# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-wood-sellars
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:01:39.886Z

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name: "Roy Wood Sellars"
slug: "roy-wood-sellars"
description: "Roy Wood Sellars was a Canadian-born American philosopher of critical perceptual realism and religious humanism, and a proponent of naturalistic emergent evolution. He was the father of Wilfrid Sellars."
tagline: "American philosopher (1880–1973)"
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birthDate: "1880-07-09"
deathDate: "1973-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump