Philosopher
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A Philosopher is a researcher who performs philosophical analysis.
- Context:
- They can be an Ethics Philosopher, Epistemology Philosopher, Science Philosopher, ...
- They can range from being an Applied Philosopher to being a Theoretical Philosopher.
- Example(s):
- Socrates (~469-399BCE).
- Plato (~425-347BCE).
- Aristotle (~384–322 BCE).
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650).
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
- George Berkeley (1685-1753).
- John Locke (1632-1704).
- David Hume (1711-1776).
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831).
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860).
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938).
- W. D. Ross (1877-1971).
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951).
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976).
- Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980).
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986).
- G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001).
- John Rawls (1921-2002).
- Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-).
- John R. Searle (1932-).
- Derek Parfit (1942-).
- Daniel C. Dennett (1942-).
- Peter A. D. Singer (1946-).
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Political Scientist.
- a Scientist.
- a Mathematician.
- a Computer Scientist, such as Alan Turing.
- a Psychologist, such as Sigmund Freud.
- a Cognitive Scientist, such as Noam Chomsky, and Steven Pinker.
- a Data Scientist.
- an Economist.
- See: Philosophy.