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9 philosophers

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was completed in the trenches of World War I. Whereof o...

Principia Mathematica attempted to ground all mathematics in logic. His paradox about sets...

On Liberty is the foundational text of liberal democracy. Educated by his father from age ...

The founder of utilitarianism: the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Designed th...

Falsifiability: a theory is scientific only if it can be proven wrong. The Open Society an...

Principia Ethica argued that good is simple and indefinable. Named the naturalistic fallac...

Modern Moral Philosophy ignited the revival of virtue ethics. Attacked the theory that mor...

Invented the trolley problem in a 1967 paper. Natural Goodness rooted ethics in facts abou...

The Hedgehog and the Fox contrasts one big idea with many small ones. Distinguished negati...