List of philosophers born in the 20th century

Philosophers born in the 20th century (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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A

• Nicola Abbagnano, (1901–1990)
• Peter Achinstein
• H. B. Acton, (1908–1974)
• Marilyn McCord Adams, (1943- )^[b][c]
• Robert Merrihew Adams, (1937- )^[b][c]
• Mortimer Adler, (1902–2001)
• Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Sediq Afghan, (1958- )
• Giorgio Agamben, (1942- )
• Hans Albert, (1921- )
• Rogers Albritton, (1923–2002)
• Virgil Aldrich, (1903–1998)^[b]
• Gerda Alexander (1908–1994)
• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, (1912–1999)
• Robert Alexy, (1945- )
• Diogenes Allen (1932- )
• William Alston, (1921–2009)^[a][b][c]
• Louis Althusser, (1918–1990)^[a][b][c][d]
• Alan Ross Anderson, (1925–1973)^[b][c]
• C. Anthony Anderson, (1940- )
• Pamela Sue Anderson
• G. E. M. Anscombe, (1918–2001)^[a][b][c][d]
• Karl-Otto Apel, (1922- )
• Kwame Anthony Appiah, (1954- )
• Hannah Arendt, (1906–1975)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• David Malet Armstrong, (1926- )^[a][b][c][d]
• Raymond Aron, (1905–1983)
• Robert Audi, (1941- )
• John Langshaw Austin, (1911–1960)^[a][b][c][d]
• Alfred Jules Ayer, (1910–1989)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}

B

• Albena Bakratcheva, (1961-)
• Archie J. Bahm, (1907–1996)
• Alain Badiou, (1937-)
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (1915–1975)
• Roland Barthes, (1915–1980)^[a][c][d]
• Jon Barwise, (1942–2000)
• Jean Baudrillard, (1929–2007)^[c][d][e]
• Monroe Beardsley, (1915–1985)
• Jean Beaufret, (1907–1982)
• Lewis White Beck, (1913–1997)
• Gustav Bergmann, (1906–1987)^[a][b][c]
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Alfred Bernhart, (1914–2008)
• Max Black, (1909–1988)^[b][c]
• Maurice Blanchot, (1907–2003)^[d]
• Allan Bloom, (1930–1992)
• Norberto Bobbio, (1909–2004)^[b][c][d]
• Jozef Maria Bochenski, (1902–1995)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, (1906–1945)^[c][d]
• George Boolos, (1940–1996)
• Pierre Bourdieu, (1930–2002)^[d]
• Richard-Bevan Braithwaite, (1900–1990)^[b][c]
• Richard B. Brandt, (1910–1997)^[a][b]

C

• Amílcar Cabral, (1924–1973)^[d]
• Albert Camus, (1913–1960)^[a][b][c][d]
• Georges Canguilhem, (1904–1995)^[a]
• Hector-Neri Castañeda, (1924–1991)^[a]
• Cornelius Castoriadis, (1922–1997)
• Michel de Certeau, (1925–1986)^[d]
• David Chalmers, (1966– )
• Haridas Chaudhuri, (1913–1975)
• Roderick Chisholm, (1916–1999)^[a][b][c][d]
• Noam Chomsky, (1928-)^[a][b][c][d]
• Alonzo Church, (1903–1995)^[a][b][c][d]
• L. Jonathan Cohen, (1923–2006)^[b][c]
• Lucio Colletti, (1924–2001)^[b][c]
• Frederick Copleston, (1907–1994)
• Olavo de Carvalho, (1947-)

D

• Donald Davidson, (1917–2003)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Simone de Beauvoir, (1908–1986)^[b][c][d][e]
• Alain de Botton, (1969-)
• Bruno de Finetti, (1906–1985)^[b][c]
• Paul de Man, (1919–1983)^[d]
• Guy Debord, (1931–1994)
• Gilles Deleuze, (1925–1995)^[b][c][d][e]
• Bernard Delfgaauw, (1912–1993)
• Daniel Dennett, (1942-)^[a][b][c][d]
• Jacques Derrida, (1930–2004)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Miroslaw Dzielski, (1941–1989)

E

• William A. Earle, (1919–1988)
• James M. Edie, (1927–1998)
• Paul Edwards, (1923–2004)^[b][c]
• Mircea Eliade, (1907–1986)^[d]
• Jacques Ellul, (1912–1994)
• Gareth Evans, (1946–1980)^[b][c][d]
• Ignacio Ellacuria, (1930–1989)

