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Best philosophers (living or dead)

posted 8 years ago by HeatherAteTheDinosaurs
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Kant and Schopenhauer are the greatest philosophers to ever have lived.

Subjective BS. They are your favorite philosophers.

René Descartes
Søren Kierkegaard
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Michel Foucault
Niccolò Machiavelli
Albert Camus
Max Stirner
Jacques Derrida
Wilfrid Sellars

..

and

Noam Chomsky
Simon Blackburn
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tyler Burge
Nancy Cartwright
David Chalmers
Andy Clark
Daniel Dennett
Hubert Dreyfus
Edmund Gettier
Allan Gibbard
Susan Haack
Jürgen Habermas
Graham Harman
John Hawthorne
John Heil
Ingvar Johansson
Jaegwon Kim
Christine Korsgaard
Saul Kripke
Alasdair Macintyre
John McDowell
Mary Midgley
Timothy Morton
Thomas Nagel
Jean-Luc Nancy
David Oderberg
Peter Simons
Barry Smith
Ernest Sosa
Helen Steward
Charles Taylor
Amie Thomasson
Peter Unger
Peter van Inwagen
Crispin Wright
Slavoj Žižek
Gu Su

Feel free to add

[–] Jeorj Euler 8 years ago

My favorite is CGP Grey.

[–] Faustus5 8 years ago

The ones that I admire the most are Wittgenstein, Rorty, and Dennett. Nagel and Midgley are a complete waste of space.

I don't care for him at all, but John Searle belonged on the list for sure.