List of philosophers (A-C)
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Philosophers (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:
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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.
List of philosophers: (A-C) -- (D-H) -- (I-Q) -- (R-Z)
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
- Nicola Abbagnano, (1901-1990)E
- Muhammad Abduh, (1849-1905)R
- Peter Abelard, (1079-1142)CEORS
- Abhinavagupta (fl. c. 975 - 1025)R
- Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, (1437-1508)CRS
- Judah ben Isaac Abravanel, (1460?-1535?)CR
- Marilyn McCord Adams, (born 1943)O
- Robert Adams, (born 1937)O
- Adelard of Bath, (12th century)C
- Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)E
- Alfred Adler, (1870-1937)E
- Theodor Adorno, (1903-1969)CEORS
- Aenesidemus, (1st century BC)ER
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, (1839-1897)ER
- Rodolphus Agricola, (1443-1485)R
- Agrippa the Sceptic, (1st/2nd century)ER
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, (1436-1535)ERS
- Pierre d'Ailly, (1350-1420)CER
- Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, (1890-1963)OR
- Albert of Saxony (c. 1316-1390)CERS
- Albertus Magnus (or Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne), (1193?-1280)CEORS
- Joseph Albo, (1380-1444)EORS
- Alcinous, (2nd century)ER
- Alcmaeon of Croton, (5th century BC)EORS
- Virgil Aldrich, (1903-1998)O
- Yohanan ben Isaac Alemanno, (1433-1504)ER
- Alexander of Aphrodisias, (2nd century)CERS
- Alexander of Hales, (d. 1245)CER
- Samuel Alexander, (1859-1938)CEOR
- Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321)EORS
- Antonio Aliotta, (1881-1964)E
- Archibald Alison, (1757-1839)ER
- Abd al-Jabiri, (born 1935)E
- William Alston, (born 1921)CEO
- Johannes Althusius, (1557-1638)E
- Louis Althusser, (1918-1990)COR
- Robert Alyngton, (d. 1398)S
- Bhimrao Ambedkar, (1891-1956)R
- Ambrose, (c. 340-397)C
- Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri, (d. 992)R
- Ammonius Hermiae, (5th century)RS
- Ammonius Saccas, (3rd century)C
- André-Marie Ampère, (1775-1836)E
- Anton Wilhelm Amo, (1703-c. 1759)R
- Anaxagoras, (died 462 BC)CEORS
- Anaxarchus, (fl. 340 BC)R
- Anaximander, (c. 610 BC-c. 546 BC)CEOR
- Anaximenes of MiletusCEOR
- Alan Ross Anderson, (1925-1973)O
- John Anderson, (1893-1962)EOR
- Ando Shoeki, (1703-1762)E
- Andronicus of Rhodes, (c. 70 BC)C
- Peter Annet, (1693-1769)E
- Anniceris, (fl. 300 BC)C
- G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918-2001)CEOR
- Anselm, (1034-1109)CEORS
- Antiochus of Ascalon, (c. 130-68 BC)CEORS
- Antiphon, (480-403 BC)ER
- Antisthenes, (c. 444-365)OER
- Karl-Otto Apel, (born 1922)E
- Apuleius, (c. 123-c. 180)R
- Thomas Aquinas, (1225-1274)CEORS
- Isaac ben Moses Arama, (1420-1494)R
- Arcesilaus, (316-241 BC)CEORS
- Archytas, (428-347 BC)CERS
- Roberto Ardigò, (1828-1920)E
- Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975)CEORS
- Aristippus of Cyrene, (c. 435-366 BC)EOR
- Aristo of Chios, (fl. 250 BC)ER
- Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC)CEOR
- Arius, (256-336)E
- Mohammed Arkoun, (born 1928)E
- Jacobus Arminius, (1560-1609)CE
- David Malet Armstrong, (born 1926)CEOR
- Antoine Arnauld, (1612-1694)CEORS
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888)E
- Kenneth Arrow, (born 1921)O
- Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus, (1894-1975)R
- Mary Astell, (1666-1731)CERS
- Athanasius of Alexandria, (298-373)C
