theoretical knowledge. This paper examines the nature of this claim in Sellars' original account and its relationship to more recent debates concerning "theory of mind', in particular the theory theory. A close look reveals that Sellars' original view embodied several distinctions that would enable more recent theory theorists to accommodate certain phenomenological objections that have been raised against that outlook. At the heart of the philosophical issue is an overlooked complexity involved in Sellars' account of the "theory/observation' distinction, involving a conception of the distinction that is both independently plausible and a key to the issue in dispute." /> The "theory theory" of mind and the aims of Sellars' original myth of Jones - O’Shea James R. | sdvig press