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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein was a prominent 20th-century philosopher born in Austria. His work profoundly impacted fields like l...

Language Austrian Logic Analytic

9.7 Brilliant

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Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege was a German logician whose 1879 Begriffsschrift founded modern predicate logic and transformed philosophy...

Language German Mathematics Logic

9.4 Excellent

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John Rawls

John Rawls was an American political philosopher whose A Theory of Justice (1971) made justice as fairness central to mo...

American Politics Justice Liberalism

9.4 Excellent

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher and logician who co-wrote Principia Mathematica and won the 1950 Nobel Prize...

Language Logic British Analytic

9.3 Excellent

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher and logician, founder of pragmatism, and a pioneer of semiotics and m...

American Logic Pragmatism Semiotics

9.1 Excellent

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W. V. O. Quine

W. V. O. Quine was an American philosopher whose 1951 essay Two Dogmas of Empiricism challenged analytic-synthetic disti...

American Logic Analytic Naturalism

9.1 Excellent

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Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke was an American philosopher and logician whose 1980 Naming and Necessity transformed theories of reference,...

Language American Logic Analytic

9.1 Excellent

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David Lewis

David Lewis was an American analytic philosopher noted for modal realism, arguing in On the Plurality of Worlds (1986) t...

American Metaphysics Analytic Modality

9.0 Excellent

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria in 1930, known for deconstruction and major works such as Of G...

Language French Metaphysics Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher of mind and language, notable for semantic externalism and the 1975 Twin Earth...

Realism American Analytic Mind

8.9 Great

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Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin was an American legal philosopher whose Law's Empire (1986) argued that judges interpret law through righ...

American Law Politics Rights

8.9 Great

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John Dewey

John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator whose pragmatism linked inquiry, democracy, and learning, notably in...

American Education Democracy Pragmatism

8.8 Great

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Elizabeth Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe was a British philosopher whose Intention (1957) transformed action theory and whose work helped revi...

Action Ethics British Analytic

8.5 Great

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Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher whose 1956 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind attacked the myth of the gi...

American Epistemology Analytic Mind

8.4 Great

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Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher noted for What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974), a landmark argument about conscio...

American Ethics Analytic Mind

8.4 Great

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J. L. Austin

J. L. Austin was a British philosopher who founded ordinary language philosophy and developed speech-act theory in How t...

Language British Analytic Speech Acts

8.3 Great

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P. F. Strawson

P. F. Strawson was a British philosopher whose 1959 Individuals revived descriptive metaphysics and whose work shaped an...

Language British Metaphysics Analytic

8.2 Great

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher whose 1949 The Concept of Mind attacked Cartesian dualism and popularized the phr...

Language British Analytic Mind

8.1 Great

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Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty was an American pragmatist philosopher, notable for Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and his cri...

Language American Politics Pragmatism

8.1 Great

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John Searle

John Searle is an American philosopher of language and mind, known for speech act theory and the Chinese Room argument p...

Language American Analytic Mind

8.0 Great