philosophers

• Ancient Philosophy
  
  • The Pre-Socratics
    
    • Thales
      
    • Protagoras
      
    • Pythagoras
      
    • Heraclitus
      
    • Parmenides
      
    • Democritus
      
    • Anaximander
      
    • Anaxagoras
      
  • Socrates
    
  • Plato
    
  • Aristotle
    
  • Epicurus
    
  • Seneca
• Medieval Philosophy
  • St. Augustine of Hippo
    
  • Boethius
    
  • Avicenna
    
  • Averroes
    
  • Anselm of Aosta
    
  • Hypatia
    
  • Albertus Magnus
    
  • Thomas Aquinas
    
• Modern Philosophy
  
  • Descartes
    
  • Kant, Immanuel Kant
    
  • Gottfried Liebniz
    
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
    
  • Thomas Hobbes
    
  • David Hume
    
  • John Locke
    
  • Baruch Spinoza
    
  • Heidegger
    
  • Soren Kierkegaard
    
  • Hegel
    
  • Bertrand Russell
    
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
    
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    
  • Rudolf Carnap
    
  • Hilary Putnam
    
  • Clarence Irving Lewis
    
  • Marin Mersenne
    
  • Kurt Godel
    
  • Gottlob Frege
    
  • Blaise Pascal
    
  • Thomas Huxley
    
  • Eric Hoffer
    
  • Hannah Arendt
    
  • Michel Focault
    
  • Alan Turing
    
  • A.N. Whitehead
    
  • George Berkeley
    
  • J.L. Austin
    
  • Francis Bacon
    
  • Karl Popper
    
  • John Stuart Mill
    
  • Charles Peirce
    
  • John Dewey
    
  • G.E.M. Anscombe
    
  • A.J. Ayer
    
  • David Dinant
    
  • Adam Smith
    
  • Miguel de Unamuno
    
  • G.E. Moore
    
  • Robert Nozick
    
  • Peter Frederick Strawson
    
  • Jean-Francois Lyotard
    
• Eastern Philosophy
  • Lao Tzu
    
  • Confucius
    
  • Mencius
    
  • Buddha (Sidharta Gautama)
    

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Update: July 20, 2002. Any attempt to list philosophers is a subjective endeavor. The above list is by no means complete but, in my view, it has most of the influential ones.

The modern philosophy part can probably be better organized. Maybe someday I'll even do it.

Greek
• Archimedes
• Epictetus
• Euclid
• Parmenides
• Pythagoras
• Thales

Roman
• Anselm

German
• Frege
• Hegel
• Husserl
• Leibniz
• Marx
• Schopenhauer

French
• Foucault
• Pascal
• Rousseau

British
• Austin
• F. Bacon
• Berkeley
• Hobbes
• Hume
• Mill
• Popper
• Russell
• Turing
• A. N. Whitehead

Austrian
• Bolzano
• Brentano
• Schlick

Americans
• Dewey
• William James
• Peirce
• Quine

Updated May 11, 2000, June 3, 2000, October 20, 2000 and, November 14, 2000

flyingroc:
You forgot Marin Mersenne.
Democritus is a homenode but he says he'll add details about the philosopher to his homenode eventually.
I don't know if Kurt Godel counts as a philosopher, but if he does, add him.
Add thomas huxley.
Add Hypatia of Alexandria.
Add Eric Hoffer.
Add St. Augustine of Hippo.
Add Hannah Arendt.

moJoe said:

"Anselm": Anselm of Aosta/Anselm of Canterbury may be who he was referring to but I don't know.

"Marx": Karl Marx is the one he's referring to. Link there directly, please.

"Frege": Frege isn't noded. Link directly to Gottlob Frege.

"Pascal": Link directly to Blaise Pascal.

"Rousseau": Link directly to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

"Foucault": Link directly to Michel Foucault.

"Turing": Link directly to Alan Turing.

"A. N. Whitehead": Link directly to A.N.Whitehead. (No spaces)

"Berkeley": Berkeley is just the school. Link directly to George Berkeley.

"Austin": Austin does no mention the philosopher. Link directly to J.L. Austin.

"F. Bacon": Link directly to Francis Bacon.

"Popper": Link directly to Karl Popper.

"Mill": Link directly to John Stuart Mill.

"Quine": Link directly to Willard van Orman Quine, I believe.

Leibniz: Link directly to G.W. Leibniz and Gottfried Leibnitz.

"Peirce": Link directly to Charles Peirce.

"Dewey": Link directly to John Dewey.