Roy Wood Sellars, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roy Wood Sellars

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1880

Place of Birth: Seaforth, Ontario, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1973

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Canada, United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Roy Wood Sellars (1880, Seaforth, Ontario – September 5, 1973, Ann Arbor) was a Canadian philosopher of critical realism and religious humanism, and a proponent of evolutionary naturalism.
His son was the philosopher Wilfrid Sellars.
Sellars received his B.A.
from the University of Michigan.
For much of his career he taught at Michigan. In his 1967 book, Reflections on American Philosophy From Within he described his views on materialism as evolutionary materialism, an extension to his 1922 groundbreaking book Evolutionary Naturalism. He helped draft the Humanist Manifesto in 1933 and also signed the Humanist Manifesto II in 1973.