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W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) – pioneering advocate of Pan-Africanism, that all people of African descent had common interests and should work together to achieve their freedom; huge influence on post colonial thought.
 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - Analytic philosopher; argued philosophy should be conducted with the rigour of science; masterful logician.
 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) - Analytic philosopher; philosophical problems are primarily confusions about language; language is a game without formal relationships to reality.
Gilbert Ryle (1900-76) - The mind belongs to the body and is not "a ghost in the machine"; philosophical problems are usually problems of language not logic.
A.J. Ayer (1910-89) - Meaningful statements must be empirically verifiable; otherwise they are simply expressions of like and dislike.
 Karl Popper (1902-94) - philosopher of science; conceived the falsification principle - a claim must be capable of being proven false to be a proper scientific theory.
 Jean Paul Sartre (1905-80) - Grand existentialist; "Man is condemned to be free"
Simone De Beauvoir (1908-86) Feminist existentialist; tried to make women subjects of their own lives; not objects of men's lives.
Fanon, Frantz (1925 - 1961) - Psychologist and theorist of colonialism who studied the effects of racism and colonization; an inspiration for freedom causes throughout the Third World.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) - Meaning is internal to language; language must be deconstructed to reveal how its assumptions and ideologies masquerade as reality.
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