Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

male, deceased (1677)
Baruch de Spinoza (lived November 24, 1632 – February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable sc...
Baron D'Holbach

Baron D'Holbach

male, deceased (1789)
Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach was a German-French author, philosopher and encyclopedist. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim,...
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Ted Honderich

Ted Honderich

male, 76 years old
Ted Honderich (born 1933) is Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He is a Canadian-born...
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
John Hospers

John Hospers

male, 91 years old
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Hospers earned advanced degrees from...

Gary Drescher

male
Gary L. Drescher is a scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), author of the book "Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to...
Ivan Sechenov

Ivan Sechenov

male, deceased (1905)
Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov (August 1, 1829, Tyoply Stan (now Sechenovo) near Simbirsk, Russia-November 2, 1905, Moscow), was a Russian...
Nicholas J. Spykman

Nicholas J. Spykman

male, deceased (1943)
Nicholas John Spykman (b.1893 - d.1943) was a Dutch-American geostrategist, known as the "godfather of containment." As a political scientist he...