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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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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher who co-authored Principia Mathematica with Bertrand R...

Mathematics 20TH Century Western Metaphysics

8.5 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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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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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

8.1 Great

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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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Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and theorist of language an...

Language 18TH Century Political Western

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

7.9 Good

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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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Charles Mills

Charles W. Mills was a Jamaican-born political philosopher who lived from 1951 to 2021 and worked primarily in the Unite...

Contemporary Ethics 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

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Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French Marxist philosopher whose structuralist reinterpretation of Marx, including th...

20TH Century Political Western Structuralism

7.7 Good

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Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer is a prominent American political theorist associated with the communitarian school of thought, serving a...

20TH Century Ethics Political Western

7.5 Good

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José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist who lived from 1883 to 1955, recognized as a central figure...

Social 20TH Century Political Existentialism

7.5 Good

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Ernst Bloch

German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977) who wrote the three-volume 'The Principle of Hope,' developing a philosophy of ut...

20TH Century Political Western Utopia

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