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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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René Descartes

René Descartes was a prominent 17th-century philosopher instrumental in shaping Western thought. His work, particularly...

Western Metaphysics Epistemology Early Modern

9.6 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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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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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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Michael Dummett

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Language Logic 20TH Century Western

8.0 Great

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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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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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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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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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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

7.7 Good

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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

7.6 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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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