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This week's featured author pages

Thomas Aquinas (1224 - 1274) -- medieval philosopher-theologian who attempted to synthesise Aristotle with the doctrines of the Church

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) -- British mathematician and logician, who also won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was a leading civil-rights activist

Anselm (1033 - 1109) -- leading medieval thinker, and Archbishop of Canterbury, who is remembered for his ontological arguments for the existence of God, and his position on theological matters

Bernard Bolzano (1781 - 1848) -- a critic of scepticism and subjectivism, who followed Leibniz's rationalism and was also influential as a mathematician

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) -- English poet of the sixteenth century