swap_horiz Félix Guattari Alternatives

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Theodor Adorno

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Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

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Edward Said

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Culture 20TH Century Political Western

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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

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Language 20TH Century Western Cognitive Science

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick was a 20th-century German philosopher who founded the Vienna Circle in the 1920s, championing logical pos...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Analytic

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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

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who lived from 1884 to 1962 and wrote influential works on epistemology, the h...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

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Georg Henrik von Wright

Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher and logician who lived from 1916 to 2003 and worked within the analyti...

Logic 20TH Century Ethics Western

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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, philosopher, and librarian whose interdisciplinary work spanned litera...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Ethics Western

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