F

• Emil Fackenheim, (1916–2003)^[d][e]*
• Frantz Fanon, (1925–1961)^[b][c][d]
• Austin Marsden Farrer, (1904–1968)^[d]
• Herbert Feigl, (1902–1988)
• Joel Feinberg, (1926–2004)^[b][c]
• Jose Ferrater-Mora, (1912–1991)^[b][c]
• Paul Feyerabend, (1924–1994)^[b][c][d][e]
• Vilém Flusser, (1920–1991)
• Michel Foucault, (1926–1984)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• William K. Frankena, (1908–1994)^[a][b][c]
• Oliver Shewell Franks, (1905–1992)
• Hans Frei, (1922–1988)^[d]
• Northrop Frye, (1912–1991)
• Lon L. Fuller, (1902–1978)^[d]

G

• Hans-Georg Gadamer, (1900–2002)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Peter Geach, (1916-)
• Ernest Gellner (1925–1995)
• Gerhard Gentzen, (1909–1945)^[b][c][d]
• Edmund Gettier, (1927-)^[b][c]
• Alan Gewirth, (1912–2004)^[b][c]
• Kurt Gödel, (1906–1978)^[b][c][d]
• Lucien Goldmann, (1913–1970)
• Nicolás Gómez Dávila, (1913-1994)
• Nelson Goodman, (1906–1998)^[a][b][c][d]
• George Grant, (1918–1988)
• Herbert Paul Grice, (1913–1988)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Félix Guattari, (1930–1992)
• Gotthard Günther, (1900–1984)

H

• Jürgen Habermas, (1929-)
• Philip Hallie, (1922–1994)
• Stuart Hampshire, (1914–2004)^[b][c]
• Norwood Russell Hanson, (1922–1967)^[d]
• John E. Hare, (1949–)
• R. M. Hare, (1919–2002)^[a][b][c][d]
• H. L. A. Hart, (1907–1992)^[a][b][c][d]
• Werner Heisenberg, (1901–1976)^[b][c][d]
• Erich Heller, (1911–1990)
• Carl Gustav Hempel, (1905–1997)^[a][b][c][d]
• Michel Henry, (1922–2002)
• Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1907–1972)^[d]
• Sidney Hook, (1902–1989)^[b][c]
• Hsu Fu-kuan, (1903–1982)^[a]
• Jean Hyppolite, (1907–1968)

I

• Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov, (1924–1979)^[d]
• Peter van Inwagen, (1942-)

J

• Erich Jantsch, (1929–1980)
• Richard C. Jeffrey, (1926–2002)^[b][c]
• Hans Jonas, (1903–1993)

K

• Jerrold Katz, (1932–2002)
• Walter Kaufmann, (1921–1980)
• Jaegwon Kim, (1934-)
• Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929–1968)
• William Calvert Kneale, (1906–1990)^[b][c]
• Arthur Koestler, (1905–1983)
• Alexandre Kojève, (1902–1968)^[d]
• Stephan Körner, (1913–2000)
• Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, (1909–1999)
• Thomas Samuel Kuhn, (1922–1996)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}

L

• Jacques Lacan, (1901–1981)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}*
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, (1940–2007)^[d]
• Imre Lakatos, (1922–1974)^[b][c][d][e]*
• Henri Lefebvre, (1901–1991)^[d]
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz, (1903–1994)^[d]
• Emmanuel Levinas, (1906–1995)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• David Kellogg Lewis, (1941–2001)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Suzanne Lilar, (1901–1992)
• Gilles Lipovetsky, (1944-)
• Arthur Lipsett, (1936–1986)
• Knud Ejler Løgstrup, (1905–1981)
• Bernard Lonergan, (1904–1984)^[d]
• Paul Lorenzen, (1915–1995)^[d]
• Jean-François Lyotard, (1924–1998)^[a][b][c][d]

M

• Louis Mackey, (1926–2004)
• John Leslie Mackie, (1917–1981)^[b][c]
• Norman Malcolm, (1911–1990)^[a][b][c]
• Merab Mamardashvili, (1930–1990)^[d]
• Julián Marías, (1914–2005)
• George I. Mavrodes
• Ron McClamrock
• Terence McKenna, (1946–2000)
• Marshall McLuhan, (1911–1980)
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (1908–1961)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Vincent Miceli, (1915–1991)
• Stefan Molyneux, (1966–)
• Richard Montague, (1930–1971)^[c][d]
• Sidney Morgenbesser, (1921–2004)
• Mou Tsung-san, (1909–1995)^[a]
• Iris Murdoch, (1919–1999)^[b][c]

