Brian Talbot (Washington University in St. Louis) has been pairing up well-known philosophers with the celebrities who look like them. He kindly agreed to let me share the idea with you. Here’s my favorite so far:

That’s David Hume and Jon Lovitz.

This match, owed to Julia Staffel, is also quite good:

Descartes and Richie Sambora, of course.

Your additions welcome in the comments, but let’s try to not insult any living philosophers.

UPDATE: It turns out that it may be rather difficult, and perhaps impossible, for some people to add images in the comments as the site is currently configured. So if you mention the links to the images in the comments, or email them to me at [email protected], I will add them to this post below the fold.

from Clayton:



Robert Audi & Ben Gazzara

from Clayton:

Crispin Wright & Benny Urquidez

From me:

Socrates & Zach Galifianakis

from David Boonin:



Hobbes & Worf

feuillet123 suggests Quine and Patrick Stewart, but I think Ian McKellan could play the role, too.



Stewart, Quine, McKellan

from anon1:



Ayn Rand & Elisabeth Moss

from Thomas Brouwer:

Bernard Bolzano & Richard E. Grant

from David Boonin:



A.J. Ayer & Georgia O’Keeffe

from Eric Hagedorn:



Robert Nozick & George Clooney

from Eric Hagedorn:



Kant & Gollum

from SM:

Soren Kierkegaard & Michael Pitt

from Eddy Nahmias:



Ludwig Wittgenstein & Jack Kerouac

from Tamler Sommers:



Bernard Williams & Jerry Orbach

from PCY:



Wittgenstein & Peter Capaldi

from fan:



Judith Jarvis Thomson & Judi Dench

from Clayton:



Patricia Churchland & Anna Gunn

from David Brink:



John Rawls & Gary Oldman

from Clayton:





David Henderson & William H. Macy

from Steven Hales:



Nelson Goodman & Grandpa Munster (Al Lewis)

from Michael Glawson

Richard Rorty & Newt Gingrich

from Ben Hale:



Michel Foucault & John Malkovich

from JG:



Hobbes & Theoden (Bernard Hill)

from YL:



Jon Elster & Michael Caine

from Carl B. Sachs:



Michel Foucault & Telly Savalas

from Newton:



Leibniz & Elvira

from Clayton:





William Lane Craig & Harry Shearer

from me:

Henry Sidgwick & Matthew McConaughey

from Kenneth Burke:



Jurgen Habermas & Carl Fredericksen (Up)

from Gwen Bradford:



Arthur Schopenhauer & Johnny Depp

from Ben B.:

Baruch Spinoza & Jerry Seinfeld

from Ben B,:



David Chalmers & Michael Sheen

from Ben B.:



Charles Baudelaire & John McEnroe

from Ben B.:



Henry David Thoreau & Ellen DeGeneres

from Ben B.:



John Stuart Mill & Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister on Game of Thrones)

from Ben B.:



Thomas Nagel & Dudley Moore

from Ben B.:

Martin Heidegger & Jeffrey Jones

from Ben B.:



Jacques Derrida & Peter Falk

from Ben B.:



Arthur Schopenhauer & Christopher Walken

from Anonymous:



Brian Leiter & Henry James

from anon1:



Martha Nussbaum & Martha Nussbaum

from David Taylor:



J.M.E. McTaggart & John Banner (Sgt. Shulz)

from David Boonin:



Ralph Waldo Emerson & Robert De Niro

from MS:



John Locke & Adrian Brody

from Ben B.:



William Frankena & Tim Robbins

from Ben B.:



Frank Ramsey & Philip Seymour Hoffman

from Ben B.:



Bertrand Russell & Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer)

from Not sayin:



Timothy Williamson & Peter Sellars

from Not Sayin:



Roger Scruton & Robert Redford

from Alan White:



Ernest Sosa & Jeff Bridges

from bnonymous:



Simone de Beauvoir & Julia Louis-Dreyfus

from bnonymous:





Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Garner

from bnonymous:





Elizabeth Anderson & Lena Dunham

from anonymous66:



Frances Kamm & Linda Emond

from anonymous66:



Christine Korsgaard & Meryl Streep

from ls:



Daniel Dennett & Santa Claus

from anonymous:

Scott Soames & Jeff Daniels

from anonymous:

Rae Langton & Julia Roberts

from Clayton:



William Alston & Ray Walston

from Dale Miller:



Brad Hooker & Harry Chapin

from Tait Szabo:



Karl Marx & Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from Harry Potter)

from anonymous:



Angela Davis & Vanessa Paradis

from anonymous:

Cornel West & Kevin Smith (Silent Bob)

from anonymous:



John Protevi & Will Smith

from anonymous:



Plato & Ringo Starr

from Anonymous:





Charles Larmore & Art Garfunkel

from Brian Talbot:



Avicenna & Bill Murray

from Clayton:



Karl Popper & Michael Imperioli

from Clayton:



A.C. Grayling & Bert Lahr

from http://piony.livejournal.com/263510.html via Dale Miller:



Derek Parfit & Andy Warhol

from Kareem Khalifa:



Robert Brandom & Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)

from Kate Norlock:



Sally Haslanger & Jamie Lee Curtis

from Janice Dowell and friends:



David Sobel & Patrick Macnee

from me:



Derek Parfit & Bea Arthur

From Rob Tempio:



Paul Feyerabend & David Henderson (aka Arhus Filch from Harry Potter)

from Glen Kappel:



Jerry Fodor & Charles Durning

from Glen Kappel:



Albert Camus & Mesut Ozil

from Glen Kappel:



Noam Chomsky & Woody Allen

from anonymous:



Martha Nussbaum & Robert Plant

from Steve Nadler:



Gottfried Leibniz & Brian May

from anonymous:



Linda Alcoff & Sissy Spacek

from Jeanette Kennett:

Michael Smith & Liam Neeson

from Carole Parker:

Albert Camus & James Dean

from Stephen Turner:



Axel Hägerström and Don King

from Hungarian Admirer:

Al Mele and Brian the dog (from Family Guy)

from David Boonin:

Boonin notes: JM = Jeff McMahan but also Jedi Master.