Undergraduate tutorial. Wilfrid Sellars’s Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (1956) is a seminal work of mid-twentieth-century analytic philosophy by one of the most important -- and influential -- American philosophers we have ever had. The book is most famous for Sellars’s anti-foundationalist attack on the “myth of the given,” but it is brimming with other important and exciting ideas in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science, including the first functionalist treatment of thought, Sellars’s intriguing proposal that private experiences are theoretical posits, his nuanced account of the relation between the “manifest image” of our place in the world provided by common sense and the “scientific image” provided by the natural sciences, and Sellars’s famous claim that to ascribe knowledge to someone is to place that person in the “logical space of reasons.” But despite its slim size (a little over 100 pages in the edition we will be reading), the book is also notoriously difficult -- so difficult, indeed, that there now exist two separate section-by-section reading guides to the book. With the aid of these guides, our goal in this tutorial will be to come to grips with the provocative and subtle arguments put forward by Sellars through an extremely slow and careful reading of this classic book.