- Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. - Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure in the Enlightenment, and editor-in-chief of the famous "Encyclopédie". Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" (Jacques the Fatalist and His Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding novels, their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas about free will. - Zeno Of Citium
Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher from Citium (Gr: Κίτιον), Cyprus. Zeno belongs to the Stoic school of thought of the Hellenistic period. He was the son of a merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic living at that time in Greece. Zeno was also a merchant until the he was 42, when he started the Stoic school of philosophy. - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - Norman Malcolm
Norman Malcolm (1911 - 1990) was an American philosopher. He was born in Selden, Kansas. After earning a Harvard doctorate, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1940. During his first term at Cambridge in 1938, he met Ludwig Wittgenstein and attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophical foundations of mathematics throughout 1939. Malcolm remained one of Wittgenstein's closest friends, and his memoir of his time with Wittgenstein, published in 1958, … - Dharmakirti
Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. He was one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism, according to which, the only items considered to exist are momentary Buddhist atoms, and states of consciousness. - Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the "Koker trilogy", "A Taste of Cherry", and "The Wind Will Carry Us". Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, … - William Mitchell
Sir William Mitchell was Professor of English Language, Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1942 and Chancellor 1942–1948. Mitchell wrote about issues overlapping philosophy of mind and science, neurology, quantum theory and philosophical psychology. His work is the subject of a book by W. Martin Davies, "The philosophy of Sir William Mitchell, … - Julius Evola
Julius Evola born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, aka Baron Evola (May 19, 1898-June 11, 1974), was an Italian esotericist and occult author, who wrote extensively on Hermeticism, the metaphysics of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, militarism, aristocracy, on matters political, philosophical, historical, racial, religious, as well as the essence and history of civilizations, … - George Campbell
George Campbell (December 25 1719-April 6 1796) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, minister, theologian, and professor of divinity. Campbell had three focuses to his intellectual life: language, theology, and rhetoric. He was primarily interested in rhetoric since he believed that the study of rhetoric would enable his students to become better preachers. - Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect. The son of a cabinet-maker, Zumthor learned carpentry at an early age. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York in the 1960’s. During lean years, Zumthor worked on many historic restoration projects, which gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials. - Richard Of St. Victor
Richard of St. Victor (died 1173), was one of the most important mystical theologicans of 12th century Paris, then the intellectual center of Europe. Richard, a Scot, was prior of the famous Augustinian abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris from 1162 until his death in 1173. Richard was a student of the great German mystic Hugo of St. Victor, whose principles and methods he adopted and developed. - Noah Porter
Noah Porter (December 14, 1811 - March 14, 1892), American educationalist and philosophical writer, was born in Farmington, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1831, and was employed as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and Massachusetts, 1836 to 1846. He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. - Giuseppe Peano
Giuseppe Peano (August 27, 1858 - April 20, 1932) was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of exceptional philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation. The standard axiomatization of the natural numbers is named in his honor. He spent most of his career teaching mathematics at the University of Turin. - Kanada
Kanada (also transliterated as Kanad and in other ways; Sanskrit कणाद) was a Hindu sage who founded the philosophical school of Vaisheshika. He is considered as the father of Atom theory.He talked of Dvyanuka(biatomic molecule) and tryanuka (triatomic molecule) He probably lived around 600 BCE according to some accounts. It is believed that he was born in Prabhas Kshetra (near Dwaraka) in Gujarat, India. - Jeff Green
Jeff Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian writer, playwright, producer, and director working in a variety of media including radio, television, computer and DVD-based multimedia, and in live club settings. His work has earned him critical acclaim and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada market during the late 1970s and the 1980s - specifically, … - David Almond
David Almond (* May 15 1951 in Felling near Newcastle, England) is a British children's writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. Born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he started out as an author of adult fiction before finding his niche writing literature for young adults. His first children's novel, "Skellig" (1998), set in Newcastle, … - Patrick J. Hayes
Patrick John Hayes or Pat Hayes (21 August 1944) is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. As of March 2006, he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida. Pat Hayes has been an active, prolific, and influential figure in Artificial Intelligence for over five decades. He has a reputation for being provocative but also quite humorous. - Eyedea
Eyedea (born Mike Averill in 1981) is a well-known freestyle battle champion and underground rapper. His notable wins include the televised Blaze Battle sponsored by HBO (2000) and a victory at Scribble Jam (1999). He has appeared as a solo artist, and as the emcee half of the duo Eyedea & Abilities (along with longtime friend and collaborator DJ Abilities). His non-battle rhymes are generally philosophically or thematically based, … - Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. At one point, he was the most widely read non-English-language science fiction author in the world.. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, … - Jan Kott
Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 - December 23, 2001) was a well-known Polish critic and theoretician of the theatre. Born in Warsaw in 1914, Kott moved to the United States in 1966 and lectured at Yale and Berkeley. A poet, translator, and critic, he was also one of the finest essayists of the Polish school. He died in Santa Monica, California in 2001. - William Wollaston
William Wollaston (March 26, 1659 - October 29, 1724) was an English philosophical writer. He is remembered today for one book, which he completed only two years before his death: "The Religion of Nature Delineated" (1st ed. 1722; 2nd ed. 1724). He was born at Coton-Clanford in Staffordshire, on March 26, 1659. He was born to a family long-established in Staffordshire, and was distantly related to Sir John Wollaston, … - Emmy van Deurzen
