Timeline of global philosophers

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Timeline of eastern | western | global philosophers

Philosophers are organized roughly by the publication of their first, most influential works, or their "breakout" moments.

[edit] Late 20th Century

[edit] 1950-2000

• John Wisdom (c. 1904-1993). Ordinary language philosopher.
• Paul Tillich (c. 1886 – 1965). Existentialist.
• R. M. Hare (c. 1919 – 2002).
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty (c. 1908 – 1961). Phenomenologist.
• George Polya (c. 1887 - 1985).
• B.F. Skinner (c. 1904 – 1990).
• Isaiah Berlin (c. 1909 – 1997). Liberal political philosopher.
• Alonzo Church (c. 1903 – 1995).
• GEM Anscombe (c. 1919 – 2001). Analytic philosopher of ethics.
• Max Horkheimer (c. 1895 – 1973). Frankfurt School.
• Herbert Feigl (c. 1902 - 1988). Vienna Circle. Logical positivist, materialist.
• John Austin (c. 1911 – 1960). Ordinary language philosophy.
• Stuart Hampshire (c. 1914 - 2004). Anti-rationalist.
• Hannah Arendt (c. 1906 – 1975). Political philosophy.
• Carl Hempel (c. 1905- 1997). Logical positivist, advocate of deductive-nomological view.
• P. F. Strawson (c. 1919–2006). Ordinary language philosophy.
• Kurt Baier (c. 1917-).
• Hans-Georg Gadamer (c. 1900 – 2002). Hermeneutician.
• W.V.O. Quine (c. 1908 – 2000). Naturalism.
• Paul Grice (c. 1913 - 1988). Ordinary language philosopher.
• H.L.A. Hart (c. 1907-1992). Analytic legal philosopher.
• Jacques Lacan (c. 1901 – 1981).
• Nelson Goodman (c. 1906– 1998).
• Wilfred Sellars (c. 1912 - 1989).
• Jürgen Habermas (c. 1927-). Communicative ethicist.
• Thomas Kuhn (c. 1922 – 1996).
• J. J. C. Smart (c. 1920-). Utilitarian.
• Herbert Marcuse (c. 1898 – 1979). Frankfurt School.
• Gustav Bergmann (c. 1906-1987).
• Paul Ricoeur (c. 1913 – 2005). Hermeneutician, phenomenologist.
• Edmund Gettier (c. 1927-). Creator of the Gettier cases.
• David Malet Armstrong (c. 1927-). Functionalist (in philosophy of mind).
• Martin Luther King (c. 1929 – 1968). Egalitarian, pacifist.
• Louis Althusser (c. 1918 - 1990). Marxist philosopher.
• Noam Chomsky (c. 1928-). Libertarian socialist, universal grammarian.
• Roderick Chisholm (c. 1916 -1999). Phenomenologist.
• Jacques Derrida (c. 1930 – 2004). Deconstructionist, postmodernist.
• John Searle (c. 1932-). Ordinary language philosopher.
• Imre Lakatos (c. 1922 – 1974).
• John Rawls (c. 1921 – 2002). Anti-utilitarian, political liberal.
• Michel Foucault (c. 1926 – 1984). Postmodernist.
• Saul Kripke (c. 1940-). Direct reference theorist (for names).
• E.O. Wilson (c. 1929-).
• Marshall McLuhan (c. 1911 – 1980). Philosopher of media.
• Gilles Deleuze (c. 1925 – 1995). Postmodernist.
• Paul Feyerabend (c. 1924 – 1994). Skeptic.
• Judith Jarvis Thomson (c. 1929-). Objectivist morality.
• Peter Singer (c. 1946-). Animal right theorist, preferentialist utilitarian.
• Michael Dummett (c. 1925-). Anti-realist in semantics.
• David Kellogg Lewis (c. 1941-2001). Modal realist.
• Max Black (c. 1909-1988).
• Hilary Putnam (c. 1926-). Natural kinds theorist.
• Jean-François Lyotard (c. 1924 – 1998). Postmodernist.
• Donald Davidson (c. 1917 – 2003).
• Thomas Nagel (c. 1937-).
• Mary Midgley (c. 1919-).
• Mary Daly (c. 1928-).
• Jean Baudrillard (1929-). Postmodernist/Hyperrealist. Famous for his 1988 philosophical treatise Simulacra and Simulation.
• Lawrence Kohlberg (c. 1927-1987). Major theorist in studies of moral development.
• Richard Rorty (c. 1931-).
• Robert Nozick (c. 1938-2002). Libertarian political theorist.
• Helene Cixous (c. 1937-). Deconstructivist.
• Jaegwon Kim (c. 1934-).
• Tom Regan (c. 1938-). Animal rights theorist.
• Michele Le Dœuff (c. 1948-).
• Carol Gilligan (c. 1936-).
• Julia Kristeva (c. 1941-). Feminist.
• Umberto Unger. Social philosopher.
• Marvin Minsky (c. 1927-).
• Gilbert Harman (c. 1938-).
• Alvin Goldman (c. 1938-).
• Harry Frankfurt (c. 1929-). Creator of Frankfurt cases in studies of free will.
• Kwame Anthony Appiah (c. 1954-).
• Luce Irigaray (c. 1930-). Feminist.
• Keith Lehrer (c. 1936-). Coherance theorist.
• Annette Baier (c. 1929-).
• Sandra Harding (c. 1935-). Standpoint theorist.
• George Lakoff (c. 1941-). Embodied mind theorist.
• Catharine MacKinnon (c. 1946-). Feminist.
• Daniel Dennett (c. 1942-).
• Martha Nussbaum (c. 1947-).
• Paul Churchland (c. 1942-). Eliminativist.
• Patricia Churchland (c. 1943-). Eliminativist.
• Michael Walzer (c. 1935-). Liberal political philosopher.
• Susan Bordo (c. 1947-). Feminist.
• Michael Albert (c. 1947-). Participatory economist.
• Cornel West (c. 1953-).
• Martin Van Creveld (c. 1946-). Philosopher of war.

[edit] External links

• http://www.philosophypages.com - an excellent resource by Garth Kemerling which informed much of this encyclopedia entry.