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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Nicola Abbagnano
Philosopher
15-Jul-1901 9-Sep-1990 Italian existentialist
Peter Abelard
Philosopher
1079 21-Apr-1142 French scholastic philosopher
Mortimer J. Adler
Philosopher
28-Dec-1902 28-Jun-2001 How to Read a Book
Theodor Adorno
Philosopher
11-Sep-1903 6-Aug-1969 Dialectic of Enlightenment
Aenesidemus
Philosopher
fl. 1st c. BC fl. 1st c. BC Third skeptical school
al-Razi
Doctor
c. 865 AD 27-Oct-925 AD Persian alchemist
Bronson Alcott
Educator
29-Nov-1799 4-Mar-1888 Founder of Boston's Temple School
Samuel Alexander
Philosopher
6-Jan-1859 13-Sep-1938 Space, Time, and Deity
Louis Althusser
Philosopher
16-Oct-1918 22-Oct-1990 Marxist theorist, anti-humanist
Ammonius Hermiae
Philosopher
fl. 5th c. AD fl. 5th c. AD Commentaries on Aristotle
Anton Wilhelm Amo
Philosopher
1703 1784 First European-educated African philosopher
Anaxagoras
Philosopher
c. 500 BC c. 428 BC Matter composed of infinite elements
Anaximander
Philosopher
c. 609 BC c. 546 BC First to develop a cosmology
Anaximenes of Miletus
Philosopher
c. 585 BC c. 525 BC Aer as the source of all things
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosopher
8-May-1954   The Ethics of Identity
St. Thomas Aquinas
Religion
1225 7-Mar-1274 Catholicism's leading theologian
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher
14-Oct-1906 4-Dec-1975 Origins of Totalitarianism
Aristippus
Philosopher
c. 435 BC 356 BC Founder of the Cyrenaic School
Aristotle
Philosopher
384 BC 322 BC Politics
Raymond Aron
Philosopher
14-Mar-1905 17-Oct-1983 Political philosopher, social theorist
Marcus Aurelius
Royalty
26-Apr-121 AD 17-Mar-180 AD Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD
Averroës
Philosopher
1126 1198 Islamic commentator on the classics
Avicenna
Doctor
980 AD 1037 Canon of Medicine
A. J. Ayer
Philosopher
29-Oct-1910 27-Jun-1989 Language, Truth and Logic
Abdullah Azzam
Educator
1941 24-Nov-1989 Gatekeeper of the Jihad
Irving Babbitt
Philosopher
2-Aug-1865 15-Jul-1933 Early leader of Neohumanism
Francis Bacon
Philosopher
22-Jan-1561 9-Apr-1626 Novum Organum
Roger Bacon
Philosopher
c. 1220 1292 Doctor Mirabilis
Rudolf Bahro
Philosopher
18-Nov-1935 5-Dec-1997 The Alternative in Eastern Europe
Samuel Bailey
Economist
1791 18-Jan-1870 Formation and Publication of Opinions
Alexander Bain
Philosopher
11-Jun-1818 18-Sep-1903 The Senses and the Intellect
Georges Bataille
Philosopher
10-Sep-1897 8-Jul-1962 Histoire de l'oeil
Charles Batteux
Philosopher
6-May-1713 14-Jul-1780 Les Beaux-Arts réduits
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher
29-Jul-1929 6-Mar-2007 Simulacra and Simulation
Cesare Beccaria
Philosopher
15-Mar-1738 28-Nov-1794 On Crimes and Punishments
Walter Benjamin
Philosopher
15-Jul-1892 26-Sep-1940 The Arcades Project
Jeremy Bentham
Philosopher
15-Feb-1748 6-Jun-1832 Proponent of Utilitarianism
Gustav Bergmann
Philosopher
4-May-1906 21-Apr-1987 Ontologist
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
18-Oct-1859 4-Jan-1941 L'Évolution Créatrice
George Berkeley
Philosopher
12-Mar-1685 14-Jan-1753 Anti-intellectual empiricist philosopher
Isaiah Berlin
Philosopher
6-Jun-1909 5-Nov-1997 The Hedgehog and the Fox
Maurice Blanchot
Philosopher
22-Sep-1907 20-Feb-2003 L'Espace littéraire
Ernst Bloch
Philosopher
8-Jul-1885 4-Aug-1977 Principle of Hope
Allan Bloom
Philosopher
14-Sep-1930 7-Oct-1992 The Closing of the American Mind
Norberto Bobbio
Philosopher
18-Oct-1909 9-Jan-2004 Philosopher of politics and the law
Jean Bodin
Economist
1530 1596 Six livres de la République
Boethius
Philosopher
c. 470 AD 524 AD Consolation of Philosophy
David Bohm
Physicist
20-Dec-1917 29-Oct-1992 Particle physicist
Charles Bonnet
Naturalist
