Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a major figure in the development of two successive waves of French thought in the 20th century: the structuralist wave of the 1960s and then the poststructuralist wave. At the premature end of his life, Foucault was widely considered...
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Josiah Royce
Josiah Royce (1855-1916) was a leading American proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical belief that all aspects of reality, including those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately united in the thought of a single, all-encompassing...
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the most important thinkers in modern philosophy. He has had a significant impact on many areas of thought, including epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism, laying the...
Joseph Morton Ransdell
Joseph Morton Ransdell (1931-2010) was an associate professor of philosophy who worked at the university from 1974 to 2000. He is best known for his book Pursuit of Wisdom, which discusses the philosophy of wisdom. Charles Sanders Peirce was a philosopher who wrote...
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) was a linguist who was known for his hypotheses about the relationship between language and thinking and cognition, as well as his studies of Hebrew, Hebrew ideas, Mexican and Mayan languages and dialects, and the Hopi language. After...
Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir (1884-1939) is one of the most renowned American linguists and anthropologists of his time. He is best known for his work on North American Indian languages. An influential founder of ethnolinguistics, he was also a leading developer of the American...
Parmenides
Parmenides, was a Greek philosopher of Elea, southern Italy, who founded Eleaticism, one of the main pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. The general outlines of his teaching can be derived from what little remains of his principal work, a three-part verse...
Hippocrates
Hippocrates (460 BC – 370 BC) was a physician and philosopher who lived in ancient Greece. He is credited with helping to develop modern medicine and renowned as the father of medicine. There is some disagreement about the details of Hippocrates' life, and it's hard...
Galen Pergamum
Galen Pergamum (129 CE – 200 CE) was primarily a respected medical author, but his work has had a profound impact on the philosophical discourse of his time. He was a writer of logic, ethics, and philosophy, as well as a medical scientist, and wrote on a variety of...
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was a Swiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children. Many people believe that he was the major figure in 20th-century developmental psychology. Piaget's early interests were in...
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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
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...
George Edward Moore
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....
Bernard Russell
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
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...
Free Course in Semiology
A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
