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Born	January 27, 1843 • Kingston upon Hull • England
Died	March 4, 1925 (aged 82) • Cambridge • England

Ladd

George Trumbull Ladd

American psychologist and philosopher

Bain, detail of an oil painting by Sir George Reid; in the collection of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Alexander Bain

Scottish philosopher

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George Frederick Stout

British philosopher and psychologist

William James, 1880

William James

American psychologist and philosopher

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Franz Brentano

German philosopher

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William McDougall

American psychologist

David Hartley, detail of an engraving

David Hartley

British physician and philosopher

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

British logician and philosopher

Huxley, Thomas Henry

Thomas Henry Huxley

British biologist

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

British mathematician and philosopher

Portrait of Jeremy Bentham, English social reformer and philosopher, shown with thinning hair, wearing a high-collared shirt and dark coat, looking slightly to the side.

Jeremy Bentham

British philosopher and economist

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Paul Grice

British philosopher

Arthur Stanley Eddington.

Arthur Eddington

British scientist

Martin Rees

Martin Rees

British cosmologist and astrophysicist

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Antony Flew

English philosopher

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

British author

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Sir Leslie Stephen

British critic

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Sir Cyril Burt

British psychologist

William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Kingdon Clifford

British mathematician and philosopher

William Godwin

William Godwin

British philosopher

Agathon (centre) greeting guests in "Plato's Symposium" oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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