13-Mar-1720 20-May-1793 Discovered parthenogenesis
Murray Bookchin
Philosopher
14-Jan-1921 30-Jul-2006 The Ecology of Freedom
F. H. Bradley
Philosopher
30-Jan-1846 18-Sep-1924 Appearance and Reality
Constantin Brunner
Philosopher
27-Aug-1862 17-Aug-1937 German Jewish philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Scientist
1548 17-Feb-1600 Heretic cosmologist
Martin Buber
Philosopher
8-Feb-1878 13-Jun-1965 Ich und Du
Tyler Burge
Philosopher
1946   Foundations of Mind
Jean Buridan
Philosopher
1300 1358 Buridan's Ass
Edmund Burke
Philosopher
1-Jan-1729 9-Jul-1797 Reflections on the Revolution in France
Tommaso Campanella
Philosopher
5-Sep-1568 21-May-1639 La città del Sole
Rudolf Carnap
Philosopher
18-May-1891 14-Sep-1970 The Logical Syntax of Language
Ernst Cassirer
Philosopher
28-Jul-1874 13-Apr-1945 The Myth of the State
Cato the Younger
Philosopher
95 BC 45 BC Foe of Julius Caesar
Stanley Cavell
Philosopher
1-Sep-1926   Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard
David Chalmers
Philosopher
20-Apr-1966   Philosopher of Consciousness
Pierre Charron
Philosopher
1541 16-Nov-1603 De la Sagesse
Samuel Clarke
Philosopher
11-Oct-1675 17-May-1729 Newtonian theologian
Morris Raphael Cohen
Philosopher
25-Jul-1880 28-Jan-1947 Reason and Nature
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
Anthony Collins
Philosopher
21-Jun-1676 13-Dec-1729 A Discourse on Freethinking
George Combe
Paranormal
21-Oct-1788 14-Aug-1858 Scottish phrenologist
Auguste Comte
Sociologist
19-Jan-1798 5-Sep-1857 Positivist founder of Sociology
Marquis de Condorcet
Philosopher
17-Sep-1743 29-Mar-1794 French Enlightenment philosopher
Confucius
Religion
551 BC 479 BC Analects
Cratippus
Philosopher
fl 1st c. BC fl. 1st c. BC Peripatetic philosopher
Critolaus
Philosopher
fl. 2nd c. BC fl. 2nd c. BC Greek peripatetic philosopher
Benedetto Croce
Philosopher
25-Feb-1866 20-Nov-1952 Philosophy of Spirit
Ralph Cudworth
Philosopher
1617 26-Jun-1688 Intellectual System of the Universe
Damascius
Philosopher
480 AD ? Last Neoplatonist philosopher
Damon
Philosopher
fl. 4th c. BC fl. 4th c. BC Pythagorean philosopher
Dante
Poet
1265 14-Sep-1321 La Divina Commedia
Donald Davidson
Philosopher
6-Mar-1917 30-Aug-2003 Actions, Reasons And Causes
Richard Dawkins
Biologist
26-Mar-1941   Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Democritus
Philosopher
c. 460 BC c. 370 BC Early atomic theorist
Daniel C. Dennett
Philosopher
28-Mar-1942   Leading Darwinist and philosopher
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher
15-Jul-1930 9-Oct-2004 Deconstructionism, Intellectual Terrorist
René Descartes
Philosopher
31-Mar-1596 11-Feb-1650 Discours de la Méthode
John Dewey
Educator
20-Oct-1859 1-Jun-1952 Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer
Denis Diderot
Philosopher
5-Oct-1713 31-Jul-1784 L'Encyclopédie
Kenelm Digby
Scientist
11-Jul-1603 11-Jun-1665 Founding member of the Royal Society
Wilhelm Dilthey
Philosopher
19-Nov-1833 1-Oct-1911 Methodology of the humanities
Diogenes
Philosopher
412 BC 323 BC Cynic
John Duns Scotus
Religion
c. 1265 8-Nov-1308 14th century Scottish scholar
Ronald Dworkin
Philosopher
11-Dec-1931   Taking Rights Seriously
Johann Augustus Eberhard
Philosopher
31-Aug-1739 6-Jan-1809 Neue Apologie des Socrates
Umberto Eco
Author
5-Jan-1932   Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Irwin Edman
Philosopher
28-Nov-1896 4-Sep-1954 Philosopher’s Holiday
Empedocles
Philosopher
c. 490 BC 430 BC Supposed inventor of Rhetoric
Epictetus
Philosopher
c. 55 AD c. 135 AD Stoic, wrote Encheiridion
Epicurus
Philosopher
341 BC 270 BC Founder of the Epicurean School
Erasmus
Scholar
27-Oct-1469 12-Jul-1536 In Praise of Folly
Johannes Scotus Erigena
Philosopher
815 AD 877 AD De Divisione Naturae
Rudolf Eucken
Philosopher
