«Marvin Farber led me through my first careful reading of the Critique of Pure Reason and introduced me to Husserl. His combination of utter respect for the structure of Husserl's thought with the equally firm conviction that this structure could be given a naturalistic interpretation was undoubtedly a key influence on my own subsequent philosophical strategy.»
La sua opera più conosciuta è probabilmente il saggio del 1956 Empirismo e filosofia della mente, pubblicato in italiano, con introduzione di Richard Rorty, da Einaudi (2004) in cui attacca quello che chiama "Mito del dato" (The myth of the given).
Note
^"Philosophy without the history of philosophy, if not empty or blind, is at least dumb" ("la filosofia senza la storia della filosofia è, se non vuota o cieca, perlomeno ottusa/muta", Sellars 1967, p.1)
Bibliografia
Opere (in inglese)
Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds-The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, [PPPW], ed. by Jeffrey F. Sicha, (Ridgeview Publishing Co; Atascadero, CA; 1980).
Science, Perception and Reality, [SPR], (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd; London, and The Humanities Press: New York; 1963).
Philosophical Perspectives, [PP], (Charles C. Thomas: Springfield, IL; 1967). Reprinted in two volumes, Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy and Philosophical Perspective: Metaphysics and Epistemology, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1977).
Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes. [S&M], (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd; London, and The Humanities Press; New York; 1968). The 1966 John Locke Lectures. [Reissued in 1992 by Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero, CA.
Essays in Philosophy and Its History, [EPH], (D. Reidel Publishing Co.; Dordrecht, Holland; 1975).
Naturalism and Ontology, [N&O], (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 1979).
The Metaphysics of Epistemology: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1989).
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind [EPM*], edited by Robert Brandom, (Harvard University Press.; Cambridge, MA; 1997).
Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002).
Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays, edited by Jeffrey F. Sicha, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002).
Opere (in italiano)
Empirismo e filosofia della mente, Torino, Einaudi, 2004. ISBN 8806162276
La filosofia e l'immagine scientifica dell'uomo, Roma, Armando, 2007.
L'immagine scientifica e l'immagine manifesta, Pisa, ETS, 2013.
Letteratura secondaria
Willem A. De Vries, Wilfrid Sellars, Chesham : Acumen, 2005. ISBN 1-84465-038-3
John McDowell, Having the world in view : essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars, London, Hardward University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03165-4
Chauncey C. Maher, The Pittsburgh school of philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom, London, Routledge, 2012. ISBN 978-0-203-09750-2
