Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars
Born
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars

(1912-05-20)May 20, 1912
DiedJuly 2, 1989(1989-07-02) (aged 77)
EducationUniversity of Michigan (B.A., 1933)
University at Buffalo (M.A., 1934)[4]
Oriel College, Oxford (B.A., 1936; MA, 1940)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Pittsburgh School
Process philosophy[1]
Critical realism (philosophy of perception)
Anti-foundationalism[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh
Academic advisorsMarvin Farber[3]
Thomas Dewar Weldon
Doctoral studentsJay Rosenberg
György Márkus
Paul Churchland
Robert Kane
Christopher Gauker
Héctor-Neri Castañeda
Richard Creath
Other notable studentsFred Dretske
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of perception
Epistemology
Meaning
Pragmatism
Behaviorism
History of philosophy
Notable ideas
Critical realism (philosophy of perception)
Criticism of foundationalist epistemology (the "Myth of the Given")
Psychological nominalism
Kantian empiricism[4]
The distinction between the 'manifest' and the 'scientific' image
Logical space of reasons (the realm of the semantic)[4]
Sellarsian dilemma for foundationalism[5]
Synoptic vision[6][7]
Rylean myth[8]
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Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 – July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism,[10] who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".[11]

  1. ^ "Process Philosophy". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2021.
  2. ^ Ted Poston, "Foundationalism" (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  3. ^ a b James R. O'Shea, Wilfrid Sellars and His Legacy, Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 4.
  4. ^ a b c Wilfrid Sellars (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2009 Edition)
  5. ^ Foundationalist Theories of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  6. ^ Wilfrid Sellars (1962). "Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man," in: Robert Colodny, ed., Frontiers of Science and Philosophy, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 35–78. Reprinted in Science, Perception and Reality (1963).
  7. ^ Jay F. Rosenberg (1990). "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars." Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 21: 1–23.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference SEP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Hunter, Bruce, 2016 "Clarence Irving Lewis" in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. ^ Willem deVries, 2014. "Wilfrid Sellars," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Aug. 11,
  11. ^ "A Philosopher Who Shattered Our Complacency". The New York Times. 15 August 1989.