5-Jan-1846 14-Sep-1926 Individual and Society
Ludwig Feuerbach
Philosopher
28-Jul-1804 13-Sep-1872 Das Weses des Christentums
Paul K. Feyerabend
Philosopher
13-Jan-1924 11-Feb-1994 Against Method
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Philosopher
19-May-1762 27-Jan-1814 Critique of Revelation
Marsilio Ficino
Philosopher
19-Oct-1433 1-Oct-1499 Italian humanist philosopher
Antony Flew
Philosopher
11-Feb-1923 8-Apr-2010 British Libertarian philosopher
Henry Flynt
Musician
1940   Violin composer turned philosopher
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
15-Oct-1926 26-Jun-1984 History of Sexuality
Charles Fourier
Philosopher
7-Apr-1772 10-Oct-1837 Socialist Utopian
Gottlob Frege
Mathematician
8-Nov-1848 26-Jul-1925 Mathematical logician
Erich Fromm
Psychologist
23-Mar-1900 18-Mar-1980 Psychoanalyst, Humanist
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Philosopher
11-Feb-1900 13-Mar-2002 Truth and Method
Pierre Gassendi
Physicist
22-Jan-1592 24-Oct-1655 Exercitationes
Antonio Genovesi
Author
1-Nov-1712 22-Sep-1769 Lezioni di Commercio
Vincenzo Gioberti
Philosopher
5-Apr-1801 26-Nov-1852 Rinnovamenlo civile d'Italia
Joseph Glanvill
Philosopher
1636 4-Nov-1680 The Vanity of Dogmatizing
Kurt Gödel
Mathematician
28-Apr-1906 14-Jan-1978 Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
William Godwin
Philosopher
3-Mar-1756 30-Apr-1836 An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Nelson Goodman
Philosopher
7-Aug-1906 25-Nov-1998 Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
George Grant
Philosopher
13-Nov-1918 27-Sep-1988 Propagator of Red Toryism
T. H. Green
Philosopher
7-Apr-1836 26-Mar-1882 Prolegomena to Ethics
G. I. Gurdjieff
Philosopher
1877 29-Oct-1949 Esoteric philosopher, The Fourth Way
Jürgen Habermas
Philosopher
18-Jun-1929   The Theory of Communicative Action
Ian Hacking
Philosopher
18-Feb-1936   The Taming of Chance
Johann Georg Hamann
Philosopher
27-Aug-1730 21-Jun-1788 German theological thinker
R. M. Hare
Philosopher
21-Mar-1919 29-Jan-2002 Moral Thinking
James Harrington
Philosopher
7-Jan-1611 11-Sep-1677 Oceana
David Hartley
Philosopher
8-Aug-1705 28-Aug-1757 Theory of associationism
Eduard von Hartmann
Philosopher
23-Feb-1842 5-Jun-1906 Philosophy of the Unconscious
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
27-Aug-1770 14-Nov-1831 Phenomenology of Spirit
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
26-Sep-1889 26-May-1976 Being and Time
Claude-Adrien Helvétius
Philosopher
26-Jan-1715 26-Dec-1771 De l'Esprit
Heraclides Ponticus
Philosopher
c. 388 BC c. 315 BC Perhaps an early heliocentrist
Heraclitus
Philosopher
c. 540 BC c. 480 BC Fire-centric theory of the universe
Herbert of Cherbury
Philosopher
3-Mar-1583 5-Aug-1648 De Veritate
Johann Gottfried Herder
Philosopher
25-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1803 Sturm und Drang movement
Hippias of Elis
Philosopher
fl. 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC Greek sophist
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher
5-Apr-1588 4-Dec-1679 Leviathan
William E. Hocking
Philosopher
10-Aug-1873 12-Jun-1966 The Meaning of God in Human Experience
Sidney Hook
Philosopher
20-Dec-1902 12-Jul-1989 Pragmatist
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Scholar
22-Jun-1767 8-Apr-1835 Diplomat turned philologist
David Hume
Philosopher
7-May-1711 25-Aug-1776 Empiricist nonpareil
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher
8-Apr-1859 26-Apr-1938 Phenomenological philosopher
Ivan Illich
Philosopher
4-Sep-1926 2-Dec-2002 Deschooling Society
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Philosopher
25-Jan-1743 18-Mar-1819 German Spinozist
William James
Philosopher
11-Jan-1842 26-Aug-1910 The Principles of Psychology
Pierre Janet
Psychologist
