Sort philosophers by: Date | Appearances | Name
Philosophers:
- 1908 – 1986 Simone de Beauvoir
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122, 127, 135, 139, 150, 152, 172, 185, 187, 190
191, 193, 199, 215, 218, 226, 242, 244, 246, 227
254, 249, 294, 305, 331, 333, 361, 365, 372, 393
401, 411, 468, 500, 515, 541, 562) - 1905 – 1980 Jean Paul Sartre
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68, 72, 79, 85, 87, 96, 105, 101, 107, 140
144, 152, 155, 166, 172, 178, 187, 193, 197, 215
220, 235, 244, 254, 248, 288, 295, 317, 322, 331
333, 354, 361, 393, 410, 411, 468, 476, 492, 541
560, 567) - 1889 – 1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein
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117, 141, 170, 184, 198, 245, 252, 250, 268, 275
279, 284, 290, 292, 308, 321, 365, 375, 378, 381
405, 408, 474, 477, 500, 504, 516, 526, 530, 534
551, 567) - 470 B.C. – 399 B.C. Socrates
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145, 153, 155, 177, 192, 196, 219, 223, 272, 274
344, 363, 373, 378, 388, 395, 400, 406, 480, 493
500, 500, 504, 506, 513, 529, 547, 561, 574) - 1818 – 1883 Karl Marx
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138, 148, 154, 165, 173, 186, 195, 203, 234, 240
243, 263, 266, 280, 307, 313, 317, 320, 326, 334
366, 376, 383, 389, 468, 476, 478, 500, 514) - 1913 – 1960 Albert Camus
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172, 180, 187, 193, 211, 225, 226, 230, 246, 254
260, 301, 330, 331, 421, 459, 509, 560) - 1724 – 1804 Immanuel Kant
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82, 92, 103, 121, 122, 143, 162, 176, 182, 202
258, 250, 293, 298, 334, 355, 369, 374, 414, 500
511, 515, 523, 524, 544, 568) - 1844 – 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche
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90, 102, 107, 146, 150, 161, 176, 208, 217, 242
273, 282, 309, 316, 311, 360, 409, 417, 463, 503
516, 523, 561, 567, 573, 577) - 1872 – 1970 Bertrand Russell
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115, 146, 149, 191, 196, 245, 292, 304, 342, 365
381, 401, 416, 459, 462, 500, 523, 534, 543, 558
562, 576) - 1813 – 1855 Soren Kierkegaard
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172, 174, 178, 204, 237, 242, 246, 229, 254, 281
299, 306, 347, 368, 371, 375, 394, 459, 483, 518
521) - 428 B.C. – 348 B.C. Plato
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182, 198, 219, 223, 222, 233, 250, 323, 344, 369
385, 406, 545, 548, 559, 565, 567, 573, 574) - 1891 – 1970 Rudolf Carnap
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268, 275, 358, 374, 401, 408, 413, 474, 486, 495
530, 537, 551) - 1596 – 1650 Rene Descartes
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205, 214, 242, 227, 250, 375, 398, 495, 502, 567
577) - 1711 – 1776 David Hume
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205, 212, 231, 267, 276, 330, 405, 499, 523, 568) - 1646 – 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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143, 173, 182, 200, 198, 250, 369, 374, 523) - 1788 – 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer
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281, 299, 356, 378, 396, 477, 500, 567) - 1588 – 1679 Thomas Hobbes
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379, 385, 387, 390, 490, 512, 525) - 1748 – 1832 Jeremy Bentham
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475, 476, 485, 523, 535, 566) - 1770 – 1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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319, 348, 539) - 624 B.C. – 546 B.C. Thales
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407, 481) - 1856 – 1939 Sigmund Freud
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380, 466) - 1926 – 1984 Michel Foucault
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352, 410) - 341 B.C. – 270 B.C. Epicurus
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552) - 55 – 135 Epictetus
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484) - 1685 – 1756 George Berkeley
