ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a panoramic view of the personal and philosophical relationship between father and son. It argues that a closer examination of Roy Wood Sellars's philosophical output is overdue, not only for its important influence on his son and on contemporary post-Sellarsian philosophy, but also because of its own importance and originality. The chapter defends the thesis that Roy Wood Sellars's basic philosophical coordinates and commitments represent the fertile soil from which the seeds of his son's new philosophical ideas would grow and independently develop. The historical/theoretical objectives of this chapter are then to offer an outline of Roy Wood Sellars's important critical realist and evolutionary naturalist philosophy and to clarify the origin of Wilfrid Sellars's currently much discussed philosophical commitments. The chapter mostly focuses on Roy's epistemological thought and on his approach to naturalism, because it is there that the clearest parallels with Wilfrid's approach can be discerned.
