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Wilfrid Sellars

1912 - 1989

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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". His work has had a profound impact in virtually all areas of analytic philosophy beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, including in epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, and philosophy of science. His most notable contributions include his critique of foundationalist epistemology (the "Myth of the Given"), a synoptic philosophy aiming to unite what he called the manifest and scientific images, and an inferentialist account of meaning. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilfrid Sellars is the 898th most popular philosopher (up from 979th in 2019), the 4,312th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,455th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 898 out of 1,267. Before him are Arai Hakuseki, Susanne Langer, Jaimini, Rudolf Stammler, Nausiphanes, and Ber Borochov. After him are Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Feng Youlan, Vasily Rozanov, Beatus Rhenanus, Helen Parkhurst, and Andrea Carlo Ferrari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 164. Before him are Khalid Bakdash, Henry Armstrong, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Kurt Sanderling, Günter Wand, and Svetozar Vukmanović. After him are Rudolf Vytlačil, Võ Chí Công, Kaneto Shindo, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, and Bill Roberts. Among people deceased in 1989, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 123. Before him are Richie Ginther, Gerhard Schröder, Imre Németh, Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Riccardo Morandi, and Wally Ris. After him are Yuliya Solntseva, Robert Webber, Guy Laroche, Brian Naylor, Harold Jeffreys, and Nilufer Hanımsultan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 4,312 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Wilkes (1798), Arlene Dahl (1925), Russell Means (1939), Betty Everett (1939), Dallas Long (1940), and Ross Ulbricht (1984). After him are Andrew Hill (1931), Keir Dullea (1936), Chad Hurley (1977), Eddie Vedder (1964), Seth Rollins (1986), and Bruce Sterling (1954).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 38. Before him are Mortimer J. Adler (1902), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Eric Hoffer (1898), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Ted Nelson (1937), and Susanne Langer (1895). After him are Helen Parkhurst (1886), Stanley Cavell (1926), Sandra Harding (1935), David Lewis (1941), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), and Ram Dass (1931).

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