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Born January 18, 1908 • Poland
Died August 22, 1974 (aged 66) • East Hampton • New York
Notable Works “Science and Human Values” • “The Common Sense of Science” • “The Identity of Man”
Subjects Of Study science • cultural evolution • ethics • philosophical anthropology • philosophy of science
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
R.B. Braithwaite
British philosopher
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
William Clifford, portrait replica by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Kingdon Clifford
British mathematician and philosopher
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and scientist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Marin Mersenne
French mathematician
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Whewell, plaster cast of bust by Edward Hodges Baily, 1851; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Whewell
British philosopher and historian
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and economist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams
English philosopher
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
British author

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