PHILOSOPHERS from Serbia

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Serbian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Thomas Nagel (b. 1937)

With an HPI of 59.46, Thomas Nagel is the most famous Serbian Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 35 different languages on wikipedia.

Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of mind. Nagel is known for his critique of material reductionist accounts of the mind, particularly in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and for his contributions to liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings. He continued the critique of reductionism in Mind and Cosmos (2012), in which he argues against the neo-Darwinian view of the emergence of consciousness.

2. Svetozar Marković (1846 - 1875)

With an HPI of 56.86, Svetozar Marković is the 2nd most famous Serbian Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Svetozar Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Марковић, pronounced [sʋêtozaːr mǎːrkoʋit͡ɕ]; 9 September 1846 – 26 February 1875) was a Serbian political activist, literary critic and socialist philosopher. He developed an activistic anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change. He was called the Serbian Nikolay Dobrolyubov.