Wilfrid Stalker Sellars, an American philosopher and teacher, was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the son of Roy Wood Sellars, the American critical realist who taught at the University of Michigan. Wilfrid Sellars's early education took place in the United States and in France, where he attended the lycées Montaigne and Louis le Grand; it was continued at the University of Michigan (BA, 1933), the University of Buffalo (MA, 1934), and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar and received a BA with first-class honors in philosophy, politics, and economics. He received an MA from Oxford in 1940. After a year at Harvard University he began his career as a teacher of philosophy in 1938 at the University of Iowa. During the war he spent several years as an officer in the Naval Reserve, and in 1946 he went to the University of Minnesota, where he eventually...