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 Alexander Zinoviev (1922-2006) noted for his satire on the USSR The Yawning Heights in 1976, which led to his exile 1978, and The Reality of Communism in 1984, where he argued that... | |
 Xenophon, (c. 430-354 BC) was a disciple of Socrates (described in Xenophon's Symposium). Short Biography: In 401 he joined a Greek mercenary army aiding the Persian prince Cyrus... | |
 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British feminist, member of a group of radical intellectuals called the English Jacobins. Short Biography: Her book Vindication of the Rights... |  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1922 postulated the "picture theory" of language: that words represent things according to social agreement. Short... |
 Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "theory of organism", attempted a synthesis of metaphysics and sdence. Short Biography: His works include Principia Mathematica 1910-1913 (with... |  William Whewell (1794-1866) coined the term "scientist" along with such words as Eocene and Miocene, electrode, cathode, and anode. Short Biography: Most of his career was connected... |
 Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) rejected Descartes's emphasis on the mathematical and natural sciences, and argued that we can understand history more adequately than nature, since it... |  Ferdinand Tonnies (1855-1936) was a German social theorist and philosopher, one of the founders of the sociological tradition of community studies and urban sociology through his key... |
 Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) trained as a scientist, but from 1747 concentrated on scriptural study. Short Biography: In Divine Love and Wisdom in 1763 concluded that the Last... |  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, originally a theosophist, who developed his own mystic and spiritual teaching, anthroposophy, designed to develop the whole human... |
 Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) mind and matter are two modes of an infinite substance which he called God or Nature, good and evil being relative. Short Biography: He was a determinist... |  Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) wrote Social Statics in 1851, expounding his laissez-faire views on social and political problems, Principles of Psychology in 1855, and Education in 1861.... |
 Vladimir Sergeyevich Salavyov (1853-1900) blending of Neo-Platonism and Christian mysticism attempted to link all aspects of human experience in a doctrine of divine wisdom. His... |  Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1903-1990) was an American psychologist, a radical behaviourist who rejects mental concepts, seeing the organism as a "black box" where internal processes... |
 Siger of Brabant (1240-1282) was a Medieval philosopher, a follower of Averroes, who taught at the University of Paris, and whose distinguishing between reason and Christian faith led... |  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher, whose The World as Will and Idea in 1818 expounded an atheistic and pessimistic world view: an irrational will is considered... |
 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854) began as a follower of Fichte, but moved away from subjective idealism which treats the external world as essentially immateria towards... |  John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher, who believed that the exigencies of a modern democratic and industrial society demanded new educational techniques. He expounded... |
 Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) The Concept of Mind in 1949 set out to show that the distinction between an inner and outer world in philosophy and psychology cannot be sustained. He ridiculed... |  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl (1872-1970) works include Principia Mathematica 1910-1913 (with A. N. Whitehead), in which he attempted to show that mathematics could be reduced... |
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Discourses on the Origins of Inequality in 1754 made him famous, denouncing civilized society and postulating the paradox of the superiority... |  Thomas Reid (1710-1796) Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense in 1764 attempted to counter the sceptical conclusions of Hume. Short Biography: He believed... |
 Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) was an American philosopher and logician. Short Biography: In Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951), he argued against the analytic/synthetic distinction.... |  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was born at Mirandola, of which his father was prince, he studied Hebrew, Chaldean, and Arabic, showing particular interest in the Jewish and... |
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