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Also Known As Marjorie Glicksman
Born December 13, 1910 • Milwaukee • Wisconsin
Died March 16, 2009 (aged 98) • Virginia
Subjects Of Study Karl Jaspers • Martin Heidegger • evolution • existentialism • philosophy of biology
John Searle
John Searle
American philosopher
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
C.I. Lewis
American philosopher and logician
Arthur O. Lovejoy
American philosopher
John Fiske, 1878
John Fiske
American historian
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher and author
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers
German philosopher

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