Considered the central figure of modern philosophy, Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is “in-itself” is unknowable.
Plato was the innovator of the dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy, and appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy, with his “Republic”. Plato has also often been cited as a foundational figure for Western science, philosophy, mathematics, and Western religion.
A German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.
A principal member of the Manhattan Project, and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer.
An English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments.
“The father of information theory”