20th century · 1912–1989
Who did Wilfrid Sellars influence?
Students and legacy
Attacked the myth of the given and joined the manifest to the scientific image.
Wilfrid Sellars influenced Donald Davidson. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Wilfrid Sellars?
Wilfrid Sellars developed scientific realism and critical realism about perception, and his work reshaped American analytic philosophy from the second half of the 20th century, in epistemology and the philosophy of language, mind, perception and science.
He is best known for his attack on the "Myth of the Given" in foundationalist epistemology, for his attempt to unite the "manifest image" of the world with the "scientific image", and for an inferentialist account of meaning.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Wilfrid Sellars influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Wilfrid Sellars.
- Donald Davidson 1917–2003
Contemporaries of Wilfrid Sellars
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Wilfrid Sellars, with no direct line between them.
- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- J. L. Austin 1911–1960
- A. J. Ayer 1910–1989
- Simone Weil 1909–1943
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- W. V. O. Quine 1908–2000
Wilfrid Sellars by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 23 — #81 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Common
Questions about Wilfrid Sellars
- Who influenced Wilfrid Sellars?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Wilfrid Sellars.
- Who did Wilfrid Sellars influence?
- Donald Davidson.
- When did Wilfrid Sellars live?
- 1912–1989. The map files Wilfrid Sellars under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Wilfrid Sellars card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Wilfrid Sellars in 23 languages, which makes it a Common card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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