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15 philosophers

Rawls

PoliticalUSA1921

A Theory of Justice is the most important work of political philosophy since Mill. The vei...

Ayn Rand

ObjectivismRussia/USA1905

Fled Soviet Russia and developed a philosophy of radical individualism. Atlas Shrugged is ...

Singer

EthicsAustralia/USA1946

Animal Liberation launched the modern animal rights movement. Effective altruism: donate t...

Chomsky

Linguistics/PoliticsUSA1928

Revolutionized linguistics with the theory of universal grammar. Manufacturing Consent arg...

Kuhn

Philosophy of ScienceUSA1922

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is the most cited academic book of the 20th centur...

Feyerabend

Philosophy of ScienceAustria/USA1924

Against Method argues there is no scientific method. Anything goes is his most quoted phra...

Nozick

PoliticalUSA1938

Anarchy, State, and Utopia is the libertarian response to Rawls. The experience machine th...

Arendt

PoliticalGermany/USA1906

The Banality of Evil from her coverage of the Eichmann trial is her most controversial ide...

Peirce

PragmatismUSA1839

The founder of pragmatism, though the name was popularized by William James. Invented semi...

William James

PragmatismUSA1842

The Varieties of Religious Experience is a classic in the psychology of religion. Brother ...

Dewey

PragmatismUSA1859

The most influential American philosopher of education. Progressive education: learning by...

W.V.O. Quine

AnalyticUSA1908

Two Dogmas of Empiricism demolished the analytic and synthetic distinction. To be is to be...

Richard Rorty

PragmatismUSA1931

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature dismantled the idea of mind as a mirror of reality. Ar...

Judith Butler

FeminismUSA1956

Gender Trouble argued that gender is performative, an act repeated until it appears natura...

Thomas Nagel

Philosophy of MindSerbia/USA1937

What is it like to be a bat revived the mind body problem. Subjective experience seems to ...