Philosophers mentioned in the series

Philosophers named in the talks include:

Thales
Pythagoras
Anaximenes
Heraclitus
Anaximander
Democritus
Anaxagoras
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
The Stoics
St. Augustine
Adi Shankara
Galileo
Robert Boyle
René Descartes
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Georg Hegel
F. H. Bradley
G. E. Moore
Bertrand Russell
Alfred North Whitehead
Norwood Hanson
Daniel Dennett
David Chalmers

There were many others I did not name due to time constraints and to stay on topic, which focused on the Mind Body Problem.

My three favorite philosophers are, in the order they lived, Saint Augustine, George Berkeley, and Norwood Hanson. 

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