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Born November 20, 1855 • California
Died September 14, 1916 (aged 60) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke
American logician and philosopher
T.H. Green
British educator and philosopher
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jewish theologian
Samuel Hirsch
American religious philosopher and rabbi
Joachim Wach
German-American theologian
Aristotle
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Plato
Plato
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
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René Descartes
René Descartes
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Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
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David Hume
David Hume
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
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Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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