“Carrie Jenkins”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~csj6/ points to this BBC survey to work out who people think is the “greatest philosopher of all time”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_why.shtml.

The BBC site is taking nominations for the next 24 hours or so, with a vote to be held amongst the top 20 nominees. Right now Wittgenstein and Marx seem to be getting the most votes, with very little support for TAR’s favourites, especially Lewis and Grice. (And the reasons people give for voting for Wittgenstein seem awful. Apparently Wittgenstein showed that questions about right and wrong are meaningless … and this is a _good_ thing.) So “head over there”:http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_why.shtml and add some better names/reasons to the list.