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Ted Honderich Facts

Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British philosopher, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London. His work has been mainly about five things: consciousness and mind, including the co

Sarah Kofman Facts

Sarah Kofman (September 14, 1934 – October 15, 1994) was a French philosopher, born in Paris.

John Elof Boodin Facts

John Elof Boodin (November 14, 1869 – November 14, 1950) was a Swedish-born American philosopher and educator. He was the author of numerous books proposing a systematic interpretation of nature. Boodin’s work preserved the tradition of philosophic

Zygmunt Bauman Facts

Zygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925) is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Universit

Knud Ejler Løgstrup Facts

Knud Ejler Løgstrup (2 September 1905 – 20 November 1981) was a Danish philosopher and theologian. His work, which combines elements of phenomenology, ethics and theology, has exerted considerable influence in postwar Nordic thought. More recently

Huberto Rohden Facts

Huberto Rohden Sobrinho, known as Huberto Rohden, (1893–1981) was a Brazilian philosopher, educator and theologist.

Jaegwon Kim Facts

Jaegwon Kim (born September 12, 1934) is a Korean-American philosopher who is now an emeritus professor at Brown University, but who also taught at several other leading American universities. He is best known for his work on mental causation, the mi

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Facts

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (( listen ); 1 May 1881  – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man. He conceived the idea of the

Kiyokazu Washida Facts

Kiyokazu Washida (鷲田 清一, Washida Kiyokazu) is a Japanese philosopher, specializing in clinical philosophy and ethics. He was born in Kyoto, Japan, and is currently a professor at Otani University. He was the 16th president of Osaka University

Arun Manilal Gandhi Facts

Arun Manilal Gandhi is an Indian-American socio-political activist, and the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi through his second son Manilal. Although he has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather as an activist, he eschews the ascetic lifestyl

Włodzimierz Julian Korab Karpowicz Facts

Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz, born in 1953 in Gliwice, Poland, is a Polish philosopher and political thinker.

Miriam Meckel Facts

Miriam Meckel, (born July 18, 1967), is Professor for Corporate Communication and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.