MY INFLUENCES

Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954-); Ghanian philosopher

Major Works: Assertions and Conditionals; Avenging Angels; Buying Freedom; Color Conscious (with Amy Gutmann); Cosmopolitanism; The Ethics of Identity; Experiments in Ethics; For Truth in Semantics; Identity against Culture; In My Father's House; Thinking It Through

Hannah Arendt (1906-75); German philosopher

Major Works: Between Past and Future; The Crisis of the Republic; Eichmann in Jerusalem; Essays in Understanding; The Human Condition; The Jew as Pariah; The Jewish Writings; Karl Marx and the Tradition of Western Political Thought; Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy; The Life of the Mind; Love and St. Augustine; Men in Dark Times; On Revolution; On Violence; The Origin of Totalitarianism; The Promise of Politics; Reflections on Literature and Culture; Responsibility and Judgment

Aristotle [Aristoteles] (384-322 BCE); Greek philosopher, physicist, biologist and political scientist

Major Works: The Athenian Constitution; Categories; Eudemian Ethics; Magna Moralia; Metaphysics; Nicomachean Ethics; On Comedy (fragments); On the Generation of Animals; On the Parts of Animals; On the Soul; On Tragedy (fragments); Physics; Poetics; Politics; Posterior Analytics; Prior Analytics; Rhetoric; The Spartan Constitution (fragments)

John Langshaw Austin (1911-60); British philosopher

Major Works: How to Do Things with Words; Philosophical Papers; Sense and Sensibilia

Susan Bordo (1947-); American philosopher and sociologist

Major Works: The Flight to Objectivity; The Male Body; Twilight Zones; Unbearable Weight

Susannah "Susie" Bright (1958-); American sexologist and writer

Major Works: Full Exposure; How to Write a Dirty Story; Mommy's Little Girl; Sexual Reality; Sexual State of the Union; Sexwise; Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World

Judith P. Butler (1956-); American philosopher

Major Works: Antigone's Charm; Bodies that Matter; Contingency, Hegemony, Universaility (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Excitable Speech; Frames of War; Gender Trouble; Giving an Account of Oneself; Is Critique Secular? (et al); Precarious Life; The Psychic Life of Power; Subjects of Desire; Undoing Gender; What's Left of Theory?; Who Sings the Nation-State (with Gayatri Spivak)

Albert Camus (1913-60); French-Algerian novelist, playwright and philosopher

Major Works: Between Hell and Reason; Caligula; Exile and the Kingdom; The Fall; The First Man; A Happy Death; The Misunderstanding; The Myth of Sisyphus; Neither Victims nor Executioners; Nuptials; The Plague; The Possessed; The Rebel; Reflections on Capital Punishment (with Arthur Koestler); Resistance, Rebellion, and Death; The Stranger; State of Siege; Summer; The Wrong Side and the Right Side

Claudia F. Card; American philosopher

Major Works: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy; The Atrocity Paradigm; Lesbian Choices; The Unnatural Lottery; Virtues and Moral Luck

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008); Martinician poet, playwright, politician and philosopher

Major Works: Discourse on Colonialism; Lost Body; Miraculous Arms; Notebooks of a Return to My Native Land; A Season in the Congo; The Tempest; Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem; The Tragedy of King Christophe

Paul Montgomery (1942-) and Patricia Smith (1943-) Churchland; American philosophers and neuroscientists

Major Writings: Brainwise (Pat); The Computational Brain (Pat with Terry Sejnowski); The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul (Paul); Matter and Consciousness (Paul); A Neurocomputational Perspective; Neurophilosophy (Pat); Neurophilosophy at Work (Paul); Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (Paul)

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-82); British biologist

Major Works: Autobiography; The Descent of Man; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals; The Origin of Species; Selection in Relation to Sex

Robyn Mason Dawes (1936-); American psychologist

Major Works: Everyday Irrationality; Fundamentals of Attitude Measurement; House of Cards; Judging Merit (et al); Mathematical Psychology (with Amos Tversky); Rational Choice in an Uncertain World; Scientific Standards of Psychological Practice (et al)

Clinton Richard Dawkins (1941-); Kenyan biologist

Major Works: The Ancestor's Tale; The Blind Watchmaker; Climbing Mount Improbable; The Devil's Chaplain; The Extended Phenotype; The God Delusion; The Greatest Show on Earth; River Out of Eden; The Selfish Gene; Unweaving the Rainbow

