Wilfrid Sellars

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Wilfrid Stalker Sellars, an American philosopher and renowned scholar of critical realism who "revolutionized both the text and the philosophy of philosophy in the United States," he wrote on May 20, 1912-1989.

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Life and career

Roy Wood Sellars, a leading American philosopher in the first half of the twentieth century, was his father. Wilfrid received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (BA, 1933), the University at Buffalo (WA), and Oriel College, Oxford (1934-1937), where he was a Rhodes Scholar, earning his highest earned degree, an MA, in 1940. He was stationed in military intelligence during World War II. He continued teaching at the University of Iowa (1938-1946), University of Minnesota (1947–1963), Yale University (1958–1963), and the University of Pittsburgh (1961–1963). In 1977, he served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He was a member of Philosophical Studies, Inc.

Sellars is well-known as a foundationalist epistemology critic, and he referred to it as the "Myth of the Given" as he described it. However, his philosophical works are more focused on the ultimate goal of restoring intuitive ways of describing the world (both common sense and traditional philosophy) with a symbiotic, scientific view of reality. He is renowned both for his argument's sophistication and assimilation of many and diverse topics in search of a synoptic vision. Sellars was perhaps the first scholar to synthesize elements of American pragmatism with elements of British and American analytic philosophy, Austrian, and German logical positivism. His book Science and Metaphysics: Kantian Variations reveals also a continuing fascination with the German tradition of transcendental idealism, as shown by his book Science and Metaphysics.

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