who are the most important thinkers for the 21st century?
>>364591
>inb4 zizizekek
me
Richard Dawkins.
He invented memes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIwYNioDL8
considering we're only 15 years into the 21st Century, not many, and even then it's subject to change. You'd be better off asking about the 20th century now that it's already passed.
But for the time we've gone through now, I'd say Stephen Hawking, The scientist team over at Sanofi Pasteur, who created RV144, the first effective vaccine for certain strains of HIV. Paul Modrich, who won the nobel prize in chemistry for discovering methods of DNA alteration and repair, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.
look through nobel prize winners in physics or chemistry over the past 15 years, that'd be a good place to start.
>>364598
came here to post our holy father.
Singer has set the groundwork for most of this century's great moral movements.
His attempts at grounding ethics in biology and moving moral thinking away from religious and theistic ideas is going to be looked back on by many as an atheistic world view continues to spread. Perhaps not the person everyone will point to as finding any new system, but certainly the most common connection between varieties of humanism, atheism, and non-religious thinkers.
His work on animal rights and environmental issues is going to be the guide as alternatives to meat become both more necessary and more realistic. As global fisheries dwindle and problems with mass-produced meat become more obvious, Singer will be the inspiration for the next generation who seek to support alternatives.
>>364713
t. Singer
>>364591
Unfortunately Heidegger is at the top 5.
final buump
We've only been in it for 15 years.
>>364783
Enjoy your burger free future, friend
>>364602
this
>>364591
I'd consider this guy 21st century.
The other contender is Hilary Putnam.
>>364653
If you like Gray you should read Rorty. Gray actually endorsed him in Straw Dogs.
>>364591
He taught us the nature of the female mind.
>>367458
>le tell sad stories to make people care about human rights man
no
>>367483
Better than:
>le give some boring as fuck theory that will convince mafiosi if they just think about it long and hard enough
Read this guy
>>367458
elmer fudd lookin ass
>>364713
> increasingly atheistic world
Actually atheists have fell as a proportion of the global population since the fall of communism. Sure in western and Japanese societies it may be gaining an upper hand but the strongholds of religious observance in Africa and the Middle East are multiplying faster. Also religion has had an upward surge in ex-soviet states and Christianity also grows quite rapidly in China. It's ironic but religious are actually triumphing over atheists in a purely evolutionary sense.
>>364653
This guy is shit.
>>367458
Rorty was pretty based despite his leftism.
>>367512
He'd probably be a centrist by today's standards.
>>367511
Religious numbers have grown with population, not by increasing conversions.
As we see fundamentalist forms of religion take control across the world over the next century, more people will be repulsed by the big religions and will either form smaller, less organized religions or move towards secularism.
This is the same experience the so-called "West" has gone through and it is a natural reaction that will happen elsewhere as the alternative forces that are driving religiousity wane.
>>364713
>>364591
my dog has a pretty strong claim
>"woof woof woof woof"
