List of philosophers (R-Z)
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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] R
- François Rabelais, (1493-1553)R
- Gustav Radbruch, (1878-1949)R
- Janet Radcliffe Richards, (born 1944)O
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, (1888-1975)OR
- Assi Rahbani, (1923-1986)
- Karl Rahner, (1904-1984)R
- Ramanuja, (1017-1137)COR
- Frank P. Ramsey, (1903-1930)CORS*
- Ian Thomas Ramsey, (1915-1972)R
- Paul Ramsey, (1913-1988)
- Petrus Ramus, (1515-1572)CRS*
- Jacques Rancière, (born 1940)
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)R
- Hastings Rashdall, (1858-1924)COR
- Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, (1813-1900)R
- John Rawls, (1921-2002)COR
- John Ray, (1627-1705)C
- Daniel Raymond
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (or Rhazes), (865-925)CR
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, (1149-1209)R
- Paul Ree, (1849-1901)O
- Pierre-Sylvain Regis, (1632-1707)R
- August Wilhelm Rehberg S*
- Wilhelm Reich, (1897-1957)O
- Hans Reichenbach, (1891-1953)COR
- Thomas Reid, (1710-1796)CORS
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus, (1694-1768)C
- Adolf Reinach, (1883-1917)R
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold, (1757-1823)CRS
- Karl Renner, (1870-1950)R
- Charles Bernard Renouvier, (1815-1903)COR
- Nicholas Rescher, (born 1928)O
- Rgyal tshab dar ma rin chen (or Gyeltsap darma rinchen) (1364-1432)R
- David Ricardo, (1772-1823)
- Richard of Middleton, (c. 1249-1306)R
- Richard of St. Victor, (d. 1173)R
- Richard Rufus of Cornwall (or Richardus Sophista) (1231-1259)CRS
- I. A. Richards, (1893-1979)
- Radovan Richta, (1924-1983)
- Heinrich Rickert, (1863-1936)S*
- Paul Ricoeur, (1913-2005)CORS
- Bernhard Riemann, (1826-1866)
- R.R. Rockingham Gill
- Jacques Rohault, (1617-1672)R
- Erwin Rohde, (1845-1898)
- Francisco Romero (1891-1962)O
- Avital Ronell
- Richard Rorty, (1931-2007)CORS
- Vasily Rozanov, (1856-1919)
- Roscelin of Compiègne, (c. 1050-c. 1120)CR
- Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, (1805-1879)
- Franz Rosenzweig, (1886-1929)COR
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, (1797-1855)CRS
- Alf Niels Christian Ross, (1899-1979)R
- William David Ross, (1877-1971)COR
- Gian-Carlo Rota, (1932-1999)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)COR
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760-1825)
- Joseph Rovan, (1918-2004)
- Josiah Royce, (1865-1916)CORS
- Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, (1763-1845)
- Vasily Rozanov, (1856-1919)R
- Ruan Ji, (210-263)C
- Arnold Ruge, (1802-1880)R
- Michael Ruse, (born 1940)
- Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)CORS
- Jan van Ruysbroek, (1293-1381)
- Gilbert Ryle, (1900-1976)COR
[edit] S
- Sa skya pandita (or Sagya pandita or Sagypandita), (1182-1251)R
- Saadia Gaon, (892-942)CORS
- Mulla Hadi Sabzevari, (1797-1873)R
- Mark Sainsbury, (born 1943)O
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760-1825)COR
- Émile Saisset, (1814-1863)
- Nathan Salmon, (born 1951)
- Wesley Salmon, (1925-2001)O
- Francisco Sanches, (1551-1623)CR
