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Massimo Pigliucci Facts

Massimo Pigliucci (born January 16, 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-City College, co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast, and the editor in chief for the online magazine Scientia Salon. He is an outspoken critic of pseudoscience and crea

Gustavo Perednik Facts

Gustavo Daniel Perednik (born 1956) is an Argentinian-born Israeli author and educator.

Moritz Schlick Facts

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Michael Dummett Facts

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, FBA, D.Litt (27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was a British philosopher, described as “among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equal

Mário Ferreira dos Santos Facts

Mário Ferreira dos Santos (January 3, 1907 – April 11, 1968) was a Brazilian philosopher. Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Ferreira dos Santos was raised in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, and graduated in Law and Social Sciences at the Federal University

Étienne Gilson Facts

Étienne Gilson (13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes, yet also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aqui

Kah Kyung Cho Facts

Kah Kyung Cho (born 1927) is an American philosopher. He specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, contemporary German philosophy, and East-West comparative philosophy. He has worked with continental philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Hans-G

Maurice Frydman Facts

Maurice Frydman (Maurycy Frydman or Maurycy Frydman-Mor in Polish), aka Swami Bharatananda (1901 in Warsaw, Russian Empire – 9 March 1977 in India), was an engineer and humanitarian who spent the later part of his life in India. He lived at the ash

Moses Mendelssohn Facts

Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the ‘Jewish enlightenment’ of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

George Herbert Mead Facts

George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. He is regarded as one of

Roderick Chisholm Facts

Roderick Milton Chisholm (/ˈtʃɪzəm/; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999) was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, and the philosophy of perception. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard

Eugeniusz Grodzinski Facts

Eugeniusz Grodziński (January 10, 1912, Pskov, Russia – October 11, 1994, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish philosopher, whose principal interests were philosophy of natural language, philosophical foundations of logic, and philosophical problems of psyc