In the 1950s Sellars laid the groundwork for his systematic approach to philosophy in such path-breaking essays as “Some Reflections on Language Games” (1954, expanded in 1963) and “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” (1956) which Tyler Burge (1992: 33) has called “the most influential paper of the period.” He visited at Yale in 1958, moving there as a tenured professor in 1959.  But Yale became factionalized, and Sellars thought the internal politics disrupted his ability to do philosophy. In 1963 he moved to the University of Pittsburgh, which was in the process of reconstructing its philosophy department, becoming a top-ranked department.  Sellars remained at Pittsburgh until his death in 1989, though he visited and lectured at a number of other universities.  He also accrued a number of honors, giving the John Locke Lectures in 1965, the Matchette Foundation Lectures in 1971, the John Dewey Lectures in 1973, and the Carus Lectures in 1977.  Sellars was elected President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1970.  He published many books and articles and also left his mark on the profession by training a large number of graduate students (this author included).  He was productive into the early 1980s, when a stroke slowed him down; he died 2 July 1989.  Following a lull in interest in his philosophy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, his work has garnered steadily increasing attention in the U. S. and abroad.   