Daniel Clement Dennett (1942-); American philosopher and cognitive scientist

Major Works: Brainchildren; Brainstorms; Breaking the Spell; Consciousness Explained; Content and Consciousness; The Crucible of Consciousness (with Zoltan Torey); Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Elbow Room; Freedom Evolves; The Intentional Stance; Kinds of Minds; Mind and Consciousness (with David Chalmers et al); Neuroscience and Philosophy (with Maxwell Barrett et al); Sweet Dreams

Michael Eric Dyson (1958-); American cultural studies scholar

Major Works: April 4, 1968; Between God and Gansta Rap; Born to Use Mics (with Sohail Daulatzai); Can You Hear Me Now?; Come Hell or High Water; Debating Race; Holler if You Hear Me; I May Not Get There With You; Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?); Know What I Mean?; Making Malcolm; Mercy, Mercy Me; Open Mike; Pride; Race Rules; Reflecting Black; Untitle the Church; Why I Love Black Women

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-); American sociologist and essayist

Major Works: The American Health Empire (with John Ehrenreich); Bait and Switch; Blood Rites; Bright-Sided; Complaints and Disorders (with Deirdre English); Dancing in the Streets; Fear of Falling; For Her Own Good (with Deirdre English); The Four Freedoms Under Siege (with Marcus Raskin et al); The Hearts of Men; Nickel and Dimed; Poverty in the American Dream (et al); Re-Making Love (et al); The Snarling Citizen; This Land is Their Land; Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (with Deirdre English);Women in the Global Factory (with Annette Fuentes); The Worst Years of Our Lives

Frantz Fanon (1925-61); Martinician psychoanalyst and philosopher

Major Works: Black Skin, White Masks; A Dying Colonialism; Toward the African Revolution; The Wretched of the Earth

Helen Elizabeth Fisher (1945-); American anthropologist

Major Works: The Anatomy of Love; The First Sex; The Sex Contract; Why We Love

Jerry Alan Fodor (1935-); American philosopher and psychologist

Major Works: The Compositionality Papers (with Ernie LePore); Concepts; The Elm and the Expert; Holism (with Ernie LePore); Hume Variations; In Critical Condition; The Language of Thought; L.O.T. 2--The Language of Thought Revisited; The Mind Doesn't Work that Way; The Modularity of Mind; Psychological Explanation; What Darwin Got Wrong (with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini)

Paul-Michel Foucault (1926-84); French philosopher and historian

Major Works: Abnormal; The Archaeology of Knowledge; The Birth of Biopolitics; The Birth of the Clinic; Care of the Self; The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature (with Noam Chomsky); Death and the Labyrinth; Discipline and Punish; Dream and Existence (with Ludwig Binswanger); Ethics; Fearless Speech; The Hermeneutics of the Subject; The History of Madness; A History of Sexuality; Introduction to Kant's Anthropology; Language, Counter-Memory, Practice; Madness and Civilization; Manet and the Object of Painting; Mental Illness and Psychology; The Order of Things; The Politics of Truth; Politics, Philosophy, Culture; Power; Power/Knowledge; Psychiatric Power; Religion and Culture; Remarks on Marx; Security, Territory, Population; "Society Must Be Defended"; Technologies of the Self; This is Not a Pipe; The Use of Pleasure

Viktor Emil Frankl (1905-97); German psychologist

Major Works: The Doctor and the Soul; From Death-Camp to Existentialism; Man's Search for Meaning; Psychotherapy and Existentialism; Recollections; The Unconscious God; The Unheard Cry for Meaning

Sigismund Schlomo "Sigmund" Freud (1856-1939); Austrian psychologist and doctor

Major Works: Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (with Josef Breuer); Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Civilization and Its Discontents; Dora; The Ego and the Id; Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis; The Future of an Illusion; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety; The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; Moses and Monotheism; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; On Dreams; The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis; The Problem of Anxiety; Psychopathology of Everyday Life; The Question of Lay Analysis; Three Contributions to a Theory of Sexuality; Totem and Taboo

