윌프리드 셀러스

소개

윌프리드 스토커 셀러스(Wilfrid Stalker Sellars, 1912년 5월 20일 ~ 1989년 7월 2일)는 미국의 철학자이자, 비판적 리얼리즘(critical realism)의 주요 주창자이다. 셀러스는 "미국에서 철학의 방법과 내용 둘 다에 대혁신을 일으켰다".

Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of scientific realism and critical perceptual 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, a synoptic philosophy aiming to unite what he called the manifest and scientific images, and an inferentialist account of meaning.