List of philosophers: Information from Answers.com

Philosophers (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:

Note: This list has a minimal criteria for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.

List of philosophers: (A-C) -- (D-H) -- (I-Q) -- (R-Z)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Nicola Abbagnano, (1901-1990)^E
Muhammad Abduh, (1849-1905)^R
Peter Abelard, (1079-1142)^C^E^O^R^S
Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025)^R
Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437-1508)^C^R^S
Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (1460?-1535?)^C^R
Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943)^O
Robert Adams, (born 1937)^O
Adelard of Bath, (12th century)^C
Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)^E
Alfred Adler, (1870-1937)^E
Mortimer Adler
Theodor Adorno, (1903-1969)^C^E^O^R^S
Aenesidemus, (1st century BC)^E^R
Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, (1839-1897)^E^R
Rodolphus Agricola, (1443-1485)^R
Agrippa the Sceptic, (1st/2nd century)^E^R
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436-1535)^E^R^S
Pierre d'Ailly, (1350-1420)^C^E^R
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, (1890-1963)^O^R
Albert of Saxony (c. 1316-1390)^C^E^R^S
Albertus Magnus (or Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne), (1193?-1280)^C^E^O^R^S
Joseph Albo, (1380-1444)^E^O^R^S
Alcinous, (2nd century)^E^R
Alcmaeon of Croton, (5th century BC)^E^O^R^S
Henry Aldrich
Virgil Aldrich, (1903-1998)^O
Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433-1504)^E^R
Alexander of Aphrodisias, (2nd century)^C^E^R^S
Alexander of Hales, (d. 1245)^C^E^R
Jean le Rond D'Alembert
Samuel Alexander, (1859-1938)^C^E^O^R
Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321)^E^O^R^S
Antonio Aliotta, (1881-1964)^E
Archibald Alison, (1757-1839)^E^R
Abd al-Jabiri, (born 1935)^E
Albinus
William Alston, (born 1921)^C^E^O
Johannes Althusius, (1557-1638)^E
Louis Althusser, (1918-1990)^C^O^R
Robert Alyngton, (d. 1398)^S
Bhimrao Ambedkar, (1891-1956)^R
Ambrose, (c. 340-397)^C
Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri, (d. 992)^R
Ammonius Hermiae, (5th century)^R^S
Ammonius Saccas, (3rd century)^C
André-Marie Ampère, (1775-1836)^E
Anton Wilhelm Amo, (1703-c. 1759)^R
Anaxagoras, (died 462 BC)^C^E^O^R^S
Anaxarchus, (fl. 340 BC)^R
Anaximander, (c. 610 BC-c. 546 BC)^C^E^O^R
Anaximenes of Miletus^C^E^O^R
Alan Ross Anderson, (1925-1973)^O
John Anderson, (1893-1962)^E^O^R
Ando Shoeki, (1703-1762)^E
Andronicus of Rhodes, (c. 70 BC)^C
Peter Annet, (1693-1769)^E
Anniceris, (fl. 300 BC)^C
G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001)^C^E^O^R
Anselm, (1034-1109)^C^E^O^R^S
Antiochus of Ascalon, (c. 130-68 BC)^C^E^O^R^S
Antiphon, (480-403 BC)^E^R
Antisthenes, (c. 444-365)^O^E^R
Karl-Otto Apel, (born 1922)^E
Apuleius, (c. 123-c. 180)^R
Thomas Aquinas, (1225-1274)^C^E^O^R^S
Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420-1494)^R
Arcesilaus, (316-241 BC)^C^E^O^R^S
Archytas, (428-347 BC)^C^E^R^S
Roberto Ardigò, (1828-1920)^E
Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975)^C^E^O^R^S
Aristippus of Cyrene, (c. 435-366 BC)^E^O^R
Aristo of Chios, (fl. 250 BC)^E^R
Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC)^C^E^O^R
Arius, (256-336)^E
Mohammed Arkoun, (born 1928)^E
Jacobus Arminius, (1560-1609)^C^E
David Malet Armstrong, (born 1926)^C^E^O^R
Antoine Arnauld, (1612-1694)^C^E^O^R^S
Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)^E
Kenneth Arrow, (born 1921)^O
Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus, (1894-1975)^R
Mary Astell, (1666-1731)^C^E^R^S
Athanasius of Alexandria, (298-373)^C
Augustine of Hippo, (354-430)^C^E^O^R^S
Marcus Aurelius, (121-180)^C^E^O^R
Peter Aureol, (c. 1280-1322)^R^S
Sri Aurobindo, (1872-1950)^O^R
John Austin, (1790-1859)^C^E^O^R^S
John Langshaw Austin, (1911-1960)^C^E^O^R
Richard Avenarius, (1843-1896)^C^E^O^R
Averroes (or Ibn Rushd), (1126-1198)^C^E^O^R
Avicenna (or Ibn Sina), (980-1037)^C^E^O^R
Alfred Jules Ayer, (1910-1989)^C^E^O^R^S

