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.)
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...
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!
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.
Guy on the right is Markus Kalisch.
Not sure about the one on the left—outside chance it’s Bertrand Russell but probably not.
Give the man some points!
Guy on the right is indeed Markus Kalisch.
The guy on the left is not Bertrand Russell.
The man on the left is Hans Reichenbach.
Nope!
Richard Jeffrey!
Nope, Suppes.
That was one of my first guesses, but it doesn’t seem to look much like him.
Perhaps the artist used as reference this photo from the obituary of a different man named Hans Reichenbach.
On the left is Willard Quine.
Nope!
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...
Is the guy on the left Sewall Wright?
Whoops, you said post-1950s.
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!
Guy on the left is Max Born?
Nope.
Left is Russell. Haircut.
A fine guess, but no.
Meh. Right is Markus Kalisch?
dougclow narrowly beat you to it.
Mirrored Russell? His hair divides on the right, not left. But the subject matter is Russellian.