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Abelard, Peter
Peter Abelard (Pierre Abelard, Abailard, Petrus Abaelardus), 1079-1142. Noted early medieval philosopher and theologian. He is popularly known for the ill-fated romance between him and his lover Heloise, which led to his castration.
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Abrabanel, Judah
Judah Abrabanel (Abravanel), 1460-1523. Late medieval Spanish-Italian Jewish philosopher also known as Leone Ebreo or Leo Hebraeus, the son of Isaac Abrabanel.
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Abramowski, Edward
20th century Polish philosopher
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Abravanel, Isaac
Don Isaac (Yitzchak) ben Judah Abrabanel, 1437-1508. Late medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher, theologian and statesman.
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Adamson, Robert
Robert Adamson, 1852-1902. British professor at Owens College and the University of Manchester. Primarily known as an educational administrator, he also undertook extensive studies of philosophy and logic.
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Adelard of Bath
Adelard (Athelhard) of Bath (Adelardus Bata), c.1070 - c.1145. Medieval English theologian and philosopher, noted for his role in introducing the Arabic or Muslim philosophical tradition in Western Christendom.
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Adler, Mortimer J.
20th century, American philosopher, worked at the University of Chicago with the legendary president, Robert Hutchins.
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Adorno, Theodor W.
Theodor Adorno, born Theodore Ludwig Adorno Wiesengrund, 1903-1969. He is known as a leading thinker among the Marxist scholars of the Frankfurt School.
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Aenesidemus
Aenesidemus, fl. 1st century BC. A Greek philosopher who taught in Alexandria and began his philosophical career as a member of the Platonist Academy.
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Agamben, Giorgio
Giorgio Agamben. Italian scholar and esthetician.
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Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, 1890-1963. Polish philosopher who focused on logical and linguistic topics, including problems of meaning.
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al-Farabi, Abu Nasr
Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Awzalagh al-Farabi (Alpharabius, Abunaser), 870-950. Influential medieval Islamic philosopher usually classed as a Neoplatonist.
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al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid
Abu Hamid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Tusi al-Shafi’i al-Ghazali (Algazel), 1058-1111. Noted medieval Sufi thinker.
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al-Kindi, Yaqub ibn Ishaq
Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (Alkindus, Yaaqub ibn Ishaq), c. 800 AD - c. 873 AD.
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al-Razi, Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (ar-Razi, Rhazes), c. 865 AD - c. 930 AD.
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Albert of Saxony
Albert of Saxony (ca. 1316-1390), Renaissance logician and natural philosopher.
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Alcmaeon of Croton
Alcmaeon of Croton, fl. c. 500 BC. Ancient Greek medical writer and philosopher whose works survive only as fragments.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888. American transcendentalist writer, a strong influence on Emerson. Father of Louisa May Alcott.
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Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, 1717-1783. Leading thinker of the French Enlightenment and a key member of the Encyclopedist movement.
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Alexander, Samuel
Samuel Alexander, 1859-1938. British Realist philosopher and academic born in Australia, of the Jewish faith.
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Alexander of Aphrodisias
Alexander of Aphrodisias (the Exegete), fl. c. 200 AD. Hellenistic philosopher of the Peripatetic school, known above all for his commentaries on Aristotle.
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Alston, William P.
William P. Alston, b. 1921. American Christian philosopher, celebrated as an epistemologist and philosopher of religion.
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Ammonius Saccas
Ammonius Saccas, fl. early 3rd century AD. Classical Platonist philosopher and teacher of Plotinus and Origen, often regarded as the father of Neoplatonism.
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, c. 500 BCE - c. 428 BCE. Ancient Greek speculative philosopher who is believed to have presented a mechanistic view of the world.
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Anaxarchus
Anaxarchus of Abdera (Anaxarchos, Anaxarkhos), fl. 4th century BC. Ancient Greek philosopher, a follower of Democritus who accompanied Alexander the Great.
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Anaximander
Anaximander of Miletus, c. 611 BCE to c. 547 BCE. Along with Thales and Anaximenes, he is one of the three great Milesian Presocratic thinkers.
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Anaximenes
Anaximenes of Miletus, fl. 550 BCE. Presocratic philosopher who is numbered among the "Milesian" school, along with Thales and Anaximander.
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Andronicus of Rhodes
Andronicus of Rhodes, fl. 1st century BC. Greek Peripatetic philosopher, scholarch of the Lyceum. He is chiefly known for establishing and editing the standard corpus of Aristotle's works.
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Anscombe, G. E. M.
Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, 1919-2001. Distinguished English analytic philosopher, who also translated many of Wittgenstein's works into the English language.
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Antiphon
Antiphon of Rhamnus (Rhamnous), c. 480 BC - 411 BC. There has been some dispute among classical scholars concerning whether the various references to an Athenian "Antiphon" in this period refer to one, two or three people.
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Antisthenes
Athenian philosopher and founder of the Cynic sect who was born around 440 BCE.
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Apel, Karl-Otto
Life and work of Karl-Otto Apel, born in 1922. German philosopher who has combined the analytical and continental philosophical traditions.
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Arcesilaus
Arcesilaus (Arkesilaus), c. 315 BC - c. 240 BC. Ancient Hellenistic thinker and head of the Platonic Academy who abandoned the dogmatic tradition and began the Academy's movement toward Skepticism.
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Archelaus
Archelaus of Athens (also called Archelaus of Miletus), fl. 5th century BC. Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil and successor of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae.
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Archytas of Tarentum
Archytas of Tarentum, fl. early 4th century BC. Greek mathematician, political leader and philosopher. He represented the mathematical wing of the Pythagorean school.
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Arendt, Hannah
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). German-born intellectual and political philosopher who played a leading role in the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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Aristippus of Cyrene
Aristippus (Aristippos) of Cyrene, c. 435 BC - c. 356 BC. Associate of Socrates, who founded the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
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Aristotle
This category is dedicated to Aristotle (382-322BC), the Greek philosopher born in Stagyra, Macedonia. A student of Plato's Academy, he left when a rival was named head and became tutor to Alexander the Great.
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Armstrong, David M.
David M. Armstrong, b. 1926. Contemporary Australian philosopher, whose work has focused on the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
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Arnauld, Antoine
Antoine Arnauld, 1612-1694. Antoine Arnauld, 1612-1694. Early Modern French thinker and theologian who corresponded extensively with Descartes and Leibniz, and who vigorously criticized Nicholas Malebranche.
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Astell, Mary
Mary Astell, 1666-1731. Early English feministic thinker and follower of Malebranche.
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Aune, Bruce
20th century American philosopher
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Auriol, Peter
Peter Auriol (Aureol, Auriole, d'Auriole, Oriol, Petrus Aureoli), c. 1280-1322. Medieval Franciscan thinker and theologian remembered for his commentaries on the Sentences, and for his philosophical study of cognition.
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Austin, John
John Austin, 1790-1859. British legal philosopher and theorist, widely regarded as the founder of "legal positivism." His theory was strongly influenced by Utilitarianism.
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Austin, John Langshaw
John Langshaw Austin, 1911-1960. British philosopher of language, a member of the Ordinary Language Movement and pioneer of speech act theory and philosophical analysis.
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Averroes
Averroes, Latinized form of his actual name Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198. Medieval Islamic scholar known for his defenses of Aristotle and his view that philosophy and religion are not incompatible.
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Avicenna
Ibn Sina (980-1037), Medieval Persian philosopher known in the West by the Latin name Avicenna.
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Ayer, Alfred Jules
For sites about Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989), the philosopher who established the central doctrines of English logical positivism.
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