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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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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza was a prominent 17th-century Dutch philosopher known for his radical ideas. His *Ethics* presented a syst...

Dutch Metaphysics Early Modern Rationalism

9.4 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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Mulla Sadra

Mulla Sadra (1635-1692) was a prominent Persian philosopher and theologian. He developed Transcendent Theosophy, a compl...

Islamic Metaphysics Persian Early Modern

8.5 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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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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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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Marsilio Ficino

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

Renaissance Western Humanism Metaphysics

8.0 Great

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Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who lived from 1838 to 1916 and investigated mechanics, optics, aco...

19TH Century Science Western Epistemology

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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Nicolas Malebranche

Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French philosopher and Catholic priest of the Oratorian order who sought to recon...

French Metaphysics Early Modern Occasionalism

7.9 Good

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Pico della Mirandola

Pico della Mirandola was a 15th-century Italian Renaissance philosopher best known for his Oration on the Dignity of Man...

Renaissance Western Humanism Metaphysics

7.9 Good

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Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend was a 20th-century Austrian-American philosopher of science who argued in Against Method (1975) that no...

20TH Century Western Epistemology Anarchism

7.9 Good

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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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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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Pierre Duhem

Pierre Duhem was a French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science who lived from 1861 to 1916. He argued that a...

History 20TH Century Western Epistemology

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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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who lived from 1884 to 1962 and wrote influential works on epistemology, the h...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

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