Philosophy and Philosophers

1859-1938 Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher

1872-1970 Bertrand Russell, English philosopher, logician

1873-1958 G.E. Moore, English philosopher

1889-1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher

1889-1976 Martin Heidegger, German philosopher

1891-1970 Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher

1897-1974 C.A. Campbell, Scottish philosopher

1900-1976 Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher

1902-1994 Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher

1905-1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher

1908-1986 Simone de Beauvoir, French author and philosopher

1908-2000 W.V.O. Quine, American philosopher

1910-1989 A.J. Ayer, English philosopher

1921-2002 John Rawls, American philosopher

1922-1996 Thomas Kuhn, American physicist and philosopher

1926-1984 Michel Foucault, French philosopher

1929- Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher

1930- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher

Political and Cultural Context

1914-1918 World War I

1917 Bolshevik Revolution

1939-1945 World War II

1945 U.S. dropped first atomic bombs

1945 United Nations chartered

1949 Mao Zedong took control in China

1991 Fall of the Soviet Union

September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks in U.S.