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| Description: Julien Offray de la Mettrie, 1709-1751. Mechanistic atheist thinker of the French Enlightenment, who championed a deterministic worldview. His most famous work was Man a Machine. |
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| Description: Julien Offray de la Mettrie, 1709-1751. Mechanistic atheist thinker of the French Enlightenment, who championed a deterministic worldview. His most famous work was Man a Machine. |
Julien Offray de la Mettrie, 1709-1751. Mechanistic atheist thinker of the French Enlightenment, who championed a deterministic worldview. His most famous work was Man a Machine.
| Description: Imre Lakatos, 1922-1974. Hungarian-British philosopher of science. He applied to Popper's criterion of falsifiability to mathematical reasoning. |
Imre Lakatos, 1922-1974. Hungarian-British philosopher of science. He applied to Popper's criterion of falsifiability to mathematical reasoning.
| Description: Corliss Lamont, 1902-1995. American humanist thinker. He was also a great defender of US civil liberties. |
Corliss Lamont, 1902-1995. American humanist thinker. He was also a great defender of US civil liberties.
| Description: Cristoforo Landino, fl. late 15th century. Italian Renaissance humanist, literary critic and aesthetician. Especially known for his commentary on Dante. |
Cristoforo Landino, fl. late 15th century. Italian Renaissance humanist, literary critic and aesthetician. Especially known for his commentary on Dante.
| Description: Susanne Katherina Langer, 1895-1985. American aesthetician and Kantian philosopher. Her most famous work is her 1942 Philosophy in a New Key. |
Susanne Katherina Langer, 1895-1985. American aesthetician and Kantian philosopher. Her most famous work is her 1942 Philosophy in a New Key.
Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (Alice Ambrose), 1906-2001. American philosopher who studied under G.E. Moore and Wittgenstein at Cambridge University. She is known primarily for her interpretations of, and commentary on, Wittgenstein.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646-1716. Deterministic German philosopher who built on the foundations laid by Descartes and Spinoza. He wrote in Latin and French. He is also known for having invented calculus contemporaneously with Isaac Newton.
| Description: Stanislaw Lesniewski, 1886-1939. Polish philosopher and logician. Member of the Warsaw School of logical thought, teacher and colleague of Tarski. He also pioneered scientific semantics. |
Stanislaw Lesniewski, 1886-1939. Polish philosopher and logician. Member of the Warsaw School of logical thought, teacher and colleague of Tarski. He also pioneered scientific semantics.
Leucippus, fl. 5th century BC. First of the Atomist philosophers of ancient Greece.
Emmanuel Levinas, 1906-1995. Lithuanian-born writer who had a strong influence on French existentialist and deconstructionist thinkers. Most of his writings were in French.
| Description: Clarence Irving (C.I.) Lewis, 1883-1964. American philosopher and logician. In logic, his principal contribution was to modal logic; in philosophy, his work centered on pragmatist epistemology. |
Clarence Irving (C.I.) Lewis, 1883-1964. American philosopher and logician. In logic, his principal contribution was to modal logic; in philosophy, his work centered on pragmatist epistemology.
| Description: Justus Lipsius (Josse Lips, Joest Lips), 1547-1606. Early Modern Belgian classical scholar and humanist. His revival of Stoicism influenced a number of contemporary thinkers, notably Montaigne. |
Justus Lipsius (Josse Lips, Joest Lips), 1547-1606. Early Modern Belgian classical scholar and humanist. His revival of Stoicism influenced a number of contemporary thinkers, notably Montaigne.
| Description: Alain Le Roy (or Leroy) Locke, 1886-1954. African-American author and aesthetician. The first major thinker to point out the European artistic tradition's debt to Africa. Outside of aesthetics, his philosophical work focused on the philosophy of education. His leadership of the New Negro movement makes him a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. |
Alain Le Roy (or Leroy) Locke, 1886-1954. African-American author and aesthetician. The first major thinker to point out the European artistic tradition's debt to Africa. Outside of aesthetics, his philosophical work focused on the philosophy of education. His leadership of the New Negro movement makes him a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Only sites concerned with the life, not texts or essays of John Locke. |
John Locke, 1632-1704. Noted British Empiricist thinker, remembered primarily for his contributions to epistemology and political philosophy. He wrote in both English and Latin.
Alexei Fëdorovich Losev, 1893-1988. A leading figure in twentieth-century Russian humanistic scholarship.
| Description: Rudolf (Rudolph) Hermann Lotze, 1817-1881. Nineteenth-century German idealist philosopher who regarded ethics as the basis of metaphysics. He criticized Hegel's ideological pantheism for its seeming failure to leave room for individual decisions. |
Rudolf (Rudolph) Hermann Lotze, 1817-1881. Nineteenth-century German idealist philosopher who regarded ethics as the basis of metaphysics. He criticized Hegel's ideological pantheism for its seeming failure to leave room for individual decisions.
Titus Lucretius Carus, c. 99 BC - c. 55 BC. Roman philosopher and poet who expounded his Epicurean atomist cosmology in the didactic poem De Rerum Natura.
Stéphane Lupasco, 1900-1988. Romanian-born writer, remembered mostly as a philosopher of science. He lived most of his life in France, and wrote in French.
Jean-François Lyotard, 1924-1998. Postmodernist French philosopher and literary theorist. Advocated for multiple, experimental discourses.
Knud Ejler L©ªgstrup, Danish philosopher and theologian. Known for his early writings against Kant and his later writings against Kierkegaard. Advocated the importance of sincerity and compassion in human relationships.
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