"Roy Wood Sellars was one of a generation of systematic philosophers in America the likes of which has not been seen before or since. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario in Canada, and spent most of his career at the University of Michigan where he continued working well into his 90s.  He was a fiercely independent thinker who resisted the fashions of the day in order to follow his own instincts.  He believed that the philosopher should be well-grounded both in the history of philosophy and in the sciences, and that the philosopher should engage philosophically with the major moral, social, and political issues of the day. His central aims were to combine and harmonize the insights of science and common sense, to update religion with the scientific advances of the day, and to promote a science-grounded system of progressive humanistic values."

"He formulated evolutionary naturalism, the view that life and mind are emergent products of naturalistically conceived evolution ..." (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Signed and probably authored first Humanist Manifesto.

Slots and Values
name	Roy Wood Sellars
dOB	1880
book	Unnamed
dOD	1973