Philosophers
Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit was a British philosopher whose work on personal identity, ethics, and the foundations of morality is widely regarded as among the most important …
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian-American literary theorist, philosopher, and postcolonial critic whose work has been foundational to postcolonial studies, subaltern studies, and transnational feminism. …
Paulin Hountondji
Paulin J. Hountondji was a Beninese philosopher whose 'African Philosophy: Myth and Reality' (1976) launched one of the most consequential and controversial debates in the …
Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political philosopher whose agonistic theory of democracy, developed in collaboration with Ernesto Laclau and subsequently independently, constitutes one of the …
Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway is an American philosopher of science, feminist theorist, and cultural critic whose 'Cyborg Manifesto' and subsequent work on multispecies entanglements have been foundational …
Henry Odera Oruka
Henry Odera Oruka was a Kenyan philosopher who developed the 'sage philosophy' project — a systematic effort to identify and document individual, critical, argumentative philosophical …
Peter Singer
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher whose utilitarian approach to ethics has made him one of the most influential — and controversial — living …
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher whose capabilities approach to justice, development, and human dignity has had a transformative impact on political philosophy, international development …
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist of science, and social theorist whose actor-network theory (ANT) and critique of the nature-culture divide transformed the sociology …
Olavo de Carvalho
Olavo de Carvalho was a Brazilian conservative philosopher, polemicist, and cultural critic whose influence on Brazilian right-wing thought in the 2000s and 2010s was decisive, …
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural critic, and psychoanalytic theorist whose prolific and deliberately provocative work synthesizes Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian dialectics, and Marxist political …
Charles Mills
Charles W. Mills was a Jamaican-American political philosopher whose 'The Racial Contract' (1997) is one of the most important works of political philosophy produced in …
bell hooks
bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins) was an American cultural critic, feminist theorist, and public intellectual whose work pioneered the integration of race, gender, and class …
Cornel West
Cornel West is an American philosopher, political activist, and public intellectual whose work synthesizes the prophetic tradition of the Black church, American pragmatism, and Marxist …
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher whose work on cosmopolitanism, identity, race, and honor has made him one of the leading public philosophers of …
Mário Sérgio Cortella
Mário Sérgio Cortella is a Brazilian philosopher, educator, and public intellectual whose work has made rigorous philosophical thinking about ethics, the meaning of work, and …
Silvio Meira
Silvio Meira is a Brazilian technologist-thinker and innovation theorist whose work has shaped the philosophy of digital transformation and technology-driven social change in Brazil and …
Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is an American political theorist whose work constitutes one of the most rigorous and comprehensive philosophical analyses of neoliberalism's transformative effects on democratic …
Judith Butler
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose concept of gender performativity revolutionized feminist theory, queer theory, and the broader understanding of identity. …
Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe is a Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist whose concepts of necropolitics — the sovereign power to dictate who may live and who must …
Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han is a Korean-born, German-based philosopher and cultural theorist whose incisive analyses of contemporary society — the burnout society, the transparency society, the palliative …
Luiz Felipe Pondé
Luiz Felipe Pondé is a Brazilian philosopher and public intellectual whose work articulates a philosophical pessimism grounded in the tradition of Blaise Pascal, Arthur Schopenhauer, …
Viviane Mosé
Viviane Mosé is a Brazilian philosopher, poet, and psychoanalyst whose work stands at the intersection of Nietzsche scholarship, philosophy of language, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophical …
Clóvis de Barros Filho
Clóvis de Barros Filho is a Brazilian philosopher, communication theorist, and public intellectual whose work combines scholarly engagement with Spinozist ethics and Stoic philosophy with …