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1. Julian Baggini

   Author of The Duck That Won the Lottery: 100 New Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher, Do You Think What You Think You Think?
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2. Rebecca Goldstein

   Author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
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3. Sarah Bakewell

   Author of At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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4. Aristotle

   Author of Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric
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5. Daniel M. Klein

   Author of Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it, Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
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6. Jim Holt

   Author of Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
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7. Friedrich Nietzsche

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8. Sam Harris

   Author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity, Lying
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9. Simon Blackburn

   Author of Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics, Truth: A Guide
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10. David Edmonds

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11. Bertrand Russell

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12. Immanuel Kant

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13. Walter Kaufmann

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14. Peter A. Singer

    Author of Animal Liberation, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, Practical Ethics - Second Edition
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15. Jamie Whyte

    Author of Crimes Against Logic: Exposing the Bogus Arguments of Politicians, Priests, Journalists, and Other Serial Offenders
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16. Al Franken

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17. Alain de Botton

    Author of The News: A User's Manual, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion, The Consolations of Philosophy
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18. Mortimer J. Adler

    Author of Ten Philosophical Mistakes, Aristotle for Everybody : Difficult Thought Made Easy, How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization
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19. Christopher Phillips

    Author of Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy, Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
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20. Bill Watterson

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21. Christopher Hitchens

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22. Søren Kierkegaard

    Author of The Sickness Unto Death, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, Fear and Trembling
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23. Natalie Angier

    Author of The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
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24. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic
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25. Harry G. Frankfurt

    Author of On Bullshit, On Truth
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26. David Hume

    Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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27. Edith Hall

    Author of Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
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28. George Lakoff

    Author of Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate, Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think
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29. Irving M. Copi

    Author of Introduction to Logic
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30. Donald Palmer

    Author of Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter, Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners, Does the Center Hold? An Introduction to Western Philosophy
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31. William Barrett

    Author of Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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32. Will Durant

    Author of The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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33. Robert Nozick

    Author of The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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34. Plato

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35. Jean-Paul Sartre

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36. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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37. Simon Critchley

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38. Steven Pinker

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39. Leo Strauss

    Author of History of Political Philosophy, Natural Right and History
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40. Karl Popper

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41. A. C. Grayling

    Author of The History of Philosophy, Ideas That Matter: The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
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42. Hannah Arendt

    Author of Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Human Condition
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43. Molly Ivins

    Author of Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
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44. Gary Larson

    Author of The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit, The Far Side Gallery, The Far Side Gallery 3
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45. George Carlin

    Author of Napalm & Silly Putty
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46. Michael Picard

    Author of This Is Not a Book
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47. Anthony Gottlieb

    Author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
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48. Judy Jones

    Author of An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't
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49. T. Z. Lavine

    Author of From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
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50. Jonathan Haidt

    Author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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