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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796) -- aiming to replace the 'ideal system' with a system based on 'common sense', Reid was especially critical of Hume's philosophy

John Robert Fowles (1926 - 0) -- novelist whose works combine psychological with social and philosophical aspect of human behaviour

Thomas S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) -- American-born poet, playwright and critic whose poems established new techniques and whose unique perspective became a foundation of modern literature.

George Boole (1815 - 1864) -- mathematician, whose work allowed for the discovery of propositional calculus and Boolean algebra

Pietro Pomponazzi (1462 - 1525) -- Italian philosopher who argued, contra the Church, that the immortality of the soul is not rationally demonstrable