Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

male, 77 years old
Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel "The Name of the...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

male, deceased (1913)
Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the si...
Charles Peirce

Charles Peirce

male, deceased (1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in...
Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour

male, 62 years old
Bruno Latour (born June 22, 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books "We Have Never Been Modern,"...
Marcel Danesi

Marcel Danesi

male, 63 years old (Mississauga, Ontario , Canada)
Marcel Danesi has a PhD in Italian linguistics, and taught Italian for twenty-five years at the University of Toronto, where he is now the director...

Christian Metz

male
Christian Metz (1931-1993) was a French film critic, best known for pioneering the application of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of Semiotics to...
Eero Tarasti

Eero Tarasti

male
Eero Tarasti is a Finnish musicologist and semiotician, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. After receiving...

John Deely

male
John Deely (born 1942) is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas (Houston). His main research...
Thomas Sebeok

Thomas Sebeok

male
Thomas Albert Sebeok (born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920, died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was one of the most prolific...