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Born	July 29, 1929 • Reims • France
Died	March 6, 2007 (aged 77) • Paris • France

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

French philosopher

Portrait of British philosopher Herbert Spencer, shown with a receding hairline, long sideburns, and formal attire.

Herbert Spencer

British philosopher

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Edward Westermarck

Finnish sociologist

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Susanne K. Langer

American philosopher and educator

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Joachim Wach

German-American theologian

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Georg Simmel

German sociologist

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Paul Barth

German philosopher and sociologist

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Otto Neurath

Austrian philosopher and sociologist

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Alfred Schutz

American sociologist and philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

René Descartes

René Descartes

French mathematician and philosopher

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Marcel

French philosopher and author

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

French philosopher and historian

French philosopher Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

René Girard

René Girard

French-born literary critic and scholar

Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian-born artist

Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim

French social scientist

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

French mathematician and 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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