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Laozi

Laozi, also known as Lao Tzu, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and attributed author of the Daodejing. This seminal te...

Ancient Chinese Metaphysics Daoism

9.8 Brilliant

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prominent German philosopher known for his challenging theories regarding morality and truth....

German Existentialism Genealogy Morality

9.7 Brilliant

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David Hume

David Hume was a significant Scottish philosopher of the early-modern period. His work, particularly the *Treatise of Hu...

Empiricism Scottish Early Modern Skepticism

9.6 Brilliant

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher whose 1762 Social Contract argued that legitimate political authority re...

French Education Politics Enlightenment

9.2 Excellent

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher whose 1759 Candide satirized optimism and defended tolerance,...

French Religion Enlightenment Liberty

8.8 Great

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Duns Scotus

Duns Scotus was a medieval Franciscan philosopher from Scotland whose work defended univocity of being and the doctrine...

Medieval Metaphysics Scottish Theology

8.7 Great

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Montesquieu

Montesquieu was a French political philosopher whose 1748 Spirit of the Laws argued for separation of powers and compara...

French Law Politics Enlightenment

8.7 Great

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Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus was a Greek skeptic and physician, active around the 2nd century CE, whose writings preserve Pyrrhonian...

Ancient Greek Epistemology Skepticism

8.6 Great

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot was a French philosopher who co-edited the Encyclopedie from 1751, making it a central project of Enlighte...

French Encyclopedia Materialism Enlightenment

8.6 Great

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Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the 7th century whose Pramanavarttika became a major work on logic and...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Buddhist

8.5 Great

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Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher whose 1956 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind attacked the myth of the gi...

American Epistemology Analytic Mind

8.4 Great

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Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish-born philosopher whose After Virtue (1981) revived virtue ethics through a critique of...

Ethics Tradition Scottish Virtue

8.3 Great

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman and philosopher whose 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France became a...

Politics Irish Enlightenment Conservatism

8.2 Great

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher and feminist whose 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued for wom...

Feminism English Rights Enlightenment

8.2 Great

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G. E. Moore

G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher whose 1903 Principia Ethica challenged naturalistic ethics and defended c...

Ethics British Analytic Common Sense

8.2 Great

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Kumarila Bhatta

Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Mimamsa philosopher of the 7th or 8th century who defended Vedic authority and a realist t...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Mimamsa

7.9 Good

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Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl was a 12th-century Andalusian philosopher whose Hayy ibn Yaqzan explored reason, revelation, and solitary hum...

Fiction Medieval Andalusian Epistemology

7.6 Good

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Susan Haack

Susan Haack is a British philosopher noted for foundherentism, a theory of justification, and Evidence and Inquiry, firs...

Logic British Epistemology Pragmatism

7.4 Good

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Walter Mignolo

Walter Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician and decolonial theorist, noted for work on coloniality and The Darker Side of...

Epistemology Modernity Argentine Decolonial

7.2 Good

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Paulin Hountondji

Paulin Hountondji is a Beninese philosopher known for critiquing ethnophilosophy and defending rigorous African philosop...

African Epistemology Critique Beninese

6.9 Fair