British and Irish Philosophers - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Scottish Enlightenment - Political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" (1723-1790)	Adam Smith	88%
Scottish Enlightenment, empiricism, "Treatise of Human Nature" (1711-1776)	David Hume	75%
Enlightenment, empiricism - Father of Liberalism (1632-1704)	John Locke	75%
Political philosophy - Social contract theory, "Leviathan" (1588-1679)	Thomas Hobbes	75%
Empiricism, natural philosophy - Scientific method, "New Atlantis" (1561-1626)	Francis Bacon	73%
Analytical philosophy - Logician (1872-1970)	Bertrand Russell	65%
Political philosophy - Classical liberalism, Utilitarianism (1806-1873)	John Stuart Mill	57%
Feminist philosophy, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1759-1797)	Mary Wollstonecraft	55%
Founder of Utilitarianism - Liberalism (1748-1832)	Jeremy Bentham	53%
Political philosophy - Classical radicalism, "Common Sense" (1737-1809)	Thomas Paine	51%
Immaterialism (subjective idealism) - "A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1685-1753)	George Berkeley	45%
Natural and political philosophy - Social darwinism (1820-1903)	Herbert Spencer	35%
Perennial philosophy - Mysticism (1894-1963)	Aldous Huxley	31%
Political philosophy - Liberal conservatism, Religious thought (1729-1797)	Edmund Burke	29%
Process philosophy, "Principia Mathematica" (1861-1947)	Alfred North Whitehead	25%
Franciscan friar - Scholasticism - Realism (1265-1308)	John Duns Scotus	25%
Franciscan friar - Scholasticism, Nominalism (1287-1347)	William of Ockham	25%
Franciscan friar - Scholasticism, Natural philosophy (1220-1292)	Roger Bacon	24%
Eastern mysticism - Perennialism (1915-1973)	Alan Watts	18%
Analytical philosophy - Consequentialism (1873-1958)	G. E. Moore	18%
Scholasticism - Predecessor to Protestantism (1331-1384)	John Wycliffe	16%
First modern proponent of anarchism - Utilitarianism (1756-1836)	William Godwin	12%
Utilitarianism, Hedonism (1838-1900)	Henry Sidgwick	10%
Natural philosophy, Theologian - Unitarianism (1733-1804)	Joseph Priestly	8%
Scottish Enlightenment - Scottish school of common sense (1710-1796)	Thomas Reid	6%
Natural theology - Watchmaker analogy (1743-1805)	William Paley	6%
Scottish Enlightenment (1694-1746)	Francis Hutcheson	4%
Clergyman - Cambridge Platonists, "The True Intellectual System of the Universe" (1617-1688)	Ralph Cudworth	2%