30-May-1859 24-Feb-1947 Founder of Automatic Psychology
Karl Jaspers
Philosopher
23-Feb-1883 26-Feb-1969 Existential thinker
Hans Jonas
Philosopher
10-May-1903 5-Feb-1993 Gnostic philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
22-Apr-1724 12-Feb-1804 Transcendental idealist
Sřren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
5-May-1813 11-Nov-1855 Father of existentialism
Ladislav Klíma
Philosopher
8-Aug-1878 19-Apr-1928 The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch
Arthur Koestler
Author
3-Sep-1905 3-Mar-1983 Darkness at Noon
Leszek Kolakowski
Philosopher
23-Oct-1927 17-Jul-2009 Polish refugee philosopher
J. Krishnamurti
Religion
12-May-1895 18-Feb-1986 Theosophist guru
Julia Kristeva
Philosopher
24-Jun-1941   Psychoanalyst, linguistic philsopher
Thomas Kuhn
Author
18-Jul-1922 17-Jun-1996 Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Paul Kurtz
Philosopher
21-Dec-1925   The pope of unbelievers
Jacques Lacan
Psychiatrist
13-Apr-1901 9-Sep-1981 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I
Imre Lakatos
Philosopher
9-Nov-1922 2-Feb-1974 Philosopher of Science and Mathematics
Keith Lehrer
Philosopher
10-Jan-1936   Metamind
Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematician
1-Jul-1646 14-Nov-1716 Co-Inventor of calculus
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Playwright
22-Jan-1729 15-Feb-1781 Laokoon
Leucippus
Philosopher
fl 5th c. BC fl. 5th c. BC Father of Atomism
Emmanuel Levinas
Philosopher
12-Jan-1906 25-Dec-1995 Totality and Infinity
Speed Levitch
Actor
9-Jul-1970   The Cruise
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Author
5-Nov-1948   Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
George Henry Lewes
Philosopher
18-Apr-1817 28-Nov-1878 The Problems of Life and Mind
John Locke
Philosopher
29-Aug-1632 28-Oct-1704 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Lucretius
Poet
c. 99 BC c. 55 BC On the Nature of Things
Raymond Lull
Religion
1232 29-Jun-1315 Catalan mystic
Jean-François Lyotard
Philosopher
10-Aug-1924 21-Apr-1998 Founder of Postmodernism
Ernst Mach
Physicist
18-Feb-1838 19-Feb-1916 Optical and sensory perceptualist
Niccolò Machiavelli
Author
3-May-1469 22-Jun-1527 The Prince
Macrobius
Philosopher
fl. 400 AD fl. 400 AD Saturnalia
Nicolas Malebranche
Philosopher
6-Aug-1638 13-Oct-1715 De la recherche de la vérité
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher
7-Dec-1889 8-Oct-1973 French existential philosopher
Herbert Marcuse
Philosopher
19-Jul-1898 29-Jul-1979 One-Dimensional Man
Jean-Luc Marion
Philosopher
3-Jul-1946   Phenomenologist, God Without Being
Jacques Maritain
Philosopher
18-Nov-1882 28-Apr-1973 Interpreter of St. Thomas
Karl Marx
Economist
5-May-1818 14-Mar-1883 Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
John McDowell
Philosopher
7-Mar-1942   Mind and World
Terence McKenna
Author
16-Nov-1946 3-Apr-2000 Mushrooms, UFOs, end of fractal time
George Herbert Mead
Philosopher
27-Feb-1863 26-Apr-1931 Pragmatist, social behaviorist
Moses Mendelssohn
Philosopher
26-Sep-1729 4-Jan-1786 Brilliant German-Jewish philosopher
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Philosopher
14-Mar-1908 4-May-1961 Phenomenology of Perception
Mary Midgley
Philosopher
13-Sep-1919   Beast and Man
James Mill
Philosopher
6-Apr-1773 23-Jun-1836 History of India
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
20-May-1806 8-May-1873 Liberal philosopher and essayist
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Philosopher
18-Jan-1689 10-Feb-1755 De l'Esprit des Lois
G. E. Moore
Philosopher
4-Nov-1873 24-Oct-1958 Principia Ethica
Sir Thomas More
Philosopher
7-Feb-1477 6-Jul-1535 Utopia
Arne Naess
Philosopher
27-Jan-1912 12-Jan-2009 Ecological philosopher
Thomas Nagel
Philosopher
4-Jul-1937   What is it like to be a bat?