N

• Ernest Nagel, (1901–1985)^[a][b][c][d]
• Thomas Nagel, (1937– )^[a][b][c][d]
• John von Neumann, (1903–1957)^[a][b][c][d]
• Nishitani Keiji, (1900–1990)^[b][c][d]
• Kwame Nkrumah, (1909–1972)^[b][c]
• David L. Norton, (1930–1995)
• Robert Nozick, (1938–2001)^[a][b][c][d]

O

• Michael Oakeshott, (1901–1990)^[a][b][c][d]
• Albert Outler, (1908–1989)
• Gwilyn Ellis Lane Owen, (1922–1982)^[b][c][d]

P

• John Arthur Passmore, (1914–2004)^[d]
• Jan Patočka, (1907–1977)^[d]
• David Pearce,
• Lorenzo Peña, (1944-)
• D. Z. Phillips, (1934–2006)
• Alexander Piatigorsky, (1929–2009)
• Alvin Plantinga, (1932-)
• Louis P. Pojman, (1935–2005)
• Richard Popkin, (1923–2005)
• K. J. Popma, (1903–1986)
• Karl Popper, (1902–1994)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Arthur Prior, (1914–1969)^[c][d][e]
• Harry Prosch, (1917–2005)

Q

• W. V. O. Quine, (1908–2000)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}

R

• James Rachels, (1941–2003)
• Ayn Rand, (1905–1982)^[e]
• Karl Rahner, (1904–1984)^[d]
• Frank P. Ramsey, (1903–1930)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}*
• Ian Thomas Ramsey, (1915–1972)^[d]
• Paul Ramsey, (1913–1988)
• John Rawls, (1921–2002)^[a][b][c][d]
• Joseph Raz, (1939-)
• Radovan Richta, (1924–1983)
• Paul Ricoeur, (1913–2005)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Richard Rorty, (1931–2007)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Gillian Rose, (1947–1995)
• Gian-Carlo Rota, (1932–1999)
• Joseph Rovan, (1918–2004)
• William Rowe, (1931-)
• Gilbert Ryle, (1900–1976)^[a][b][c][d]

S

• Edward Said, (1935–2003)
• Wesley Salmon, (1925–2001)^[b][c]
• Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar, (1921–1990)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905–1980)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Frithjof Schuon, (1907–1998)
• John Searle (1932- )^[a][b][c][d]
• Wilfrid Sellars, (1912–1989)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Amartya Sen, (1933- )^[b][c]
• Stanley Sfekas, (1942- )
• Peter Singer, (1946- )^[b][c]
• B. F. Skinner, (1904–1990)^[d]
• Robert C. Solomon, (1942–2007)
• Joseph Soloveitchik, (1903–1993)^[d][e]*
• David Spangler, (1945-)
• Herbert Spiegelberg, (1904–1990)
• Edward Stachura, (1937–1979)
• Charles Leslie Stevenson, (1908–1979)^[b][c][d]
• David Stove, (1927–1994)
• P. F. Strawson, (1919–2006)^[a][b][c][d]
• Richard Swinburne, (1934- )^[a][b][c]

T

• T'ang Chun-i, (1909–1978)^[a]
• Alfred Tarski, (1901–1983)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Richard Taylor, (1919–2003)^[b][c]
• Placide Tempels, (1906–1977)
• Irving Thalberg Jr., (1930–1988)
• Helmut Thielicke, (1908–1986)^[d]
• Alan Turing, (1912–1954)^[b][c][d][e]

U

• Peter Unger, (1942- )
• Alasdair Urquhart, (1945- )

V

• Francisco Varela, (1946–2001)
• Henry Babcock Veatch, (1911–1997)
• Michel Villey, (1914–1988)^[d]
• Gregory Vlastos, (1907–1991)^[b][c][d]
• Eric Voegelin, (1901–1985)^[d]
• Georg Henrik von Wright, (1916–2003)^[a][b][c][d]

W

• Hao Wang, (1921–1995)^[b][c]
• Geoffrey J. Warnock, (1923–1996)^[b][c]
• Alan Watts, (1915–1973)
• Simone Weil, (1909–1943)^[a][b][c][d]
• John Daniel Wild, (1902–1972)
• Bernard Williams, (1929–2003)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• Peter Winch, (1926–1997)^[b][c]
• John Wisdom, (1904–1993)^[b][c]
• Richard Wollheim, (1923–2003)^[b][c]
• Jerzy Wroblewski, (1926–1990)^[d]

X

Y

• Francis Parker Yockey, (1917–1960)
• Arthur M. Young, (1905–1995)
• Iris M. Young, (1949–2006)

Z

• Aleksandr Zinovyev, (1922–2006)
• Slavoj Žižek, (1949-)

See also

• List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
• List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 17th century
• List of philosophers born in the 18th century
• List of philosophers born in the 19th century

Notes

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