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John Locke

John Locke was an English philosopher whose 1689 Essay Concerning Human Understanding framed empiricism and argued the m...

Empiricism Politics English Early Modern

9.4 Excellent

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Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher whose 1651 Leviathan argued that political authority arises from a social contr...

Politics English Early Modern Materialism

9.3 Excellent

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher whose 1762 Social Contract argued that legitimate political authority re...

French Education Politics Enlightenment

9.2 Excellent

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Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin was an American legal philosopher whose Law's Empire (1986) argued that judges interpret law through righ...

American Law Politics Rights

8.9 Great

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher whose 1759 Candide satirized optimism and defended tolerance,...

French Religion Enlightenment Liberty

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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Montesquieu

Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose 1748 Spirit of the Laws argued for separation of powers and compara...

French Law Politics Enlightenment

8.7 Great

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H. L. A. Hart

H. L. A. Hart was a British legal philosopher, known for The Concept of Law (1961) and the rule of recognition in modern...

Law British Rights Positivism

8.7 Great

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher who co-edited the Encyclopedie from 1751, making it a central project of Enlighte...

French Encyclopedia Materialism Enlightenment

8.6 Great

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman and philosopher whose 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France became a...

Politics Irish Enlightenment Conservatism

8.2 Great

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Judith Jarvis Thomson

Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American philosopher noted for A Defense of Abortion (1971) and influential work on rights...

American Ethics Metaphysics Rights

8.2 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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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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Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who founded common sense realism and opposed Humean skepticism in E...

Epistemology Scottish Enlightenment Common Sense

7.7 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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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

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Sally Haslanger

Sally Haslanger is an American philosopher noted for analytic feminism and social ontology, including influential work o...

American Social Feminism Metaphysics

7.3 Good

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Anne Conway

Anne Conway was a 17th-century English philosopher whose Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy proposed a...

English Metaphysics Early Modern Monism

7.2 Good

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Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish was a 17th-century English philosopher and writer whose Observations upon Experimental Philosophy cri...

Feminism English Early Modern Naturalism

7.0 Good

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Mary Astell

Mary Astell was an English philosopher whose 1694 Serious Proposal to the Ladies argued for women's education and ration...

Ethics Feminism English Early Modern

7.0 Good