Nezahualcoyotl
Head of State
1402 1472 Texcoco philosopher-king, Aztec poet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
15-Oct-1844 25-Aug-1900 God is dead
Robert Nozick
Philosopher
16-Nov-1938 23-Jan-2002 Libertarian philosopher
Martha Nussbaum
Philosopher
6-May-1947   The Fragility of Goodness
Onora O'Neill
Philosopher
23-Aug-1941   President of the British Academy, 2005-09
Michael Oakeshott
Philosopher
11-Dec-1901 19-Dec-1990 Rationalism in Politics
William of Ockham
Philosopher
c. 1285 9-Apr-1348 Occam's Razor
Peter D. Ouspensky
Philosopher
5-Mar-1878 2-Oct-1947 Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum
Parmenides
Philosopher
c. 515 BC c. 450 BC On Nature
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician
19-Jun-1623 19-Aug-1662 French thinker and mathematician
Leonard Peikoff
Philosopher
15-Oct-1933   Proseletyzer of objectivism
Charles Sanders Peirce
Philosopher
10-Sep-1839 19-Apr-1914 Founder of Pragmatism
Phaedo
Philosopher
c. 415 BC ? Founded a school in Elis
Phanias
Philosopher
c. 300 BC ? Commentator on Aristotle
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Philosopher
24-Feb-1463 17-Nov-1494 Italian philosopher and mystic
Steven Pinker
Linguist
18-Sep-1954   The Language Instinct
Plato
Philosopher
c. 427 BC c. 347 BC The Republic
Plotinus
Philosopher
205 AD 270 AD Founder of the Neoplatonic school
Karl Popper
Philosopher
28-Jul-1902 17-Sep-1994 Critical Rationalist
Porphyry
Philosopher
c. 232 AD c. 305 AD Introductio in Praedicamenta
Hilary Putnam
Philosopher
31-Jul-1926   Philosophy of Mind
Pythagoras
Mathematician
c. 580 BC c. 500 BC Pythagorean Theorem
Willard Van Orman Quine
Philosopher
25-Jun-1908 25-Dec-2000 Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Sayyid Qutb
Philosopher
9-Oct-1906 29-Aug-1966 Muslim Brotherhood philosopher
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Politician
5-Sep-1888 17-Apr-1975 Philosopher-President of India, 1962-67
Ayn Rand
Author
2-Feb-1905 6-Mar-1982 Atlas Shrugged
John Rawls
Philosopher
21-Feb-1921 24-Nov-2002 A Theory of Justice
Thomas Reid
Philosopher
26-Apr-1710 7-Oct-1796 Epistemologist, Common Sense school
Charles-Bernard Renouvier
Philosopher
1-Jan-1815 1-Sep-1903 Neocritical idealist
Richard Rorty
Philosopher
4-Oct-1931 8-Jun-2007 Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher
28-Jun-1712 2-Jul-1778 Conceptualized the Social Contract
Josiah Royce
Philosopher
20-Nov-1855 14-Sep-1916 The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Mathematician
18-May-1872 2-Feb-1970 Mathematician, atheist, and social critic
Ammonius Saccas
Philosopher
c. 160 AD c. 242 AD Early neo-Platonist school
George Santayana
Philosopher
16-Dec-1863 26-Sep-1952 The Realms of Being
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
21-Jun-1905 15-Apr-1980 Nausea, No Exit
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Philosopher
27-Jan-1775 20-Aug-1854 Naturphilosophie
Friedrich von Schiller
Playwright
10-Nov-1759 9-May-1805 Wallenstein
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Philosopher
21-Nov-1768 12-Feb-1834 A founder of Protestant theology
Moritz Schlick
Philosopher
14-Apr-1882 22-Jun-1936 Positivist philosopher, Vienna Circle
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
22-Feb-1788 21-Sep-1860 Philosopher of Pessimism
John Searle
Philosopher
Dec-1932   Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language
Wilfrid Sellars
Philosopher
20-May-1912 2-Jul-1989 Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
