David Hume

David Hume

male, deceased (1776)
David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important...
Pyrrho

Pyrrho

male
Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was in antiquity credited as being the first skeptic philosopher and inspiration...
Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus

male
Sextus Empiricus (fl. during the 2nd and possibly the 3rd centuries AD), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have...
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

male, 83 years old
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s,...
Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell

male, 64 years old
Joe Nickell was born December 1, 1944. He is a former stage magician and is a prominent skeptical investigator of the paranormal. He also works as...
Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

male, deceased (1592)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (February 28 1533-September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance....
Mark Perakh

Mark Perakh

male, 85 years old
Mark Perakh is a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University Fullerton. Perakh taught physics,...
Crispin Wright

Crispin Wright

male, 66 years old
Crispin Wright (born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and...
Aenesidemus

Aenesidemus

male
Aenesidemus was a Greek sceptical philosopher, born in Knossos on the island of Crete. He lived sometime during the first century BC, taught in...
Hayden White

Hayden White

male
Hayden White (1928-) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work "Metahistory: The Historical...