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René Descartes
Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, oil on oak by...
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark); www.smk.dk (Public domain)
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 2010.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras, contorniate medallion engraved between 395 and 410 ce;...
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
The Greek philosopher Plato
Plato, marble portrait bust copied from an original of the 4th century bce;...
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Aristotle
Detail of a Roman copy (2nd century bce) of a...
© A. Dagli Orti—De Agostini/Getty Images
Philosopher Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza, oil painting, c. 1665; in the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel,...
Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, print published in London, 1812.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, engraving by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling...
Courtesy Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Portrait Collection 21/32
Ralph Cudworth
Philosopher Ralph Cudworth, engraving Andreas Nunzer, c. 1700-49.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-1910-1156)
William Orpen: G.E. Moore
British philosopher G.E. Moore, a cofounder of analytic philosophy, pencil drawing...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
Frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (12018406)
Voltaire
Voltaire, plaster sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon; in the Los Angeles County...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2004.5), collections.lacma.org.
Candide
Title page of an early printed version of Voltaire's Candide published in...
The Newberry Library, Louis H. Silver Collection purchase, 1964 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, c. 1925.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images