List of philosophers born in the twentieth century
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Philosophers born in the twentieth century (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:
(For those philosophers still alive and working today, see the companion list: List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy.)
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- Note: This list has a minimal criteria for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
[edit] A
- Nicola Abbagnano, (1901-1990)
- H. B. Acton, (1908-1974)
- Mortimer Adler, (1902-2001)
- Theodor Adorno, (1903-1969)CO12RS
- Rogers Albritton, (1923-2002)
- Virgil Aldrich, (1903-1998)O1
- Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, (1912-1999)
- Gerda Alexander (1908–1994)
- Louis Althusser, (1918-1990)CO12R
- Alan Ross Anderson, (1925-1973)O12
- G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001)CO12R
- Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975)CO12RS*
- Raymond Aron, (1905-1983)
- John Langshaw Austin, (1911-1960)CO12R
- Alfred Jules Ayer, (1910-1989)CO12RS
[edit] B
- Archie J. Bahm, (1907-1996)
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (1915-1975)
- Roland Barthes, (1915-1980)CO2R
- Jon Barwise, (1942-2000)
- Jean Baudrillard, (1929-2007)O2RS
- Monroe Beardsley, (1915-1985)
- Jean Beaufret, (1907-1982)
- Lewis White Beck, (1913-1997)
- Gustav Bergmann, (1906-1987)CO12
- Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997)CO12RS
- Max Black, (1909-1988)O12
- Maurice Blanchot, (1907-2003)R
- Allan Bloom, (1930-1992)
- Norberto Bobbio, (1909-2004)O12R
- Jozef Maria Bochenski, (1902-1995)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945)O2R
- George Boolos, (1940-1996)
- Pierre Bourdieu, (1930-2002)R
- Richard-Bevan Braithwaite, (1900-1990)O12
- Richard B. Brandt, (1910-1997)CO1
- Justus Buchler, (1914-1991)O1
[edit] C
- Amílcar Cabral, (1924-1973)R
- Albert Camus, (1913-1960)CO12R
- Georges Canguilhem, (1904-1995)C
- Hector-Neri Castañeda, (1924-1991)C
- Cornelius Castoriadis, (1922-1997)
- Michel de Certeau, (1925-1986)R
- Haridas Chaudhuri, (1913-1975)
- Roderick Chisholm, (1916-1999)CO12R
- Alonzo Church, (1903-1995)CO12R
- L. Jonathan Cohen, (1923-2006)O12
- Lucio Colletti, (1924-2001)O12
- Frederick Copleston, (1907-1994)
[edit] D
- Donald Davidson, (1917-2003)CO12RS
- Simone de Beauvoir, (1908-1986)O12RS
- Bruno de Finetti, (1906-1985)O12
- Paul de Man, (1919-1983)R
- Guy Debord, (1931-1994)
- Gilles Deleuze, (1925-1995)O12RS*
- Bernard Delfgaauw, (1912-1993)
- Jacques Derrida, (1930-2004)CO12RS*
- Miroslaw Dzielski, (1941-1989)
[edit] E
- William A. Earle, (1919-1988)
- Paul Edwards, (1923-2004)O12
- Mircea Eliade, (1907-1986)R
- Jacques Ellul, (1912-1994)
- Gareth Evans, (1946-1980)O12R
[edit] F
- Emil Fackenheim, (1916-2003)RS*
- Frantz Fanon, (1925-1961)O12R
- Austin Marsden Farrer, (1904-1968)R
- Herbert Feigl, (1902-1988)
- Joel Feinberg, (1926-2004)O12
- Jose Ferrater-Mora, (1912-1991)O12
- Paul Feyerabend, (1924-1994)O12RS
- Vilém Flusser, (1920-1991)
- Michel Foucault, (1926-1984)CO12RS
- William K. Frankena, (1908-1994)CO12
- Oliver Shewell Franks, (1905-1992)
- Hans Frei, (1922-1988)R
- Northrop Frye, (1912-1991)
- Lon L. Fuller, (1902-1978)R
[edit] G
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, (1900-2002)CO12RS
- Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
- Gerhard Gentzen, (1909-1945)O12R
- Alan Gewirth, (1912-2004)O12
- Kurt Gödel, (1906-1978)O12R
- Lucien Goldmann, (1913-1970)
- Nelson Goodman, (1906-1998)CO12R
- George Grant, (1918-1988)
- Herbert Paul Grice, (1913-1988)CO12RS
- Félix Guattari, (1930-1992)
- Gotthard Günther, (1900-1984)
[edit] H
- Charles Hamblin, (1922-1985)
- Stuart Hampshire, (1914-2004)O12
- Norwood Russell Hanson, (1922-1967)R
- R. M. Hare, (1919-2002)CO12R
- H. L. A. Hart, (1907-1992)CO12R
- Werner Heisenberg, (1901-1976)O12R
- Erich Heller, (1911-1990)
- Carl Gustav Hempel, (1905-1997)CO12R
- Michel Henry, (1922-2002)
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1907-1972)R
- Sidney Hook, (1902-1989)O12
- Hsu Fu-kuan, (1903-1982)C
- Jean Hyppolite, (1907-1968)
[edit] I
- Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov, (1924-1979)R
[edit] J
- Erich Jantsch, (1929-1980)
- Richard C. Jeffrey, (1926-2002)O12
- Hans Jonas, (1903-1993)
[edit] K
- Jerrold Katz, (1932-2002)
- Walter Kaufmann, (1921-1980)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968)
- William Calvant Kneale, (1906-1990)O12
- Arthur Koestler, (1905-1983)
- Alexandre Kojève, (1902-1968)R
- Stephan Körner, (1913-2000)
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, (1909-1999)
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn, (1922-1996)CO12RS
[edit] L
- Jacques Lacan, (1901-1981)CO12RS*
- Imre Lakatos, (1922-1974)O12RS*
- Anton LaVey, (1930-1997)
- Henri Lefebvre, (1901-1991)R
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz, (1903-1994)R
- Emmanuel Levinas, (1906-1995)CO12RS*
- David Kellogg Lewis, (1941-2001)CO12RS*
- Suzanne Lilar, (1901-1992)
- Arthur Lipsett, (1936-1986)
- Knud Ejler Løgstrup, (1905-1981)
- Bernard Lonergan, (1904-1984)R
- Paul Lorenzen, (1915-1995)R
- Jean-François Lyotard, (1924-1998)CO12R
[edit] M
- John Leslie Mackie, (1917-1981)O12
- Norman Malcolm, (1911-1990)CO12
- Merab Mamardashvili, (1930-1990)R
- Julián Marías, (1914-2005)
- Marshall McLuhan, (1911-1980)
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (1908-1961)CO12RS
- Vincent Miceli, (1915-1991)
- Richard Montague, (1930-1971)O2R
- Sidney Morgenbesser, (1921-2004)
- Mou Tsung-san, (1909-1995)C
- Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)O12
[edit] N
- Ernest Nagel, (1901-1985)CO12R
- John von Neumann, (1903-1957)CO12R
- Nishitani Keiji, (1900-1990)O12R
- Kwame Nkrumah, (1909-1972)O12
- David L. Norton, (1930-1995)
- Robert Nozick, (1938-2001)CO12R
[edit] O
- Michael Oakeshott, (1901-1990)CO12R
- Albert Outler, (1908-1989)
- Gwilyn Ellis Lane Owen, (1922-1982)O12R
[edit] P
- John Arthur Passmore, (1914-2004)R
- Jan Patočka, (1907-1977)R
- Louis P. Pojman, (1935-2005)
- Richard Popkin, (1923-2005)
- K. J. Popma, (1903-1986)
- Karl Popper, (1902-1994)CO12RS
- Arthur Prior, (1914-1969)O2RS
- Harry Prosch, (1917-2005)
[edit] Q
- W. V. O. Quine, (1908-2000)CO12RS*
[edit] R
- James Rachels, (1941-2003)
- Karl Rahner, (1904-1984)R
- Frank P. Ramsey, (1903-1930)CO12RS*
- Ian Thomas Ramsey, (1915-1972)R
- Paul Ramsey, (1913-1988)
- Ayn Rand, (1905-1982)R
- John Rawls, (1921-2002)CO12R
- Radovan Richta, (1924-1983)
- Paul Ricoeur, (1913-2005)CO12RS
- Gillian Rose, (1947-1995)
- Gian-Carlo Rota, (1932-1999)
- Joseph Rovan, (1918-2004)
- Gilbert Ryle, (1900-1976)CO12R
[edit] S
- Wesley Salmon, (1925-2001)O12
- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, (1921-1990)
- Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980)CO12RS
- Wilfrid Sellars, (1912-1989)CO12RS
- B. F. Skinner, (1904-1990)R
- Robert C. Solomon, (1942-2007)
- Joseph Soloveitchik, (1903-1993)RS*
- Herbert Spiegelberg, (1904-1990)
- Edward Stachura, (1937-1979)
- Charles Leslie Stevenson, (1908-1979)O12R
- David Stove, (1927-1994)
- P. F. Strawson, (1919-2006)CO12R
[edit] T
- T'ang Chun-i, (1909-1978)C
- Alfred Tarski, (1901-1983)CO12RS*
- Richard Taylor, (1919-2003)O12
- Placide Tempels, (1906-1977)
- Irving Thalberg Jr., (1930-1988)
- Helmut Thielicke, (1908-1986)R
- Alan Turing, (1912-1954)O12RS
[edit] U
[edit] V
- Francisco Varela, (1946-2001)
- Henry Babcock Veatch, (1911-1997)
- Michel Villey, (1914-1988)R
- Gregory Vlastos, (1907-1991)O12R
- Eric Voegelin, (1901-1985)R
- Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916-2003)CO12R
[edit] W
- Hao Wang, (1921-1995)O12
- Geoffrey J. Warnock, (1923-1996)O12
- Alan Watts, (1915-1973)
- Eric Weil, (1904-1977)
- Simone Weil, (1909-1943)CO12R
- Bernard Williams, (1929-2003)CO12RS
- Peter Winch, (1926-1997)O12
- John Wisdom, (1904-1993)O12
- Richard Wollheim, (1923-2003)O12
- Jerzy Wroblewski, (1926-1990)R
[edit] X
[edit] Y
- Francis Parker Yockey, (1917-1960)
- Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995)
[edit] Z
[edit] See also:
- List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
- List of philosophers born in the first through tenth centuries
- List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries
- List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
- List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century
- List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century
- List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century
[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.
- 1: Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0
- 2: Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN 0-19-926479-1
- 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).