Nelson Goodman was a prominent American philosopher known for his groundbreaking work in symbolic logic, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language.
Roland Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, and semiotician, whose groundbreaking works on cultural and media analysis greatly influenced post-structuralist thought.
Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist, renowned for his pioneering work in the study of Native American languages and the development of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.