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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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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher known for his contributions to logic, mathematics, and...

Language Logic British Analytic

9.3 Excellent

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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish thinker whose work profoundly shaped Western philosophy. He explored themes...

19TH Century Ethics Existentialism Western

9.3 Excellent

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W. V. O. Quine

W.V.O. Quine was a prominent American philosopher known for his work in logic and philosophy of science. His influential...

American Logic Analytic Naturalism

9.1 Excellent

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Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke was a prominent American philosopher specializing in logic and language. His work, particularly “Naming and...

Language American Logic Analytic

9.1 Excellent

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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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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

8.0 Great

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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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Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson is a British analytic philosopher born in 1955 whose work spans epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and...

Contemporary Logic Western Epistemology

7.8 Good

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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

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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Simon Blackburn

Simon Blackburn is a British analytic philosopher, born in 1944, whose work addresses metaethics, philosophy of language...

Contemporary Ethics Western Analytic

7.5 Good

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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

7.4 Good

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Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot was a highly influential French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist whose work profoundly shaped...

20TH Century Literature Ethics Western

7.3 Good

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Jonathan Dancy

British philosopher Jonathan Dancy (born 1946) is recognized as the founder of moral particularism, a theory in ethics t...

Contemporary Ethics Western Epistemology

7.2 Good

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Max Black

Max Black (1909–1988) was a British-American analytic philosopher who spent much of his academic career at Cornell Unive...

Language Logic 20TH Century Western

7.2 Good

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Susan Wolf

Susan Wolf is an American philosopher whose work addresses ethics, moral psychology, free will, responsibility, and the...

Contemporary Ethics Western Analytic

7.1 Good

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Norman Malcolm

Norman Malcolm (1911-1990) was an American philosopher who studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge University in...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Theology

7.1 Good