Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
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)