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Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars

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[Revised entry by Willem deVries on October 1, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (1912 – 89) was an original, systematic, 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 logical positivism to German Idealism and phenomenology. Sellars was influential in part through his editorial work as a co-founder of the…

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