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Born	March 1, 1644 • Dijon • France
Died	April 27, 1696 (aged 52) • Paris • France
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Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke

American logician and philosopher

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Josiah Royce

American 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

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.

Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

French mathematician and philosopher

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson

French philosopher

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

French philosopher

Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

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Ernest Renan

French scholar

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

French philosopher

Henri Poincaré, 1909.

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician

portrait of Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

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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