Who are your favorite philosophers?

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Yes, I understand that I left many philosophers out. It would be impossible to list them all. I presumed there was poll limit, I did not make an exhaustive list. Though it seems only one vote went to the Other option, so it seems I made an optimal list.

Marx. Can't deny the beard.

Other: Laozi.

Either that, or most people prefer to vote for a philosopher on the list, rather than put up a position of "other", which would either be meaningless given the lack of data it gives, or require explanation.

I mean, I know that I would rather pick a philosopher on the list.

I voted for Hume for his scepticism of supernatural phenomena and supernatural afterlives and giving more credence to metempsychosis over the doctrine of Heaven and Hell of Christian denominations - metempsychosis being closer to biological reality than the latter.

Favorite philosopher: George W. Bush!

Kant was bogus. He could not overcome Hume's skepticism. Kant loses on this point: there is not such thing a necessary synthetic a priori proposition. All meaningful declarative propositions are either analytic (true by definition), synthetic (true by empirical evidence) or conventional (rules of the game).

ruveyn

Does Decarte's "Cognito ergo sum" fall under the category of synthetic (true by empirical evidence, tells us something about the world) and a priori (true by definition).

i'm mostly unaware of the majority of these philosophers' thoughts, a fact i'm none too proud of, but i voted Socrates, Descartes and Kant because their ideas on the nature of knowledge, reality and perception inspired a great deal of thought in me and made me question quite a few things. would love to learn more.
fudo

It is a convention. It is one of Decartes assumption. It is neither an empirical assertion (such as "I think"
or "I am"). The "therefore" is what makes the assertion purely axiomatic and conventional.

It is in the same class of assertion as "two points determine a straight line which pass through them".

These statements are "rules of the game". Neither a definition nor an empirically determined fact.

ruveyn

besides Wittgenstein: Simone Weil.

James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich.

Voted for Nietzsche and his mustache.