A. J. Ayer (1910–1989)

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1. A. J. Ayer

   Author of Language, Truth and Logic, The Problem of Knowledge, Wittgenstein

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein

   Author of Philosophical Investigations, The Blue and Brown Books, On Certainty

3. W. V. Quine

   Author of Methods of Logic, Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary, The Web of Belief

4. Bertrand Russell

   Author of Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Our Knowledge of the External World, My Philosophical Development

5. David Hume

   Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

6. Saul Kripke

   Author of Naming and Necessity, Wittgenstein; On Rules and Private Language; An Elementary Exposition

7. Thomas Nagel

   Author of The View From Nowhere, Mortal Questions

8. P. F. Strawson

   Author of Individuals, Introduction to Logical Theory, Philosophical Logic (Readings in Philosophy)

9. Immanuel Kant

   Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

10. G. E. Moore

    Author of Principia Ethica, Ethics, Some Main Problems of Philosophy

11. Gilbert Ryle

    Author of The Concept of Mind, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953

12. Richard Rorty

    Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980, The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method

13. Ray Monk

    Author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, BERTRAND RUSSELL: The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921, Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, The Ghost of Madness

14. J. L. Austin

    Author of Sense and Sensibilia, Philosophical Papers (Clarendon Paperbacks)

15. Jaegwon Kim

    Author of Metaphysics: An Anthology, Physicalism, or Something Near Enough, Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays

16. Rudolf Carnap

    Author of Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic, The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

17. R.M. Hare

    Author of The Language of Morals, Plato, Freedom and Reason

18. John Locke

    Author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

19. Derek Parfit

    Author of Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks)

20. David K. Lewis

    Author of On the Plurality of Worlds, Counterfactuals, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology: Volume 2