<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 12, 2013 Gordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3">> Someone online just a moment ago asserted that most people in that forum could probably not name an any important living </font><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">philosophers</font><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3">. I know of several and named them. </font><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif">I thought it would be interesting to ask this same question of my friends here on ExI. Who are the most important living philosophers? And why?</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br>I like Daniel Dennett's books but if you're asking for living philosophers who have made original and important philosophical discoveries I can't think of a single one. However I can think of lots of living non-philosophers who have made original and important philosophical discoveries; James Watson, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, Vera Rubin and Gregory Chaitin come <font size="4">immediately</font> to mind.</span></font><br>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br> John K Clark</span></font><br><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span dir="auto"><br></span></h1></div></div>