From the Contemporary Desk
Klaus Brinkmann
Klaus Brinkmann (1944-2016) was a professor of philosophy at Boston University.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pronounced /ˈdʒɪduː ˌkrɪʃnəˈmʊərti/; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the prophesied World Teacher, a role tasked with aiding humankind's spiritual evolution. In 1922, he began to suffer from painful, seizure -like mystical episodes that would produce a lasting change in his perception of reality. In 1929, he broke from the Theosophy movement and disbanded the Order of the Star in the East, a related movement which had been formed around him. He spent the rest of his life speaking to groups and individuals around the world, hoping to contribute a radical transformation of mankind.
Mahdi Amel
Hassan Abdullah Hamdan (Arabic: , romanized: Ḥassan ʿAbd Allāh Ḥamdān), more commonly known by his pseudonym Mahdi Amel (Arabic: , romanized: Mahdī ʿĀmil), (Harouf, Lebanon 1936 – Beirut, Lebanon 18 May 1987) was a Lebanese Marxist philosopher, historian and militant in the second half of the 20th century.
Zaki al-Arsuzi
Zaki al-Arsuzi (Arabic: , romanized: Zakī al-Arsūzī; June 1899 – 2 July 1968) was a Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, historian, and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and its political movement. He published several books during his lifetime, most notably The Genius of Arabic in its Tongue (1943).
A. J. Ayer
Sir Alfred Jules " Freddie " Ayer (/ ɛər / AIR; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989) was an English philosopher who became professionally established through his exposition of major theses of logical positivism in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936). The work's dismissal of metaphysics, and endorsement of emotivism was the cause of much controversy and debate.
Hasna Begum
Hasna Begum (Bengali: হাসনা বেগম; 24 February 1935 – 1 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Dhaka until her retirement in December 2000. [citation needed]
Susan Haack
Susan Haack (/ h æ k /; 23 July 1945 – 10 March 2026) was a British philosopher and academic who was a distinguished professor in the humanities, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Tarik Haverić
Tarik Haverić (born 28 March 1955) is a Bosnian political scientist, philosopher, literary theorist, screen writer, polemicist, scholar, writer, and public intellectual.
Gerard Heymans
Gerardus Heymans (Dutch: ; 17 April 1857 – 18 February 1930) was a Dutch philosopher and psychologist. From 1890 to 1927, he worked as a professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen (UG). He also served as rector magnificus (president) of the UG in the academic year 1908–1909. Heymans is one of the most influential philosophers of the Netherlands and the pioneer of Dutch psychology. The establishment of his psychological laboratory marked the start of experimental psychology in the Netherlands.
Nijaz Ibrulj
Nijaz Ibrulj (born 2 July 1956) is a Bosnian philosopher and a professor at the University of Sarajevo 's Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He lectures on logic, analytic philosophy, methodology of social sciences, theory of knowledge, and cognitive science. His interests also extend to the field of social ontology. Ibrulj was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship during the 2000-2001 academic years to visit the University of California, Berkeley. His application was sponsored by John Searle and Donald Davidson.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Theodor Jaspers (/ ˈ j ɑː s p ər z /; German: [kaʁl ˈjaspɐs]; 23 February 1883 – 26 February 1969) was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy. His 1913 work General Psychopathology influenced many later diagnostic criteria, and argued for a distinction between "primary" and "secondary" delusions.
Frithjof Bergmann
Frithjof Harold Bergmann (24 December 1930 – 23 May 2021) was a German professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, where he taught courses on existentialism, continental philosophy, Hegel, and Marx. He was known for the concept of New Work.
Christoph Demmerling
Christoph Demmerling (born 17 August 1963) is a German philosopher, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Jena. His work spans the philosophy of language, philosophy of emotions, philosophical anthropology, and the theoretical foundations of practical philosophy.
Arthur Liebert
Arthur Liebert (born Arthur Levy; 10 November 1878 – 5 November 1946) was a German philosopher, editor, and organizer of philosophical scholarship. Trained at the University of Berlin, he studied under Wilhelm Dilthey, Friedrich Paulsen, Alois Riehl, Georg Simmel, and Carl Stumpf. His early work belonged to Neo-Kantianism, anti-naturalist, and critical idealism, but later moved toward dialectical idealism and universal humanism.
Alain de Benoist
Alain de Benoist (/ d ə b ə ˈ n w ɑː / də bə- NWAH; French: [alɛ̃ də bənwa]; born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
Camille Riquier
Camille Riquier was born on 7 May 1974. He is a French philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of Paris (in French, Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP). He is also a jury member for Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco. In 2010, he won the Prix La Bruyère, awarded by the Academie Française for his work, Archéologie de Bergson.
Alain de Libera
Alain de Libera was born on 27 September 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a northwestern suburb of Paris. He is a French philosopher and translator interested primarily in Averroes and medieval philosophy.
Julia Annas
Julia Elizabeth Annas (born 1946) is a British philosopher who has taught in the United States for the last quarter-century. She is Regents Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Arizona.
J. L. Austin
John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts.
James Black Baillie
Sir James Black Baillie, OBE (24 October 1872 – 9 June 1940) was a British moral philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds. He provided the first significant translation of Hegel 's " Phenomenology of Mind ". He is said to be the model for the character Sir John Evans in the novel The Weight of the Evidence (1944) by Michael Innes.