Philosopher Directory
192 philosophersEras & Traditions
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
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
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
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
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803–1882
Epictetus
50–135 AD
Epicurus
341–270 BC
Erasmus
1466–1536
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
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
1900–2002
Gandhi, Mahatma
1869–1948
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
1749–1832
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
Ibn Khaldun
1332–1406
Irigaray, Luce
b. 1930
James, William
1842–1910
Jung, Carl Gustav
1875–1961
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
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
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
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
Origen
c. 184–253
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
Quine, Willard Van Orman
1908–2000
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
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–
Tagore, Rabindranath
1861–1941
Taylor, Charles
1931–
Thales
624–548 BC
Thomson, Judith Jarvis
1929–2020
Tolstoy, Leo
1828–1910
Udayana
c. 975–1050
Vasubandhu
320–400
Voltaire
1694–1778
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
Xunzi
310–235 BC
Yi Hwang (Toegye)
1501–1570
Yi I (Yulgok)
1536–1584
Zeno of Citium
334–262 BC
Zeno of Elea
490–430 BC
Zhu Xi
1130–1200
Zhuangzi
369–286 BC
Žižek, Slavoj
b. 1949
Zoroaster
1500–1000 BC