Philosopher Directory
192 philosophersA

Abelard, Peter
1079–1142

Adi Shankara
788–820

Adorno, Theodor
1903–1969

Al-Farabi
872–950

Al-Ghazali
1058–1111

Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
1891–1956

Anscombe, Elizabeth
1919–2001

Anselm of Canterbury
1033–1109

Aquinas, Thomas
1225–1274

Arendt, Hannah
1906–1975

Aristotle
384–322 BC

Attar of Nishapur
c. 1145–c. 1221

Averroes
1126–1198

Avicenna
980–1037
B

Bacon, Francis
1561–1626

Badiou, Alain
1937–

Bakunin, Mikhail
1814–1876

Beauvoir, Simone de
1908–1986

Benjamin, Walter
1892–1940

Bentham, Jeremy
1748–1832

Bergson, Henri
1859–1941

Berkeley, George
1685–1753

Boethius
477–524

Böhme, Jakob
1575–1624

Bradley, Francis Herbert
1846–1924

Brentano, Franz
1838–1917

Bruno, Giordano
1548–1600

Buber, Martin
1878–1965

Buddha
563–483 BC

Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891–1940

Burke, Edmund
1729–1797

Butler, Judith
b. 1956
C

Camus, Albert
1913–1960

Carlyle, Thomas
1795–1881

Carnap, Rudolf
1891–1970

Chanakya
350–275 BC

Chomsky, Noam
b. 1928

Cicero
106–43 BC

Cobb, John Boswell
1925–

Cobbe, Frances Power
1822–1904

Comte, Auguste
1798–1857

Confucius
551–479 BC
D

Davidson, Donald
1917–2003

Deleuze, Gilles
1925–1995

Democritus
460–370 BC

Derrida, Jacques
1930–2004

Descartes, René
1596–1650

Dewey, John
1859–1952

Diderot, Denis
1713–1784

Diogenes of Sinope
412–323 BC

Dōgen
1200–1253

Dostoevsky, Fyodor
1821–1881

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
1868–1963

Duns Scotus
1266–1308
F

Fanon, Frantz
1925–1961

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
1762–1814

Foot, Philippa
1920–2010

Foucault, Michel
1926–1984

Frege, Gottlob
1848–1925

Freud, Sigmund
1856–1939
H

Habermas, Jürgen
1929–

Han Fei
280–233 BC

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
1770–1831

Heidegger, Martin
1889–1976

Heraclitus
535–475 BC

Hobbes, Thomas
1588–1679

Hōnen
1133–1212

Hume, David
1711–1776

Husserl, Edmund
1859–1938

Huxley, Aldous
1894–1963

Hypatia of Alexandria
360–415
K

Kanada
600–100 BC

Kant, Immanuel
1724–1804

Kierkegaard, Søren
1813–1855

King Jr., Martin Luther
1929–1968

Kitarō, Nishida
1870–1945

Kripke, Saul
1940–2022

Kuhn, Thomas
1922–1996
L

Laozi
6th century BC

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
1646–1716

Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1908–2009

Levinas, Emmanuel
1906–1995

Locke, John
1632–1704

Lucretius
99–55 BC

Luria, Isaac
1534–1572
M

Machiavelli, Niccolò
1469–1527

MacIntyre, Alasdair
1929–

Madhvacharya
1238–1317

Maharshi, Ramana
1879–1950

Mahavira
599–527 BC

Maimonides
1138–1204

Mao Zedong
1893–1976

Marcus Aurelius
121–180 AD

Marx, Karl
1818–1883

McDowell, John
b. 1942

Mencius
372–289 BC

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
1908–1961

Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592

Mill, John Stuart
1806–1873

Montesquieu
1689–1755

Moore, George Edward
1873–1958

More, Thomas
1478–1535

Mozi
470–391 BC
N

Nagarjuna
150–250 AD

Nagel, Thomas
b. 1937

Nichiren
1222–1282

Nicholas of Cusa
1401–1464

Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844–1900

Nozick, Robert
1938–2002

Nussbaum, Martha
b. 1947
P

Paine, Thomas
1737–1809

Paracelsus
1493–1541

Parmenides
515–450 BC

Pascal, Blaise
1623–1662

Patanjali
200–100 BC

Peirce, Charles Sanders
1839–1914

Plantinga, Alvin
1932–

Plato
428–348 BC

Plotinus
204–270 AD

Popper, Karl
1902–1994

Putnam, Hilary
1926–2016

Pythagoras
570–495 BC
R

Ramanuja
1017–1137

Rand, Ayn
1905–1982

Rawls, John
1921–2002

Raz, Joseph
1939–2022

Ricoeur, Paul
1913–2005

Rizal, José
1861–1896

Rorty, Richard
1931–2007

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
1712–1778

Rumi
1207–1273

Russell, Bertrand
1872–1970
S

Santayana, George
1863–1952

Sartre, Jean-Paul
1905–1980

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
1775–1854

Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788–1860

Searle, John
1932–

Sen, Amartya
b. 1933

Seneca
4 BC–65 AD

Sextus Empiricus
160–210

Shinran
1173–1263

Sidgwick, Henry
1838–1900

Singer, Peter
b. 1946

Socrates
470–399 BC

Solovyov, Vladimir
1853–1900

Spencer, Herbert
1820–1903

Spinoza, Baruch
1632–1677

St Augustine
354–430

Stein, Edith
1891–1942

Steiner, Rudolf
1861–1925

Sun Tzu
544–496 BC

Sun Yat-sen
1866–1925

Swedenborg, Emanuel
1688–1772

Swinburne, Richard
1934–
T

Tagore, Rabindranath
1861–1941

Taylor, Charles
1931–

Thales
624–548 BC

Thomson, Judith Jarvis
1929–2020

Tolstoy, Leo
1828–1910
W

Wang Yangming
1472–1529

Weil, Simone
1909–1943

West, Cornel
b. 1953

Whitehead, Alfred North
1861–1947

William of Ockham
1287–1347

Williams, Bernard
1929–2003

Wittgenstein, Ludwig
1889–1951

Wollstonecraft, Mary
1759–1797
























