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Born 1686 or 1687 • Aberdeen • Scotland
Died April 23, 1750 • Scotland
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Aristotle
Greek philosopher
The Greek philosopher Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
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Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish philosopher
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
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Eduard von Hartmann
German philosopher
Sir William Hamilton, detail of an oil painting by J. Ballantyne; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Scottish philosopher and educator
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James Frederick Ferrier
Scottish philosopher
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Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
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Martin Heidegger
German philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
French philosopher
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Judith Jarvis Thomson
American philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
French philosopher
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German philosopher

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