List of philosophers of science
See also: Index of philosophy of science articles
This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science.
Before the 16th century
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Empedocles
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Robert Grosseteste
- Roger Bacon
16th century
- Sir Francis Bacon
17th century
- Galileo Galilei
- René Descartes
- Sir Isaac Newton
18th century
19th century
- Auguste Comte
- John Stuart Mill
- William Whewell
- George Henry Lewes
- Edmund Husserl
- Ernst Mach
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Frederick Engels
1900–1930
- Henri Poincaré
- Pierre Duhem
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Moritz Schlick
- John Dewey
- Alfred North Whitehead
1930–1960
- Alfred Ayer
- Hans Reichenbach
- Georges Canguilhem
- Kenneth Craik
- Alexandre Koyré
- Sir Karl Popper
- Rudolf Carnap
- Michael Polanyi
- Otto Neurath
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Paul Oppenheim
- Gaston Bachelard
- R. B. Braithwaite
- Werner Heisenberg
- Taketani Mitsuo
- Stephen Toulmin
1960–1980
- David Bloor
- Mario Bunge
- Paul Feyerabend
- Mary Hesse
- Thomas Kuhn
- Imre Lakatos
- Ernest Nagel
- Hilary Putnam
- W.V. Quine
- Michael Ruse
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
1980–present
- Donna Haraway
- David Albert
- Richard Boyd
- Arturo Carsetti
- Nancy Cartwright
- David Castle
- Alan Chalmers
- Noam Chomsky
- Tim Crane
- Daniel Dennett
- John Dupré
- John Earman
- Bas van Fraassen
- Ronald Giere
- Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Adolf Grünbaum
- Ian Hacking
- Sandra Harding
- Michał Heller
- Pierre Jacob
- Philip Kitcher
- Larry Laudan
- John Lennox
- Isaac Levi
- Peter Lipton
- Helen Longino
- Ernan McMullin
- Peter Medawar
- Stephen C. Meyer
- John E. Murdoch
- Nancey Murphy
- Basarab Nicolescu
- Roger Penrose
- John Polkinghorne
- Alex Rosenberg
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Brian Skyrms
- Patrick Suppes
- David Stove
- Wolfgang Stegmüller
- Elliott Sober
- Kim Sterelny
- Richard Swinburne
- Sandra Mitchell
- Lawrence Sklar
- Claudine Tiercelin
- Gerard Verschuuren
- John Worrall