Analytic Philosophy

🇺🇸Thomas Kuhn

Philosophy

Western philosophy

1922–1996

"Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That choice, however, makes it difficult to see scientific development as a process of accretion."

🇺🇸Kurt Gödel

Philosophy

1906–1978

"National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir"

🇺🇸Alvin Plantinga

Philosophy

Western philosophy

b. 1932

"Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century."

Charles Babbage

Mathematics

1791–1871

"I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam."

🇺🇸Saul Kripke

Philosophy

1940–2022

"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."

"...potted thinking is easily accepted, is concentrated in form, and has lost the vitamins essential to mental nourishment."

🇵🇱Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

Philosophy

1890–1963

"By spreading logical culture, we prepare the foundation for a scientific world-view and by doing this we enable development."

🇬🇧Simon Blackburn

Philosophy

atheism

b. 1944

"The word "philosophy" carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird."

"Could this reaction against the personal by philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particular bodily beings?"