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1. Stephen Edelston Toulmin

   Author of Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts, The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature

2. Ernst Mayr

   Author of The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

3. Robert Rosen

   Author of Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life (Complexity in Ecological Systems), Essays on Life Itself

4. Ian Hacking

   Author of The Social Construction of What?, Rewriting the Soul

5. John Michael Ziman

   Author of Real Science: What it Is and What it Means

6. Paul Thagard

   Author of Conceptual Revolutions

7. Paul Hoyningen-Huene

   Author of Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science

8. David Berlinski

   Author of On Systems Analysis: An Essay Concerning the Limitations of Some Mathematical Methods in the Social, Political, and Biological Sciences

9. Scott E. Page

   Author of Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)

10. Joseph Brent

    Author of Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life

11. Harold I. Brown

    Author of Perception, Theory, and Commitment: The New Philosophy of Science

12. Larry Laudan

    Author of Science and Values: The Aims of Science and Their Role in Scientific Debate (Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy & History o

13. Robert Nozick

    Author of The Nature of Rationality

14. Tulio Halperín Donghi

    Author of The Contemporary History of Latin America (Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução), La República imposible

15. Erwin Schrödinger

    Author of What Is Life? & Mind and Matter

16. Elliott Sober

    Author of The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus

17. C. West Churchman

    Author of The Systems Approach

18. Keith Devlin

    Author of Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

19. Gerald James Holton

    Author of Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein

20. Randall Collins

    Author of The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change