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https://youtu.be/37TI2KOGwrc Born about 495 BC in Elea, Zeno of Elea was a Pre-Socratic philosopher known for his paradoxes. Aristotle further credits him with inventing the dialectic. No less a figure…

https://youtu.be/Kx4jNFEqhsA Zeno of Citium was born in Citium, Cyprus, about 334 BC, and is considered the founder of Stoicism, a philosophy he taught in Athens from around 300 BC until…

https://youtu.be/fp5bkUdKexk Born about 570 BC in Colophon, Ancient Greece, Xenophanes was a poet, epistemologist, metaphysician, and theologian. He is best known for his criticism of anthropomorphism in religion and for…

https://youtu.be/9oDEznW7bKo One of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy, particularly in its analytic dimension, Ludwig Wittgenstein has had an enduring impact on work in logic and language as well as on…

https://youtu.be/4pBr55OhfDg Philosopher, historian, poet, dramatist, novelist, wit, and advocate of freedom of speech and religion, Voltaire was the embodiment of the Enlightenment. He was born François-Marie Arouet in Paris on…

https://youtu.be/DjM0KVQhPRI Born on August 4, 1834 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, John Venn was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He is most widely remembered for developing the Venn diagram,…

https://youtu.be/zg9FXrx7Jec Alan Mathison Turing framed the theory of modern computing with both his “Turing machine” thought experiment and his pioneering work on artificial intelligence. The paradigm-shifting technological impact of this…

https://youtu.be/KZKd-yQwiNA Second only to his friend and quasi-patron Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau was a founding figure in the Transcendentalist movement, the American translation of the German Romanticism of…