The Sellarsian Philosophy of Mind with a Rationality Key
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy May 15, 2026 Rusong Huang
A psychological sentence is commonly understood as representing a mental fact. This paper offers an alternative and argues that saying “Someone S is in a mental state M” is saying “There are some circumstances C such that S is in C, and it is rational for anyone in C to behave in a certain way.” To argue for this alternative, the paper appeals to the Sellarsian philosophy of mind but transforms...