- Augustine of Hippo, (354-430)CEORS
- Marcus Aurelius, (121-180)COR
- Peter Aureol, (c. 1280-1322)RS
- Sri Aurobindo, (1872-1950)OR
- John Austin, (1790-1859)CEORS
- John Langshaw Austin, (1911-1960)CEOR
- Richard Avenarius, (1843-1896)CEOR
- Averroes (or Ibn Rushd), (1126-1198)CEOR
- Avicenna (or Ibn Sina), (980-1037)CEOR
- Alfred Jules Ayer, (1910-1989)CEORS
[edit] B
- Franz Xaver von Baader, (1765-1841)E
- Charles Babbage, (1791-1871)C
- Gaston Bachelard, (1884-1962)CEOR
- Johann Jakob Bachofen, (1815-1887)E
- Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)CEORS
- Roger Bacon, (1214-1294)CEORS
- 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
- Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, (1741-1792)E
- Annette Baier, (born 1929)E
- Kurt Baier, (born 1917)E
- Alexander Bain, (1818-1903)E
- Lynne Rudder Baker, (born 1944)E
- Mikhail Bakhtin, (1895-1975)CEOR
- Mikhail Bakunin, (1814-1876)CEOR
- Arthur Balfour, (1848-1930)E
- John Balguy, (1686-1748)E
- Domingo Báñez, (1528-1604)CER
- Antonio Banfi, (1886-1957)E
- Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi, (1070-1136)R
- Jonathan Barnes, (born 1942)O
- Brian Barry, (born 1936)O
- Karl Barth, (1886-1968)EOR
- Roland Barthes, (1915-1980)CER
- Bartolus de Saxoferrato, (1313-1357)R
- Johann Bernhard Basedow, (1724-1790)E
- Basilides, (c. 117-138)C
- Georges Bataille, (1897-1962)CER
- Charles Batteux, (1713-1780)E
- Jean Baudrillard, (1929-2007) ERS
- Bruno Bauer, (1809-1882)EORS
- David Baumgardt, (1890-1963)R
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, (1714-1762)CER
- Pierre Bayle, (1647-1706)CEORS
- Monroe Beardsley, (1915-1985)E
- James Beattie, (1735-1803)CER
- Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, (1738-1794)CE
- JaKob Sigismund Beck, (1761-1840)ER
- Vissarion Belinsky, (1811-1848)ER
- Robert Bellarmine, (1542-1621)E
- Nuel Belnap, (born 1930)O
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke, (1798-1854)CE
- Walter Benjamin, (1892-1940)EOR
- Gottfried Benn, (1886-1956)E
- Jonathan Bennett, (born 1930)EO
- Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832)CEOR
- Richard Bentley, (1662-1742)R
- Nikolai Berdyaev, (1874-1948)CEOR
- Gustav Bergmann, (1906-1987)CEO
- Henri Bergson, (1859-1941)CEORS
- George Berkeley, (1685-1753)CEORS
- Isaiah Berlin, (1909-1997)CEORS
- Claude Bernard, (1813-1878)E
- Bernard of Chartres, (d. 1130)CE
- Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090-1153)CER
- Bernard Silvestris (or Bernard of Tours), (1147-1178)ER
- François Bernier, (1620-1688)R
- Eduard Bernstein, (1850-1932)R
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy, (1901-1972)E
- Bhartrhari, (5th century)R
- Gabriel Biel, (1425-1495)ER
- Georg Bernhard Bilfinger, (1693-1750)E
- Alfred Binet, (1857-1911)E
- Ludwig Binswanger, (1881-1966)E
- Max Black, (1909-1988)EO
- Simon Blackburn, (born 1944)O
- William Blackstone, (1723-1780)R
- Hugh Blair, (1718-1800)R
- William Blake, (1757-1827)E
- Maurice Blanchot, (1907-2003)ER
- Brand Blanshard, (1892-1987)EO
- Blasius of Parma (or Biagio Pelacani da Parma), (1345-1416)R
- Ernst Bloch, (1885-1977)CEOR
- Ned Block, (born 1942)O
- Maurice Blondel, (1861-1949)CE
- Charles Blount, (1654-1693)E
- Norberto Bobbio, (1909-2004)OR
- Jean Bodin, (1530-1596)CEORS
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (AD 480-524 or 525)CEORS
- Boetius of Dacia, (c. 1240-c. 1280)ER
- Alexander Bogdanov, (1873-1928)OR
- Jakob Böhme, (1575-1624)CER
- David Bohm, (1917-1992)E
- Niels Bohr, (1885-1962)EOR
