There's a great Flickr slide show with some brilliant LOL Philosophers right here.
Here's one of my favorites:

And a link to a few LOLScientists was brought to my attention recently. Check them out here.
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Posted on: July 29, 2007 2:26 PM, by Steve Higgins
There's a great Flickr slide show with some brilliant LOL Philosophers right here.
Here's one of my favorites:

And a link to a few LOLScientists was brought to my attention recently. Check them out here.
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Erwin Schroedinger was a physicist.
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 29, 2007 3:28 PM
yeah... there are a bunch of other disciplines represented in the photo set. whatcha gonna do...eh...
Posted by: Steve Higgins | July 29, 2007 10:43 PM
There aren't that many people who both contributed to philosophy and worked solely in that domain - or even principly.
We don't have a lot of photos of Plato to run LOLmacros on.
Posted by: Caledonian | July 29, 2007 11:23 PM
I'm reasonably certain that that's completely false.
Anyway. I'm not that great with faces, so it's possible that they were there and I just didn't recognize them, but I think there are some pretty glaring omissions. No John Searle? No Saul Kripke? I mean yeesh, I'd imagine that Kripke would be particularly amenable to the LOL(x) treatment. There are so, so many jokes just begging to be made about rigid and flaccid designators, to say nothing of the myriad possible plays on something like "I'm in ur Wittgenstein..."
Posted by: kjupi | July 30, 2007 2:04 PM
kjupi:
Make some for us!!! post them in the comments or email them to me to post ;)
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Posted by: Steve Higgins | July 30, 2007 5:00 PM
More philosophy than I have patience for. (As usual. :-P) So maybe they did this one:
[LOLPlato] In ur shadow. Mezzing ur hedd.
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | July 30, 2007 6:22 PM