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Richard B. Hays
Philosophy & Thought
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Richard B. Hays

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
c. 1949 โ€“ 2025 (76 years old)

Richard Bevan Hays was an American New Testament scholar and George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Washington, D.C., United States
Michael Loewe
Philosophy & Thought
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Michael Loewe

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
c. 1923 โ€“ 2025 (102 years old)

Michael Arthur Nathan Loewe was a British historian, Sinologist, and writer who authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese as well as the history of ancient and early Imperial China. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

London, United Kingdom
Daniel Clement Dennett III
Philosophy & Thought
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Daniel Clement Dennett III

Daniel Dennett
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1942 โ€“ 2024 (82 years old)

Foremost American philosopher and cognitive scientist who championed a materialist, evolutionary account of mind and consciousness in Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, known alongside Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism.

Blue Hill, United States
Daniel Kahneman
Philosophy & Thought
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Daniel Kahneman

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel
1934 โ€“ 2024 (90 years old)

Pioneering Israeli-American cognitive psychologist whose revolutionary work with Amos Tversky on behavioral economics and cognitive biases earned him the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics and resulted in Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Princeton, United States
Bruno Latour
Philosophy & Thought
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Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1947 โ€“ 2022 (75 years old)

World-renowned French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who co-founded Actor-Network Theory (ANT), pioneered science and technology studies with Laboratory Life and We Have Never Been Modern, and won the Holberg Prize for his ecological philosophy on the New Climatic Regime.

Beaune, Cรดte-d'Or, France
Saul Aaron Kripke
Philosophy & Thought
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Saul Aaron Kripke

Saul Kripke
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1940 โ€“ 2022 (81 years old)

Towering American philosopher and logician widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, who created Kripke semantics for modal logic as a teenager and revolutionized metaphysics and the philosophy of language with Naming and Necessity (1972).

Hawthorne, New York, United States
Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho
Philosophy & Thought
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Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho

Olavo de Carvalho
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
1947 โ€“ 2022 (74 years old)

Influential and polarizing Brazilian conservative philosopher, author, and polemicist whose online philosophy seminars and bestselling books like The Minimum You Need to Know Not to Be an Idiot (2013) intellectually catalyzed modern Brazilian conservatism and the rise of Jair Bolsonaro.

Chester, Virginia, United States
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