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A. J. Thomas (born 10 June 1952) is an Indian poet, translator and editor writing in English. He is best known as editor of Indian Literature , the bimonthly English journal of Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters) which he edited till 2010.
A. J. Thomas Jr. (1923–2004), American politician Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name.
Ayer was born in St John's Wood, in north west London, to Jules Louis Cyprien Ayer and Reine (née Citroen), wealthy parents from continental Europe.His mother was from the Dutch-Jewish family that founded the Citroën car company in France; his father was a Swiss Calvinist financier who worked for the Rothschild family, including for their bank and as secretary to Alfred Rothschild.
Jakob Thomasius (/ t oʊ ˈ m eɪ ʃ ə s /; Latin: Jacobus Thomasius; 27 August 1622 – 9 September 1684) was a German academic philosopher and jurist. He is now regarded as an important founding figure in the scholarly study of the history of philosophy. His views were eclectic, and were taken up by his son Christian Thomasius.
Mortimer Jerome Adler (/ ˈ æ d l ər /; December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, popular author and lay theologian.As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions.
Harris has written the most recent intellectual biography of David Hume. His short Hume: A Very Short Introduction (2021) has superseded the previous Oxford short introduction on the same topic written by British philosopher A. J. Ayer (1980). [6] Unlike Ayer's introduction, Harris' work focuses on morality, religion, and politics in Hume.
Arms of Coplestone, lords of the manor of Copleston in Devon: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three leopard's faces azure. Frederick Charles Copleston SJ CBE FBA (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a British Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.