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Famous Epistemologists

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Aristotle

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Empiricist approach, theory of causation, and the tabula rasa concept.

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David Hume

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Promoted radical skepticism, theory of impressions and ideas, and questioned causality and induction.

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Co-authored 'Principia Mathematica', developed process philosophy and the concept of 'prehension.'

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John Dewey

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Contributor to the philosophy of pragmatism and known for his theories on education and democracy.

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Noam Chomsky

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Developed the theory of generative grammar, contributing significantly to the cognitive revolution in psychology.

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Thomas Kuhn

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Introduced the idea of paradigm shifts in 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and discussed the process of scientific change.

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Immanuel Kant

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Synthesized rationalism and empiricism, categories of understanding, and the theory of transcendental idealism.

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Søren Kierkegaard

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Contributions to existentialism, theory of subjective truth, and the leap of faith.

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Michel Foucault

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Analyzed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.

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Rene Descartes

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Cartesian skepticism, cogito ergo sum, and the method of doubt.

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Bertrand Russell

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Advocated for logicism, the view that mathematics is reducible to logic, and was a prominent figure in analytic philosophy.

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John Locke

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Developed the theory of empiricism, introduced the idea of the mind as a blank slate at birth (tabula rasa), and distinguished between primary and secondary qualities.

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Plato

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Theory of Forms, belief in innate knowledge, and the allegory of the cave.

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Edmund Husserl

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Founder of phenomenology, analyses of intentionality, and eidetic reduction.

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William James

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Developed the philosophy of pragmatism and radical empiricism.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Pioneered existentialist feminism, examined the social construction of sex and gender, and wrote 'The Second Sex'.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Conceived monadology, pre-established harmony, and the principle of sufficient reason.

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George Berkeley

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Philosophy of immaterialism, subjective idealism, and the rejection of material substance.

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Karl Popper

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Proposed the concept of falsifiability as the criterion of demarcation for science, critical rationalism, and opposed to confirmationism.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Work on the philosophy of language, picture theory of meaning, and linguistic turn in philosophy.

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