Mary Midgley

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1. Mary Midgley

   Author of Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (Routledge Classics), Science and Poetry, Animals and Why They Matter

2. Peter Singer

   Author of Writings on an Ethical Life, A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation

3. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Canto), Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57)

4. Gary L. Francione

   Author of Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement, Animals Property & The Law (Ethics And Action)

5. Alasdair MacIntyre

   Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (The Paul Carus Lectures)

6. Tom Regan

   Author of The Case for Animal Rights, Animal Rights and Human Obligations (2nd Edition), All That Dwell Therein

7. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Philosophy and Social Hope

8. John R. Searle

   Author of The Rediscovery of the Mind, Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World, Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

9. Thomas Nagel

   Author of Mortal Questions, The View From Nowhere, The Possibility of Altruism

10. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic, Bertrand Russell, The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

11. Robert Nozick

    Author of The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations, Philosophical Explanations, The Nature of Rationality

12. Roger Scruton

    Author of Kant: A Very Short Introduction, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey, Short History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge Classics Series)

13. Jonathan Glover

    Author of Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Causing Death and Saving Lives

14. James Lees-Milne

    Author of A Mingled Measure Diaries 1953-1972: Diaries, 1953-72., Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984, Beneath a Waning Moon: Diaries, 1985-1987

15. A. C. Grayling

    Author of What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live, The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy, The Heart of Things

16. Alister E. McGrath

    Author of The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology

17. David Hume

    Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals

18. Stephen Jay Gould

    Author of Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures), Ontogeny and Phylogeny

19. Tzvetan Todorov

    Author of Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism

20. John Gray

    Author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions, Isaiah Berlin