The alphabetical list of philosophers is so large it had to be broken up into several pages. To look up a philosopher you know the name of, click on the first letter of his or her last name. To find philosophers by core area, field, major philosophical tradition, ethnicity, or time periods, see the subheadings further below.
General
Lists of philosophers by core area
- List of epistemologists Outline of epistemology · Alethiology · Formal epistemology · Meta-epistemology · Philosophy of perception · Philosophy of science · Faith and rationality · Theaetetus
- List of ethicists List of ethicists including religious or political figures recognized by those outside their tradition as having made major contributions to ideas about ethics, or raised major controversies by taking strong positions on previously unexplored problems
- List of logicians A logician is a person, such as a philosopher or mathematician, whose topic of scholarly study is logic. The famous logicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order
- List of metaphysicians This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers
- List of social and political philosophers Philosophy of economics · Philosophy of education · Philosophy of history · Jurisprudence · Philosophy of social science · Philosophy of love · Philosophy of sex
- List of political philosophers This is a list of political philosophers, including some who may be better known for their work in other areas of philosophy. Note, however, that the list is for people who are principally philosophers. The philosophers are listed in order by year of birth to show rough direction of influences and of development of political thought. See also,
- List of political theorists This is a list of notable political theorists. See the list of political scientists for those who study politics using the scientific method
Lists of philosophers by field
- List of philosophers of language Plato • Confucius • Xun Zi • Aristotle • Stoics • Pyrrhonists • Scholasticism • Thomas Hobbes • Gottfried Leibniz • Johann Herder • Wilhelm von Humboldt • Fritz Mauthner • Paul Ricoeur • Ferdinand de Saussure • Gottlob Frege • Franz Boas • Paul Tillich • Edward Sapir • Leonard Bloomfield • Zhuangzi • Henri
- List of philosophers of mind Categories: Philosophers of mind | Lists of philosophers
- List of philosophers of religion
- List of philosophers of science Albert Einstein · Alfred North Whitehead · Aristotle · Auguste Comte · Averroes · Berlin Circle · Carl Gustav Hempel · C. D. Broad · Charles Sanders Peirce · Dominicus Gundissalinus · Daniel Dennett · Epicurians · Francis Bacon · Friedrich Schelling · Galileo Galilei · Henri Poincaré · Herbert Spencer · Hugh of Saint Victor ·
Lists of philosophers by major philosophical tradition
- List of analytic philosophers
- List of continental philosophers
- List of Eastern philosophers
- List of notable Marxist theorists This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen to be a member of a nominally communist political party or other organisation
- List of anarchist theorists
Lists of philosophers by philosophical theory
- List of atheists Nontheists, or non-theists, are people who do not believe in deities. They are defined in contradistinction with theists
- List of ancient Platonists
- List of Cynic philosophers This is a list of Cynic philosophers, ordered by date. The criteria for inclusion in this list is fairly mild. See also Category:Cynic philosophers
- List of environmental philosophers This list includes living or recently deceased individuals who have published in the field of environmental ethics/philosophy , and those who are commonly regarded as precursors to the field. See below for a list of leading philosophy programs in environmental ethics/philosophy. The list should serve students, scholars, and the public interested
- List of Epicurean philosophers
- List of humanists This is a partial list of famous modern humanists, including both secular and religious humanists
- List of pragmatists
- List of rationalists
- List of scholastic philosophers Contents: Top · 0–9 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
- List of stoic philosophers This is a list of Stoic philosophers, ordered by date. The criteria for inclusion in this list is fairly mild. See also Category:Stoic philosophers
- List of utilitarians
Lists of philosophers by era
- List of ancient philosophers
- List of medieval philosophers
- List of modern philosophers
- List of contemporary philosophers
Timelines
- Timeline of Eastern philosophers Categories: Timelines of philosophers | Philosophy-related lists
- Timeline of philosophers Categories: Timelines of philosophers | Philosophy-related lists
- Timeline of Western philosophers Categories: Timelines of philosophers | Philosophy-related lists
Lists of philosophers by language, nationality, religion, or region
- List of ancient Greek philosophers This list of ancient Greek philosophers is a collection of philosophers who studied and worked in ancient Greece. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales and lasted through the Hellenistic period. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers were from the Greece of ancient times, including
- List of Afghani philosophers
- List of American philosophers This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States
- List of British philosophers This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad
- List of Buddhist philosophers
- List of Catholic philosophers and theologians Categories: Roman Catholic theologians | Philosophy-related lists | Lists of Roman Catholics | Lists of theologians and religious studies scholars
- List of Chinese philosophers Categories: Philosophy-related lists | Chinese philosophers | Chinese philosophy
- List of English philosophers
- List of German-language philosophers This is a list of German-language philosophers. The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German language. Many are categorized as German philosophers or Austrian philosophers, but some are neither German nor Austrian by ethnicity or nationality. Each one, however, satisfies at least one of the following criteria:
- List of Hellenistic era philosophers
- List of Indian philosophers
- List of Iranian philosophers This is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian philosophers who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age:
- List of Italian philosophers This list of Italian philosophers contains a collection of philosophers who hail from Italy specifically or, more broadly, from the Italian peninsula
- List of Jewish scientists and philosophers This is a list of Jewish scientists and philosophers by country. For more detailed lists, see the links provided
- List of Korean philosophers Categories: Korean philosophers | Lists of philosophers | Korea-related lists | Philosophy-related lists
- List of Macedonian philosophers
- List of Montreal philosophers Categories: Canadian philosophers | Philosophy-related lists | Lists of Canadian writers
- List of Muslim philosophers A Muslim philosopher is a person that professes Islam and engaged in the philosophical aspect of Islamic studies, for example theology or eschatology and other fields of Islamic philosophy
- List of Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers
- List of Romanian philosophers Categories: Lists of Romanian people | Romanian philosophers | Philosophy-related lists
- List of Russian philosophers Russian philosophy includes a wide range of branches of philosophical thought, which are listed below along with those authors who developed them. Some Russian writers, like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, are known also as philosophers, while many more authors are known primarily for their philosophical works. Russian philosophy blossomed since the 19th
- List of Swedish philosophers
- List of Turkish philosophers Categories: Turkish philosophers | Lists of Turkish people | Philosophy-related lists |
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