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This week's featured author pages

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753) -- English philosopher who argued against Lockean scepticism and posited an alternative based, famously, on common sense

Lucius Apuleius (125 - 200) -- 2nd-century Roman writer and philosopher

Socrates (470 - 399) -- Athenian philosopher who had an incalculable influence on Plato and subsequent philosophy

Melissus (440 - 440) -- philosopher of the Eleatic school

Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) -- British author of unlikely mathematical descent.