Alexandra Stoddard

Alexandra Stoddard is a philosopher and an interior designer, and author of many best selling books. Her books include the classic " Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance...

Aristotle

Aristotle was born on March 7, 384 BC, Stagira, on the peninsula of Chalcidice. He was a famous ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the peripatetic school and of formal logic as science. Biography...

Alexander Von Humboldt

Alexander Von Humboldt (full name Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt) was born on September 14, 1769 in Berlin, Germany. He was a Prussian naturalist and explorer...

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was a French philosopher, regarded as the founder of sociology, a term he coined 1830. Short Biography: He sought to establish sociology as an intellectual...

Alfred North Whitehead

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...

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Anne Fausto-Sterling was born in 1944. She is a famous Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at the Brown University. ...

Arturo Valenzuela

Arturo Valenzuela was born in Chile. He is a famous Philosopher. Valenzuela is the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. Why is he famous? He...

Arthur Schopenhauer

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...

Avicenna

Ibn Sou (979-1037) was an Arabian philosopher and physician, who studied the Koran, philosophy, and the science of his day. Short Biography: His Canon Medicinae was a standard...

As'ad Abukhalil

As'ad Abukhalil was born on March 16, 1960 in Tyre, Lebanon. He is a famous philosopher and professor of political science. Abukhalil has written many books regarding many political...

Allen Buchanan

Allen Buchanan is a Professor of Philosophy. He is at the Duke University. He has written six books such as : "Marx", "Applied Ethics", "Social Justice" and "The foundations of international...

Alexander Zinoviev

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...

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an Italian Marxist, who attempted to unify social theory and political practice. Short Biography: He helped to found the Italian Communist party...

Allen Hertzke

Allen Hertzke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several books such as: "Echoes of Discontent", "politics in America", "Freeing God's...

Alfred Jules Ayer

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989) was an English philosopher. Short Biography: He wrote Language, "Truth and Logic" in 1936, an exposition of the theory of "logical positivism",...

Averroes

Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) was an Arabian philosopher, who argued for the eternity of matter, and denied the immortality of the individual soul. Short Biography: His philosophical...

Anaximander

Anaximander (610 - C. 547 BC) was a Greek astronomer and philosopher. Short Biography: He is thought to have been the first to determine the solstices and equinoxes, to have...