Wilfrid Sellars

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Wilfrid Sellars

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Epistemology

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Metaphysics

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Why Is Wilfrid Sellars Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States". Life and career His father was the Canadian-American philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, a leading American philosophical naturalist in the first half of the twentieth-century. Wilfrid was educated at the University of Michigan , the University at Buffalo, and Oriel College, Oxford , where he was a Rhodes Scholar, obtaining his highest earned degree, an MA, in 1940. During World War II, he served in military intelligence. He then taught at the University of Iowa , the University of Minnesota , Yale University , and from 1963 until his death, at the University of Pittsburgh. He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1977. He was a founder of the journal Philosophical Studies.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Wilfrid Sellars?

Wilfrid Sellars is affiliated with the following schools:

• Humboldt University of Berlin
• Yale University
• University at Buffalo
• University of Göttingen
• University of Minnesota
• University of Michigan
• University of Iowa
• University of Pittsburgh