Statistics for American Philosophers

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Life	School	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1817-1862	Transcendentalism	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	78%
1859-1952	Pragmatism	defender of democracy	John Dewey	76%
1921-2002	Political Philosophy	A Theory of Justice	John Rawls	76%
1905-1982	Objectivism	The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	73%
1743-1826	Political Philosophy	US Declaration of Independence and third US President	Thomas Jefferson	70%
1737-1809	Political Philosophy	The Rights of Man	Thomas Paine	65%
1842-1910	Pragmatism	The Varieties of Religious Experience	Wiliam James	65%
1952-	Political Philosophy	The End of History	Francis Fukuyama	62%
1906-1975	Political Philosophy	The Origins of Totalitarianism	Hannah Arendt	62%
1803-1882	Transcendentalism	Self-Reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson	62%
1922-1996	Philosophy of Science	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas Kuhn	57%
1839-1914	Pragmatism	Founder of Pragmatism	Charles Sanders Peirce	54%
1928-	Philosophy of Language	Cartesian Linguistics	Noam Chomsky	46%
1898-1979	Social Philosophy	The One Dimensional Man	Herbert Marcuse	43%
1942	Philosophy of Science	Darwins Dangerous Idea	Daniel Dennett	38%
1938-2002	Political Philosophy	Anarchy, State and Utopia	Robert Nozick	38%
1931-2007	Post-Structuralism	Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature	Richard Rorty	35%
1891-1970	Philosophy of Science	Vienna Circle member	Rudolph Carnap	32%
1932-	Philosophy of Language	the Chinese letterbox experiment	John Searle	30%
1947-	Philosophy of Law	The Fragility of Goodness	Martha Nussbaum	24%
1945	Philosophy of Science	Gödel, Escher, Bach	Douglas Hofstadter	16%
1926-2016	Philosophy of Science	Mathematics is not logical but quasi-empirical	Hilary Putnam	8%
1922-2009	Philosophy of Science	Cosmopolis	Stephen Toulmin	8%