Erich Pinchas Fromm (1900-80); Austrian psychoanalyst

Major Works: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness; The Art of Loving; Beyond the Chains of Illusion; The Crisis of Psychoanalysis; The Dogma of Christ; Escape from Freedom; Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought; Man Against Himself; Marx's Concept of Man; Psychoanalysis and Religion; The Sane Society; Sigmund Freud's Mission; To Have or To Be?; You Shall Be as Gods

Thomas D. Gilovich (1954-); American psychologist

Major Works: How We Know What Isn't So; Social Psychology (with Richard Nisbett and Dacher Keltner)

Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002); American geologist

Major Works: Bully for Brontosaurus; Dinosaur in a Haystack; Eight Little Piggies; Ever Since Darwin; The Flamingo's Smile; Full House; The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox; I Have Landed; The Individual in Darwin's World; Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms; The Mismeasure of Man; The Panda's Thumb; Questioning the Millennium; Rocks of Ages; The Structure of Evolutionary Theory; Wonderful Life

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (1928-); Peruvian theologian

Major Works: The Density of the Present; The God of Life; Las Casas (with Robert R. Barr); Liberation and Change (with M. Rich Shaull); On Job; The Poor and the Church in Latin America; The Power of the Poor in History; Santo Domingo and After (et al); A Theology of Liberation; The Truth Shall Make You Free; We Drink from Our Own Wells

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72); American theologian

Major Works: Between God and Man; The Earth is the Lord's; God in Search of Man; Heavenly Torah; I Asked for Wonder; The Ineffable Name of God; The Insecurity of Freedom; Israel; Maimonides; Man is Not Alone; Man's Quest for God; Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity; The Prophets; The Quest for Certainty in Saadia's Philosophy; The Sabbath; The Theology of Ancient Judaism; Who is Man?

John Harwood Hick (1922-); British theologian and philosopher

Major Works: Between Faith and Doubt; Biology and the Soul; Death and Eternal Life; Dialogues in the Philosophy of Religion; Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion; Encountering Evil (with Stephen T. Davis et al); Evil and the God of Love; Faith and Knowledge; The Fifth Dimension; Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (with Dennis Okholm et al); God and the Universe of Faiths; God Has Many Names; An Interpretation of Religion; The Metaphor of God Incarnate; The New Frontier of Religion and Science; Problems of Religious Pluralism; The Rainbow of Faiths; The Second Christianity; Theology's Central Problems; Who or What is God?

Paul Henri Thierry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-89); German philosopher

Major Works: Christianity Unveiled; Ecce Homo; Good Sense; Letters from Thrasybulus to Leucippe; Letters to Eugenia; The Miraculous Conception; The System of Nature; Universal Morality

David Hume [David Home] (1711-76); Scottish philosopher

Major Works: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals; Essays, Moral and Political; A Natural History of Religion; A Treatise of Human Nature

Michael Grant Ignatieff (1947-); Canadian political scientist

Major Works: After Paradise; Blood and Belonging; Human Rights and Politics and Idolatry; Isaiah Berlin; A Just Measure of Pain; Ladder of Shadows (with Gustaf Sobin); The Lesser Evil; The Needs of Strangers; The Rights Revolution; True Patriot Love; Virtual War; The Warrior's Honor

David Bruce Ingram (1952-); American philosopher

Major Works: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ethics (with Jennifer Parks); Critical Theory and Philosophy; Group Rights; Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason; Law; Reason, History and Politics; Rights, Democracy and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-55); Danish theologian

Major Works: Armed Neutrality; Attack Upon "Christendom"; The Book on Alder; Christian Discourses; The Concept of Dread; The Concept of Irony; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; The Corsair Affair; Crisis in the Life of an Actress; Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses; Either/Or; Fear and Trembling; For Self-Examination; Johannes Climacus; A Literary Review; The Moment; Philosophical Fragments; The Point of View for My Work as an Author; Practice in Christianity; Prefaces; The Present Age; Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing; Repetition; The Sickness Unto Death; Stages on Life's Way; Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions; Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits; Works of Love

Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956); American biologist

Major Works: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

Will Kymlicka; Canadian political scientist

Major Works: Contemporary Political Philosophy; Finding Our Way; Liberalism, Community and Culture; Multicultural Citizenship; Multicultural Odysseys; Politics in the Vernacular; States, Nations and Cultures; Uneasy Partners (et al)

