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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was a leading philosopher and public intellectual in France after World War II. He was a proponent of existentialism and phenomenology, two schools of thought that focus on the individual's experience and perception of the world....

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is the main founder of phenomenology - and thus one of the most influential philosophers during the 20th century. He has made seminal contributions to a wide range of philosophy areas, and has anticipated some of the key ideas in neighboring...

G.E. Moore (1873-1958) grew up in South London (his eldest brother was the poet T. Sturge Moore, who worked as an illustrator with W. B. Yeats). In 1892, he enrolled at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, to study Classics. He soon met Bertrand Russell and J. M. E....

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), born in Wales, was a British philosopher who is best known for his work in mathematical logic, analytic philosophy. He was also a noted social critic. His most influential contributions include his work in logicism – the view that...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was part of a movement of thinkers in Germany in the decades following Kant who focused on idealism. Hegel was a systematic philosopher whose work attempted to provide a comprehensive and systematic philosophy from a logically...

Kenneth Lee Pike (1912-2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist who was known for his studies of the indigenous languages of Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, New Guinea, Ghana, Java, Nigeria, Australia, Nepal, and the Philippines. He is also the founder of...

John Deely (1942 – 2017) was an American philosopher and semiotician who was known for his work in the fields of philosophy, semiotics, and theology. He was a professor of philosophy at Saint Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Deeply has written...

Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997) was an influential German academic who specialized in reception theory and medieval and modern French literature. He was known for his concept of the horizon of expectation, and his work has had a significant impact on the study of these...

Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (1886-1959) was a prominent Russian and Soviet literary scholar and historian. He is a representative of the formalist approach to art. Eichenbaum was born in Voronezh, the grandson of the Jewish mathematician and poet Jacob Eichenbaum....

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) developed a pragmatist philosophy that emphasized two main principles: pragmatism on the one hand, and relativism on the other. Richard McKay Rorty was born in 1931, in New York City. He is a philosopher and professor who has written...