Wilfrid Sellars' John Dewey Lectures (an autobiographical series of lectures in which notable philosophers reflect on their philosophical development throughout their career). Just started working through these. It will take a while, but I expect it will be worth it. Sellars' perhaps best known contribution to philosophy is his attack against logical positivism. And, according to Robert Brandom, Sellars' 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' is one of three texts -- along with Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and Wittgenstein's 'The Philosophical Investigations' -- that most clearly contributed to the sudden and nearly complete death of logical positivism in the 1960s. Another notable contribution from Sellars is his (what I would regard as) brilliant defense of "meta-linguistic" nominalism, the version of nominalism about both universals and abstract objects also defended by William of Ockham.
Here is the lecture:
Sellars -- Dewey Lectures
Quid autem habes quod non accepisti? Si autem accepisti, quid gloriaris quasi non acceperis?
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