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Avicenna
Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا‎), also known as Abu Ali Sina (ابوعلی سینا), Pur Sina (پورسینا), and often known in the West as Avicenna (/ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ-/; c. 980 – June 1037), was a Persian[1][2][3] polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age,[4] and the father of early mo
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B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.[1][2][3][4] He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.[5] Considering free will to be an illusion, Skinner saw human action as dependent on consequences of previous actions, a theory he would articu
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Barry Kerzin
Barry Michael Kerzin, M.D., (born November 1, 1947) is an American physician and Buddhist monk. He has lived in Dharamshala since 1988, and serves as a personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama, along with treating people in the local community, free of charge. Following his ordination as a monk by HH Dalai Lama in the mid-2000s, he has travelled widely, teaching and offering workshops in which
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Barry Smith
Barry Smith (born June 4, 1952) is an academic working in the fields of ontology and biomedical informatics. Smith is the author of more than 600 scientific publications,[1] including 15 authored or edited books. From 1970 to 1973 Smith studied Mathematics and Philosophy[2] at the University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1976 for a dissertation on ontolog
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Basilios Bessarion
Basilios (or Basilius) Bessarion (Greek: Βασίλειος Βησσαρίων; 2 January 1403 – 18 November 1472), a Roman Catholic cardinal bishop and the titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, was one of the illustrious Greek scholars who contributed to the great revival of letters in the 15th century. He was educated by Gemistus Pletho in Neoplatonic philosophy. Later, he became a Rom
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Benedikt Ledebur
Benedikt Ledebur is a poet, essayist and critic based in Vienna, Austria. Ledebur was editor of two issues of Der Ficker – a homage to the bimonthly Der Brenner (de) of Ludwig von Ficker (de) – in 2005 and 2006.[1] They were published on the occasion of exhibitions in Austria and Belgium showing among other Franz West, Clegg & Guttmann, Rudolf Polanszky and Tamuna Sirbiladze.[2] Ledebur w
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS[1] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy
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C. D. Broad
Charlie Dunbar Broad FBA (30 December 1887 – 11 March 1971), usually cited as C. D. Broad, was an English epistemologist, historian of philosophy, philosopher of science, moral philosopher, and writer on the philosophical aspects of psychical research. He was known for his thorough and dispassionate examinations of arguments in such works as Scientific Thought (1923), The Mind and Its Place i
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Charles Stevenson
Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908–1979) was an American analytic philosopher best known for his work in ethics[1] and aesthetics.[2] Stevenson was born on June 27, 1908, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at Yale, receiving in 1930 a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English literature, at Cambridge where in 1933 he was awarded a BA degree in moral sciences (philosophy), and at Harvard, gettin
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Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a Germany jurist and philosopher. He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig University (later dean and rector, as well as head master of Thomasschule zu Leipzig). Through his father's lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political
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