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> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind? That is a question that is as difficult to answer as "Who is the greatest contemporary scien
by akuzi 15y ago
> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind?
That is a question that is as difficult to answer as "Who is the greatest contemporary scientist?"
Some candidates are Slavoj Žižek, Peter Singer, Annette Baier, Alastair Hannay, Daniel Dennett, John Searle, Simon Blackburn, Thomas Nagel, Leo Zaibert. The are also many famous philosophers are partly academics in specialist fields, eg. Richard Dawkins, Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, George Dyson and many more.
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- paganel 15y ago> Who is the greatest contemporary philosopher that comes to mind? In fact, this is not a relevant question, it's the same like we'd be asking "who's the tallest philosopher?" or "who's the most handsome?". Heraclitus or Epicurus or Thomas Aquinas are as relevant to us, people of this day and age, as are the philosophers that by chance happen to live in the same time with us. I don't know who said it first (Hegel, I think), but I think that the history of philosophy is the same thing as philosophy itself, there's no linear progress from the pre-Socratics to the post-Marxists.