Emmy van Deurzen is an existential therapists in the United Kingdom. She initially came to the UK to work with the anti-psychiatrists, but soon created her own school. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis and the International Society for Existential Psychotherapists and Counsellors and created the two most important training institutes for the approach: at Regent's College, London and Schiller International University, London. - Inman Harvey
Inman Harvey is a Senior Lecturer in CSAI at the University of Sussex. His research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems. Application domains of interest include evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes. A theoretical topic in evolution is Neutral Networks, the study of pathways of neutral mutations through sequence space, … - Francis Bowen
Francis Bowen (September 8, 1811 - January 22, 1890), was an American philosophical writer and educationalist. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard University in 1833, taught for two years at Phillips Exeter Academy, and from 1835 to 1839 was a tutor and instructor at Harvard. After several years of study in Europe, he settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was editor and proprietor of the "North American Review" from 1843 to 1854. - John E. Hare
John Edmund Hare (born 26 July 1949) is a British classicist, ethicist, and currently Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Honours Literae Humaniores in 1971 from Balliol College, Oxford, and a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1975. He was Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University from 1975 to 1989. He was Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College from 1989 to 2003. - K. N. Jayatilleke
Kulatissa Nanda Jayatilleke was an internationally recognized authority on Buddhist philosophy whose book “Early Buddhist theory of knowledge” has been described as “an outstanding philosophical interpretation of the Buddha’s teaching” in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Hans Keller
Hans Keller (1919-1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, and invented the method of 'Wordless Functional Analysis' (in which a work is analysed in musical sound alone, without any words being heard or read). Keller was born into a well-to-do and culturally well-connected Jewish family in Vienna, and as a boy was taught by the same Oskar Adler who had, decades earlier, … - Dora Marsden
Dora Marsden (5 March 1882 - 13 December 1960) was an English feminist activist, an editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings. She is regarded an egoist feminist. - Agostino Gemelli
Agostino Gemelli was an Italian physician, Franciscan friar and psychologist who was also the founder and chancellor of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in 1921. Born "'Edoardo Gemelli" in Milan, he carried out neurophysiological and psychological experiments. He focused some of his research on the psychology of the workplace. His Institute of Psychology was the most prominent institution of its kind in Italy. - Roger Hodgson
Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, born 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England is a British vocalist and musician, and he was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp. He is recognized for his high-pitched voice, which became a trademark for Supertramp, and often writes about somewhat spiritual and philosophical topics. - Étienne Tempier
Étienne (Stephen) Tempier (also known as Stephanus of Orleans was a French bishop of Paris during the thirteenth century. He is best remembered for promulgating a Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological propositions (or articles) that addressed ideas and concepts that were being discussed and disputed in the faculty of Arts at the University of Paris. - Moses ben Jacob Cordovero
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero or Moshe Cordevero (Hebrew: משה קורדובירו) known by the acronym the Ramak (רמ"ק), was one of the most prominent scholars of early modern Kabbalah. He belonged to a circle of Jewish mystical thinkers in 16th-century Safed. His birthplace is unknown, but the name Cordovero indicates that his family originated in Córdoba, … - Carlos Santiago Nino
Carlos Santiago Nino was an Argentine moral, legal and political philosopher. Nino studied law at the University of Buenos Aires and at Oxford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1977 with a thesis directed by John Finnis and Tony Honoré. Nino began his academic activity in the early 1970s, concentrating on some traditional issues in jurisprudence, such as the concept of a legal system, the interpretation of the law, the debate between legal positivism and natural law, … - Johann Eduard Erdmann
Johann Eduard Erdmann (June 13, 1805 - June 12, 1892) was a German philosophical writer. Erdmann was born at Wolmar (now Valmiera, Latvia). He studied theology at Dorpat (Tartu) and afterwards at Berlin, where he fell under the influence of Hegel. From 1829 to 1832 he was a minister of religion in his native town. Afterwards he devoted himself to philosophy, and qualified in that subject at Berlin in 1834. - Ephesian School
Ephesian School sometimes refers to the philosophical thought of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who considered that the being of all the universe is fire. According to him, the being is material and one, but at the same time he acknowledges that the world witnesses constant change. Motion of the archelement (fire) is discordant and unharmonious, even though harmony is the final result of the process. - Ben Cunningham
Ben Cunningham (born 1947 in Sheffield, Alabama) is a Nashville, Tennessee real estate investor and leader in the grassroots political group Tennessee Tax Revolt. Cunningham is a Republican, but his group includes many Libertarians and conservative Democrats. The group is a result of the attempt to implement a state income tax during the administration of former governor of Tennessee Don Sundquist. - Henry Andrews
Henry Andrews (1744 - 1820) was born in the village of Frieston, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. He established a reputation as an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. For 43 years he worked in his spare time as 'Compiler of the tables detailing the movement of the planets' for Old Moore's Almanac. His day job was Calculator to the Board of Longitude. He had also set up a boarding school which taught trigonometry and navigation as extra subjects, … - Adolf Lasson
Adolf Lasson was a German Jewish philosophical writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson. He educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the University of Berlin (1848-52; classical philology and law). In 1858 he became teacher at the Friedrichsgymnasium, and from 1859 to 1897 he occupied the same position at the Louisenstädtisches Real-Gymnasium. In 1861 he took the Ph.D. degree at Leipzig University, … - Villy Sørensen
Villy Sørensen was a Danish author and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard.
|
| |