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979); German philosopher

Major Works: The Aesthetic Dimension; Art and Liberation; Counterrevolution and Revolt; A Critique of Pure Tolerance (with Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr.); Eros and Civilization; An Essay on Liberation; Five Lectures; From Luther to Popper; Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity; Heideggerian Marxism; Negations; The New Left and the 1960s; The Obsolescence of Psychoanalysis; One-Dimensional Man; Reason and Revolution; Revolution or Reform? (with Karl Popper); Soviet Marxism; Studies in Critical Philosophy; A Study on Authority; Technology, War, and Fascism; Towards a Critical Theory of Society

Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-83); German philosopher and economist

Major Works: Capital; The Civil War in France; The Class Struggles in France; The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels); Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; Contributions to a Critique of Political Economy; Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State; Critique of the Gotha Programme; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts; The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; The German Ideology (with Friedrich Engels); Grundrisse; The Holy Family (with Friedrich Engels); On the Paris Commune (with Friedrich Engels); Political Indifferentism; The Poverty of Philosophy; Theories of Surplus Value; Wage Labor and Capital; Wages, Price and Profit

William Howell Masters (1915-2001) and Virginia Eshleman Johnson (1925-); American psychologists

Major Works: Biological Foundations of Human Sexuality; Heterosexuality; Human Sexual Inadequacy; Human Sexual Response; Homosexuality in Perspective; Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving; The Pleasure Bond

Paul Everett Meehl (1920-2003); American psychologist

Major Works: Clinical versus Statistical Prediction; Psychodiagnosis

John Stuart Mill (1806-73); British philosopher

Major Works: Auguste Comte and Positivism; Autobiography; Bentham; Coleridge; Considerations on Representative Government; The Enfranchisement of Women (with Harriet Taylor); An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy; On Liberty; On Socialism; Principles of Political Economy; The Subjection of Women; System of Logic; Utilitarianism; Whewell on Moral Philosophy

Charles Wade Mills; Jamaican-born American philosopher

Major Works: Blackness Visible; Contract and Domination (with Carol Pateman); From Class to Race; The Racial Contract

Richard Drake Mohr; American philosopher

Major Works: Gay Ideas; Gays/Justice; God and Forms in Plato; Judicial Evaluation (with Francesco Contini); Law and Religion in Public Life (with Nadirsyah Hosen); The Long Arc of Justice; A More Perfect Union; One Book, The Whole Universe; Platonic Cosmology; Pottery, Politics, Art

Desmond John Morris (1928-); British zoologist

Major Works: The Animal Contract; The Biology of Art; Bodytalk; Bodywatching; Gestures; The Human Animal; The Human Sexes; The Human Zoo; Intimate Behaviour; Manwatching; Men and Apes; Men and Snakes (with Ramona Morris); The Naked Ape; The Naked Man; The Naked Woman; Patterns of Reproductive Behavior; Primate Ethology; Tribes (with Peter Marsh)

Paul Kenneth Moser (1957-); American philosopher

Major Works: The Elusive God; Empirical Justification; The Evidence for God; Knowledge and Evidence; Philosophy after Objectivity; The Theory of Knowledge (with Dwayne Mulder and J.D. Trout); Why Isn't God More Obvious?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900); German philosopher

Major Works: The Antichrist; Beyond Good and Evil; The Birth of Tragedy; The Case of Wagner; David Strauss; Daybreak; Dithyrambs of Dionysus; Ecce Homo; The Gay Science; The Genealogy of Morals; Human, All-too-Human; Mixed Opinions and Maxims; Nietzsche contra Wagner; On the Future of Our Educational Institutions; Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks; Richard Wagner in Bayreuth; Schopenhauer as Educator; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Twilight of the Idols; The Use and Abuse of History; The Wanderer and His Shadow; The Will to Power

Richard E. Nisbett; American social and cognitive psychologist.

