Rules, Functions & Categories — A Workshop on Wilfrid Sellars

Rules, Functions & Categories — A Workshop on Wilfrid Sellars

October 10, 2025, Paderborn University & Online

This hybrid workshop explores Wilfrid Sellars’ key writings through an innovative multi-nodal commentary format. This approach enables real-time discussion particularly suited to navigating Sellars' intricate, conceptually dense philosophical web. Texts are drawn from the forthcoming collection of writings by Sellars: Fraught with Ought: Writings from Wilfrid Sellars on Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics (OUP, 2026), edited by Luz Christopher Seiberth, Jim O’Shea and Mahdi Ranaee.

Phase I (Aug-Sep 2025): Remote commentary on unpublished/out-of-print texts 
Phase II (10 Oct 2025): Paderborn University seminar (in-person/online)
Respondents: Claudia Cavaliere (Padova), Jim O’Shea (UCD), Ryan Simonelli (Wuhan), Sybren Heyndels (Prague)
Format: Pre-read, discussion-based, hybrid (15-20 participants, doctoral priority)
Register by 30 June 2025 with the organizers
Sebastian Luft (Paderborn), lufts@mail.uni-paderborn.de  
Luz Christopher Seiberth (Potsdam) seiberth@uni-potsdam.de