J. L. Austin

J. L. Austin

male, deceased (1960)
John Langshaw Austin was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory and terminology of speech acts. He was born in...
David Wiggins

David Wiggins

male, 76 years old
David Wiggins (born 8 March 1933) is a British moral philosopher, metaphysician, and philosophical logician working especially on identity and...
Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle

male, deceased (1976)
Gilbert Ryle (Brighton, 19 August 1900-Oxford, 6 October 1976), was a philosopher, and a representative of the generation of British ordinary...
Timothy Williamson

Timothy Williamson

male, 54 years old
Timothy Williamson, FBA, FRSE, (born Uppsala, Sweden, 6 August 1955) is a distinguished British philosopher whose main research interests are in...
Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

male, deceased (1997) (United States)
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (June 6 1909 – November 5 1997), was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal th...
Richard Wollheim

Richard Wollheim

male, deceased (2003)
Richard Arthur Wollheim (5 May, 1923 - 4 November, 2003) British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to...
Hugh Mellor

Hugh Mellor

male, 71 years old
David Hugh Mellor (known as Hugh Mellor) is a British philosopher. Mellor was born on 10 July 1938 in London. Though he studied chemical...
W. B. Gallie

W. B. Gallie

male, deceased (1998)
Walter Bryce Gallie was a British social theorist, political theorist and philosopher. Gallie grew up in a British boarding school and later...
John Wisdom

John Wisdom

male, deceased (1993)
John Wisdom was an ordinary language philosopher and philosopher of mind. He was heavily influenced by G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wisdom...

Thomas Baldwin

male, 62 years old
Thomas (Tom) R. Baldwin (born 1947) is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of York. He has been editor of the...