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Comment author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 04:31:36PM *  0 points [-]

Karma points to whoever identifies them correctly!

The guy on the right is more accurately represented than the guy on the left, but the guy on the left may still be guessable based on the subject matter. Hint: the guy on the left is a philosopher known, among other things, for his post-1950 contributions to theory of causality.

(The guy in the middle is Judea Pearl, Ilya's advisor at UCLA.)

Update: dougclow correctly identified the man on the right, and vallinder correctly identified the man on the left.

Comment author: dougclow 04 November 2013 05:00:28PM 16 points [-]

Guy on the right is Markus Kalisch.

Not sure about the one on the left - outside chance it's Bertrand Russell but probably not.

Comment author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 05:06:29PM 0 points [-]

Give the man some points!

Guy on the right is indeed Markus Kalisch.

The guy on the left is not Bertrand Russell.

Comment author: Discredited 05 November 2013 03:15:32AM *  0 points [-]

The man on the left is Hans Reichenbach.

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2013 04:21:49AM 1 point [-]

Nope!

Comment author: Discredited 05 November 2013 05:09:10AM 0 points [-]

Richard Jeffrey!

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2013 05:36:11AM 0 points [-]

Nope, Suppes.

Comment author: gjm 05 November 2013 03:30:22AM 0 points [-]

That was one of my first guesses, but it doesn't seem to look much like him.

Comment author: spqr0a1 04 November 2013 10:32:07PM 0 points [-]

On the left is Willard Quine.

Comment author: lukeprog 05 November 2013 04:21:58AM 0 points [-]

Nope!

Comment author: gjm 04 November 2013 11:19:06PM 0 points [-]

How sure are you? It seems plausible that Quine looked like that at one time, but none of the pictures of him I can find look all that similar. And while Quine did important work on many many things, I wouldn't put causality high on the list of things he's known for working on.

Still, I've so far failed to find anyone notable in the field who looks much more like that image...

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 04 November 2013 06:17:41PM 0 points [-]

Is the guy on the left Sewall Wright?

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 04 November 2013 06:38:38PM 0 points [-]

Whoops, you said post-1950s.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 04 November 2013 07:05:16PM 0 points [-]

Also Sewall Wright was no philosopher -- he was a biologist. Faced with a problem on the left, he basically correctly formalized and solved it for the linear/Gaussian case. He should be in the middle with Judea and on the right with engineers!

Comment author: TsviBT 04 November 2013 05:43:13PM 0 points [-]

Guy on the left is Max Born?

Comment author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 05:45:05PM 0 points [-]

Nope.

Comment author: joaolkf 04 November 2013 05:03:14PM 0 points [-]

Left is Russell. Haircut.

Comment author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 05:08:54PM 0 points [-]

A fine guess, but no.

Comment author: joaolkf 04 November 2013 05:26:51PM 1 point [-]

Meh. Right is Markus Kalisch?

Comment author: lukeprog 04 November 2013 05:30:08PM 0 points [-]

dougclow narrowly beat you to it.

Comment author: joaolkf 04 November 2013 05:06:47PM 0 points [-]

Mirrored Russell? His hair divides on the right, not left. But the subject matter is Russellian.

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