B

Franz Xaver von Baader, (1765-1841)^E
Charles Babbage, (1791-1871)^C
Gaston Bachelard, (1884-1962)^C^E^O^R
Johann Jakob Bachofen, (1815-1887)^E
Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)^C^E^O^R^S
Roger Bacon, (1214-1294)^C^E^O^R^S
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi, (1080-1165)^R
Annette Baier, (born 1929)^O
Kurt Baier, (born 1917)^O
Alexander Bain, (1818-1903)^C^O
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, (1741-1792)^E
Annette Baier, (born 1929)^E
Kurt Baier, (born 1917)^E
Alexander Bain, (1818-1903)^E
Lynne Rudder Baker, (born 1944)^E
Mikhail Bakhtin, (1895-1975)^C^E^O^R
Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876)^C^E^O^R
Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930)^E
John Balguy, (1686-1748)^E
Domingo Báñez, (1528-1604)^C^E^R
Antonio Banfi, (1886-1957)^E
Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi, (1070-1136)^R
Jonathan Barnes, (born 1942)^O
Brian Barry, (born 1936)^O
Karl Barth, (1886-1968)^E^O^R
Roland Barthes, (1915-1980)^C^E^R
Bartolus de Saxoferrato, (1313-1357)^R
Johann Bernhard Basedow, (1724-1790)^E
Basilides, (c. 117-138)^C
Georges Bataille, (1897-1962)^C^E^R
Charles Batteux, (1713-1780)^E
Jean Baudrillard, (1929-2007) ^E^R^S
Bruno Bauer, (1809-1882)^E^O^R^S
David Baumgardt, (1890-1963)^R
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, (1714-1762)^C^E^R
Pierre Bayle, (1647-1706)^C^E^O^R^S
Monroe Beardsley, (1915-1985)^E
James Beattie, (1735-1803)^C^E^R
Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, (1738-1794)^C^E
JaKob Sigismund Beck, (1761-1840)^E^R
Vissarion Belinsky, (1811-1848)^E^R
Robert Bellarmine, (1542-1621)^E
Nuel Belnap, (born 1930)^O
Friedrich Eduard Beneke, (1798-1854)^C^E
Walter Benjamin, (1892-1940)^E^O^R
Gottfried Benn, (1886-1956)^E
Jonathan Bennett, (born 1930)^E^O
Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832)^C^E^O^R
Richard Bentley, (1662-1742)^R
Nikolai Berdyaev, (1874-1948)^C^E^O^R
Gustav Bergmann, (1906-1987)^C^E^O
Henri Bergson, (1859-1941)^C^E^O^R^S
George Berkeley, (1685-1753)^C^E^O^R^S
Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997)^C^E^O^R^S
Claude Bernard, (1813-1878)^E
Bernard of Chartres, (d. 1130)^C^E
Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090-1153)^C^E^R
Bernard Silvestris (or Bernard of Tours), (1147-1178)^E^R
François Bernier, (1620-1688)^R
Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932)^R
Ludwig von Bertalanffy, (1901-1972)^E
Bhartrhari, (5th century)^R
Gabriel Biel, (1425-1495)^E^R
Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, (1693-1750)^E
Alfred Binet, (1857-1911)^E
Ludwig Binswanger, (1881-1966)^E
Max Black, (1909-1988)^E^O
Simon Blackburn, (born 1944)^O
William Blackstone, (1723-1780)^R
Hugh Blair, (1718-1800)^R
William Blake, (1757-1827)^E
Maurice Blanchot, (1907-2003)^E^R
Brand Blanshard, (1892-1987)^E^O
Blasius of Parma (or Biagio Pelacani da Parma), (1345-1416)^R
Ernst Bloch, (1885-1977)^C^E^O^R