Major Works: The Culture of Honor (with Dov Cohen); The Geography of Thought; Human Inference (with Lee Ross); Intelligence and How to Get It; The Person and the Situation (with Less Ross); Social Psychology (with Tom Gilovich and Dacher Keltner)

Martha Craven Nussbaum (1947-); American philosopher

Major Works: The Clash Within; Cultivating Humanity; The Feminist Critique of Liberalism; For Love of Country?; The Fragility of Goodness; From Disgust to Humanity; Frontiers of Justice; Hiding from Humanity; Liberty of Conscience; Love's Knowledge; Loving the Nation; Not for Profit; Plato's Republic; Poetic Justice; Sex and Social Justice; The Therapy of Desire; Upheavals of Thought; Women and Human Development

Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004); American philosopher

Major Works: Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?; Justice, Gender and the Family; Women in Western Political Thought

José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); Spanish philosopher

Major Works: Concord and Liberty; The Dehumanization of Art; Historical Reason; History as a System; An Interpretation of Universal History; Invertebrate Spain; Man and Crisis; Meditations on Quixote; Meditations on Technology; The Mission of the University; The Modern Theme; On Love; The Origin of Philosophy; Phenomenology and Art; The Revolt of the Masses; Toward a Philosophy of History; What is Knowledge?; What is Philosophy?

Christine Overall (1949-); Canadian philosopher

Major Works: Aging, Death, and Human Longevity; Ethics and Human Reproduction; A Feminist I; Human Reproduction; Thinking Like a Woman

Jennifer Agnes Parks (1968-); Canadian philosopher

Major Works: Bioethics in a Changing World (with Victoria S. Wike); The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ethics (with David Ingram); No Place Like Home?

Blaise Pacal (1623-62); French philosopher, theologian and physicist

Major Works: Penseés; Provincial Letters

Clark H. Pinnock (1937-); Canadian theologian

Major Works: Authentic Spirituality (with Barry Callen); Biblical Revelation; A Defense of Biblical Infallibility; Evangelism and Truth; The Flame of Love; Grace Unlimited; More than One Way; Most Moved Mover; The Openness of God (et al.); Perspectives on Election (et al); Reason Enough; The Scripture Principle; Three Keys to Spiritual Renewal; Tracking the Maze; Truth on Fire; Unbounded Love (with Robert C. Brow); Wideness in God's Mercy

James Webster Rachels, Jr. (1941-2003); American philosopher

Major Works: Can Ethics Provide Answers?; Created from Animals; The Elements of Moral Philosophy; The End of Life; The Legacy of Socrates; Problems from Philosophy

John Borden Rawls (1921-2002); American philosopher

Major Works: A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith; Justice as Fairness; The Law of Peoples; Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy; Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy; Political Liberalism; A Theory of Justice

Jeffrey H. Reiman; American philosopher

Major Works: Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life; Criminal Justice Ethics (with Paul Leighton); Critical Moral Liberalism; The Death Penalty (with Louis P. Pojman); In Defense of Political Philosophy; Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy; The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

Richard Lowell Rubenstein (1924-); American theologian

Major Works: After Auschwitz; The Age of Triage; Approaches to Auschwitz (with John K. Roth); The Cunning of History; Jihad and Genocide; Morality and Eros; The Political Significance of Latin American Liberation Theology; The Religious Imagination

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970); British philosopher and mathematician

Major Works: The ABC of Relativity; Analysis of Matter; Analysis of Mind; The Conquest of Happiness; Education and the Good Life; A History of Western Philosophy; Human Knowledge; Icarus; The Impact of Science on Society; In Praise of Idleness; Marriage and Morals; Mysticism and Logic; The Philosophy of Logical Atomics; Political Ideals; Power; Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead); Problems of Philosophy; Religion and Science; Satan in the Suburbs; The Scientific Outlook; Skeptical Essays; Unpopular Essays; Why I am Not a Christian

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814); French writer

Major Works: Crimes of Love; Juliette; Justine; The Misfortunes of Virtue; The 120 Days of Sodom; Philosophy in the Bedroom

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905-80); French philosopher, novelist and playwright

Major Works: The Aftermath of War; The Age of Reason; Anti-Semite and Jew; Being and Nothingness; Between Existentialism and Marxism; The Chips Are Down; Colonialism and Neocolonialism; The Communists and Peace; The Condemned of Altona; Critique of Dialectical Reason; The Devil and the Good Lord; Dirty Hands; The Emotions; Existentialism and Humanism; The Family Idiot; The Flies; The Ghost of Stalin; The Imagination; Life/Situations; Mallarmé; Nausea; No Exit; The Reprieve; The Respectful Prostitute; Saint Genet; Search for a Method; Situations; The Transcendence of the Ego; Troubled Sleep; Truth and Existence; The Wall; What is Literature?

