks” talk is derivative of more fundamental “is” talk (rather than the former providing an analysis of the latter).

• Sellars’ sympathetic account of “psychological nominalism.”

• The regress described at the end of §36 and Sellars’ way of escaping from it.

• Sellars’ version of “methodological behaviorism.”

• Sellars’ account of either thoughts or impressions as theoretical entities.

• One of cases where Sellars describes a philosophical claim or assumption as a form of the “Myth of the Given.” (This overlaps some of the topics above but they don’t exhaust the instances of this.)

• A topic of your own, cleared with me in advance.