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Ludwig Büchner
German philosopher and scientist (1824-1899)
Alexandre Kojève
Russian-born French philosopher and statesman
John N. Gray
British political philosopher (born 1948)
Bernard Williams
English moral philosopher (1929–2003)
Giulio Cesare Vanini
Italian philosopher
M. N. Roy
Indian political activist and intellectual
Dharmakirti
Dharmakīrti (fl. ) was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā. He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra and Sautrāntika schools. He was also one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism. His works influenced the scholars of Mīmāṃsā, Nyaya and Shaivism schools of Hindu philosophy as well as scholars of Jainism.
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
Hindu philosopher and scholar
Joseph Dietzgen
German philosopher (1828-1888)
Alexander Zinoviev
Russian philosopher and writer (1922–2006)
J. L. Mackie
Australian philosopher (1917-1981)
Jaimini
Jaimini was an ancient Indian scholar who founded the Mīmāṃsā school of Hindu philosophy. He is the son of Parāśara and is considered to be a disciple of sage Vyasa. Traditionally attributed to be the author of the Mimamsa Sutras and the Jaimini Sutras, he is estimated to have lived around 4th to 2nd century BCE. Some scholars place him between 250 BCE and 50 CE. His school is considered non-theistic, but emphasizes ritual parts of the Vedas as essential to dharma. Jaimini is known for his studies of the older Vedic rituals.
Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
Diagoras of Melos
5th-century BC Greek poet and sophist
Sylvain Maréchal
French writer and philosopher (1750-1803)
Kazimierz Łyszczyński
Polish philosopher
André Comte-Sponville
French philosopher
Victor J. Stenger
American philosopher (1935–2014)
Ajita Kesakambali
6th century BCE Indian materialist philosopher
Paul Kurtz
American professor of philosophy (1925-2012)
Zaki al-Arsuzi
Syrian philosopher (1899–1968)
A. C. Grayling
English philosopher
Daniel Bensaïd
French philosopher (1946-2010)
Julian Baggini
British philosopher, author and journalist (born 1968)
J. J. C. Smart
Australian philosopher and academic (1920–2012)
Gilles Lipovetsky
French philosopher, writer and sociologist
Friedrich Kittler
literary scholar and media theorist (1943–2011)
Jacques-André Naigeon
French philosopher and artist (1738-1810)
Bhavyaviveka
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Colin McGinn
British philosopher (born 1950)
Dan Barker
American atheist activist
Michael Martin
American philosopher (1932-2015)
Eino Kaila
Finnish philosopher and psychologist (1890-1958)
Massimo Pigliucci
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College
Adolf Grünbaum
German philosopher (1923–2018)
Timothy Williamson
British philosopher
Kirill Eskov
Russian biologist and writer
Peter Boghossian
American philosophy professor and author
James Rachels
American philosopher (1941–2003)
Rudolf Eisler
Austrian philosopher (1873-1926)
José Ingenieros
Argentine philosopher (1877–1925)
John Anderson
Scottish-born Australian philosopher (1893–1962)
Zoltan Istvan
American writer, futurist, philosopher and transhumanist
George H. Smith
American philosopher (1949–2022)
Graham Oppy
Australian academic, philosopher of religion
Costanzo Preve
Italian philosopher (1943–2013)
Vladimir Bazarov
Russian philosopher (1874-1939)
Quentin Smith
American contemporary philosopher, scholar and professor of philosophy
Arthur Prior
New Zealand logician and philosopher (1914–1969)
Galvano Della Volpe
Italian professor of philosophy and Western Marxist theorist (1895-1968)
Timo Airaksinen
Professor of moral philosophy
Jan Woleński
Polish philosopher
Albert Caraco
French-Uruguayan philosopher
William L. Rowe
American philosopher (1931-2015)
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Scottish philosopher and revolutionary (c. 1760–1793)
Andrzej Nowicki
Polish philosopher, grandmaster of the Grand Orient of Poland (1919–2011)
Prabhākara
Prabhakara (IAST: Prabhākara) active c. 6th century was an Indian philosopher-grammarian in the Mīmāṃsā tradition of Kerala.
Fan Zhen
philosopher from China
Kenan Malik
English writer, lecturer and broadcaster
Theodore Drange
American philosopher