J. L. Schellenberg (1959-); Canadian philosopher

Major Works: Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason; Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion; The Will to Imagine; The Wisdom to Doubt

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860); German philosopher

Major Works: The Art of Literature; Counsels and Maxims; On Freedom of the Will; On Human Nature; On Religion; On the Basis of Morality; On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason; On the Will in Nature; Parerga and Paralipomena; Studies in Pessimism; The Wisdom of Life; The World as Will and Representation

David E. Schweickart (1942-); American philosopher

Major Works: After Capitalism; Against Capitalism; Capitalism or Worker Control?; The Market Socialism Debate (et al.)

John Rogers Searle (1932-); American philosopher

Major Works: The Campus War; Consciousness and Language; The Construction of Social Reality; Expression and Meaning; Free Will and Neurobiology; Intention; Making the Social World; Mind; Mind, Language and Reality; Making the Social World; Minds, Brains and Science; The Mystery of Consciousness; Neuroscience and Philosophy (with Michael Barrett et al); Philosophy in a New Century; Rationality in Action; The Rediscovery of Mind; Speech Acts

Peter Albert David Singer (1946-); Australian philosopher

Major Works: Animal Factories (with Jim Mason); Animal Liberation; A Darwinian Left; The Death of the Animal (with Paola Cavalieri); Democracy and Disobedience; Ethics in Action; The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason); The Expanding Circle; The Future of Animal Farming (et al); Hegel; How Are We to Live?; In Defense of Animals; The Life You Can Save; Making Babies (with Deane Wells); Marx; One World; Practical Ethics; The President of Good and Evil; Psuhing Time Away; The Reproduction Revolution (with Deane Wells) ; Rethinking Life and Death; Unsanctifying Human Life; The Way We Eat (with Jim Mason); Writings on an Ethical Life

Alan Gerald Soble (1947-); American Philosopher

Major Works: The Philosophy of Sex and Love; Pornography, Sex and Feminism; Sex from Plato to Paglia; Sexual Investigations; The Structure of Love

John Shelby Spong (1931-); American theologian

Major Works: Beyond Moralism (with Denise G. Haines); A Bishop's Voice; Born of a Woman; Christpower; The Easter Moment; Eternal Life; The Future of the Christian Tradition (with Robert W. Funke & Don Cupitt); Here I Stand; Honest Prayer; Into the Whirlwind; Jesus for the Non-Religious; Liberating the Gospels; The Living Commandments; Living in Sin?; A New Christianity for a New World; Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism; Resurrection; Sins of Scripture; This Hebrew Lord; Why Christianity Must Change or Die

Richard G. Swinburne (1934-); British theologian

Major Works: Bayes's Theorem; The Christian God; The Coherence of Theism; The Concept of Miracle; Epistemological Justification; The Evolution of the Soul; The Existence of God; Faith and Reason; Introduction to Confirmation Theory; Is There a God?; The Justification of Induction; Personal Identity (with Sydney Shoemaker); Providence and the Problem of Evil; Responsibility and Atonement; The Resurrection of God Incarnate; Revelation; Simplicity as Evidence of Truth; Space and Time; Was Jesus God?

Thomas Stephen Szasz (1920-); Hungarian psychologist

Major Works: The Age of Madness; Anti-Freud; Antipsychiatry; Ceremonial Chemistry; Coercion as Cure; Cruel Compassion; The Ethics of Psychoanalysis; Faith in Freedom; Fatal Freedom; Heresies; Ideology and Insanity; Insanity; Karl Krauss and the Soul-Doctors; Law, Liberty and Psychiatry; Liberation by Oppression; The Manufacture of Madness; The Meaning of Mind; The Medicalization of Everyday Life; "My Madness Saved Me"; The Myth of Mental Illness; The Myth of Psychotherapy; Our Right to Drugs; Pain and Pleasure; Pharmacracy; Psychiatric Justice; Psychiatric Slavery; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia; Sex by Prescription; The Theology of Medicine; The Therapeutic State; The Untamed Tongue

Tristan Taormino (1971-); American essayist and sex educator

Major Works: Opening Up; Pucker Up!; True Lust

Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965); German theologian

Major Works: Against the Third Reich; Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality; The Christian Answer; Christianity and the Encounter of World Religions; Christianity and the Problem of Existence; The Courage to Be; Dynamics of Faith; The Encounter of Religions and Quasi-Religions; The Eternal Now; The Impact of Psychotherapy on Theological Thought; The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Christian Message; Love, Power and Justice; Morality and Beyond; My Search for Absolutes; The New Being; Political Expectation; The Protestant Era; The Religious Situation; The Shaking of the Foundations; The Socialist Decision; Systematic Theology; Theology of Culture; Theology of Peace; Ultimate Concern; What is Religion?