Ned Block, (born 1942)^O
Maurice Blondel, (1861-1949)^C^E
Charles Blount, (1654-1693)^E
Norberto Bobbio, (1909-2004)^O^R
Jean Bodin, (1530-1596)^C^E^O^R^S
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (AD 480-524 or 525)^C^E^O^R^S
Boetius of Dacia, (c. 1240-c. 1280)^E^R
Alexander Bogdanov, (1873-1928)^O^R
Jakob Böhme, (1575-1624)^C^E^R
David Bohm, (1917-1992)^E
Niels Bohr, (1885-1962)^E^O^R
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)^E
Samuel Bold, (1649-1737)^R
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, (1678-1751)^E
Ludwig Boltzmann, (1844-1906)^C^E^O
Bernard Bolzano, (1781-1848)^C^E^O^R^S
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, (1754-1840)^E
Francesco Bonatelli, (1830-1911)^E
Bonaventure, (1221-1274)^C^E^O^R^S
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945)^E^R
Charles Bonnet, (1720-1793)^E^R
George Boole, (1815-1864)^E^O^R
Bernard Bosanquet, (1848-1923)^C^E^O^R^S
Rudjer Boscovich, (1711-1787)^C^E
Pierre Bourdieu, (1930-2002)^R
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, (1627-1704)^E
Christopher Jacob Boström, (1797-1866)^E
Henri de Boulainvilliers, (1658-1722)^E
Emile Boutroux, (1845-1921)^R
Oets Kolk Bouwsma, (1898-1978)^C
Borden Parker Bowne, (1847-1910)^E^R
Robert Boyle, (1627-1691)^C^E^O^R^S
F. H. Bradley, (1846-1924)^C^E^O^R^S
Thomas Bradwardine, (c. 1290-1349)^E^R
Richard-Bevan Braithwaite, (1900-1990)^E^O
Richard B. Brandt, (1910-1997)^C^E^O
Franz Brentano, (1838-1917)^C^E^O^R^S
Percy Williams Bridgman, (1882-1961)^E^O^R
Edgar S. Brightman, (1884-1953)^E^O
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826)^O
Richard Brinkley, (fl. 1350-1373)^R
Radulphus Brito, (c. 1270-c. 1320)^R
C. D. Broad, (1887-1971)^C^E^O^R
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, (1881-1966)^C^E^O^S
Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)^E^R
Peter Browne, (1666-1735)^R
Orestes Brownson, (1803-1876)^E^O
Emil Brunner, (1889-1966)^E^R
Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600)^C^E^O^R
Leon Brunschvicg, (1869–1944)^C^E^O^R
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, (1838-1922)^R
Martin Buber, (1878-1965)^C^E^O^R^S
Justus Buchler, (1914-1991)^O
Ludwig Büchner, (1824-1899)^R
Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821-1862)^E
Malcolm Budd, (born 1941)^O
Johann Franz Buddeus, (1667-1729)^E
Buddhaghosa, (5th century)^C
Claude Buffier, (1661-1737)^R
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707-1788)^E^R
Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov, (1871-1944)^E^R
Edward Bullough, (1880-1934)^E
Rudolf Bultmann, (1884-1976)^E^O^R
Jacob Burckhardt, (1818-1897)^E^O
Tyler Burge, (born 1946)^O
Jean Buridan, (1300-1358)^C^E^O^R^S
Edmund Burke, (1729-1797)^C^E^O^R^S
Walter Burley, (c. 1275-c. 1345)^C^E^R^S
Myles Frederic Burnyeat, (born 1939)^O
Richard Burthogge, (1638-1704)^E^R
Joseph Butler, (1692-1752)^C^E^O^R
Samuel Butler, (1835-1902)^E^O

