Talk:Wilfrid Sellars

meaning
Some of the changes and additions to this page are essentially meaningless. The continental philosophy stuff that has been added to this page should be removed and replaced with observations by Rorty and Brandom: People who have really studied Sellars. I may not be a Sellars expert, but I know enough to know bullshit when I see it... - Palthrow 03:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

What do you object to specifically? Are these the Kantian and Hegelian elements and influences? These are well attested and detailed in Sellars work, in his intellectual autobiography published in Castañeda, H-N., ed. Action, Knowledge, and Reality; and in the two recent monographs devoted to his work by deVries and by O'Shea. 70.81.0.61 (talk) 03:23, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Palthrow's comment refers to a earlier version of the article, which had some tendentious passages. They have since been removed. 271828182 (talk) 04:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Class influence
How much of an influence was Sellars' class? He was the product of the academic professional class of society. His employment as an academic was the result of his social relationships to other members of this class. He followed the usual academic professional standpoint of the Hegelian, Marxist, Leftist political position. Class influence may be of great historical and political importance, as can be seen by the total dominance and victory of the Left–liberal point of view in today's educational institutions. Sellars seems to have been typical of his social class. This aspect of his life seems to have been influential in his philosophy.Lestrade (talk) 14:41, 5 September 2009 (UTC)Lestrade

The article needs to add Ruth Garrett Millikan's name to the list of those who were taught by Sellars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Millikan

Rosa Lichtenstein (talk) 04:06, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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Writer’s block
Is there any information on the obvious effect that his father had on Sellars’s difficulty in writing? He openly associated philosophical writing with his father’s emotional distance and unresponsiveness. His profound reaction to Carnap’s joke about his grandfather’s writing was significant. Inability to write kept Sellars from obtaining a doctorate. He compensated through his speaking ability. It is possible that his wife, who was an accomplished writer, actually wrote Sellars’s books from his dictation. This problem of philosophical writing seems to be an important component of Sellars’s life.Lestrade (talk) 17:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)Lestrade

Michigan Cooperative House of the Inter-Cooperative Council
As a student at the University of Michigan, Wilfred Sellars was one of the founding members of the first North-American cooperative house, which was then called "Michigan Socialist House" (and which was later renamed "Michigan Cooperative House".