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René Descartes

René Descartes was a prominent 17th-century philosopher instrumental in shaping Western thought. His work, particularly...

Western Metaphysics Epistemology Early Modern

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a prominent 19th-century German philosopher known for his complex system of thought. H...

19TH Century Western Metaphysics Dialectic

9.5 Brilliant

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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was a 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science who proposed falsifiability as the criterion for...

Science 20TH Century Political Western

8.9 Great

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn was a 20th-century American philosopher and historian of science whose 1962 work The Structure of Scientific...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

8.8 Great

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was a 20th-century German-American philosopher and a leading member of the Vienna Circle whose logical emp...

Logic 20TH Century Western Analytic

8.5 Great

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Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science who lived from 1854 to 1912...

Mathematics 19TH Century Western Philosophy Of Science

8.4 Great

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Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt S...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

8.3 Great

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Edward Said

Edward Said was a Palestinian American literary critic, cultural theorist, and public intellectual who lived from 1935 t...

Culture 20TH Century Political Western

8.3 Great

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a 19th-century German idealist philosopher whose nature philosophy and philosophy...

Nature 19TH Century Western Metaphysics

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Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, critic, and semiotician who lived from 1915 to 1980. His work examined ho...

Language 20TH Century Western Structuralism

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Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist who lived from 1935 to 2017 and worked principally on th...

Language 20TH Century Western Cognitive Science

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Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino was a Florentine philosopher, translator, physician, and Catholic priest who lived from 1433 to 1499 and...

Renaissance Western Humanism Metaphysics

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György Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher, literary critic, and Marxist theorist whose work influenced political philoso...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

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Michael Dummett

Michael Dummett was a British analytic philosopher and logician who lived from 1925 to 2011 and wrote extensively on lan...

Language Logic 20TH Century Western

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Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka was a Finnish philosopher and logician who lived from 1929 to 2015 and made major contributions to epist...

Logic 20TH Century Western Epistemology

8.0 Great

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Pico della Mirandola

Pico della Mirandola was a 15th-century Italian Renaissance philosopher best known for his Oration on the Dignity of Man...

Renaissance Western Humanism Metaphysics

7.9 Good

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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend was a 20th-century Austrian-American philosopher of science who argued in Against Method (1975) that no...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Anarchism

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Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born philosopher of mathematics and science who later worked in Britain. He developed the m...

Mathematics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.9 Good

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Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998 and wrote on knowledge, politics, aesthetics,...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

7.8 Good

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Pierre Duhem

Pierre Duhem was a French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science who lived from 1861 to 1916. He argued that a...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.8 Good