- Michael Sandel, (born 1953)O
- George Santayana, (1863-1952)CORS
- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, (1921-1990)
- Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980)CORS
- Crispin Sartwell, (born 1958)
- John Ralston Saul, (born 1947)
- Ferdinand de Saussure, (1857-1913)CR
- Fernando Savater, (born 1947)
- Friedrich Karl von Savigny, (1779-1861)R
- Julius Caesar Scaliger, (1484-1558)
- Thomas Scanlon, (born 1940)
- Richard Schacht, (born 1941)O
- Max Scheler, (1874-1928)COR
- Friedrich Schelling, (1775-1852)CORS
- Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, (1864-1937)R
- Friedrich Schiller, (1759-1805)COR
- Friedrich Schlegel, (1772 - 1829)CRS*
- Hubert Schleichert
- Friedrich Schleiermacher, (1768 - 1834)CRS
- Moritz Schlick, (1882-1936)OR
- Carl Schmitt, (1888-1985)R
- J.B. Schneewind, (born 1930)
- Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788-1860)CORS
- Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)C
- Gottlob Ernst Schulze, (1761-1833)C
- Joseph Schumpeter, (1883-1950)R
- Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607-1678)R
- Alfred Schütz, (1899-1959)ORS
- Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965)
- Roger Scruton, (born 1944)O
- John Searle, (born 1932)COR
- Charles Secretan, (1815-1895)
- Michal Sedziwój, (1566-1636)
- John Selden, (1584-1654)R
- Roy Wood Sellars, (1880-1973)O
- Wilfrid Sellars, (1912-1989)CORS
- Amartya Sen, (born 1933)O
- Seneca the Younger, (c. 4 BC-AD 65)OR
- Sengzhao, (384-414)R
- Ardeshir Sepahsalar, (born 1971)
- John Sergeant, (1623-1704)R
- Michel Serres, (born 1930)
- Sextus Empiricus, (2nd/3rd century)COR
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, (1671-1713)CORS
- Shah Wali Allah (or Qutb al-Din Ahmad al-Rahim or Waliullah), (1703-1762)R
- Shang Yang (or Gongsun Yang), (d. 338 BC)C
- Adi Shankara, (788-820)COR
- Shao Yung, (1011-1077)CR
- Johannes Sharpe, (ca. 1360-after 1415)S
- Darius Shayegan
- Shen Buhai, (d. 337 BC)C
- Shen Dao (or Shen Tzu), (c. 350-275 BC)C
- Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777-1847)C
- Lev Shestov, (1866-1938)R
- Shinran, (1173-1261)R
- Sydney Shoemaker, (born 1931)O
- Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, (1879-1937)CR
- Shuju
- Henry Sidgwick, (1838-1900)CORS
- Sigerus of Brabant, (1240-1284)CR
- Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart, (1789-1844)
- Abu Sulayman Muhammad al-Sijistani, (c. 932-c. 1000)R
- Francesco Silvestri (or Francis Sylvester of Ferrara), (1474-1528)R
- Georg Simmel, (1858-1918)CR
- Simon of Faversham, (ca. 1260-1306)S
- Simplicius of Cilicia, (early 6th century)CRS*
- Peter Singer, (born 1946)O
- B. F. Skinner, (1904-1990)R
- Thoralf Skolem, (1887-1963)C
- Hryhori Skovoroda, (1722-1794)R
- Peter Sloterdijk, (born 1947)
- J. J. C. Smart, (born 1920)COR
- Adam Smith, (1723-1790)COR
- Huston Smith, (born 1919)
- Michael Smith, (born 1954)
- Raymond Smullyan, (born 1919)
- Joseph D. Sneed
- Jan Sniadecki, (1756-1830)
- Scott Soames, (born 1946)
- Elliot Sober
- Socrates, (470 BC-399 BC)CORS
- Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash ibn Amirak al-Sohravardi (or al-Suhrawardi), (1154-1191)OR
- Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, (1780-1890)
- Joseph Soloveitchik, (1903-1993)RS*
- Vladimir Solovyov, (1853-1900)COR
- Richard Ruston Kharsedji Sorabji, (born 1934)O
- Georges Sorel, (1847-1922)COR
- William Ritchie Sorley, (1855-1935)
- Abdolkarim Soroush
- Ernest Sosa, (born 1940)O
- Sosan Hyujong, (1520-1604)R
- Domingo de Soto, (1494-1560)CR
- Othmar Spann, (1878-1950)
- Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903)CORS
- Thomas Spencer Baynes, (1823-1887)
- Oswald Spengler, (1880-1936)
- Speusippus, (410-339 BC)ORS
- Herbert Spiegelberg, (1904-1990)
- Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677)CORS
- Afrikan Spir, (1837-1890)C
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (born 1942)
- Lysander Spooner, (1808-1887)
- Timothy L.S. Sprigge, (born 1932)O
- Edward Stachura, (1937-1979)
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (1766-1817)R
- James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, (1619-1695)R
- Robert Stalnaker, (born 1940)O
- Henry Stanton, (1805-1887)
- Olaf Stapledon, (1886-1950)
- Stanislaw Staszic, (1755-1826)
- L. Susan Stebbing, (1885-1943)
- Edith Stein, (1891-1942)
- Rudolf Steiner, (1861-1925)CR
- Leslie Stephen, (1832-1904)C
- Charles Leslie Stevenson, (1908-1979)OR
- Dugald Stewart, (1753-1828)OR
- Stephen Stich, (born 1944)O
- Edward Stillingfeet, (1635-1699)C
- Stilpo
- James Hutchison Stirling, (1820-1909)
- Max Stirner, (1806-1856)CORS
- George Frederick Stout, (1860-1944)CO
- David Stove, (1927-1994)
- Strato of Lampsacus, (c. 340-c. 268 BC)CR
- David Friedrich Strauss, (1808-1874)R
- Leo Strauss, (1899-1973)R
- Galen Strawson, (born 1952)
- P. F. Strawson, (1919-2006)COR
- Barry Stroud, (born 1935)O
- Carl Stumpf, (1848-1936)
- Francisco Suárez, (1548-1617)CORS*
- Gabrielle Suchon, (1631-1703)R
- Sun Tzu
- Sun Yat-sen, (1866-1925)C
- Sung Hsing (or Sung Tzu), (360-290 BC)C
- Henry Suso, (1300-1366)R
- Emanuel Swedenborg, (1688-1772)R
- Richard Swinburne, (born 1934)CO
- Syrianus S*
- David Sztybel, (born 1967)
[edit] T
- Javad Tabatabaei
- Debendranath Tagore, (1817-1905)
- Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941)OR
- Tai Chen (or Dai Zhen or Tai Tung-Yuan), (1724-1777)CER
- Hippolyte Taine, (1828-1893)R
- T'an Ssu-t'ung, (1864-1898)C
- Tanabe Hajime, (1885-1962)OR
- T'ang Chun-i, (1909-1978)C
- Alfred Tarski, (1901-1983)CORS*
- Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz, (1886-1980)
- Johannes Tauler, (c. 1300-1361)R
- Nicolaus Taurellus
- Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, (c. 930-1023)R
- Charles Taylor, (born 1931)COR
- Harriet Taylor Mill, (1807-1858)CRS
- Richard Taylor, (1919-2003)O
- Gustav Teichmuller (1837-1888)C
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, (1881-1955)CR
- Bernardino Telesio, (1509-1588)CRS
- Placide Tempels, (1906-1977)
- William Temple, (1881-1944)R
- Frederick Robert Tennant, (1866-1957)R
- Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582)C
- Tertullian, (c. 160-c. 220)CR
- Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, (1736-1807)CR
