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Andrew Lang
Lang (1844-1912) was a poet, novelist, historian and anthropologist. His Myth, Ritual and Religion was one of the pioneering studies in the history of religion.

Lao Tzu
The author of the Tao Te Ching who is believed to have lived between the 3rd and the 7th centuries B.C.; some scholars believe that no such person existed and the work had multiple authors. The work claims that the Tao or the Way is the source of all things but it is itself non-being or vacuous.

Brian Leftow
Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and author of Divine Ideas and Time and Eternity.

Gottfried Leibniz
Born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1646, he developed the differential and integral calculus independent of Newton. He had a relational view of time and space. In his Monadology, he advanced the theory that the world is made up of divinely created monads with complete information about the universe.

John Leslie
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Canada whose Universes was a widely acclaimed restatement of the Anthropic Principle.

H.D. Lewis
Past President of the Mind Association and of the International Society for Metaphysics and Chairman of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy. He was head of the department of the History and Philosophy of Religion at the University of London.

Andrei Linde
Russian co-founder of inflationary cosmology who currently teaches at Stanford University. His version of inflationary cosmology is called chaotic inflation.

John Lucas
Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. One of the leading contemporary expositors of Godel's Theorem. Works include The Freedom of the Will.