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John Locke
English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
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Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
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Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
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Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
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Epicurus
Epicurus (, ; ; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
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Lucretius
Titus Lucretius Carus ( ; ;  – October 15, 55 BC) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, which usually is translated into English as On the Nature of Things—and somewhat less often as On the Nature of the Universe. Very little is known about Lucretius's life; the only certainty is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom the poem was addressed and dedicated. De rerum natura was a considerable influence on the Augustan poets, particularly Virgil
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George Berkeley
Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
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Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
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William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
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Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
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Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
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Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher (1925–1995)
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
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John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)
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Rudolf Carnap
German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)
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Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
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Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
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Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)
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Adam Weishaupt
German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati (1748–1830)
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Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
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Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French academic
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Francesco Redi
Italian entomologist and poet
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Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
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Hans Reichenbach
German–American philosopher
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Carl Gustav Hempel
German philosopher (1905–1997)
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David Hartley
British philosopher
Joseph Butler
English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)
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Tim Minchin
British-Australian comedian, actor and musician (born 1975)
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Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
John Anderson
Scottish-born Australian philosopher (1893–1962)
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Tyler Burge
American philosopher
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George Campbell
figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719
Gaunilo of Marmoutiers
French philosopher
Georg Friedrich Meier
German philosopher (1718–1777)