Just as an arbitrary exercise, I thought I'd compile an alphabetical list thus: The greatest philosopher whose name began with A was/is ... etc. All choices are arbitrary. Obviously this is NOT a list of the 26th greatest thinkers, and if I drew up such a list a one-per-letter result would be a very odd coincidence. Here, then, is what I came up with. Averroes (portrayed above); [Henri] Bergson; [Albert] Camus; [Rene] Descartes; [Mary Baker] Eddy; [Gustav] Fechner; [Kurt] Godel; [Anne] Hutchinson; Isaac Israeli the Elder; [William] James; [Immanuel] Kant; [Georg] Lukacs; [G.E.] Moore; Nishida; Ockham; [Blaise] Pascal; [W.V.O.] Quine; [Josiah] Royce; Socrates; [Leo] Tolstoy; [Dmitri] Uznadze; [Hans] Vaihinger; [Ludwig] Wittgenstein; Xun Kuang; [William Butler] Yeats; Zeno of Elea. Yes...