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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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Karl Popper

Karl Popper was a 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science who proposed falsifiability as the criterion for...

Science 20TH Century Political Western

8.9 Great

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn was a 20th-century American philosopher and historian of science whose 1962 work The Structure of Scientific...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

8.8 Great

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Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French philosopher whose work profoundly reshaped ethical thought. He argued that...

French Ethics Phenomenology Otherness

8.7 Great

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher who co-authored Principia Mathematica with Bertrand R...

Mathematics 20TH Century Western Metaphysics

8.5 Great

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was a 20th-century German-American philosopher and a leading member of the Vienna Circle whose logical emp...

Logic 20TH Century Western Analytic

8.5 Great

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Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt S...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

8.3 Great

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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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Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, critic, and semiotician who lived from 1915 to 1980. His work examined ho...

Language 20TH Century Western Structuralism

8.2 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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Franz Brentano

Franz Brentano was a 19th-century Austrian philosopher who revived the concept of intentionality as the defining mark of...

19TH Century Psychology Western Epistemology

8.1 Great

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Jerry Fodor

Jerry Fodor was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist who lived from 1935 to 2017 and worked principally on th...

Language 20TH Century Western Cognitive Science

8.1 Great

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Max Scheler

Max Scheler was a German philosopher who developed a complex theory of value. His work, particularly “Formalism in Ethic...

German Value Ethics Phenomenology

8.0 Great

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György Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher, literary critic, and Marxist theorist whose work influenced political philoso...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

8.0 Great

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Michael Dummett

Michael Dummett was a British analytic philosopher and logician who lived from 1925 to 2011 and wrote extensively on lan...

Language Logic 20TH Century Western

8.0 Great

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Jaakko Hintikka

Jaakko Hintikka was a Finnish philosopher and logician who lived from 1929 to 2015 and made major contributions to epist...

Logic 20TH Century Western Epistemology

8.0 Great

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Imre Lakatos

Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born philosopher of mathematics and science who later worked in Britain. He developed the m...

Mathematics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.9 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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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, philosopher, and librarian whose interdisciplinary work spanned litera...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Ethics Western

7.4 Good