John Dewain "J.D." Trout, Jr. (1959-); American philosopher

Major Works: The Empathy Gap; Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment (with Michael A. Bishop); Measuring the Intentional World; The Theory of Knowledge (with Paul K. Moser and Dwayne Mulder); Why Empathy Matters

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007); American writer

Major Works: Armageddon in Retrospect; Bagombo Snuff Box; Bluebeard; Breakfast of Champions; Cat's Cradle; Deadeye Dick; Fates Worse than Death; Galapagos; God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Hocus Pocus; Jailbird; Look at the Birdie; A Man without a Country; Mother Night; Palm Sunday; Player Piano; The Sirens of Titan; Slapstick; Slaughter-House Five; Timequake; Wampeters, Foma, and Granfaloons; Welcome to the Monkey House

Cornel Ronald West (1953-); American philosopher

Major Works: The African-American Century (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.); The American Evasion of Philosophy; Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism; Breaking Bread (with bell hooks); Brother West; Courage to Hope (with Quinton Dixie); Democracy Matters; The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought; Ethics, Historicism, and the Marxist Tradition; The Future of American Progressivism (with Roberto Manuel Unger); The Future of the Race (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.); Hope on a Tightrope; Jews and Blacks (with Michael Lerner); Keeping Faith; Out There (et al); Post-Analytic Philosophy (with John Rajchman); Prophesy Deliverance!; Prophetic Fragments; Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times; Race Matters; Restoring Hope; Struggles in the Promised Land (with Jack Salzman);The War Against Parents (with Sylvia Ann Hewlett)

Eliezer Shlomo "Elie" Wiesel (1928-); Hungarian writer and theologian

Major Works: The Accident; After the Darkness; Against Silence; All Rivers Run to the Sea; And the Sea is Never Full; Ani Maamin; A Beggar in Jerusalem; Dawn; Ethics and Memory; Evil and Exile; The Fifth Son; Five Biblical Portraits; The Forgotten; Four Hasidic Masters and Their Struggle Against Melancholy; From the Kingdom of Memory; The Gates of the Forest; A Jew Today; The Jews of Silence; A Journey of Faith (with John O'Connor); The Judges; Legends of Our Time; A Mad Desire to Dance; Memoir in Two Voices (with François Mitterand); Messengers of God; Night; The Oath; One Generation After; Rashi; Sages and Dreamers; Somewhere a Master; Souls on Fire; The Testament; The Time of the Uprooted; The Town Beyond the Wall; The Trial of God; Twilight; Zalmen

Naomi Wolf (1962-); American sociologist

Major Works: The Beauty Myth; The End of America; Fire with Fire; Give Me Liberty; (Mis)conceptions; Promiscuities; Treehouse

Iris Marion Young (1949-2006); American philosopher

Major Works: Global Challenges; Inclusion and Democracy; Intersecting Voices; Justice and the Politics of Difference; On Female Body Experience; Throwing Like a Girl

Slavoj Žižek (1949-); Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher

Major Works: The Abyss of Freedom; The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau); Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?; Enjoy Your Symptom!; Everything You Wanted to Know about Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce; For They Know Not What They Do; The Fragile Absolute; The Fright of Real Tears; How to Read Lacan; In Defense of Lost Causes; The Invisible Remainder; Interrogating the Real; Iraq; Living in the End Times; Looking Awry; Metastases of Enjoyment; The Monstrosity of Christ (with John Milbank); Mythology, Madness, and Laughter (with Markus Gabriel); The Neighbor (with Eric L. Santrer and Kenneth Reinhard); On Belief; Organs without Bodies; The Parallax View; The Plague of Fantasies; The Puppet and the Dwarf; Repeating Lenin; The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken (with Jeff Robbins et al); The Sublime Object of Ideology; Tarrying with the Negative; The Ticklish Subject; The Universal Exception; Violence; Welcome to the Desert of the Real!

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