He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): English author, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.Roland Barthes (1915–1980): French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic and semiotician.Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist.Julian Baggini (1968–): British writer specialising in the philosophy of personal identity, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction.Though he viewed the concept of God existing as meaningless, he described himself as an atheist.
Ayer (1910–1989): British philosopher and an advocate of logical positivism. Louise Antony (1953–): American philosopher of mind and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who specializes in philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of language.