Richard Rorty (1931–2007)

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1. Richard Rorty

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

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

3. Jürgen Habermas

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

4. Martin Heidegger

   Author of Being and Time, Poetry, Language, Thought, The basic problems of phenomenology [Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie [GA 24]]

5. Hilary Putnam

   Author of Reason, Truth and History, Realism with a Human Face, Pragmatism: An Open Question

6. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

7. W. V. Quine

   Author of Word and Object (Studies in Communication), From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays, Ontological Relativity

8. Donald Davidson

   Author of Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson), Essays on Actions and Events, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson)

9. Saul Kripke

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

10. J. L. Austin

    Author of How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition (William James Lectures), Philosophical Papers (Clarendon Paperbacks)

11. John McDowell

    Author of Mind and World, Mind, Value, and Reality, Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality

12. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic, Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Logical Positivism (The Library of Philosophical Movements)

13. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century, Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship

14. Immanuel Kant

    Author of Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Judgement / The Critique of Practical Reason / The Critique of Pure Reason

15. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

16. Hans-Georg Gadamer

    Author of Truth and Method, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Reason in the Age of Science (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

17. J. G. A. Pocock

    Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History, Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Cont

18. Charles Taylor

    Author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition, Philosophical Arguments

19. Ray Monk

    Author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

20. Alexander Nehamas

    Author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (Sather Classical Lectures, 61)