Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett

male, 67 years old
Analytic philosopher, Brights movement, Brights, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, Tufts University, From Boston…University of Oxford, Cognitive science, philosophy of biology, philosophy, Philosophy of mind
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of...
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

male, 83 years old
type-identity, metaphysicians, type physicalism, Philosopher of science, quasi-empiricism in mathematics, thought experiment…Causal theory of reference, philosophy of language, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosopher of language
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s,...
Paul Feyerabend

Paul Feyerabend

male, deceased (1994)
peripatetic, University of California, Berkeley, Austrian, anarchism, Academic of the London School of Economics, philosophyofscience…Philosopher of science, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Alumni of the London School of Economics, Science in a Free Society, view of science
Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of...
Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

male, deceased (1947)
Logician, Academic of University College London, American, logic, philosophyofscience, principia mathematica…Order of Merit, Academic of Imperial College London, foundations of mathematics
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born...
Philip Kitcher

Philip Kitcher

male, 62 years old
University of Minnesota, vassar college, Columbia University, sociobiology, bioethics, University of Vermont…Philosophy of mathematics, University of Minnisota, philosophy of biology, University of Michigan, philosophyofscience
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 1947) is a British philosophy professor who specializes in the philosophy of science. Born in London, Kitcher spent his...
Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking

male, 73 years old
Ph.D., FBA, British Academy, uganda, Princeton College, Royal Society of Canada…Order of Canada, Philosopher of language, university of toronto, Companion of the Order of Canada, University of British Columbia
Ian Hacking, CC, Ph.D., FRSC, FBA (born February 18, 1936 in Vancouver) is a Canadian university professor and philosopher, specializing in the...
Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon

male, deceased (2001)
artificial intelligence, scientist, problem-solving, Nobel Prize in Economics, cognitive psychology, information processing…philosophyofscience, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, architecture of complexity, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science
Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive...

Nancy Cartwright

female, 66 years old
university of california at san diego, Stanford University, Stanford University faculty, philosophy, objectivity, causality…University Of Illinois At Chicago, Philosopher of science, London School of Economics, philosophyofscience, University of Chicago alumni
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943) is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego....