List of philosophers (A-C)

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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.

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

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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

[edit] A

• Pietro d'Abano, (1250?-1316)
• Firmin Abauzit, (1679-1767)
• Nicola Abbagnano, (1901-1990)
• Muhammad Abduh, (1849-1905)^R
• Jacob Friedrich von Abel, (1751-1829)
• Pierre Abélard (or Peter Abelard), (1079-1142)^CORS
• John Abercrombie, (1780-1844)
• Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025)^R
• Johann Heinrich Abicht, (1762-1816)
• Abner of Burgos ^S*
• Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437-1508)^CRS
• Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (1460?-1535?)^CR
• Alessandro Achillini, (1463-1512)
• Uriel Acosta, (1585-1640)
• H. B. Acton, (1908-1974)
• Adam Parvipontanus, (d. 1181)
• Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943)^O
• Robert Adams, (born 1937)^O
• Robert Adamson, (1852-1902)
• Adelard of Bath, (12th century)^C
• Mortimer Adler, (1902-2001)
• Theodor Adorno, (1903-1969)^CORS
• Aedesius, (d. 355)
• Aenesidemus, (1st century BC)^R
• Sediq Afghan
• Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, (1839-1897)^R
• Giorgio Agamben
• Rodolphus Agricola, (1443-1485)^R
• Agrippa the Sceptic, (1st/2nd century)^R
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436-1535)^RS*
• Pierre d'Ailly, (1350-1420)^CR
• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, (1890-1963)^OR
• Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov, (1817-1860)
• Alain de Lille, (c. 1128-1202)
• Albert of Saxony (c. 1316-1390)^CRS
• Leone Battista Alberti, (1404-1472)
• Albertus Magnus (or Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne), (1193?-1280)^CORS*
• Albinus (c. 130)
• Joseph Albo, (1380-1444)^ORS*
• Rogers Albritton
• Alcibiades, (c. 450-404 BC)
• Alcinous, (2nd century)^R
• Alcmaeon of Croton, (5th century BC)^ORS
• Virgil Aldrich, (1903-1998)^O
• Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433-1504)^R
• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, (1912-1999)
• Alexander of Aphrodisias, (2nd century)^CRS
• Alexander of Hales, (d. 1245)^CR
• Gerda Alexander (1908–1994)
• Samuel Alexander, (1859-1938)^COR
• Robert Alexy, (born 1945)
• Francesco Algarotti, (1712-1764)
• Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321)^ORS
• Archibald Alison, (1757-1839)^R
• Henry Allison
• William Alston, (born 1921)^CO
• Louis Althusser, (1918-1990)^COR
• Robert Alyngton, (d. 1398)^S
• Bhimrao Ambedkar, (1891-1956)^R
• Ambrose, (c. 340-397)^C
• Henri-Frédéric Amiel, (1821-1881)
• Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri, (d. 992)^R
• Ammonius Hermiae, (5th century)^RS
• Ammonius Saccas, (3rd century)^C
• Anton Wilhelm Amo, (1703-c. 1759)^R
• Anacharsis, (6th century BC)
• Anandavardhana, (820-890)
• Anaxagoras, (died 462 BC)^CORS*
• Anaxarchus, (fl. 340 BC)^R
• Anaxilaus, (1st century BC)
• Anaximander, (c. 610 BC-c. 546 BC)^COR
• Anaximenes of Miletus^COR
• Alan Ross Anderson, (1925-1973)^O
• John Anderson, (1893-1962)^OR
• Andronicus of Rhodes, (c. 70 BC)^C
• Anniceris, (fl. 300 BC)^C
• G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001)^COR
• Anselm, (1034-1109)^CORS
• Antiochus of Ascalon, (c. 130-68 BC)^CORS
• Antiphon, (480-403 BC)^R
• Antisthenes, (c. 444-365)^OR
• Karl-Otto Apel
• Apollonius of Tyana, (2-98)
• Anthony Appiah
• Apuleius, (c. 123-c. 180)^R
• Thomas Aquinas, (1225-1274)^CORS
• Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420-1494)^R
• Arcesilaus, (316-241 BC)^CORS
• Archimedes, (d. 212 BC)
• Archytas, (428-347 BC)^CRS
• Roberto Ardigo, (1828-1920)
• Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975)^CORS*
• Aristides, (fl. 2nd century)
• Aristippus the Elder of Cyrene, (c. 435-366 BC)^OR
• Ariston of Chios, (fl. 250 BC)^R
• Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC)^CORS*
• Aristoxenus, (4th century BC)
• Arius, (256-336)
• Jacobus Arminius, (1560-1609)^C
• David Malet Armstrong, (born 1926)^COR
• Antoine Arnauld, (1612-1694)^CORS*
• Raymond Aron, (1905-1983)
• Kenneth Arrow, (born 1921)^O
• Asclepiades
• Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus, (1894-1975)^R
• Aspasius, (c. 100-150)
• Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, (1778-1841)
• Mary Astell, (1666-1731)^CRS
• Athanasius of Alexandria, (298-373)^C
• Titus Pomponius Atticus, (110-32 BC)
• Robert Audi
• Augustine of Hippo, (354-430)^CORS
• Marcus Aurelius, (121-180)^COR
• Peter Aureol, (c. 1280-1322)^RS
• Sri Aurobindo, (1872-1950)^OR
• John Austin, (1790-1859)^CORS
• John Langshaw Austin, (1911-1960)^COR
• Richard Avenarius, (1843-1896)^COR
• Averroes (or Ibn Rushd), (1126-1198)^CORS*
• Avicenna (or Ibn Sina), (980-1037)^COR
• Alfred Jules Ayer, (1910-1989)^CORS
• Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, (1766-1845)

[edit] B

• Franz Xaver von Baader, (1765-1841)
• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871)^C
• Gaston Bachelard, (1884-1962)^COR
• Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)^CORS
• Roger Bacon, (1214-1294)^CORS*
• Alain Badiou, (born 1937)
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi, (1080-1165)^R
• Annette Baier, (born 1929)^O
• Kurt Baier, (born 1917)^O
• Alexander Bain, (1818-1903)^CO
• Archie J. Bahm, (1907-1996)
• Yaruch Bann, (born 1931)
• Mikhail Bakhtin, (1895-1975)^COR
• Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876)^COR
• James Mark Baldwin, (1861-1934)
• John Balguy, (1686-1748)
• Étienne Balibar
• Pierre-Simon Ballanche, (1776-1847)
• Domingo Báñez, (1528-1604)^CR
• Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi, (1070-1136)^R
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (1915-1975)
• Christoph Gottfried Bardili, (1761-1808)
• Stephen Barker
• Jonathan Barnes, (born 1942)^O
• Brian Barry, (born 1936)^O
• Karl Barth, (1886-1968)^OR
• Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire, (1805-1895)
• Roland Barthes, (1915-1980)^CR
• Bartolus de Saxoferrato, (1313-1357)^R
• Jon Barwise, (1942-2000)
• Jacques Barzun, (born 1907)
• Basilides, (c. 117-138)^C
• Sebastiano Basso, (16th century)
• Georges Bataille, (1897-1962)^CR
• Jean Baudrillard, (1929-2007) ^RS
• Bruno Bauer, (1809-1882)^ORS
• David Baumgardt, (1890-1963)^R
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, (1714-1762)^CR
• Pierre Bayle, (1647-1706)^CORS
• Monroe Beardsley, (1915-1985)
• James Beattie, (1735-1803)^CR
• Jean Beaufret, (1907-1982)
• Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, (1738-1794)^C
• Jacob Sigismund Beck, (1761-1840)^R
• William Bechtel
• Oskar Becker
• Hamdija Begovic
• Vissarion Belinsky, (1811-1848)^R
• Nuel Belnap, (born 1930)^O
• Paul Benacerraf
• Julien Benda, (1867-1956)
• Friedrich Eduard Beneke, (1798-1854)^C
• Walter Benjamin, (1892-1940)^OR
• Jonathan Bennett, (born 1930)^O
• Geoffrey Bennington
• Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832)^COR
• Richard Bentley, (1662-1742)^R
• Nikolai Berdyaev, (1874-1948)^COR
• Gustav Bergmann, (1906-1987)^CO
• Henri Bergson, (1859-1941)^CORS
• George Berkeley, (1685-1753)^CORS
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997)^CORS
• Bernard of Chartres, (d. 1130)^C
• Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090-1153)^CR
• Bernard Silvestris (or Bernard of Tours), (1147-1178)^R
• François Bernier, (1620-1688)^R
• Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932)^R
• Basil Bessarion ^S*
• Homi Bhabha, (born 1949)
• Bhartrhari, (5th century)^R
• Roy Bhaskar, (born 1944)
• Gabriel Biel, (1425-1495)^R
• Hugh Binning, (1627-1653)
• Harry Binswanger, (born 1944)
• Nathan Birnbaum, (1864-1937)
• Max Black, (1909-1988)^O
• Simon Blackburn, (born 1944)^O
• William Blackstone, (1723-1780)^R
• Hugh Blair, (1718-1800)^R
• Maurice Blanchot, (1907-2003)^R
• Brand Blanshard, (1892-1987)^O
• Blasius of Parma (or Biagio Pelacani da Parma), (1345-1416)^R
• David Blitz, (born 1949)
• Ernst Bloch, (1885-1977)^COR
• Ned Block, (born 1942)^O
• Maurice Blondel, (1861-1949)^C
• Benjamin Paul Blood, (1832-1919)
• Allan Bloom, (1930-1992)
• Blossius, (2nd century BC)
• Hermann Blumenau, (1819-1899)
• Norberto Bobbio, (1909-2004)^OR
• Jozef Maria Bochenski, (1902-1995)
• Jean Bodin, (1530-1596)^CORS
• Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (AD 480-524 or 525)^CORS
• Boetius of Dacia, (c. 1240-c. 1280)^R
• Alexander Bogdanov, (1873-1928)^OR
• Jakob Böhme, (1575-1624)^CR
• Niels Bohr, (1885-1962)^OR
• Samuel Bold, (1649-1737)^R
• Ludwig Boltzmann, (1844-1906)^CO
• Bernard Bolzano, (1781-1848)^CORS*
• Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, (1754-1840)
• Bonaventure, (1221-1274)^CORS
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945)^R
• Laurence BonJour
• Charles Bonnet, (1720-1793)^R
• John Elof Boodin, (1869-1950)
• George Boole, (1815-1864)^ORS*
• George Boolos, (1940-1996)
• Bernard Bosanquet, (1848-1923)^CORS
• Rudjer Boscovich, (1711-1787)^C
• Pierre Bourdieu, (1930-2002)^R
• Emile Boutroux, (1845-1921)^R
• Oets Kolk Bouwsma, (1898-1978)^C
• Borden Parker Bowne, (1847-1910)^R
• Robert Boyle, (1627-1691)^CORS
• F. H. Bradley, (1846-1924)^CORS
• Thomas Bradwardine, (c. 1290-1349)^R
• Richard-Bevan Braithwaite, (1900-1990)^O
• Robert Brandom
• Richard B. Brandt, (1910-1997)^CO
• Franz Brentano, (1838-1917)^CORS
• Percy Williams Bridgman, (1882-1961)^OR
• Edgar S. Brightman, (1884-1953)^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)^COR
• Stephen Bronner, (born 1949)
• Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, (1881-1966)^COS
• Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)^R
• Bryn Browne
• Peter Browne, (1666-1735)^R
• Thomas Browne, (1605-1682)
• Orestes Brownson, (1803-1876)^O
• Constantin Brunner, (1862-1937)
• Emil Brunner, (1889-1966)^R
• Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600)^CORS*
• Leon Brunschvicg, (1869–1944)^COR
• James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, (1838-1922)^R
• Martin Buber, (1878-1965)^CORS
• Justus Buchler, (1914-1991)^O
• Ludwig Büchner, (1824-1899)^R
• Malcolm Budd, (born 1941)^O
• Buddhaghosa, (5th century)^C
• Claude Buffier, (1661-1737)^R
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707-1788)^R
• Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov, (1871-1944)^R
• Rudolf Bultmann, (1884-1976)^OR
• Mario Bunge, (born 1919)
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818-1897)^O
• Tyler Burge, (born 1946)^O
• Jean Buridan, (1300-1358)^CORS
• Edmund Burke, (1729-1797)^CORS
• Walter Burley, (c. 1275-c. 1345)^CRS
• John Burnheim
• Myles Frederic Burnyeat, (born 1939)^O
• Richard Burthogge, (1638-1704)^R
• Panayot Butchvarov, (born 1933)
• Joseph Butler, (1692-1752)^COR
• Judith Butler, (born 1956)
• Samuel Butler, (1835-1902)^O

[edit] C

• Pierre Jean George Cabanis, (1757-1808)^R
• Amílcar Cabral, (1924-1973)^R
• Cai Yuanpei, (1868-1940)
• Edward Caird, (1835-1908)^C
• Thomas Cajetan, (1469-1534)^COR
• Calcidius, (4th century)^R
• Mary Whiton Calkins, (1863-1930)
• Callicles, (late 5th century BC)^RS
• John Calvin, (1509-1564)^CR
• Tommaso Campanella, (1568-1639)^CORS
• George Campbell, (1719-1796)^R
• John Campbell
• Norman Robert Campbell, (1880-1949)^CR
• Albert Camus, (1913-1960)^COR
• Georges Canguilhem, (1904-1995)^C
• Georg Cantor, (1845-1918)^COR
• Johannes Capreolus, (1380-1444)^R
• John D. Caputo, (born 1940)
• Gerolamo Cardano, (1501-1576)^R
• Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)^CR
• Gershom Carmichael, (c. 1672-1729)^R
• Rudolf Carnap, (1891-1970)^CORS*
• Carneades, (c. 214-129 BC)^ORS
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)^COR
• Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)^O
• Paul Carus, (1852-1919)
• Ernst Cassirer, (1874-1945)^CORS
• Hector-Neri Castañeda, (1924-1991)^C
• Cornelius Castoriadis, (1922-1997)
• Carlo Cattaneo, (1801-1869)^R
• Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti (died c. 1280)
• Stanley Cavell, (born 1926)^COR
• Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673)^CR
• Cebes
• Celsus of Alexandria, (2nd century)^CR
• Michel de Certeau, (1925-1986)^R
• Andrea Cesalpino, (1519-1603)
• Petr Iakovlevich Chaadev, (1794-1856)^R
• Chaerephon
• David Chalmers, (born 1966)
• Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, (1796-1862)
• Timothy Chambers
• Rafe Champion
• Chanakya (or Kautilya) (321-296 BC)^R
• Candrakirti
• Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or Zhang Xuecheng), (1738-1801)^C
• Chang Tsai (or Zhang Zai), (1020-1077)^R
• Walter Charleton, (1619-1707)^R
• Pierre Charron, (1541-1603)^CR
• Emile Auguste Chartier, (1868-1951)
• Walter Chatton, (1290-1343)^RS*
• Haridas Chaudhuri, (1913-1975)
• Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428-1500)^C
• Cheng Hao (or Ch'eng Ming-Tao), (1032-1085)^CR
• Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan), (127-200)^R
• Cheng Yi (or Ch'eng Yi Chu'an), (1033-1107)^CR
• Nikolai Chernyshevsky, (1828-1889)^R
• Chia Yi (or Jia Yi or Chia I), (201-169 BC)^CR
• Chiao Hung, (1540-1620)^C
• Ch'ien Mu, (1895-1990)^C
• Chih Tun (or Zhi Dun) (314-366)^R
• William Chillingworth, (1602-1644)^R
• Roderick Chisholm, (1916-1999)^COR
• Noam Chomsky, (born 1928)^COR
• Tasan Chông Yagyong, (1762-1836)^R
• Chou Tun-Yi (or Zhou Dunyi or Chou Lien-Hsi or Zhou Lianxi), (1017-1073)^CR
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365-c. 1430)^R
• Andrea Christofidou
• Chrysanthius, (4th century)
• Chrysippus, (279-207 BC)^OR
• Manuel Chrysoloras, (c. 1355-1415)
• Alonzo Church, (1903-1995)^COR
• Patricia Churchland, (born 1943)^C
• Paul Churchland, (born 1942)^CO
• Leon Chwistek, (1884-1944)
• Cicero, (106 BC-43 BC)^COR
• August Cieszkowski, (1814-1894)^R
• Hélène Cixous, (born 1937)^R
• Clarembald of Arras, (1110-1187)^R
• Andy Clark
• Samuel Clarke, (1675-1729)^CORS
• Johannes Clauberg, (1622-1665)^R
• Cleanthes, (301-232 BC)^R
• Clement of Alexandria, (2nd-3rd century)^CR
• Cleobulus
• Cleomedes, (2nd century)^R
• William Kingdon Clifford, (1845-1879)^CO
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749)^CRS
• David Cockburn
• G.A. Cohen, (born 1941)^O
• Hermann Cohen, (1842-1918)^CORS*
• L. Jonathan Cohen, (born 1923)^O
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834)^OR
• Lucio Colletti, (1924-2001)^O
• Arthur Collier, (1680-1732)^CR
• R. G. Collingwood, (1889-1943)^CORS
• Anthony Collins, (1676-1729)^ORS
• John Comenius, (1592-1670)^OR
• Auguste Comte, (1798-1857)^COR
• André Comte-Sponville, (born 1952)
• Marcel Conche
• Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (1715-1780)^CORS
• Marquis de Condorcet, (1743-1794)^CR
• Confucius, (551 BC - 479 BC)^CORS
• Benjamin Constant, (1767-1830)^COR
• Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679)^CORS
• Josephus Flavius Cook, (1838-1901)
• Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, (1877-1947)
• Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543)^ORS
• Frederick Copleston, (1907-1994)
• Geraud de Cordemoy, (1626-1684)^CRS
• Hans Cornelius, (1863-1947)
• Antoine Augustin Cournot, (1801-1877)^CR
• Victor Cousin, (1792-1867)^CR
• Louis Couturat, (1868-1914)^CO
• Chris Cowan
• William Lane Craig, (born 1949)
• Johann Ulrich von Cramer, (1706-1772)
• Crantor, (4th century BC)
• Crates of Thebes, (4th century BC)
• William Crathorn, (14th century)^RS
• Cratylus of Athens, (c. 400 BC)^OR
• James Edwin Creighton, (1861-1924)
• Johannes Crellius, (1590-1633)
• Hasdai Crescas, (c. 1340-1410)^CORS*
• Benedetto Croce, (1866-1952)^COR
• Jean-Pierre de Crousaz, (1663-1750)
• Christian August Crusius, (1715-1775)^CR
• Ralph Cudworth, (1617-1688)^OR
• Nathaniel Culverwel, (1619-1651)^R
• Richard Cumberland, (1631?-1718)^CR
• Cyril of Alexandria, (376-444)
• Tadeusz Czezowski, (1889-1981)
• Heinrich Czolbe, (1819-1873)^C

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

[edit] 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 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 Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 2000. ISBN 0-415-22364-4

• 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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