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Natalia Kryvda
Natalia Kryvda (Ukrainian: Наталія Юріївна Кривда; 25 July 1966, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian philosopher and public intellectual, Ph.D., professor at the department of Ukrainian philosophy and culture at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[1] She is also an academic director of MBA programs at Edinburgh Business School at House of Knowledge.[2] Her sizeable body of work in
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Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī (Persian: محمد ابن محمد ابن حسن طوسی‎ 18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274), better known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی‎; or simply Tusi /ˈtuːsi/[1] in the West), was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.[2] Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a well published a
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Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006)[1] was an United States social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement,[2] Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (/mɒnˈteɪn/ mon-TAYN;[1] French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592[2]), also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes[3] and autobiography with intellectual
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Michael Martin
Michael L. Martin (February 3, 1932 – May 27, 2015) was an American philosopher and former professor at Boston University.[1] Martin specialized in the philosophy of religion, although he also worked on the philosophies of science, law, and social science. He served with the US Marine Corps in Korea.[2] Martin died unexpectedly on 27 May 2015, aged 83.[3][4] Martin completed a Bachelor of S
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Maurice Cranston
Maurice William Cranston (8 May 1920 – 5 November 1993) was an England philosopher, professor and author. He served for many years as Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and was also known for his popular publications. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was Professor of Political Theory at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). He was born at 53
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Martin Lings
Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an England writer, scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon[1] and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print. Lings was born in Bur
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Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (French: [dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃z fʁɑ̃swa maʁki də sad]; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. In his lifetime some of these were published
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Mark C. Taylor
Mark C. Taylor (born 13 December 1945) is a philosopher of religion and cultural critic who has published more than twenty books on theology, philosophy, art and architecture, media, technology, economics, and the natural sciences. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1968, he received his doctorate in the study of religion from Harvard University and began teaching at Williams College i
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Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 16, 2009, Blacksburg, Virginia) was an United States philosopher. She wrote both on existentialism and the philosophy of science, especially the philosophy of biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978. From 1988 until her death she was Honorary University Distinguished Professor of ph
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