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My favorites

Although I feel connected with the philosophical work of many authors listed in the references,  I few should be mentioned explicitly as having certainly contributed to my philosophical position as will reflected on this website:

• John Dewey: Various paper as bundled in The Essential Dewey [Dewey Vol. 1 & 2] were  of very useful to get an impression of his work. The People and his problems gives an analysis of the democratic processes, still valuable today.
• Foucault: Les Mots et les Choses this can be considered as the masterpiece of Structuralism.
• Edmund Husserl: grounded phenomenology
• W. Luijpen: Existentiële Fenomenology (Dutch)
• Karl Popper: All Works
  The Logic of Scientific discovery was an eye opener and a recognition of the scientific practice at the same time. Unfortunately he worked out his concepts in a couple of other books, rather than updating the first one, that would have made his concepts more clear, now he is often known as the one who introduced the concept of falsification (he certainly got it on the agenda but  he got the method from Peirce).
  The extension of the critical rationalism into politics with The Open Society and its Enemies is still very valuable.
• Rorty:contributed to the revival of pragmatism with various works.
• Jean Paul Sartre: Explored the boundaries of individual the free choice paradism in d'être et le nean (Being and Nothingness). Later modified in l`existentialisme est un humanisme.
• Frans de Waal: His observations and analyses of primates in general and chimps in particular does us realize that our basic behaviour and capabilities are rooted in an evolutionary developments. At the same time these observations provide a base for an analyses of what can be considered as the human characteristics.