威尔弗里德·塞拉斯

父亲是加拿大裔美国哲学家罗伊·伍德·塞拉斯（Roy Wood Sellars），二十世纪上半叶美国著名的哲学博物学家[2]。

1933年在密歇根大学获得文学学士学位,后又在布法罗分校（Buffalo）和牛津大学奥里尔学院（1934-1937年）接受教育，在那里他获得了罗德奖学金最高奖学金。

1940年获得文学硕士学位。在第二次世界大战期间，他在军事情报部门任职。随后在爱荷华大学 （1938-1946）、明尼苏达大学（1947-1958）、耶鲁大学（1958-1963）任教，并于1963年至去世這段期间在匹兹堡大学任教。

1977年，担任美国形而上学协会（Metaphysical Society of America）主席。也是《哲学研究》杂志的创始人。

塞拉斯是众所周知的基础主义认识论的批评者，他将基础主义认识论称之为“给定的神话”。然而，他的哲学著作更普遍地指向最终目标，即用一个彻底的自然主义者、科学的人来协调用直觉的方式来描述世界（包括常识和传统哲学）。现实的叙述。他被广泛认为是因为论点的高度复杂化，以及他在追求天气学视野时吸收了许多不同的主题。塞拉斯也许是第一个将美国实用主义元素与英美分析哲学元素、奥地利和德国逻辑实证主义元素结合起来的哲学家。他的作品也反映了与德国先验唯心主义传统的持续接触，最明显的是在他的《科学与形而上学：康德变种》一书中。

• Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds-The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars, [PPPW], ed. by Jeffrey F. Sicha, (Ridgeview Publishing Co; Atascadero, CA; 1980). [Contains a long introductory essay by Sicha and an extensive bibliography of Sellars' work through 1979.]
• Science, Perception and Reality, [SPR], (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd; London, and The Humanities Press: New York; 1963) [Reissued in 1991 by Ridgeview Publishing Co., Atascadero, CA. This edition contains a complete bibliography of Sellars' published work through 1989.]
• 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. This edition contains a complete bibliography of Sellars' published work through 1989, a register of Sellars' philosophical correspondence, and a listing of circulated but unpublished papers and lectures.]
• 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). [An expanded version of the 1974 John Dewey Lectures]
• The Metaphysics of Epistemology: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1989). [Contains a complete bibliography of Sellars' published work through 1989.]
• Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind [EPM*], edited by Robert Brandom, (Harvard University Press.; Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1997). [The original, 1956, version of [EPM] (see below), lacking footnotes added in [SPR], with an Introduction by Richard Rorty and Study Guide by Brandom.]
• Kant and Pre-Kantian Themes: Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002). [A transcription of Sellars' Kant lectures, plus essays on Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, and Leibniz.]
• Kant's Transcendental Metaphysics: Sellars' Cassirer Lecture Notes and Other Essays, edited by Jeffrey F. Sicha, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA: 2002). [Contains a complete bibliography of Sellars' published work, philosophical correspondence, and circulated manuscripts through 2002.]