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Anil Mitra, © March 2010, © Latest Revision July 16, 2010

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Influences and main works. 1

Science. 1

Scientists. 1

Scientific method—direct influence. 2

Scientific method—other 2

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See historical sources of the void and the metaphysics

The author names include those whose influence I recognize and those whose ideas have resonance with mine. Some thinkers such as Hegel with whose thought I may take issue are included for their significance and or because their influence is by reaction

Influences and main works

Works are noted when there is direct influence on the present work. Others have indirect influence through secondary literature or through influence on my earlier thought

David Hume, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1748     |     Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781     |     Gotlob  Frege     |     Ludwig Wittgenstein, (1) Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus, translated, C. K. Ogden, 1922 and Philosophical Investigations, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe (1953)     |     Bertrand Russell     |     Pre-Socratics     |     Thales     |     Democritus     |     Parmenides     |     Plato     |     Aristotle     |     Epicurus     |     Augustine     |     St. Anselm     |     Thomas Aquinas     |     Giordano Bruno     |     Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Being and Time,) 1927     |     Sankara—Vedanta     |     Gottfried Leibniz     |     Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1934 (in German as Logik der Forschung, English translation 1959)     |     Friedrich Nietzsche     |     G. W. F. Hegel     |     Arthur Schopenhauer     |     Johannes Scotus Eriugena     |     Benoît, Mandelbrot     |     Thomas Nagel     |     John Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, 1992     |     Julian Jaynes     |     A. O. Lovejoy     |     René Descartes     |     William Blake     |     Judaic, Islamic, Buddhist and Indian thought—for species of voidism

Science

Scientists

Scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers of science whose work contributed by example, analogy or inspiration

Euclid     |     Évariste Galois     |     Galileo Galilei     |     Isaac Newton     |     Charles Darwin     |     James Clerk Maxwell     |     Max Planck     |     Albert Einstein     |     Werner Heisenberg     |     Erwin Schrödinger     |     Max Born     |     P. A. M. Dirac     |     John Bell     |     Alain Aspect     |     Aristotle

Scientific method—direct influence

Francis Bacon     |     René Descartes     |     Henri Poincaré     |     Karl Popper     |     Paul Feyerabend     |     Ernst Mayr     |     Thomas Kuhn

Scientific method—other

Ibn al-Haytham     |     Al-Bîrunî     |     Avicenna     |     Robert Grosseteste     |     Roger Bacon     |     John Stuart Mill     |     Charles Sanders Peirce     |     Imre Lakatos