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, (1636-1711)E
- Samuel Bold, (1649-1737)R
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, (1678-1751)E
- Ludwig Boltzmann, (1844-1906)CEO
- Bernard Bolzano, (1781-1848)CEORS
- Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, (1754-1840)E
- Francesco Bonatelli, (1830-1911)E
- Bonaventure, (1221-1274)CEORS
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906-1945)ER
- Charles Bonnet, (1720-1793)ER
- George Boole, (1815-1864)EOR
- Bernard Bosanquet, (1848-1923)CEORS
- Rudjer Boscovich, (1711-1787)CE
- Pierre Bourdieu, (1930-2002)R
- Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, (1627-1704)E
- Christopher Jacob Boström, (1797-1866)E
- Henri de Boulainvilliers, (1658-1722)E
- Emile Boutroux, (1845-1921)R
- Oets Kolk Bouwsma, (1898-1978)C
- Borden Parker Bowne, (1847-1910)ER
- Robert Boyle, (1627-1691)CEORS
- F. H. Bradley, (1846-1924)CEORS
- Thomas Bradwardine, (c. 1290-1349)ER
- Richard-Bevan Braithwaite, (1900-1990)EO
- Richard B. Brandt, (1910-1997)CEO
- Franz Brentano, (1838-1917)CEORS
- Percy Williams Bridgman, (1882-1961)EOR
- Edgar S. Brightman, (1884-1953)EO
- 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)CEOR
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, (1881-1966)CEOS
- Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)ER
- Peter Browne, (1666-1735)R
- Orestes Brownson, (1803-1876)EO
- Emil Brunner, (1889-1966)ER
- Giordano Bruno, (1548-1600)CEOR
- Leon Brunschvicg, (1869–1944)CEOR
- James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, (1838-1922)R
- Martin Buber, (1878-1965)CEORS
- Justus Buchler, (1914-1991)O
- Ludwig Büchner, (1824-1899)R
- Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821-1862)E
- Malcolm Budd, (born 1941)O
- Johann Franz Buddeus, (1667-1729)E
- Buddhaghosa, (5th century)C
- Claude Buffier, (1661-1737)R
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707-1788)ER
- Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov, (1871-1944)ER
- Edward Bullough, (1880-1934)E
- Rudolf Bultmann, (1884-1976)EOR
- Jacob Burckhardt, (1818-1897)EO
- Tyler Burge, (born 1946)O
- Jean Buridan, (1300-1358)CEORS
- Edmund Burke, (1729-1797)CEORS
- Walter Burley, (c. 1275-c. 1345)CERS
- Myles Frederic Burnyeat, (born 1939)O
- Richard Burthogge, (1638-1704)ER
- Joseph Butler, (1692-1752)CEOR
- Samuel Butler, (1835-1902)EO
[edit] C
- Pierre Jean George Cabanis, (1757-1808)ER
- Amílcar Cabral, (1924-1973)R
- Edward Caird, (1835-1908)CE
- Dorion Cairns, (1901-1973)E
- Thomas Cajetan, (1469-1534)COR
- Calcidius, (4th century)R
- Mario Calderoni, (1879-1914)E
- Callicles, (late 5th century BC)RS
- John Calvin, (1509-1564)CER
- Tommaso Campanella, (1568-1639)CEORS
- George Campbell, (1719-1796)R
- Norman Robert Campbell, (1880-1949)CER
- Albert Camus, (1913-1960)CEOR
- Georges Canguilhem, (1904-1995)C
- Georg Cantor, (1845-1918)CEOR
- Johannes Capreolus, (1380-1444)ER
- Claudia Card, (born 1940)E
- Gerolamo Cardano, (1501-1576)R
- Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)CER
- Gershom Carmichael, (c. 1672-1729)R
- Rudolf Carnap, (1891-1970)CEOR
- Carneades, (c. 214-129 BC)EORS
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898)CEOR
- Nancy Cartwright (born 1943)EO
- Carl Gustav Carus, (1789-1869)E
- Paul Carus, (1852-1919)E
- Antonio Caso, (1883-1946)E
- Ernst Cassirer, (1874-1945)CEORS
- Hector-Neri Castañeda, (1924-1991)C
- Carlo Cattaneo, (1801-1869)ER
- Stanley Cavell, (born 1926)CEOR
- Margaret Cavendish, (1623-1673)CER
