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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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Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege was a German logician whose 1879 Begriffsschrift founded modern predicate logic and transformed philosophy...

Language German Mathematics Logic

9.4 Excellent

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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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Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian whose 1843 Either/Or explored choice, anxiety, faith, and the...

Danish Ethics Existentialism Religion

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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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria in 1930, known for deconstruction and major works such as Of G...

Language French Metaphysics Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Epictetus

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher, formerly enslaved, whose Discourses and Enchiridion teach control over judgment...

Ethics Ancient Roman Stoicism

8.9 Great

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE and a Stoic philosopher whose Meditations records private ethical r...

Ethics Ancient Roman Stoicism

8.9 Great

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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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Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium was a Cypriot philosopher who founded Stoicism in Athens around 300 BCE, teaching virtue in accord with n...

Ethics Ancient Greek Stoicism

8.8 Great

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Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson was an American philosopher whose essays on truth, meaning, and action used Tarski's semantics to reshap...

Language Action American Analytic

8.7 Great

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Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher noted for the capabilities approach, developed with Amartya Sen, and for work...

American Politics Ethics Capabilities

8.7 Great

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Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum is an American philosopher whose capabilities approach links ethics, law, and development policy, not...

American Law Ethics Capabilities

8.7 Great

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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British philosopher known for work on cosmopolitanism, identity, and ethics at Prince...

Cosmopolitanism Ethics Identity Ghanaian

7.9 Good

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Mogobe Ramose

Mogobe Ramose is a South African philosopher known for developing ubuntu as a framework for African philosophy, law, and...

Ethics Ubuntu South African African

6.7 Fair

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Sophie Oluwole

Sophie Oluwole was a Nigerian philosopher who studied Yoruba thought and argued for Orunmila as a figure of philosophica...

Ethics African Nigerian Yoruba

6.5 Fair