Philosopher Directory
215 philosophersEra
Aristotle
384–322 BC
Plato
428–348 BC
Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844–1900
Whitehead, Alfred North
1861–1947
Confucius
551–479 BC
Böhme, Jakob
1575–1624
Kant, Immanuel
1724–1804
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
1881–1955
Hume, David
1711–1776
Descartes, René
1596–1650
Swedenborg, Emanuel
1688–1772
James, William
1842–1910
Sartre, Jean-Paul
1905–1980
Beauvoir, Simone de
1908–1986
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
1775–1854
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
1712–1778
Zoroaster
1500–1000 BC
Nicholas of Cusa
1401–1464
Buddha
563–483 BC
Fromm, Erich
1900–1980
Adorno, Theodor
1903–1969
Al-Ghazali
1058–1111
Marcus Aurelius
121–180 AD
Marx, Karl
1818–1883
Spinoza, Baruch
1632–1677
Avicenna
980–1037
St Augustine
354–430
Mill, John Stuart
1806–1873
Bruno, Giordano
1548–1600
Thales
624–548 BC
Rawls, John
1921–2002
Seneca
4 BC–65 AD
Horkheimer, Max
1895–1973
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji
1891–1956
Socrates
470–399 BC
Epicurus
341–270 BC
Epictetus
50–135 AD
Freud, Sigmund
1856–1939
Meister Eckhart
c. 1260–1328
Sun Tzu
544–496 BC
Arendt, Hannah
1906–1975
Berdyaev, Nikolai
1874–1948
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
1770–1831
de Unamuno, Miguel
1864–1936
Buber, Martin
1878–1965
Iamblichus
c. 245–325
Adi Shankara
788–820
Luria, Isaac
1534–1572
Abelard, Peter
1079–1142
Frege, Gottlob
1848–1925
Voltaire
1694–1778
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
1889–1951
Scheler, Max
1874–1928
Heraclitus
535–475 BC
Swinburne, Richard
1934–
Origen
c. 184–253
Udayana
c. 975–1050
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
1463–1494
Jung, Carl Gustav
1875–1961
Laozi
6th century BC
Wollstonecraft, Mary
1759–1797
Rorty, Richard
1931–2007
William of Ockham
1287–1347
Dilthey, Wilhelm
1833–1911
McDowell, John
b. 1942
Yi Hwang (Toegye)
1501–1570
Dennett, Daniel
1942–2024
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
1768–1834
Butler, Judith
b. 1956
Al-Farabi
872–950
Mencius
372–289 BC
Locke, John
1632–1704
Ricoeur, Paul
1913–2005
Zhuangzi
369–286 BC
Jaspers, Karl
1883–1969
Nichiren
1222–1282
Heidegger, Martin
1889–1976
Bradley, Francis Herbert
1846–1924
Aquinas, Thomas
1225–1274
Attar of Nishapur
c. 1145–c. 1221
Boethius
477–524
Zeno of Citium
334–262 BC
Wang Yangming
1472–1529
Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788–1860
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
1868–1963
Ayer, A.J.
