Gabriel Liiceanu

Gabriel Liiceanu was born on May 23, 1942 in Ramnicu-Valcea, Romania. He is a Romanian philosopher. Biography and Career : He was a young search worker at the Institute of Philosophy...

George Berkeley

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a Irish philosopher, who believed that nothing exists apart from perception, that a thing which is not perceived cannot be known, and therefore cannot...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher, who conceived of consciousness and the external object as forming a unity, in which neither factor can exist independentiy...

G. E. Moore

George Edward Moore (1873-1958) was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he was professor of philosophy at the university (1925-1939), and edited the journal Mind, to...

Giambattista Vico

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...

George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) was an American philosopher and social psychologist, who helped to found the philosophy of pragmatism. Short Biography: He taught at the University...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher. Short Biography: Independently of, but concurrently with, Newton he developed calculus. In his...

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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...

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was a Italian philosopher. Short Biography: He became a Dominican friar in 1563, but his sceptical attitude to Catholic doctrines forced him to flee...

Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was an German philosopher. Short Biography: The founder of modem mathematical logic, he published Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik / The Foundations of...

Gyorgy Lukacs

Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) was an Hungarian philosopher, one of the founders of "Western" or "Hegelian" Marxism, a philosophical current opposed to the Marxism of the official communist...

Galen

Galen AD (c. 130 - c. 200) was a Greek physician ideas dominated Western medicine for almost 1,500 years. Short Biography: Born at Pergamum in Asia Minor, he personally attended...

Gilbert Ryle

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...