John Locke

John Locke

male, deceased (1704)
John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract...
Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon

male, deceased (1294)
Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. An English philosopher who pl...
Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

male, deceased (1990)
Louis Pierre Althusser (October 16, 1918 – October 23, 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the prestigious Éc...
Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

male, deceased (1894)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. In the words of the 1911...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
John Ray

John Ray

male, deceased (1705)
John Ray (November 29, 1627 - January 17, 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until...
Gordon Clark

Gordon Clark

male, deceased (1985)
Gordon Haddon Clark (August 31, 1902 - April 9, 1985) was an American philosopher and Calvinist theologian. He was a primary advocate for the idea...
Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull

male, deceased (1741)
Jethro Tull (born March 1672 in Basildon, Berkshire; died 21 February 1741 in Shalbourne, Berkshire (now Wiltshire)) was an English agricultural...
E. H. Carr

E. H. Carr

male, deceased (1982)
Edward Hallett Carr was a British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and fierce opponent of empiricism within historiography.
J. B. Schneewind

J. B. Schneewind

male, 79 years old
Jerome B. Schneewind (born 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.