Brian Talbot (Washington University in St. Louis) has been pairing up well-known philosophers with the celebrities who look like them. He kindly agreed to let me share the idea with you. Here’s my favorite so far:
That’s David Hume and Jon Lovitz.
This match, owed to Julia Staffel, is also quite good:
Descartes and Richie Sambora, of course.
Your additions welcome in the comments, but let’s try to not insult any living philosophers.
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from Clayton:
Robert Audi & Ben Gazzara
from Clayton:
Crispin Wright & Benny Urquidez
From me:
Socrates & Zach Galifianakis
from David Boonin:
Hobbes & Worf
feuillet123 suggests Quine and Patrick Stewart, but I think Ian McKellan could play the role, too.
Stewart, Quine, McKellan
from anon1:
Ayn Rand & Elisabeth Moss
from Thomas Brouwer:
Bernard Bolzano & Richard E. Grant
from David Boonin:
A.J. Ayer & Georgia O’Keeffe
from Eric Hagedorn:
Robert Nozick & George Clooney
from Eric Hagedorn:
Kant & Gollum
from SM:
Soren Kierkegaard & Michael Pitt
from Eddy Nahmias:
Ludwig Wittgenstein & Jack Kerouac
from Tamler Sommers:
Bernard Williams & Jerry Orbach
from PCY:
Wittgenstein & Peter Capaldi
from fan:
Judith Jarvis Thomson & Judi Dench
from Clayton:
Patricia Churchland & Anna Gunn
from David Brink:
John Rawls & Gary Oldman
from Clayton:
David Henderson & William H. Macy
from Steven Hales:
Nelson Goodman & Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis)
from Michael Glawson
Richard Rorty & Newt Gingrich
from Ben Hale:
Michel Foucault & John Malkovich
from JG:
Hobbes & Theoden (Bernard Hill)
from YL:
Jon Elster & Michael Caine
from Carl B. Sachs:
Michel Foucault & Telly Savalas
from Newton:
Leibniz & Elvira
from Clayton:
William Lane Craig & Harry Shearer
from me:
Henry Sidgwick & Matthew McConaughey
from Kenneth Burke:
Jurgen Habermas & Carl Fredericksen (Up)
from Gwen Bradford:
Arthur Schopenhauer & Johnny Depp
from Ben B.:
Baruch Spinoza & Jerry Seinfeld
from Ben B,:
David Chalmers & Michael Sheen
from Ben B.:
Charles Baudelaire & John McEnroe
from Ben B.:
Henry David Thoreau & Ellen DeGeneres
from Ben B.:
John Stuart Mill & Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones)
from Ben B.:
Thomas Nagel & Dudley Moore
from Ben B.:
Martin Heidegger & Jeffrey Jones
from Ben B.:
Jacques Derrida & Peter Falk
from Ben B.:
Arthur Schopenhauer & Christopher Walken
from Anonymous:
Brian Leiter & Henry James
from anon1:
Martha Nussbaum & Martha Nussbaum
from David Taylor:
J.M.E. McTaggart & John Banner (Sgt. Shulz)
from David Boonin:
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Robert De Niro
from MS:
John Locke & Adrian Brody
from Ben B.:
William Frankena & Tim Robbins
from Ben B.:
Frank Ramsey & Philip Seymour Hoffman
from Ben B.:
Bertrand Russell & Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer)
from Not sayin:
Timothy Williamson & Peter Sellars
from Not Sayin:
Roger Scruton & Robert Redford
from Alan White:
Ernest Sosa & Jeff Bridges
from bnonymous:
Simone de Beauvoir & Julia Louis-Dreyfus
from bnonymous:
Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Garner
from bnonymous:
Elizabeth Anderson & Lena Dunham
from anonymous66:
Frances Kamm & Linda Emond
from anonymous66:
Christine Korsgaard & Meryl Streep
from ls:
Daniel Dennett & Santa Claus
from anonymous:
Scott Soames & Jeff Daniels
from anonymous:
Rae Langton & Julia Roberts
from Clayton:
William Alston & Ray Walston
from Dale Miller:
Brad Hooker & Harry Chapin
from Tait Szabo:
Karl Marx & Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from Harry Potter)
from anonymous:
Angela Davis & Vanessa Paradis
from anonymous:
Cornel West & Kevin Smith (Silent Bob)
from anonymous:
John Protevi & Will Smith
from anonymous:
Plato & Ringo Starr
from Anonymous:
Charles Larmore & Art Garfunkel
from Brian Talbot:
Avicenna & Bill Murray
from Clayton:
Karl Popper & Michael Imperioli
from Clayton:
A.C. Grayling & Bert Lahr
from http://piony.livejournal.com/263510.html via Dale Miller:
Derek Parfit & Andy Warhol
from Kareem Khalifa:
Robert Brandom & Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)
from Kate Norlock:
Sally Haslanger & Jamie Lee Curtis
from Janice Dowell and friends:
David Sobel & Patrick Macnee
from me:
Derek Parfit & Bea Arthur
From Rob Tempio:
Paul Feyerabend & David Henderson (aka Arhus Filch from Harry Potter)
from Glen Kappel:
Jerry Fodor & Charles Durning
from Glen Kappel:
Albert Camus & Mesut Ozil
from Glen Kappel:
Noam Chomsky & Woody Allen
from anonymous:
Martha Nussbaum & Robert Plant
from Steve Nadler:
Gottfried Leibniz & Brian May
from anonymous:
Linda Alcoff & Sissy Spacek
from Jeanette Kennett:
Michael Smith & Liam Neeson
from Carole Parker:
Albert Camus & James Dean
from Stephen Turner:
Axel Hägerström and Don King
from Hungarian Admirer:
Al Mele and Brian the dog (from Family Guy)
from David Boonin:
Boonin notes: JM = Jeff McMahan but also Jedi Master.