- Celsus of Alexandria, (2nd century)CER
- Michel de Certeau, (1925-1986)R
- Pyotr Chaadaev, (1794-1856)ER
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain, (1855-1927)E
- Chanakya (or Kautilya) (321-296 BC)R
- Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or Zhang Xuecheng), (1738-1801)C
- Chang Tsai (or Zhang Zai), (1020-1077)R
- William Ellery Channing, (1780-1842)E
- Walter Charleton, (1619-1707)R
- Pierre Charron, (1541-1603)CER
- François-René de Chateaubriand, (1768-1848)E
- Walter Chatton, (1290-1343)ERS
- Ch'en Hsien-chang, (1428-1500)C
- Cheng Hao (or Ch'eng Ming-Tao), (1032-1085)CER
- Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan), (127-200)R
- Cheng Yi (or Ch'eng Yi Chu'an), (1033-1107)CER
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky, (1828-1889)ER
- Chia Yi (or Jia Yi or Chia I), (201-169 BC)CR
- Chiao Hung, (1540-1620)C
- Boris Chicherin, (1828-1904)E
- Ch'ien Mu, (1895-1990)C
- Chih Tun (or Zhi Dun) (314-366)R
- William Chillingworth, (1602-1644)R
- Roderick Chisholm, (1916-1999)CEOR
- Noam Chomsky, (born 1928)CEOR
- 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
- Chrysippus, (279-207 BC)OER
- Thomas Chubb, (1679-1747)E
- Alonzo Church, (1903-1995)CEOR
- Patricia Churchland, (born 1943)C
- Paul Churchland, (born 1942)CO
- Leon Chwistek, (1884-1944)E
- Cicero, (106 BC-43 BC)CEOR
- August Cieszkowski, (1814-1894)R
- Hélène Cixous, (born 1937)ER
- Clarembald of Arras, (1110-1187)R
- Samuel Clarke, (1675-1729)CEORS
- Johannes Clauberg, (1622-1665)ER
- Cleanthes, (301-232 BC)ER
- Clement of Alexandria, (2nd-3rd century)CER
- Cleomedes, (2nd century)R
- William Kingdon Clifford, (1845-1879)CEO
- Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679-1749)CERS
- Lorraine Code, (born 1937)E
- G.A. Cohen, (born 1941)O
- Hermann Cohen, (1842-1918)CEOR
- L. Jonathan Cohen, (born 1923)O
- Morris Raphael Cohen, (1880-1947)E
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834)EOR
- John Colet, (1466-1519)E
- Lucio Colletti, (1924-2001)O
- Arthur Collier, (1680-1732)CER
- R. G. Collingwood, (1889-1943)CEORS
- Anthony Collins, (1676-1729)EORS
- John Comenius, (1592-1670)EOR
- Auguste Comte, (1798-1857)CEOR
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (1715-1780)CEORS
- Marquis de Condorcet, (1743-1794)CER
- Confucius, (551 BC - 479 BC)CEORS
- Benjamin Constant, (1767-1830)COR
- Lady Anne Finch Conway, (1631-1679)CEORS
- Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473-1543)EORS
- Henry Corbin, (1903-1978)E
- Geraud de Cordemoy, (1626-1684)CERS
- Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, (1522-1570)E
- Uriel da Costa, (1585-1640)E
- Antoine Augustin Cournot, (1801-1877)CER
- Victor Cousin, (1792-1867)CER
- Louis Couturat, (1868-1914)CEO
- William Crathorn, (14th century)RS
- Cratylus, (c. 400 BC)EOR
- James Edwin Creighton, (1861-1924)E
- Hasdai Crescas, (c. 1340-1410)CEOR
- Benedetto Croce, (1866-1952)CEOR
- Christian August Crusius, (1715-1775)CER
- Ralph Cudworth, (1617-1688)EOR
- Nathaniel Culverwel, (1619-1651)ER
- Richard Cumberland, (1631?-1718)CER
- Cyrano de Bergerac, (1619-1655)E
- Heinrich Czolbe, (1819-1873)C
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 E: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Second Edition). Martin Gale; 2006. ISBN 0-02-865780-2
- 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 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 1998. ISBN 978-0415073103
- 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).