John Dewey (1859–1952)

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1. John Dewey

   Author of Art as Experience, Public & Its Problems, Liberalism and Social Action (Great Books in Philosophy)

2. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Bully for Brontosaurus, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

3. Alfred North Whitehead

   Author of Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28), Modes of Thought

4. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Essays on Heidegger and Others, Truth and Progress

5. Ernst Cassirer

   Author of Language and Myth, The Myth of the State, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

6. William James

   Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, William James : Writings 1878-1899 : Psychology, Briefer Course / The Will to Believe / Talks to Teachers and Students /

7. Immanuel Kant

   Author of Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Judgement / The Critique of Practical Reason / The Critique of Pure Reason, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone

8. George Santayana

   Author of Scepticism and Animal Faith, Persons and Places: The Background of My Life, Reason in Society (His the Life of Reason)

9. Henri Bergson

   Author of Creative Evolution, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

10. W. V. Quine

    Author of From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays, Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary, Ontological Relativity

11. Bertrand Russell

    Author of The Problems of Philosophy, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Our Knowledge of the External World

12. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social

13. Paulo Freire

    Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (Critical Perspectives Series), Education for Critical Consciousness

14. Walter Lippmann

    Author of Public Opinion, A Preface to Morals, The Phantom Public (Library of Conservative Thought)

15. Susanne K. Langer

    Author of Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, Feeling and Form

16. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Author of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books, On Certainty

17. Hannah Arendt

    Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

18. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

19. Jonathan Kozol

    Author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America

20. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series), Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship