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Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger Person    
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961) was an Austria physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933....
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Walter Benjamin Walter Benjamin's grave in Portbou Person 20th-century philosophy Aesthetics
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German-Jew Marxist literary critic, essay, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly...
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Socrates Socrates Person   Epistemology
Socrates (Greek: , Sōkratēs; c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, in reality he is an enigmatic figure known only through other people's accounts. It is Plato's dialogues that...
Deceased Person Ethics
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Plato Plato Person   Epistemology
Plato (Greek: , Plátōn, "broad") (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy. Plato was also a mathematician,...
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Richard Price Richard Price Person    
Richard Price (February 23, 1723 – April 19, 1791), was a Welsh moral and political philosopher. He was born at Tynton, Glamorgan, the son of a dissenting minister. Educated privately and at a dissenting academy in London, he became chaplain and...
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Charles Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce: the American polymath who started it all Person    
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced purse) (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American logic, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30...
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John Locke Person   Epistemology
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of...
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David Hume David Hume raised the is-ought problem in his Treatise of Human Nature Person Age of Enlightenment Aesthetics
David Hume (April 26, 1711 August 25, 1776), Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian is an important figure in Western philosophy, and in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment. He first gained recognition and respect as a historian; but...
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NNDB Person Philosophy of mind
Derek Parfit   Person    
Derek Parfit (born December 11, 1942) is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book, Reasons and Persons (described by Alan Ryan in The Sunday Times...
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Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett photo Person 20th-century philosophy Philosophy of science
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to...
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Gianni Vattimo Gianni Vattimo Person 20th-century philosophy Aesthetics
Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English. Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He...
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Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer Person 20th-century philosophy Metaphysics
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Gadamer was born in Marburg, Hesse-Nassau, as the son of...
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Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell Person 20th-century philosophy Philosophy of science
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May, 1872–2 February, 1970), was a British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. Although usually regarded as English, as he spent...
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Noam Chomsky Chomsky being interviewed  by Francine Stock for BBC4 Person Contemporary philosophy Psychology
Noam Chomsky is a widely known intellectual, political activist, and critic of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Noam Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist, a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism and is...
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Claude Lévi-Strauss Levi-Strauss Person 20th-century philosophy Kinship
Claude Lévi-Strauss (; born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist. Claude Lévi-Strauss, who was of Jewish ancestry, grew up in Paris, living in a street of the 16th arrondissement named after the artist Nicolas Poussin, whose work he later...
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William James Person 20th-century philosophy Epistemology
William James (January 11 1842 – August 26 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious...
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John Dewey Person 20th-century philosophy Epistemology
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders...
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Aristotle Aristoteles_Louvre.jpg Person   Aesthetics
Aristotle (Greek: Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics,...
Deceased Person Ethics
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Seneca the Younger Ancient bust of Seneca (Antikensammlung Berlin) Person    
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger; Σένεκας in Ancient Greek literature) (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature....
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Zeno of Citium Zeno of Citium Influence Node   Ethics
Zeno of Citium (, Zēnōn ho Kitieŭs) (334 BC - 262 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Citium , Cyprus. Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens, from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism...
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Marcus Aurelius Person    
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (often referred to as "the wise") (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important Stoic...
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Posidonius Person    
Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios) "of Apameia" (ὁ Απαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ρόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was...
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Epictetus Epictetus, artist's impression Person   Ethics
Epictetus (Greek: ; ca. 55–ca. 135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he lived most of his...
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