2006-11-15 05:30:05 · 23 answers · asked by bluenose 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thank you to everyone i will Google their names to find out more.
2006-11-15 05:50:43 · update #1
Baudrillard (he writes fantasically about complex things with concrete examples)
Zizek (should be read after Baudrillard, but again, really sharp and USEFUL philosophy, by which I mean really relevant to the way you look at the world)
Not sure if Susan Sontag is still alive, she's brilliant though.
Happy reading!
2006-11-15 09:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Greta B 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Robert Nozick is in fact dead (d.2002) so there goes that example. Although it can be argued that he was not in fact a great philosopher, merely a (thanks to 'Anarchy, State and Utopia') regrettably influential one. Susan Sontag is also dead (d.2004). RIP. She wasn't really a philosopher, though.
Jurgen Habermas probably takes the prize for most widely hailed living philosopher, although blowed if I could tell you what he's most famous for thinking.
My own personal opinion is that the closest we have to really significant living philosophers are Peter Singer and Ted Honderich.
2006-11-15 13:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
jurgen habermas and noam chomsky are probably the two most famous philosophers alive today. Peter singer, richard rorty, john searle, thomas nagel, daniel dennett, and hilary putnam are big names too. these are probably the most famous western philosophers alive today. of course that doesn't automatically equal greatness, but what i have read from them was very good.
2006-11-15 16:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by student_of_life 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
McDowell, Lewis, Putnam (f*ck Searle, Fodor, Dennett who gloss and straw man everything) , Nagel, Block, Pryor (NYU owns).
Quine, Davidson and Derrida are all recently deceased and would take a lifetime for the average person to read, let alone understand.
2006-11-15 14:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Nozick
2006-11-15 05:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Rob P 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sage Francis
2006-11-15 07:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by ricothe3rd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hilary Putnam
2006-11-15 06:41:43 · answer #7 · answered by James P 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Baudrillard, Agamden, Badiou, Judith Butler, Habermas, Levi Strauss, Lefort ....
2006-11-15 05:42:03 · answer #8 · answered by Druantia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John Searle and Jerry Fodor are two to start with. Do not waste your time with those post-modernist pseudo-intellectual, Such as Judith Butler and Levi Strauss. They are incoherent.
2006-11-15 08:09:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ken Wilber
2006-11-15 07:19:58 · answer #10 · answered by rhythm.nbass 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