Seneca
Author
c. 4 BC 65 AD Epistulae Morales
Henry Sidgwick
Philosopher
31-May-1838 29-Aug-1900 Method of Ethics
Peter Singer
Philosopher
6-Jul-1946   Animal Liberation
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
20-Mar-1904 18-Aug-1990 Radical Behaviorism
Socrates
Philosopher
469 BC 399 BC Developer of the Socratic Method
Fred Sommers
Philosopher
1-Jan-1923   The Logic of Natural Language
Georges Sorel
Philosopher
2-Nov-1847 29-Aug-1922 Reflections on Violence
Herbert Spencer
Philosopher
27-Apr-1820 8-Dec-1903 Synthetic Philosophy
Baruch de Spinoza
Philosopher
24-Nov-1632 21-Feb-1677 Rationalist, lensmaker
Rudolf Steiner
Philosopher
25-Feb-1861 30-Mar-1925 Anthroposophical Society
Max Stirner
Philosopher
25-Oct-1806 26-Jun-1856 Existential German nihilo-anarchist
Leo Strauss
Philosopher
20-Sep-1899 18-Oct-1973 Patron saint of Neoconservatism
P. F. Strawson
Philosopher
23-Nov-1919 13-Feb-2006 Individuals
Francisco Suárez
Philosopher
5-Jan-1548 25-Sep-1617 Spanish philosopher-theologian
Emanuel Swedenborg
Philosopher
29-Jan-1688 29-Mar-1772 Swedish scientist turned Christian mystic
Syrianus
Philosopher
fl. 5th c. AD fl. 5th c. AD Greek Neoplatonist
Alfred Tarski
Mathematician
14-Jan-1902 26-Oct-1983 Tarski's indefinability theorem
Charles Taylor
Philosopher
5-Nov-1931   Sources of the Self
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Philosopher
1-May-1881 10-Apr-1955 The Phenomenon of Man
Bernardino Telesio
Philosopher
1509 Oct-1588 De Rerum Natura
Theophrastus
Philosopher
c. 372 BC 287 BC Peripatetic school
Paul Tillich
Religion
20-Aug-1886 22-Oct-1965 Systematic Theology
Miguel de Unamuno
Philosopher
29-Sep-1864 31-Dec-1936 El Cristo de Velázquez
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Philosopher
?   Knowledge and Politics
Gianni Vattimo
Philosopher
4-Jan-1936   Postmodern philosopher
Gregory Vlastos
Philosopher
27-Jul-1907 12-Oct-1991 Influential scholar of ancient philosophy
Ludwig von Mises
Economist
29-Sep-1881 10-Oct-1973 Libertarian Economist
Friedrich von Schlegel
Philosopher
10-Mar-1772 12-Jan-1829 Founder of the German Romantic movement
Michael Walzer
Philosopher
3-Mar-1935   Just and Unjust Wars
Alan Watts
Philosopher
6-Jan-1915 16-Nov-1973 Zen beat counterculture sage
Simone Weil
Philosopher
3-Feb-1909 24-Aug-1943 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Edvard Westermarck
Anthropologist
20-Nov-1862 3-Sep-1939 The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas
Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematician
15-Feb-1861 30-Dec-1947 Metaphysical mathematician
Bernard Williams
Philosopher
21-Sep-1929 10-Jun-2003 Leading moral philosopher
David Williams
Philosopher
1738 29-Jun-1816 Founder, Royal Literary Fund
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
26-Apr-1889 29-Apr-1951 Destroyed metaphysics
Christian Wolff
Philosopher
24-Jan-1679 9-Apr-1754 Philosopher of the Leibniz model
Sheldon Wolin
Philosopher
4-Aug-1922   Politics and Vision
William Wollaston
Philosopher
26-Mar-1659 29-Oct-1724 The Religion of Nature Delineated
Mary Wollstonecraft
Author
27-Apr-1759 10-Sep-1797 Vindication of the Rights of Women
Xenocrates
Philosopher
396 BC 314 BC Platonic philosopher
Xenophanes
Poet
c. 560 BC c. 478 BC Pre-Socratic, early monotheist
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher
21-Mar-1949   Lacan theorist, intellectual rockstar



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NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.