- Thales, (c. 635 BC-543 BC)COR
- Themistius, (317-387)R
- Theodorus of Cyrene, (c. 465-398 BC)
- Theophrastus, (372-287 BC)OR
- Helmut Thielicke, (1908-1986)R
- Thierry of Chartres, (fl. c. 1130-1150)R
- Thomas à Kempis, (1380-1471)R
- Thomas of Erfurt, [[14th century)S
- Thomas of York, (13th century)R
- Christian Thomasius, (1655-1728)R
- William Thompson, (1775-1833)
- Judith Jarvis Thomson, (born 1929)CO
- Henry David Thoreau, (1817-1862)CORS
- Thrasymachus, (5th century BC)CRS
- Thucydides, (c. 460-c. 400 BC)R
- Paul Tillich, (1886-1965)CR
- Timaeus of Locres, (5th century BC)
- Timon of Phlius, (c. 300 BC)RS
- Matthew Tindal, (1657-1733)R
- Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805-1859)R
- Tzvetan Todorov, (born 1939)R
- John Toland, (1670-1722)OR
- Francisco de Toledo, (1515-1584)CR
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910)R
- Tominaga Nakamoto, (1715-1746)R
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Ernst Troeltsch, (1865-1923)CR
- Leon Trotsky, (1879-1940)OR
- Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, (1651-1708)R
- Je Tsongkhapa (or Dzongkaba or Rinpoche), (1357-1419)R
- Abraham Tucker, (1705-1774)R
- Benjamin Tucker, (1854-1939)
- Peter Tudvad
- Ernst Tugendhat, (born 1930)O
- Raimo Tuomela, (born 1940)
- Alan Turing, (1912-1954)ORS
- George Turnball, (1698-1748)CR
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, (1201-1274)R
- Kazimierz Twardowski, (1866-1938)OR
- Michael Tye
- TK Neezar Ahmed
[edit] U
- Pietro Ubaldi, (1886-1972)
- Udayana, (11th century)R
- Uddyotakara, (6th century)R
- Uisang, (625-702)R
- Ulrich of Strasbourg, (1220-1277)R
- Hermann Ulrici
- Miguel de Unamuno, (1864-1936)COR
- Peter Unger
- Dimitri Uznadze, (1886-1950)
[edit] V
- Hans Vaihinger, (1852-1933)COR
- Valentinius (or Valentinus), (c. 100-c. 153)C
- Lorenzo Valla, (1406-1457)CORS*
- Vallabhacharya, (1479-1531)R
- Bas C. van Fraassen, (born 1941)O
- Peter van Inwagen
- Giulio Cesare Vanini, (1585-1619)C
- Francisco Varela, (1946-2001)
- Vasubandhu, (4th century)CR
- Vatsyayana, (5th century)R
- Emerich de Vattel, (1714-1767)
- Gianni Vattimo, (born 1936)R
- Vauvenargues, (1715-1747)C
- Gabriel Vazquez, (1549-1604)C
- John Venn, (1834-1923)R
- Henry Babcock Veatch, (1911-1997)
- Nicoletto Vernia, (1442-1499)R
- Giambattista Vico, (1668-1744)CORS
- Milan Vidmar, (1885-1962)
- Michel Villey, (1914-1988)R
- Vital Du Four, (1260-1327)R
- Francisco de Vitoria, (1492-1546)COR
- Juan Luís Vives, (1492-1540)CR
- Gregory Vlastos, (1907-1991)OR
- Eric Voegelin, (1901-1985)R
- Voltaire, (1694-1778)OR
- Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916-2003)COR
- Lev Vygotsky, (1896-1934)OR
- Boris Petrovich Vysheslavtsev, (1877-1954)R
[edit] W
- Jean Wahl, (1888-1974)
- Friedrich Waismann, (1896-1959)
- David Walford
- Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913)R
- Michael Walzer, (born 1935)O
- Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, (born 1942)
- Wang Ch'ung, (27-97)CR
- Wang Fuzhi (or Wang Fu-Chih or Wang Chuanshan), (1619-1692)CR
- Hao Wang, (1921-1995)O
- Wang Pi, (226-249)C
- Wang Yangming, (1472-1529)COR
- James Ward, (1843-1925)C
