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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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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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Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus was a second-century Greek philosopher known for his systematic defense of Pyrrhonism, a school of skep...

Ancient Greek Epistemology Skepticism

8.6 Great

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher renowned for his analysis of colonialism’s psychological impa...

Politics Race Martinican Decolonial

8.6 Great

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Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti was a medieval Indian philosopher deeply involved in Buddhist epistemology. His influential *Pramavarttika*...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Buddhist

8.5 Great

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Wilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid Sellars was a prominent American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and philosophy of mind. His key...

American Epistemology Analytic Mind

8.4 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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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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Kumarila Bhatta

Kumārila Bhaṭṭa was an Indian philosopher associated with the Bhāṭṭa school of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, generally placed around th...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Mimamsa

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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Thomas Reid

Thomas Reid was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who founded the Scottish School of Common Sense. He is best known f...

Epistemology Scottish Enlightenment Common Sense

7.7 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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Ibn Tufayl

Ibn Tufayl (c. 1105-1185) was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab philosopher, physician, and court official who served the A...

Fiction Medieval Andalusian Epistemology

7.6 Good

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Maria Lugones

Maria Lugones was an Argentine-born feminist philosopher and professor who spent much of her career at Binghamton Univer...

Ethics Feminism Argentine Decolonial

7.2 Good