Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher, born in 1912 and died in 1989, described as a prominent developer of scientific realism and critical perceptual realism whose work is said to have revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States. His influence reached across nearly every area of analytic philosophy beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century, including epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception and philosophy of science. His most notable contributions include his critique of foundationalist epistemology, known as the myth of the given, a synoptic philosophy aiming to unite what he called the manifest and scientific images of the world, and an inferentialist account of meaning.