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Top 10 Public Philosophers

Who are the top 10 living philosophers making contributions to public debate? I don't agree with everything they say, but they are undoubtedly making an impact.

1.  Peter Singer

2. Michael Sandel

3. Amartya Sen

4. Kwame Anthony Appiah

5. Jürgen Habermas

6. Martha Nussbaum

7. Ronald Dworkin

8. Daniel Dennett

9. Umberto Eco

10. Cornel West

A Very Little History of Philosophy

Socrates: Let’s talk about it.

Plato: Hey caveman, get real!

Aristotle: Eudaimonia or you die moanier.

Epicurus: Death? Not my problem.

Descartes: You’re not dreaming.

Spinoza: I’m not into bondage.

Locke: You look blank.

Berkeley: Ideaology

Hume: You’re a natural.

Rousseau: Chain reaction.

Burke: You say you want a revolution…

Kant: Cool shades, but you can’t take them off.

Hegel: Synthetic fabric.

Bentham: Harmless fun.

Mill: Don’t be a pig.

Marx: Glory, glory, man united!

Kierkegaard: Jump!

Peirce: An icon

(Husserl)

Frege: What are you referring to?

Russell: What do you mean there’s no king of France?

Wittgenstein: I’m not going to tell you.

Ayer: Logical positivism – hooray!

Popper: Unconvince me.

Sartre: Don’t wait!

Camus: It’s only rock and roll but I like it.

Rawls: Justice for reasonable people.

Rand: Justice for nutters.

Foot: Track changes.

Kuhn: Can you believe this shift?

Derrida

Singer: Good bye pork pie.

Zizek:

Sandel: You sold what?

(based on my tweets on @philosophybites over the last few days)