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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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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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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl was a German philosopher who founded phenomenology, launching the movement with Logical Investigations, p...

German Logic Consciousness Phenomenology

9.2 Excellent

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Chrysippus

Chrysippus was a 3rd-century BCE Stoic philosopher whose logic and ethics systematized Stoicism and shaped its later Rom...

Logic Ancient Greek Stoicism

9.1 Excellent

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher and logician, founder of pragmatism, and a pioneer of semiotics and m...

American Logic Pragmatism Semiotics

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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David Lewis

David Lewis was an American analytic philosopher noted for modal realism, arguing in On the Plurality of Worlds (1986) t...

American Metaphysics Analytic Modality

9.0 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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Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher of mind and language, notable for semantic externalism and the 1975 Twin Earth...

Realism American Analytic Mind

8.9 Great

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Al-Farabi

Al-Farabi was a 10th-century philosopher from Central Asia whose Arabic works joined Plato and Aristotle with political...

Logic Medieval Politics Islamic

8.8 Great

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Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian-born monk and archbishop whose Proslogion presented an ontological argument for God'...

Logic Medieval Theology Christian

8.8 Great

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William of Ockham

William of Ockham was a 14th-century English Franciscan philosopher known for nominalism and the principle later called...

Logic Medieval English Nominalism

8.7 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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Zeno of Elea

Zeno of Elea was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher known for paradoxes of motion, including Achilles and the tortoise.

Logic Ancient Greek Paradox

8.6 Great

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Boethius

Boethius was a Roman philosopher and statesman executed in 524 CE, best known for The Consolation of Philosophy written...

Logic Roman Theology Late Antique

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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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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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