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Edwin Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Marilyn McCord Adams

Credit: Kaihsu Tai, 2006
Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson, flutist with 'Jethro Tull' / photo by Alfred Cermak / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAnselm

Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Archimedes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J.L. Austin

A.J. Ayer

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon. Frontispiece from A Book of Essays (1905) by Samuel Abraham Hirsch.
Robert Baden-Powell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40

Samuel Beckett

James K. Beilby

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
George Berkeley

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Jorge Luis Borges

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ben Bova

Gregory A. Boyd

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Ray Bradbury

Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Fernand Braudel

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Georg Cantor

Girolamo Cardano

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John le Carré

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Catholic Church

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (Photo credit: Wolfgang Stuck, Sept. 2004)
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dennis Des Chene

D. Des Chene
G.K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Brian Clegg

Photo by the author
Paulo Coelho

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
F. C. Copleston

Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Richard Courant

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, http://owpdb.mfo.de/detail?photoID=726
William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
Jim Crace

William Lane Craig

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
e.e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Richard Dawkins

Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Colin Dexter

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

From the book, Bibliomania; or Book-Madness by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1886 edition
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gustave Doré

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
F.M. Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Pierre Duhem

Alexandre Dumas

Michael Dummett

Klaus Reisinger
John Duns Scotus

unknown
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
David Edmonds

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Martin Edwards

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T.S. Eliot

Sextus Empiricus

Desiderius Erasmus

Millard J. Erickson

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Michael Faraday

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Marsilio Ficino

Bust by Andrea Ferrucci (at Florence Cathedral)
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Jerry A. Fodor

Jerry Fodor at his reception dinner on November 7, 2007 during his visit to the University of Maryland. Photo by Pedro Alcocer.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Sir James George Frazer

Gottlob Frege

Brian Friel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Neil Gaiman

Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Wilhelm Gesenius

Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver, c. 1986. Photo by Ashley Van Haeften.
Thomas Gilovich

Nicola Kountoupes
Cornell University Photography
N.V. Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Alasdair Gray

A.C. Grayling

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Martin Heidegger

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Heinrich Hertz

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hill

Heinrich Hoffmann

Wikimedia Commons
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eugene Ionesco

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Holbrook Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Henry James

Wikipedia
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Saul Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jonathan Lear

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Alan Lee

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

V. I. Lenin

C.S. Lewis

David K. Lewis

Prof. David Kellogg Lewis, 1941-2001. Photo by Robert P.Matthews, 1998 (photo courtesy of Princenton University)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Henry George Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Peter Lombard

Detail from Fresco in Cassino Massino, Rome by Philipp Veit, 1817-27.
Titus Lucretius Carus

Raimundus Lullus

Statue of Ramon Llull, Univeristy of Barcelona. Photo by user Dr. Manuel / German Wikipedia.
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Niccolo Machiavelli

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daphne Du Maurier

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
John Henry McDowell

Philosopher John McDowell in Paris, Oct 2007, in front of the Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin.
Photograph by A.Zielinska
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Bruce M. Metzger

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
John Milton

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Sir Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Sir Thomas More, Saint

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jan Morris

Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
Harry Mulisch

Richard A. Muller

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Donna Jo Napoli

James Newman

Mari Adkins, June 26, 2006
Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Barack Obama

William of Ockham

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Jaroslav Pelikan

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Clifford Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Clark H. Pinnock

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plotinus


Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Burkard Polster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Karl Popper

Porphyry

Roy Porter

Alfred S. Posamentier

The City College of The City University of New York - School of Education
William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
OUP

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Malcolm Pryce

Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
W.V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Julian Rathbone

Chris Roberts

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker

Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gilbert Ryle

Jean-Paul Sartre

R. F. Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Alan Sillitoe

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Peter Smith

(c) Peter C Smith, World Rights Reserved
C.P. Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Olaf Stapledon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
P.F. Strawson

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Saint Thomas Aquinas

James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
J.R.R. Tolkien

John Updike

Martha Updike
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Vergil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Juan Luis Vives

Sculpture by Pere Carbonell Huguet,
1892, Madrid, Spain
(Credit: Luis García, 2006)
Gregory Vlastos

A. Wainwright

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

John Wyclif

John Wycliffe, detail from "Life of Martin Luther and heroes of the reformation!" (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-DIG-pga-00297 )
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