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• Polish philosopher Władysław Heinrich wrote the first report in experimental psychology to be presented to the Polish Academy of Learning in 1898?
• Barzillai Quaife has been described both as "New Zealand's first public anti-racist" and "Australia's first philosopher"?
• Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation, in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?
• Tran Duc Thao, a Vietnamese philosopher, attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology?
• Polish philosopher Józef Kalasanty Szaniawski began as an advocate for restoring Poland's independence but ended as a high government official in Russian Poland—and an enemy of philosophy?
• philosopher John Alexander Stewart was appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University in 1897?
• German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?
• Josiah Royce was the first philosopher to address the idea of loyalty, although writers in other fields had previously considered the concept?
• philosopher Anathon Aall wrote an entry about his former brother-in-law Kristian Aars in the biographical dictionary Norsk biografisk leksikon?
• Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil?