Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

male, deceased (1970)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...
Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan

male, 38 years old
Bryan Caplan (b. 1971) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He received his B.S. in economics...
Homo Economicus

Homo Economicus

male
Homo economicus, or Economic man, is the concept in some economic theories of man as a "rational" and "self-interested" actor.
Greg Egan

Greg Egan

male, 48 years old
Greg Egan (August 20, 1961, Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian computer programmer and science fiction author. Egan specialises in hard...
Peter Geach

Peter Geach

male, 93 years old
Peter Thomas Geach (b. 29 March 1916) is a British philosopher. His areas of interest are the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, the...
Ferdinand von Lindemann

Ferdinand von Lindemann

male, deceased (1939)
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (Pi) is a transcendental number, i...
Eric Beinhocker

Eric Beinhocker

male
Eric Beinhocker is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company's economics research arm, where he leads research on...
Wang Chong

Wang Chong

male, deceased (97)
Wang Chong, courtesy name Zhongren (仲任), was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular, naturalistic, and mech...
Etienne Vermeersch

Etienne Vermeersch

male
Professor Etienne Vermeersch (Sint-Michiels- Brugge, 2 may 1934) is a renown Belgian (moral) philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He's...