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Roy Wood Sellars (July 9, 1880, Seaforth, Ontario – September 5, 1973, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a Canadian-born American philosopher of critical realism and religious humanism, and a proponent of naturalistic emergent evolution (which he called evolutionary naturalism).
- Biography
- Critical Realism
- Evolutionary Naturalism
- Organicism
- Value Theory
- Socialism
- The Humanist Manifesto
- References and Further Reading
Roy Wood Sellars (July 9, 1880-Sept. 5, 1973), was born in Seaforth, Ontario, the second son of Ford Wylis and Mary Stalker Sellars. (Warren 2007, 211 lists Sellars’ birth year as 1883, but this is an aberration. Most sources, including Warren elsewhere, all give the 1880 date. See Warren 1970, xi-xxv; 1973, 19-22; 1975, Ch. 1; Frankena 1973-74.) H...
Much of Sellars’ philosophical work is an attempt to replace outdated mythopoetical views about knowledge, religion, values, and so forth, by up-to-date scientifically grounded views. Science, he holds, “builds” on common sense, but since it develops new concepts based on new instruments and the application of mathematics to experience, the philoso...
Sellars does not have a fully developed philosophy of science, this being more characteristic of his son’s generation, but he does have definite views about scientific method and about the close relation of science to philosophy, some of which do anticipate his son’s views. Sellars’ conception of science and its relation to philosophy is intimately...
Although Sellars (1991,415, 433) states that no other writer in recent times had challenged him as much, he claims that his own view deserves the title “philosophy of organism” more than Whitehead’s. This is because Sellars sees living organisms as substantial wholes, whereas Whitehead sees them as a societies or nexuses of more fundamental entitie...
Sellars’ evolutionary naturalism make values “centripetal” to human life and supports a humanistic theory of ethics and religion (1932a,448; 1948b; 1949b,78; 973,Ch. 14), all of which he counts as a virtue He holds that human freedom emerges at a certain level or organization of organic development and lends a dignity and meaning to human life that...
In The Next Step in Democracy (1916b) Sellars defends his own version of socialism (See also his 1970a,272-73, 277-79, 289, 311, 334). Sellars distinguishes three stages of socialism: (1) the Utopian socialism of Fourier and Saint-Simon, (2) the “political socialism” that began with Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and (3) the later modification of Marx...
Early in his studies, Sellars considered a career in comparative religion, but with his usual idiosyncratic twist, he wished to do so from a scientific, humanistic, and atheistic point of view. In Evolutionary Naturalism, he describes the religious impulse as “one of the most admirable … in human nature” (1922, 5; see also his 1918, 26 and his 1969...
Several of Roy Wood Sellars’ works can be obtained in electronic form at The Internet Archive, The Autodidact Project and the online library of The Secular Web. Additional information on the various versions of the Humanist Manifestos and The Amsterdam Declaration is available online from the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the American H...
Originator of critical realism, emergent evolutionist anteceding Lloyd Morgan and Samuel Alexander, proponent of a double knowledge and identity theory of the brain-mind relationship, and original American writer on religious humanism and drafter of the Humanist Manifesto, Roy Wood Sellars was born in Seaforth, Ontario, in 1880.
- Emily Mace
ROY WOOD SELLARS 1880-1973. Roy Wood Sellars was born in 1880 at Seaforth, Ontario, Canada. He took. his A.B. in 1903, his Ph.D. in 1909, both at The University of Michigan. He also. attended Ferris Institute, Hartford Theological School, Sorbonne, and The. University of Heidelberg.
Roy Wood Sellars, the American critical realist, taught philosophy at the University of Michigan. Although he was never as well known outside philosophical circles as some of his contemporaries, after the publication of his first book, Critical Realism , in 1916, Sellars maintained a substantial reputation among his fellow philosophers as a ...
Quick Reference. (1880–1973). American critical realist, evolutionary naturalist, materialist, and socialist who taught at the University of Michigan. Knowing, for Sellars, is an activity which, in disclosing objects by means of ideas ... From: Sellars, Roy Wood in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ».
Roy Wood Sellars comes to the debates on realism as something of an outsider—of Canadian origin and not based at Harvard (born in Seaforth, Ontario, he spent most of his career at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)—taking part in the discussion but fiercely preserving his intellectual fWilfrid Sellars and Roy Wood Sellars 235 independen...
