Martha C. Nussbaum

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1. Martha C. Nussbaum

   Author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)

2. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Legitimation Crisis

3. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy, Moral Luck

4. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

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, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

6. Michael Walzer

   Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series), The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century

7. Charles Taylor

   Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series)

8. Amartya Sen

   Author of Development as Freedom, On Ethics and Economics, Utilitarianism and Beyond

9. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Achieving Our Country : Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America

10. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas

11. Ronald Dworkin

    Author of Law's Empire, Taking Rights Seriously, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality

12. Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, The Ethics of Identity, Experiments in Ethics

13. Pierre Hadot

    Author of What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

14. Michael J. Sandel

    Author of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy

15. Thomas Nagel

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

16. R.M. Hare

    Author of The Language of Morals, Freedom and Reason, Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Methods and Point

17. W. K. C. Guthrie

    Author of Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books), A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1. The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2. The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus

18. Julia Annas

    Author of An Introduction to Plato's Republic, The Morality of Happiness

19. Michel Foucault

    Author of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, The Foucault Reader, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

20. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy