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David Hume
Scottish philosopher David Hume, oil on canvas by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish...
Fine Art Images—Heritage Images/age fotostock
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, statue in Göttingen, Germany.
Daniel Schwen
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale,...
H. Roger-Viollet
John Stuart Mill
English philosopher, politician, and social reformer John Stuart Mill, visiting card...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Neg. Co. LC-USZ62-76491)
Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Ostwald working in his home laboratory.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, 1960.
Courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation, London
Rudolf Carnap
German-born American philosopher Rudolf Carnap, 1960.
Courtesy of the University of California, Los Angeles
A.J. Ayer
British philosopher and educator A.J. Ayer, late 1980s.
Geoff A Howard/Alamy
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel, 1950.
Photographer unknown/Courtesy of the Archives of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA