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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 significant 19th-century philosopher born in Germany. He is best known for his 1879 work, Begriffssc...

Language German Mathematics Logic

9.4 Excellent

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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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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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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was a prominent French philosopher who developed the theory of deconstruction. His work chal...

Language French Metaphysics Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Donald Davidson

Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher specializing in language, action theory, and logic. Hi...

Language Action American Analytic

8.7 Great

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a prominent German philosopher known for developing philosophical hermeneutics. His work, particu...

Language German Tradition Hermeneutics

8.5 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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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher and feminist whose 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued for wom...

Feminism English Rights Enlightenment

8.2 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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Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty was an American pragmatist philosopher, notable for Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and his cri...

Language American Politics Pragmatism

8.1 Great

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Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway is an American philosopher and theorist noted for A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), linking feminism, science stu...

American Science Feminism Posthumanism

8.1 Great

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John Searle

John Searle is an American philosopher of language and mind, known for speech act theory and the Chinese Room argument p...

Language American Analytic Mind

8.0 Great

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and philosopher, known for the 1988 essay Can the Subaltern Sp...

Language Indian Feminism Postcolonial

8.0 Great

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Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, born in 1949, known for combining Hegel, Marx, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in c...

Psychoanalysis Continental Slovenian Ideology

7.9 Good

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Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher and psychoanalyst, known for semiotics, abjection, and Powers of Horror...

French Feminism Psychoanalysis Semiotics

7.7 Good

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A. J. Ayer

A. J. Ayer was a British philosopher whose 1936 Language, Truth and Logic introduced logical positivism to English-speak...

Language British Analytic Positivism

7.6 Good

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Felix Guattari

Felix Guattari was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst who co-created schizoanalysis with Gilles Deleuze in Anti-Oedi...

French Politics Psychoanalysis Continental

7.6 Good

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Angela Davis

Angela Davis is an American philosopher and activist, born in 1944, known for work on prisons, feminism, race, and Marxi...

American Politics Feminism Race

7.6 Good