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Born March 25, 1922 • London • England
Died December 4, 2009 (aged 87) • Los Angeles • California
Subjects Of Study ethics • prescriptive grammar
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John Stuart Mill
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Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams
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Derek Parfit
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Bernard Bosanquet
British philosopher
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick
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G.E. Moore
G. E. Moore
British philosopher
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
British bishop and philosopher
Joseph Hall, detail of an engraving by John Payne, 1628
Joseph Hall
English bishop, philosopher, and satirist
Henry More
Henry More
British poet and philosopher
Whewell, plaster cast of bust by Edward Hodges Baily, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Whewell
British philosopher and historian
Bernard de Mandeville
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Samuel Alexander, chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1932; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir David Ross
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William Paley
William Paley
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R.B. Braithwaite
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H.A. Prichard
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Huxley, Thomas Henry
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist

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