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This is a list of lists of philosophers, organized by subarea, nationality, religion, and time period. Lists of philosophers by subfield. List of aestheticians;
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In philosophy and in its current sense, rationalism is a line of thought that appeals to reason or the intellect as a primary or fundamental source of knowledge or justification". [1] It is typically contrasted with empiricism , which appeals to sensory experience as a primary or fundamental source of knowledge or justification. [ 2 ]
Philosopher Hazel Barnes: December 16, 1915 – March 18, 2008 United States Philosopher, author Translated Sartre into English Karl Barth: May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968 Switzerland Theologian Founder of neo-orthodoxy: Nikolai Berdyaev: March 18, 1874 – March 25, 1948 Russia Theologian, philosopher Christian existentialist: Steve Biko
Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. [54] Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. [55] [56]
List of ethicists including religious or political figures recognized by those outside their tradition as having made major contributions to ideas about ethics, or raised major controversies by taking strong positions on previously unexplored problems.
He is famous for the seminal paper on Big Bang nucleosynthesis called the Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper. [5] Nayef Al-Rodhan: Philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist. Author of Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man; Emotional Amoral Egoism and Symbiotic Realism. Philip Warren Anderson: American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics ...
This is a list of notable political philosophers, including some who may be better known for their work in other areas of philosophy. The entries are in order by year of birth to show rough direction of influences and of development of political thought .