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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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Edward Said

Edward Said was a Palestinian American literary critic, cultural theorist, and public intellectual who lived from 1935 t...

Culture 20TH Century Political Western

8.3 Great

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, theologian, and classical scholar who lived around...

Renaissance Ethics Western Humanism

8.1 Great

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a prominent philosopher examining language and power through an Indian lens. Her work, par...

Language Indian Feminism Postcolonial

8.0 Great

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher was an 18th–19th-century German theologian and philosopher who founded modern hermeneutics and...

19TH Century Ethics Western Theology

7.8 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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Charles Mills

Charles W. Mills was a Jamaican-born political philosopher who lived from 1951 to 2021 and worked primarily in the Unite...

Contemporary Ethics Political Western

7.8 Good

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Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser is an American political philosopher and critical theorist, born in 1947, whose work examines justice, demo...

Contemporary Feminism Political Critical Theory

7.7 Good

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Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn was an 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher and a central figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenme...

Aesthetics Ethics Western Jewish

7.6 Good

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Peter van Inwagen

Peter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher, born in 1942, whose work addresses metaphysics, free will, philos...

Contemporary Western Metaphysics Theology

7.6 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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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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Frank Jackson

Frank Jackson is an Australian philosopher, born in 1943, recognized for his extensive contributions to analytic philoso...

Contemporary Western Metaphysics Analytic

7.5 Good

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Ned Block

Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive science, born in 1942, who serves as a professor at New York...

Contemporary Western Consciousness Analytic

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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John Finnis

John Finnis (born 1940) is an Australian legal and moral philosopher who has spent much of his career at the University...

Contemporary Ethics Political Western

7.4 Good

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Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and economist internationally recognized as a leading academic ad...

Contemporary Social Ethics Political

7.3 Good

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Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is a prominent Turkish-American political philosopher and academic specializing in critical theory, femin...

Contemporary Ethics Feminism Political

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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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