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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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilfrid Sellars has received more than 311,383 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Wilfrid Sellars is the 979th most popular philosopher (down from 951st in 2019), the 4,455th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,537th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 979 out of 1,267. Before him are Egon Bondy, Samuel Clarke, Yun Hyu, Ernest Nagel, Olof Celsius, and Guillaume Faye. After him are Persaeus, Anna Kingsford, Ivan Aksakov, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Wei Yuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 184. Before him are Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Romain Maes, José Iraragorri, István Örkény, Teddy Wilson, and Moses Finley. After him are Karl Deutsch, Erich Leinsdorf, Xavier Montsalvatge, Sabicas, Arne Brustad, and Antal Szalay. Among people deceased in 1989, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 144. Before him are Uichiro Hatta, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, José López Rega, Merab Kostava, and Alvin Ailey. After him are Donald Barthelme, Pavel Kurochkin, Kazimierz Sabbat, Clyde Geronimi, Ćamil Sijarić, and Thorkild Hansen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 4,455 out of 20,380. Before him are June Squibb (1929), Alvin Ailey (1931), Dennis Franz (1944), James J. Corbett (1866), Maggie Q (1979), and David Paich (1954). After him are L. Q. Jones (1927), Martha Hyer (1924), John Doman (1945), Mitchell Ryan (1928), Seth MacFarlane (1973), and Edmund Muskie (1914).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Wilfrid Sellars ranks 41. Before him are Donald Davidson (1917), David Lewis (1941), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), and Edmund Gettier (1927). After him are Harry Frankfurt (1929), Ram Dass (1931), Stanley Cavell (1926), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Josiah Royce (1855), and Mary Daly (1928).

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