Scientia mensura i čovjek-u-svijetu / Scientia Mensura and Man-in-the-World

Abstract

This paper explores the epistemological and ontological project of Wilfrid Sellars in light of his distinction between the scientific and manifest images of the world, as well as his attempt to synthesize them. At the center of the analysis is Sellars’ formulation of the “man-in-the-world” which points to the need to reconcile the naturalistic and normative dimensions of the subject. The paper critically examines the thesis of scientia mensura, showing that although Sellars argues from a position of scientific realism, he insists on the normative autonomy of language, meaning, and rationality. This insistence stems from Sellars’ ambition to construct
a synoptic and stereoscopic vision of the world, which he places as a task before philosophy.