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Daniel Defoe
English writer (1660–1731). Author of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) and its sequel Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Also author of An Essay upon Public Credit (1710), cited by Marx in Cap…
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E. H. Gombrich
Austrian-British art historian and philosopher of art (1909–2001). His Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960) develops a resemblance-and-schema account of pictorial representation: pictures represent…
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Gilbert Ryle
British analytic philosopher (1900–1976), professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68), editor of Mind. Author of The Concept of Mind (1949), the foundational text of mid-century philosophical behaviourism / dispositionalism, a…
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher (1889–1951). His later work — Philosophical Investigations (1953/2003), Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (1980, Vols. 1–2) — engages problems of perception, depiction, aspect-seeing, and the relation bet…
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Sebastian Gardner
Professor of Philosophy at University College London; specialist on Kant, Schelling, and German Idealism, with sustained engagement of how the post-Kantian tradition bears on continental philosophy of mind and ontology. Two wiki sources sp…
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Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679), author of De Cive (1642/1647), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), Behemoth (1668, published posthumously 1681), Decameron Physiologicum (1678). The foundational figure of modern state-so…