The philosopher Denis Dutton identified six universal signatures in human aesthetics:

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

* Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher

* July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist ( b. 1713 )

* October 5 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist ( d. 1784 )

The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in 19th-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea to the imaginary boundary between any fictional work and its audience.

* Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ), the philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopédie.

Jacques Rancière ( born Algiers, 1940 ) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris ( St. Denis ) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital ( 1968 ), with the structural Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.

* Pre-Romanticism ( end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century ): The influence of the English philosopher John Locke, together with that of the French Étienne Bonnot of Condillac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Denis Diderot, will cause a new feeling, dissatisfaction with the tyranny of reason, that emphasizes the right of the individuals to express their personal emotions ( repressed then by the neoclassicals ), among which figures fundamentally love.

He taught at the lycée in Reims from 1963 where he became a close friend of fellow playwright ( and philosopher ) François Regnault, and published a couple of novels before moving to the University of Paris VIII ( Vincennes-Saint Denis ) in 1969.

The eighteenth century French philosopher Denis Diderot, when accused of being an atheist, replied that he simply did not care whether God existed or not.

* Denis Dutton ( 1944 – 2010 ), philosopher

Denis Laurence Dutton ( 9 February 1944 – 28 December 2010 ) was a philosopher of art, web entrepreneur and media activist.

The European Cultural Foundation was set up in Geneva, in 1954, by the Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont.

This name for the phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot's description of such a situation in his Paradoxe sur le comédien.

Diderot was not a coherent and systematic thinker, but rather " a philosopher in whom all the contradictions of the time struggle with one another " ( Rosenkranz ).

As a philosopher Diderot speculated on free will and held a completely materialistic view of the universe ; he suggested all human behavior is determined by heredity.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

His father had strong ties with Diderot and d ' Alembert, and his mother was a grand-niece of the French philosopher Helvétius.

Pierre Bayle ( 1647 – 1706 ), French philosopher and critic, whose Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1697 ) greatly influenced the French Encyclopedists and the rationalist philosophers of the eighteenth century, such as Voltaire and Diderot, esteemed her highly, writing: "... for a queen to grant her protection to people persecuted for opinions which she believes to be false ; to open a sanctuary to them ; to preserve them from the flames prepared for them ; to furnish them with a subsistence ; liberally to relieve the troubles and inconveniences of their exile, is an heroic magnanimity which has hardly any precedent ..."

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

He was a propagandist -- they weren't afraid of the word, then -- satirist, nature lover, philosopher, scientist, what you will, a member of every party and of no party.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

In 1661, natural philosopher Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he argued that matter was composed of various combinations of different " corpuscules " or atoms, rather than the classical elements of air, earth, fire and water.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

" Kierkegaard cites G. O. Marbach who he quotes as saying " Albertus repente ex asino factus philosophus et ex philosopho asinus " was suddenly transformed from an ass into a philosopher and from a philosopher into an ass.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

Ammonius Hermiae (; c. 440-c. 520 ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

" His conversation was droll and frank, and Solon and the Athenians took to him as a sage and philosopher.

Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.