Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Wilfrid Sellars

Born: May 20, 1912
Died: July 2, 1989 (aged 77)
Bio: Wilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States."
Known for:
- Empiricism and the philosophy of mind
- In the Space of Reasons
- Science and Metaphysics (1968)
- Essays in philosophy and its history (1974)
- Science, perception, and reality (1963)