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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Born in Austria, twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein transformed analytic philosophy through two markedly...

Language Austrian Logic Analytic

9.70 Brilliant

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher known for his contributions to logic, mathematics, and...

Language Logic British Analytic

9.32 Excellent

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Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke was a prominent American philosopher specializing in logic and language. His work, particularly “Naming and...

Language American Logic Analytic

9.08 Excellent

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W. V. O. Quine

W.V.O. Quine was a prominent American philosopher known for his work in logic and philosophy of science. His influential...

American Logic Analytic Naturalism

9.05 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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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

8.30 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

8.25 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

8.20 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

8.05 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

8.00 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

8.00 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

7.95 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

7.85 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

7.80 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

7.65 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

7.55 Good

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Max Black

Max Black (1909–1988) was a British-American analytic philosopher who spent much of his academic career at Cornell Unive...

Language Logic 20TH Century Western

7.20 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

7.10 Good