Here are your top three's here:
Agostino Civelli:
- Ludwig Wittgenstein for: "The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem" (TLP 6.521);
- Alfred Korzybski for: "The map is not the territory." (Science and Sanity);
- George Spencer-Brown for: "Draw a distinction." (Laws of Form)
Peter Damoc:
- Socrates because he used to ask a lot of questions. ;)
- Michel de Montaigne for his skepticism and curiosity into how things work.
- Seneca or Marcus Aurelius for their use of logic. (?)
HG Taylor:
Todd I. Stark:- Immanuel Kant/Jeremy Bentham/Hans Vaihinger for theories of useful fictions (As-If)
- Alfred Korzybski for: "The map is not the territory."
- Aristotle for his broad encyclopedic approach to knowledge
- Hume for his provocative systematically naturalistic approach
- William James for showing that thinking could be framed in terms of tools.
- Honorable mentions: Karl Popper, Spinoza, Goethe, and Merleau-Ponty, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Korzybski
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Ludwig Wittgenstein for: "The solution of the problem of life is seen in
the vanishing of this problem" (TLP 6.521);
Alfred Korzybski for: "The map is not the territory." (Science and Sanity);
George Spencer-Brown for: "Draw a distinction." (Laws of Form)
I could only think about Socrates and de Montaigne.
Socrates because he used to ask a lot of questions. ;)
Michel de Montaigne for his skepticism and curiosity into how things work.
The third, I don't know Seneca or Marcus Aurelius for their use of logic.
I'm not very good at Philosophy. :)
Immanuel Kant/Jeremy Bentham/Hans Vaihinger for theories of useful fictions (As-If)
Alfred Korzybski for: "The map is not the territory."
I thought about this for a while. I don't know that much about the "solution-focused approach" per se, so I thought about this question more in terms of problems solving in general. Many philosophers had ideas that have in some way or other either worked their way into the manner in which outstanding problem solvers think or had ideas that problem solvers also come up with independently.
The way I think about problem solving has probably been influenced most heavily by Aristotle for his broad encyclopedic approach to knowledge , Hume for his provocative systematically naturalistic approach, and William James for showing that thinking could be framed in terms of tools.
I also have to give Karl Popper a lot of credit for a clever exposition of the explicit separation of the context of discovery and the context of justification, an idea that I think we use routinely today and often take for granted.
Honorable mention also to Spinoza, Goethe, and Merleau-Ponty who figure very high for me as rich sources of problem solving thinking insights, as does Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Among other things, these folks contributed mightily to thinking about thinking, and to me that is one of the keys to thinking well: growing our understanding of the processes and quirks of human thought. They also established in various ways the frameworks we use today to gather empirical data about the mind and brain.
I'll also agree that some of Count Korzybski's insights were very clever and I think their influence is often taken for granted in much the same way as Popper's.
I know I'm probably leaving out a number of important ones, but I decided not to turn this simple fun question into a dissertation. :)
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