- Geoffrey J. Warnock, (1923-1996)O
- Mary Warnock, (born 1924)O
- John B. Watson, (1878-1958)O
- Watsuji Tetsuro, (1889-1960)ORS
- Alan Watts, (1915-1973)
- Max Weber, (1864-1920)CORS*
- Eric Weil, (1904-1977)
- Simone Weil, (1909-1943)COR
- Ota Weinberger, (born 1919)R
- Otto Weininger, (1880-1903)
- Christian Hermann Weisse
- Victoria, Lady Welby, (1837-1912)
- Felix Weltsch, (1884- 1964)
- Cornel West, (born 1953)
- Edvard Westermarck, (1862-1939)C
- Hermann Weyl, (1885-1955)R
- Frantisek Weyr (or Franz Weyr), (1879-1951)R
- William Whewell, (1794-1866)CORS
- Benjamin Whichcote, (1609-1683)
- Thomas White, (1593-1676)R
- Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947)CORS
- David Wiggins, (born 1933)O
- William of Alnwick, (1270-1333)C
- William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, (1180-1249)CRS*
- William of Auxerre, (d. 1231)CR
- William of Champeaux, (c. 1070-1121)RS
- William of Conches, (c. 1080 - 1154)R
- William of Moerbeke, (c. 1215-1286)C
- William of Shyreswood (or William of Sherwood), (1190-1249)CR
- Bernard Williams, (1929-2003)CORS
- Timothy Williamson, (born 1955)
- John Cook Wilson, (1849-1915)C
- Peter Winch, (1926-1997)O
- Wilhelm Windelband, (1848-1915)CS*
- Kwasi Wiredu, (born 1931)
- John Wisdom, (1904-1993)O
- John Witherspoon, (1723-1794)R
- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, (1885-1939)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, (1889-1951)CORS
- Adam de Wodeham, (1298-1358)CR
- Christian Wolff, (1679-1754)COR
- William Wollaston, (1659-1724)CR
- Richard Wollheim, (1923-2003)O
- Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797)COR
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, (born 1932)
- Wonchuk, (613-696)R
- Wonhyo Daisa, (617-686)R
- Woo Tsin-hang (or Chih-hui}, (1865-1953)
- Chauncey Wright, (1830-1875)COS
- Crispin Wright, (born 1942)O
- Dorothy Maud Wrinch, (1894-1976)
- Jerzy Wroblewski, (1926-1990)R
- Wilhelm Wundt, (1832-1920)CRS*
- John Wyclif, (c. 1330-1384)CORS
[edit] X
- Xenocrates, (396-314 BC)ORS
- Xenophanes of Colophon, (570-480 BC)CORS
- Xenophon, (427-355 BC)CR
- Xun Zi (or Hsun Tzu), (c. 310-237 BC)CORS*
[edit] Y
- Yajnavalkya, (c. 1800 BC)
- Yang Chu, (370-319 BC)CR
- Yang Xiong (or Yang Hsiung) (53 BC-AD 18)CR
- Yen Yuan (1635-1704)C
- Yi Hwang (or Toegye) (1501-1570)R
- Yi I (or Yi Yulgok or Yi Yi) (1536-1584)R
- Yi Kan (1677-1727)R
- Francis Parker Yockey, (1917-1960)
- Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995)
[edit] Z
- Jacopo Zabarella, (1533-1589)CRS
- Peter Wessel Zapffe, (1899-1990)
- Zeami Motokiyo, (c.1363–c.1443)R
- Eduard Zeller, (1814-1908)
- Zeno of Citium, (333 BC-264 BC)OR
- Zeno of Elea, (circa 495 BC-circa 430 BC)OR
- Zeno of Sidon, (1st century BC)
- Zeno of Tarsus
- Ernst Zermelo, (1871-1953)R
- Philip Zhai
- Zhiyi (538-597)R
- Zhou Guoping
- Zhu Xi (or Chu Hsi), (1130-1200))COR
- Zhuang Zi (or Chuang Tzu or Chuang Chou), (circa 300 BC)COS
- Slavoj Žižek, (1949-)
- Florian Znaniecki, (1882-1958)
- Zongmi (780-841)R
- Zou Yan, (3rd century BC)C
- Xavier Zubiri, (1889-1983)
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).