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Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 – July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".
Aug 9, 2011 · Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (1912–89) was a systematic, original, and profound American philosopher. His effort in philosophy was “to formulate a scientifically oriented, naturalistic realism which would ‘save the appearances’ ” (AR: 289). Broadly educated in philosophy, the influences on Sellars’s work range from critical realism and ...
An overview of Sellars' theory of mind, which rejects Cartesian substance dualism and introspection, but preserves First Person Authority. Sellars conceives of mental states as theoretical posits, analogous to microentities of physics, and explains them by language and public facts.
May 16, 2024 · Wilfrid Sellars (born May 20, 1912, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.—died July 2, 1989, Pittsburgh, Pa.) was an American philosopher best known for his critique of traditional philosophical conceptions of mind and knowledge and for his uncompromising effort to explain how human reason and thought can be reconciled with the vision of nature found in science.
Feb 22, 1997 · Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (b. 1912, d. 1989) was a profoundly creative and synthetic thinker whose work both as a systematic philosopher and as an influential editor helped set and shape the Anglo-American philosophical agenda for over four decades. Sellars is perhaps best known for his classic 1956 essay “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind ...
A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Wilfrid Sellars, a 20th-century philosopher who made significant contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and ethics. The article lists his major publications, collections, and sources, as well as his relation to Kant and other historical figures.
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May 28, 2017 · Wilfrid Sellars was one of the 20th century's most important and influential Anglophone philosophers. This volume joins Rosenberg (2007), deVries (2009), Brandom (2015), O'Shea (2007, 2016), Olen (2016), and Pereplyotchik and Barnbaum (2017) as books in the last decade that critique, extend, and celebrate his work.