1910–1989
Stein, Edith
1891–1942
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803–1882
Gandhi, Mahatma
1869–1948
Habermas, Jürgen
1929–
Machiavelli, Niccolò
1469–1527
Singer, Peter
b. 1946
Hobbes, Thomas
1588–1679
Averroes
1126–1198
Diogenes of Sinope
412–323 BC
West, Cornel
b. 1953
Rizal, José
1861–1896
Hartshorne, Charles
1897–2000
Plotinus
204–270 AD
Anselm of Canterbury
1033–1109
Bentham, Jeremy
1748–1832
Camus, Albert
1913–1960
Chomsky, Noam
b. 1928
Comte, Auguste
1798–1857
Derrida, Jacques
1930–2004
Foucault, Michel
1926–1984
Husserl, Edmund
1859–1938
Kanada
600–100 BC
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
1646–1716
Nagel, Thomas
b. 1937
Mozi
470–391 BC
Peirce, Charles Sanders
1839–1914
Russell, Bertrand
1872–1970
Rumi
1207–1273
Spencer, Herbert
1820–1903
Montesquieu
1689–1755
MacIntyre, Alasdair
1929–
Zeno of Elea
490–430 BC
Spengler, Oswald
1880–1936
Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592
Ibn Khaldun
1332–1406
Bakunin, Mikhail
1814–1876
Nozick, Robert
1938–2002
Huxley, Aldous
1894–1963
Schiller, Friedrich
1759–1805
Weil, Simone
1909–1943
Suárez, Francisco
1548–1617
Kitarō, Nishida
1870–1945
Zhu Xi
1130–1200
Ficino, Marsilio
1433–1499
Marcuse, Herbert
1898–1979
Toland, John
1670–1722
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
1762–1814
Rand, Ayn
1905–1982
John Scotus Eriugena
c. 800–877
Cicero
106–43 BC
Cobbe, Frances Power
1822–1904
Dewey, John
1859–1952
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
1900–2002
Irigaray, Luce
b. 1930
Paracelsus
1493–1541
Parmenides
515–450 BC
Sen, Amartya
b. 1933
Solovyov, Vladimir
1853–1900
Vasubandhu
320–400
Xunzi
310–235 BC
Santayana, George
1863–1952
Tolstoy, Leo
1828–1910
Paine, Thomas
1737–1809
Searle, John
1932–
Badiou, Alain
1937–
Pythagoras
570–495 BC
Tagore, Rabindranath
1861–1941
Carnap, Rudolf
1891–1970
Taylor, Charles
1931–
Strawson, Peter
1919–2006
Han Fei
280–233 BC
Yi I (Yulgok)
1536–1584
Maharshi, Ramana
1879–1950
Raz, Joseph
1939–2022
Tillich, Paul
1886–1965
Ortega y Gasset
1883–1955
Rosenzweig, Franz
1886–1929
Al-Kindī
c. 801–873
Bacon, Francis
1561–1626
Bergson, Henri
1859–1941
Brentano, Franz
1838–1917
Burke, Edmund
1729–1797
Dōgen
1200–1253
Erasmus
1466–1536
Hypatia of Alexandria
360–415
Kuhn, Thomas
1922–1996
Mahavira
599–527 BC
Nussbaum, Martha
b. 1947
Pascal, Blaise
1623–1662
Ramanuja
1017–1137
Shinran
1173–1263
Steiner, Rudolf
1861–1925
More, Thomas
1478–1535
Democritus
460–370 BC
Lucretius
99–55 BC
Putnam, Hilary
1926–2016
Thomson, Judith Jarvis
1929–2020
Williams, Bernard
1929–2003
Sextus Empiricus
160–210
Cassirer, Ernst
1874–1945
Anscombe, Elizabeth
1919–2001
Benjamin, Walter
1892–1940
Berkeley, George
1685–1753
Chanakya
350–275 BC
Deleuze, Gilles
1925–1995
Davidson, Donald
1917–2003
Diderot, Denis
1713–1784
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
1908–2009
Kierkegaard, Søren
1813–1855
Madhvacharya
1238–1317
Levinas, Emmanuel
1906–1995
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
1908–1961
Plantinga, Alvin
1932–
Popper, Karl
1902–1994
Quine, Willard Van Orman
1908–2000
Žižek, Slavoj
b. 1949
Strauss, Leo
1899–1973
Cobb, John Boswell
1925–
Duns Scotus
1266–1308
Foot, Philippa
1920–2010
Hōnen
1133–1212
Kripke, Saul
1940–2022
Maimonides
1138–1204
Nagarjuna
150–250 AD
Moore, George Edward
1873–1958
Patanjali
200–100 BC
Sidgwick, Henry
1838–1900
Fanon, Frantz
1925–1961
Austin, J.L.
1911–1960