- David Hume
David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Although in recent years interest in Hume's work has centred on his philosophical writing, it was as a historian that he first gained recognition and respect. - Pyrrho
Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher from Elis, was in antiquity credited as being the first skeptic philosopher and inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC. - Sextus Empiricus
Sextus Empiricus (fl. during the 2nd and possibly the 3rd centuries AD), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism. In his medical work, tradition maintains that he belonged to the "empiric" school (see Asclepiades), as reflected by his name. - Hilary Putnam
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions and to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. - Joe Nickell
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 He also works as an historical document consultant and has examined such famous forgeries as the purported Jack the Ripper Diary. Nickell holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky. - Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne-Delecroix (February 28 1533-September 13 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography - and his massive volume "Essais" (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, … - Mark Perakh
Mark Perakh is a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University Fullerton. Perakh taught physics, researched superconductivity, and wrote some 300 scientific papers, but his notoriety particularly comes from his writing about science and religion on Talk Reason, a website he helped found, and from his regular contributions to the blog The Panda's Thumb. In 2003, Perakh published "Unintelligent Design" (Prometheus Books, … - Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright (born 1942) is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity. He is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, and regular visiting professor at New York University (NYU). He has also taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford University, Columbia University, … - Aenesidemus
Aenesidemus was a Greek sceptical philosopher, born in Knossos on the island of Crete. He lived sometime during the first century BC, taught in Alexandria and flourished shortly after the life of Cicero. He was probably a member of Plato's Academy, but due to his rejection of their theories he revived the principle of "epoché" (εποχή), or suspeded judgement, originally proposed by Pyrrho and Timon, … - Hayden White
Hayden White (1928-) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe" (1973). He is currently professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. White rejected the post-Collingwoodian philosophy of history by brushing away previous distinctions and debates, … - Kersey Graves
Kersey Graves was a skeptic, atheist, spiritualist, theological reformist and writer. His parents were Quakers, and as a young man he followed them in their observance, and then later moved to the Hicksite wing of Quakerism. Graves was largely self-educated, and at the age of 19 was teaching in a school at Richmond, a career he was to follow for more than twenty years. He was an advocate of Abolitionism was also interested in language reform, … - Colin Bennett
Colin Bennett is a writer on anomalous phenomena and has written a book about Charles Fort. He also appeared at UnCon 2000 and 2002 talking about George Adamski and Scepticism (respectively). - Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi (Laurea, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, M.Phil. and Ph.D. University of Warwick, M.A. University of Oxford) is one of Italy's most influential thinkers in the area of philosophy of science, technology, and ethics. He is best known for his research on the sceptical tradition and for being the founder of the philosophy of information and of information ethics, two fields that he has established as independent areas of inquiry in the nineties. - Richard Rose
Richard Rose (March 14, 1917 - July 6, 2005) was an American mystic, esoteric philosopher, author, poet, and investigator of paranormal phenomena. An observer of human psychology, human weakness and human potential, Richard Rose challenged authority in psychology, psychiatry, religion, academia, the legal system, and the New Age movement at a time when such criticism was not popular. His criticism highlighted group-think, dogmatism, financial motives, emotional appeals, … - Nicholas Of Autrecourt
Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French Nicholas d'Autrécourt; in Latin Nicolaus de Autricuria or Nicolaus de Ultricuria) (ca. 1299 - ca. 1369), was a French medieval philosopher and theologian. Born in Autrecourt near Verdun, France, Autreourt was known principally for developing skepticism to extreme logical conclusions. - Anacharsis
Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BCE and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian," apparently a forerunner of the Skeptics and Cynics, though none of his authentic works have survived. Anacharsis was half Greek and the son of a Scythian chief, from a mixed Hellenistic culture, apparently in the region of the Cimmerian Bosporus. - Robert W. Funk
Robert W. Funk (July 18, 1926-September 3 2005), an American biblical scholar, was founder of the controversial Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Funk, an academic, sought to promote research and education on what he called biblical literacy. His approach to hermeneutics was historical-critical, with a strongly skeptical view of orthodox Christian belief, particularly concerning the historicity of Jesus. - Gary Lenaire
Gary Lenaire (born 1967) is an author, guitarist, vocalist, and skeptic. He has released 11 records and has been nominated for six GMA Dove Awards. He is most famous for his work with the Christian thrash metal band Tourniquet. In 1996 along with Guy Ritter, who was also a former member of Tourniquet, they formed a new Christian metal band known as Echo Hollow. In 2000 he recorded various tracks that became the CD "The Lost Years". - David Solway
David Solway (born 1941) is a Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic of Jewish descent. He is a member of the Jubilate Circle and formerly professor of English Literature at John Abbott College. He lives in Hudson, Quebec. David Solway is renowned for his metier both as a poet and as a teacher, for his common sense, skepticism, flamboyancy and polemical outspokenness, especially in defence of Zionism. - Steuart Campbell
Steuart Campbell (born 16 April 1937) is an Edinburgh-based sceptic and investigative science writer born in Birmingham. Campbell trained as an architect and worked as one until the mid-1970s. He then gained a degree in mathematics and science from the Open University (BA, 1983). He has written books on science and pseudoscience-related matters: * "The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence". Debunking belief in the Loch Ness Monster by analysis of all the main evidence, … - Jayarasi Bhatta
Jayarasi Bhatta (or Jayaraasi Bhatta, fl. 7th c.) was an Indian philosopher who belonged to the Carvaka School (also known as the Lokayata or Materialist school). His notable work, the "Tattvopaplavasimha" ("The Lion that Devours All Categories"/"The Upsetting of All Principles") is the only extant authentic text from that school. - Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington
Sir Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, was a publisher, President of Trinity College, Oxford, vice-chancellor of Oxford University and originator of the Norrington Table. Norrington was born on October 27, 1899 at Normandy Villa, Godstone Road, Kenley, Surrey. The only son and eldest child of Arthur James Norrington, a merchant in the City of London, and his wife, Gertrude Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of William Pugh, a merchant from Montgomeryshire. - Dan4th Nicholas
- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - Bayard Russell
I've been on a serious buddhist kick since the start of this year. In my spare moments I'm hanging out with friends, recording songs, swinging on monkey rings, and most of all staring at a computer screen. Life is simple, complicated, and good. Linkies to stuff I do: | myspace music | other samples | negative ken | knowledge blog | humor blog |. - Yousuf Siddiqui
I dance when I write papers. - Riley
I play guitar in the band FATO and I have a sideproject called G.O.D. GRIND! - Lisa Huiras
FOR THE HORDE! - Rolando Estrada
"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looks honest enough." - Mark Twain. - Stephanie Frye
Research librarian by day, dancing queen by night, slave to cats 24/7. Professional dancer with Gypsy Queens tribal fusion troupe, Medusa gothic fusion troupe, and Baladina Egyptian dance company. - Marco Ceccarelli
http://www.deadlycarnage.altervista.org/. - Tim Call
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Hello, I am Gary Potter and I am currently attending the Hogwash School Of Witchcraft, Wizardry And Obscene Dance. - Joe Talarigo
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SJ---U3. - Eric Unger
((((R.I.P.)))) - Phil
I'm misanthropic but I judge people based on who they are not what they are. I tend to tense up whenever I'm in crowds so I do my best to avoid them. I'm convinced that 99% of humanity consists of base, vile, ignorant, weak-minded people. There are so many problems we have as a species but we have the tools and the methods to solve them. - Emily
âWhatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.â. - Ryan Johnston
Well I'm cool. That's about it. yep cool. - Franklin
Hi! I am an incredibly funny, wonderfully brilliant and highly intelligent young man. At least, that's what my mother tells me. She's dead. Nah, I'm just kidding. I don't really know what happened to her.
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