East European Continental Core

Philosophers of East European Continental Core

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Line engraving portrait of Christian Wolff

Christian Wolff

1679 CE – 1754 CE

Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland)

German Enlightenment rationalist whose systematic textbooks in logic, ontology, psychology, natural theology, ethics, natural law, aesthetics, and philosophy of science made Wolffian method the main bridge between Leibniz and Kant.

Nicolaus Copernicus in the Torun portrait

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 CE – 1543 CE

Torun, Royal Prussia

Renaissance natural philosopher and mathematical astronomer of heliocentrism, De revolutionibus, Commentariolus, Warmian administration, and monetary reform.

Thomas Nagel in 1978

Thomas Nagel

1937 CE

Belgrade

American analytic philosopher of consciousness, objectivity, altruism, moral luck, equality, political morality, religious temperament, and limits of reductive materialism.