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René Descartes

René Descartes was a prominent 17th-century philosopher instrumental in shaping Western thought. His work, particularly...

Western Metaphysics Epistemology Early Modern

9.6 Brilliant

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a prominent 19th-century German philosopher known for his complex system of thought. H...

19TH Century Western Metaphysics Dialectic

9.5 Brilliant

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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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David Lewis

David Lewis was an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and analytic philosophy. He is particularly known fo...

American Metaphysics Analytic Modality

9.0 Excellent

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Duns Scotus

John Duns Scotus was a 13th-century Scottish philosopher and theologian associated with the Franciscan order. He is nota...

Medieval Metaphysics Scottish Theology

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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P. F. Strawson

P.F. Strawson was a prominent British philosopher known for his contributions to logic, language, and metaphysics. His 1...

Language British Metaphysics Analytic

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a 19th-century German idealist philosopher whose nature philosophy and philosophy...

Nature 19TH Century Western Metaphysics

8.2 Great

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Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus was a 13th-century German Dominican friar, bishop, theologian, and philosopher whose writings addressed...

Natural Science Medieval Western Theology

8.1 Great

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Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino was a Florentine philosopher, translator, physician, and Catholic priest who lived from 1433 to 1499 and...

Renaissance Western Humanism Metaphysics

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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

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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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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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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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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

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Norman Malcolm

Norman Malcolm (1911-1990) was an American philosopher who studied under Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge University in...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Theology

7.1 Good