C

Pierre Jean George Cabanis, (1757-1808)^E^R
Amílcar Cabral, (1924-1973)^R
Edward Caird, (1835-1908)^C^E
Dorion Cairns, (1901-1973)^E
Thomas Cajetan, (1469-1534)^C^O^R
Calcidius, (4th century)^R
Mario Calderoni, (1879-1914)^E
Callicles, (late 5th century BC)^R^S
John Calvin, (1509-1564)^C^E^R
Tommaso Campanella, (1568-1639)^C^E^O^R^S
George Campbell, (1719-1796)^R
Norman Robert Campbell, (1880-1949)^C^E^R
Albert Camus, (1913-1960)^C^E^O^R
Georges Canguilhem, (1904-1995)^C
Georg Cantor, (1845-1918)^C^E^O^R
Johannes Capreolus, (1380-1444)^E^R
Claudia Card, (born 1940)^E
Gerolamo Cardano, (1501-1576)^R
Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)^C^E^R
Gershom Carmichael, (c. 1672-1729)^R
Rudolf Carnap, (1891-1970)^C^E^O^R
Carneades, (c. 214-129 BC)^E^O^R^S
Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)^C^E^O^R
Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)^E^O
Carl Gustav Carus, (1789-1869)^E
Paul Carus, (1852-1919)^E
Antonio Caso, (1883-1946)^E
Ernst Cassirer, (1874-1945)^C^E^O^R^S
Hector-Neri Castañeda, (1924-1991)^C
Carlo Cattaneo, (1801-1869)^E^R
Stanley Cavell, (born 1926)^C^E^O^R
Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673)^C^E^R
Celsus of Alexandria, (2nd century)^C^E^R
Michel de Certeau, (1925-1986)^R
Pyotr Chaadaev, (1794-1856)^E^R
Houston Stewart Chamberlain, (1855-1927)^E
Chanakya (or Kautilya) (321-296 BC)^R
Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or Zhang Xuecheng), (1738-1801)^C
Chang Tsai (or Zhang Zai), (1020-1077)^R
William Ellery Channing, (1780-1842)^E
Walter Charleton, (1619-1707)^R
Pierre Charron, (1541-1603)^C^E^R
François-René de Chateaubriand, (1768-1848)^E
Walter Chatton, (1290-1343)^E^R^S
Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428-1500)^C
Cheng Hao (or Ch'eng Ming-Tao), (1032-1085)^C^E^R
Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan), (127-200)^R
Cheng Yi (or Ch'eng Yi Chu'an), (1033-1107)^C^E^R
Nikolai Chernyshevsky, (1828-1889)^E^R
Chia Yi (or Jia Yi or Chia I), (201-169 BC)^C^R
Chiao Hung, (1540-1620)^C
Boris Chicherin, (1828-1904)^E
Ch'ien Mu, (1895-1990)^C
Chih Tun (or Zhi Dun) (314-366)^R
William Chillingworth, (1602-1644)^R
Roderick Chisholm, (1916-1999)^C^E^O^R
Noam Chomsky, (born 1928)^C^E^O^R
Tasan Chông Yagyong, (1762-1836)^R
Chou Tun-Yi (or Zhou Dunyi or Chou Lien-Hsi or Zhou Lianxi), (1017-1073)^C^R
Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365-c. 1430)^R
Chrysippus, (279-207 BC)^O^E^R
Thomas Chubb, (1679-1747)^E
Alonzo Church, (1903-1995)^C^E^O^R
Patricia Churchland, (born 1943)^C
Paul Churchland, (born 1942)^C^O
Leon Chwistek, (1884-1944)^E
Cicero, (106 BC-43 BC)^C^E^O^R
August Cieszkowski, (1814-1894)^R
Hélène Cixous, (born 1937)^E^R
Clarembald of Arras, (1110-1187)^R
Samuel Clarke, (1675-1729)^C^E^O^R^S
Johannes Clauberg, (1622-1665)^E^R
Cleanthes, (301-232 BC)^E^R
Clement of Alexandria, (2nd-3rd century)^C^E^R
Cleomedes, (2nd century)^R
William Kingdon Clifford, (1845-1879)^C^E^O
Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749)^C^E^R^S
Lorraine Code, (born 1937)^E
G.A. Cohen, (born 1941)^O
Hermann Cohen, (1842-1918)^C^E^O^R
L. Jonathan Cohen, (born 1923)^O
Morris Raphael Cohen, (1880-1947)^E
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834)^E^O^R
John Colet, (1466-1519)^E
Lucio Colletti, (1924-2001)^O
Arthur Collier, (1680-1732)^C^E^R
R. G. Collingwood, (1889-1943)^C^E^O^R^S
Anthony Collins, (1676-1729)^E^O^R^S
John Comenius, (1592-1670)^E^O^R
Auguste Comte, (1798-1857)^C^E^O^R
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (1715-1780)^C^E^O^R^S
Marquis de Condorcet, (1743-1794)^C^E^R
Confucius, (551 BC - 479 BC)^C^E^O^R^S
Benjamin Constant, (1767-1830)^C^O^R
Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679)^C^E^O^R^S
Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543)^E^O^R^S
Henry Corbin, (1903-1978)^E
Geraud de Cordemoy, (1626-1684)^C^E^R^S
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, (1522-1570)^E
Uriel da Costa, (1585-1640)^E
Antoine Augustin Cournot, (1801-1877)^C^E^R
Victor Cousin, (1792-1867)^C^E^R
Louis Couturat, (1868-1914)^C^E^O
William Crathorn, (14th century)^R^S
Cratylus, (c. 400 BC)^E^O^R
James Edwin Creighton, (1861-1924)^E
Hasdai Crescas, (c. 1340-1410)^C^E^O^R
Benedetto Croce, (1866-1952)^C^E^O^R
Christian August Crusius, (1715-1775)^C^E^R
Ralph Cudworth, (1617-1688)^E^O^R
Nathaniel Culverwel, (1619-1651)^E^R
Richard Cumberland, (1631?-1718)^C^E^R
Cyrano de Bergerac, (1619-1655)^E
Heinrich Czolbe, (1819-1873)^C

List of philosophers (A–C) -- (D-H) -- (I-Q) -- (R-Z)

Notes

Note C: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8

Note E: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Second Edition). Martin Gale; 2006. ISBN 0-02-865780-2

Note O: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0

Note R: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 1998. ISBN 978-0415073103

Note S: - This person is featured in the peer-reviewed online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Subjects with an asterisk have an article solicited about them, but not yet published at the encyclopedia (as of 2-22-2006).

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