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Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury

Aristotle

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

Catherine Benson
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Scott Austin

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
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
George Berkeley

Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
Boethius

Franz Clemens Brentano

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Patricia Churchland

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Robert Crais

Patricia Curd

Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Eamon Duffy

John Duns Scotus

unknown
Umberto Eco

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

Epictetus. [from old catalog]

wikimedia commons
Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Bobby Fischer

Kristine O'Connell George

Courtesy of Kristine O'Connell George
John Gould

Photo is of the 19th-century British ornithologist, not of the modern Maine writer.
F. A. Hayek

Heraclitus

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Immanuel Kant

Gary Kasparov

Stuart A. Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Hugh Kenner

Peter Kingsley

Peter Kingsley
Milan Kundera

Jonathan Lear

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
A. A. Long

University of California at Berkeley
Frank James Marshall

Image from Chess Openings (1904) by F. J. Marshall
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Frank McCourt

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.)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Alexander P. D. Mourelatos

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Alexander Nehamas

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Parmenides

From Wikipedia
Walter Horatio Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Professor Jaroslav Pelikan

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Plato

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

Plutarch

Karl Raimund Popper, Sir

Porphyry

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Kenneth Malcolm Sayre

Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
Sophocles

Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Tacitus

Theophrastus

From Wikipedia
Aquinas Thomas, Saint

J. R. R. Tolkien

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Gregory Vlastos

E. B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Xenophon

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

Eduard Zeller (1814-1908)
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
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