swap_horiz G. E. Moore Alternatives

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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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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher whose 1859 On Liberty defended individual freedom and whose utilitarianism s...

Ethics British Liberty Utilitarianism

9.3 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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Epicurus

Epicurus was a Greek philosopher who founded the Garden in Athens in 306 BCE and made pleasure, friendship, and freedom...

Ethics Ancient Greek Epicureanism

9.2 Excellent

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Mencius

Mencius was a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 4th century BCE who argued that human nature is good and shaped later...

Ethics Ancient Chinese Confucianism

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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Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit was a British philosopher noted for Reasons and Persons (1984), which reshaped debates on identity, rationa...

Ethics Identity British Reasons

9.1 Excellent

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Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams was a British moral philosopher known for Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985) and critiques of u...

Politics Ethics British Moral Psychology

8.9 Great

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher who founded classical utilitarianism and promoted legal reform through the gre...

Law Ethics British Utilitarianism

8.6 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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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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Philippa Foot

Philippa Foot was a British philosopher central to virtue ethics, known for natural goodness theory and for introducing...

Ethics British Naturalism Virtue

8.1 Great

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Onora O'Neill

Onora O'Neill is a British philosopher noted for Kantian ethics, justice, and trust, and served as President of the Brit...

Ethics British Justice Kantianism

7.9 Good

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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British philosopher and novelist, noted for The Sovereignty of Good (1970) and moral atte...

Literature Ethics British Platonism

7.8 Good

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Mary Midgley

Mary Midgley was a British philosopher noted for Beast and Man (1978), criticizing reductionism and linking ethics with...

Science Ethics British Animals

7.4 Good

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Harriet Taylor Mill

Harriet Taylor Mill was an English philosopher and women's rights advocate who influenced John Stuart Mill and co-wrote...

Ethics Feminism British Liberty

7.1 Good