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Ignatieff held senior academic posts at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Toronto before entering politics in 2006.In the 2006 federal election, Ignatieff was elected to the House of Commo
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA (/ˈstrɔːsən/; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before
Constantin Brunner (1862–1937) was the pen-name of the German Jewish philosopher Arjeh Yehuda Wertheimer (called Leo). He was born in Altona (near Hamburg) on 27 August 1862. He came from a prominent Jewish family that had lived in the vicinity of
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987), was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/ˈkuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circl
Arthur Yitzhak Biram (Hebrew: ארתור בירם) (13 August 1878 – 5 June 1967) was an Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator.
Pete Singer is a pioneer animal rights philosopher.Along with Tom Regan, Singer helped assemble and lead the first animal rights and animal liberation movements of the 1960s.His novel Animal Liberation is considered a monumental, ground-breaking piec
Jacques Bouveresse (born August 20, 1940) is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy. Bouveresse has b
Moshe Halbertal (born Montevideo, Uruguay, 1958), is a noted Israeli Jewish philosopher, professor and writer.
Jacques Derrida (/ʒɑːk ˈdɛrɨdə/; born Jackie Élie Derrida;, July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher, born in Algeria. Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which he disc
José Pablo Feinmann (born 10 March 1943) is a Jewish- Argentine philosopher, writer, playwright and TV host.
Carlo Cattaneo, (born June 15, 1801, Milan—died Feb. 6, 1869, near Lugano, Switz.), Italian publicist and intellectual whose writings significantly shaped the Risorgimento and whose journal, Il Politecnico (“The Polytechnic”), not only served