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Also Known As Maximilien-Paul-Émile Littré
Born February 1, 1801 • Paris • France
Died June 2, 1881 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study Auguste Comte • philosophy
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
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Auguste Comte
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French 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.
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René Girard
René Girard
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
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Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Cousin, Victor
Victor Cousin
French philosopher and educator
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Furetière, engraving by G. Edelinck, 1689, after a portrait by Seue
Antoine Furetière
French author
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and economist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Portrait of British philosopher Herbert Spencer, shown with a receding hairline, long sideburns, and formal attire.
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher
Dühring, c. 1900
Eugen Dühring
German philosopher and economist
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Richard Congreve
British philosopher
Frederic Harrison, 1920
Frederic Harrison
British author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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René Descartes
René Descartes
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