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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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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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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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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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Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick was a 20th-century German philosopher who founded the Vienna Circle in the 1920s, championing logical pos...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Analytic

7.7 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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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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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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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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Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland (b. 1943) is a Canadian-American philosopher whose work bridges neuroscience and philosophy of mind,...

Contemporary Western Analytic Philosophy Of Mind

7.4 Good

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Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist who combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with Hege...

Contemporary Political Critical Theory Western

7.4 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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María Lugones

María Lugones (1944-2020) was an Argentine-American philosopher and feminist theorist whose work focused on issues of ra...

Contemporary Ethics Feminism 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