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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

9.25 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

8.90 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

8.80 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

8.45 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

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Edward Said

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Culture 20TH Century Political Western

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Theodor Adorno

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Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

8.25 Great

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Roland Barthes

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Language 20TH Century Western Structuralism

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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

7.95 Good

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Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998 and wrote on knowledge, politics, aesthetics,...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

7.75 Good

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Charles Mills

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Contemporary Ethics Political Western

7.75 Good

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Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser was a 20th-century French Marxist philosopher whose structuralist reinterpretation of Marx, including th...

20TH Century Political Western Structuralism

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Georg Henrik von Wright

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Logic 20TH Century Ethics Western

7.55 Good

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José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist who lived from 1883 to 1955, recognized as a central figure...

Social 20TH Century Political Existentialism

7.45 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

7.40 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

7.35 Good

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Ernst Bloch

German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977) who wrote the three-volume 'The Principle of Hope,' developing a philosophy of ut...

20TH Century Political Western Utopia

7.30 Good

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Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot was a highly influential French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist whose work profoundly shaped...

20TH Century Literature Ethics Western

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Philippe Van Parijs

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Contemporary Social Ethics Political

7.25 Good

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Seyla Benhabib

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Contemporary Ethics Feminism Political

7.25 Good