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481) - 334 B.C. – 262 B.C. Zeno of Citium ( 50, 55, 69, 118, 129, 142, 151, 179, 505, 548)
- 384 B.C. – 322 B.C. Aristotle ( 55, 107, 113, 118, 242, 277, 305, 468, 567)
- 1632 – 1677 Baruch Spinoza ( 43, 59, 103, 104, 134, 250, 317, 488, 579)
- 1889 – 1976 Martin Heidegger ( 26, 51, 52, 72, 79, 87, 127, 226, 242)
- 1930 – 2004 Jacques Derrida ( 23, 35, 146, 167, 182, 185, 224, 257, 567)
- 490 B.C. – 430 B.C. Zeno of Elea ( 3, 50, 95, 118, 129, 142, 388, 397)
- 1807 – 1873 John Stuart Mill ( 77, 107, 236, 325, 485, 518, 566, 570)
- 1814 – 1876 Mikhail Bakunin ( 159, 165, 195, 247, 345, 366, 514, 519)
- 1821 – 1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 45, 79, 88, 107, 113, 139, 236, 399)
- 1848 – 1925 Gottlob Frege ( 28, 36, 65, 80, 146, 268, 462, 558)
- 535 B.C. – 475 B.C. Heraclitus ( 95, 97, 129, 181, 250, 362, 578)
- 515 B.C. – 460 B.C. Parmenides ( 95, 107, 129, 200, 181, 397, 549)
- 1632 – 1704 John Locke ( 90, 183, 211, 280, 318, 390, 579)
- 1712 – 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 34, 211, 280, 379, 490, 525, 575)
- 1905 – 1982 Ayn Rand ( 77, 37, 136, 186, 234, 258, 364)
- 1946 – present Peter Singer ( 3, 8, 64, 139, 236, 253, 494)
- 563 B.C. – 483 B.C. Gautama Buddha ( 51, 102, 226, 231, 269, 405)
- 490 B.C. – 420 B.C. Protagoras ( 68, 76, 128, 137, 506, 529)
- 1842 – 1921 Peter Kropotkin ( 155, 159, 247, 345, 389, 498)
- 1908 – 2000 Willard Van Quine ( 28, 30, 36, 89, 171, 185)
- 570 B.C. – 495 B.C. Pythagoras ( 95, 118, 189, 181, 362)
- 460 B.C. – 370 B.C. Democritus ( 97, 129, 181, 250, 362)
- 360 B.C. – 270 B.C. Pyrrho ( 4, 68, 93, 143, 499)
- 1561 – 1626 Francis Bacon ( 183, 319, 404, 499, 572)
- 1729 – 1797 Edmund Burke ( 116, 131, 160, 305, 564)
- 1806 – 1856 Max Stirner ( 77, 86, 148, 209, 273)
- 1820 – 1895 Friedrich Engels ( 148, 203, 366, 389, 514)
- 1869 – 1940 Emma Goldman ( 159, 345, 389, 514, 519)
- 1882 – 1936 Moritz Schlick ( 30, 170, 252, 275, 374)
- 1902 – 1994 Karl Popper ( 49, 89, 285, 358, 530)
- 1909 – 1943 Simone Weil ( 116, 190, 307, 331, 518)
- 1919 – 2001 G.E.M. Anscombe ( 32, 116, 190, 258, 334)
- 1920 – 2010 Philippa Foot ( 32, 60, 106, 376, 465)
- 1921 – 2002 John Rawls ( 37, 38, 119, 199, 350)
- Infinity B.C. – 1882 God ( 22, 56, 81, 147)
- 412 B.C. – 323 B.C. Diogenes of Sinope ( 31, 55, 179, 219)
- 354 – 430 Augustine of Hippo ( 78, 205, 258, 262)
- 1225 – 1274 Thomas Aquinas ( 78, 355, 378, 534)
- 1723 – 1790 Adam Smith ( 280, 337, 500, 540)
- 1759 – 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft ( 116, 131, 190, 237)
- 1762 – 1814 Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 176, 207, 221, 298)
- 1906 – 1975 Hannah Arendt ( 32, 68, 190, 199)
- 1908 – 1961 Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( 139, 166, 135, 235)
- 1949 – present Slavoj Zizek ( 64, 123, 206, 419)
- 4 – 65 Seneca the Younger ( 179, 334, 468)
- 121 – 180 Marcus Aurelius ( 48, 86, 151)
- 360 – 415 Hypatia of Alexandria ( 95, 163, 237)
- 980 – 1037 Avicenna (Ibn-Sina) ( 71, 267, 481)
- 1126 – 1198 Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ( 71, 126, 250)
- 1469 – 1527 Niccolo Machiavelli ( 34, 169, 415)
- 1842 – 1910 William James ( 30, 562, 579)
- 1861 – 1947 J.L. Austin ( 89, 171, 268)
- 1882 – 1945 Otto Neurath ( 170, 252, 275)
- 1903 – 1969 Theodor Adorno ( 251, 257, 500)
- 1906 – 1998 Nelson Goodman ( 2, 30, 51)
- 1906 – 1989 Samuel Beckett ( 35, 45, 79)
- 1917 – 2003 Donald Davidson ( 104, 270, 473)
- 1938 – 2002 Robert Nozick ( 38, 119, 159)
- 1942 – present Dan Dennett ( 59, 64, 67)
- 1966 – present David Chalmers ( 59, 67, 369)
- 544 B.C. – 496 B.C. Sun Tzu ( 415, 533)
- 204 – 270 Plotinus ( 12, 250)
- 801 – 873 Al Kindi ( 96, 237)
- 1058 – 1111 Al-Ghazali ( 71, 126)
- 1135 – 1204 Maimonides ( 22, 505)
- 1533 – 1592 Montaigne ( 93, 499)
- 1599 – 1692 Zera Yacob ( 319, 377)
- 1638 – 1715 Nicolas Malebranche ( 78, 103)
- 1694 – 1778 Voltaire ( 93, 108)
- 1820 – 1903 Herbert Spencer ( 280, 370)
- 1861 – 1937 Lou Salome ( 150, 208)
- 1870 – 1924 Vladimir Lenin ( 154, 195)
- 1871 – 1919 Rosa Luxemburg ( 195, 234)
- 1883 – 1924 Franz Kafka ( 16, 79)
- 1906 – 1978 Kurt Godel ( 36, 45)
- 1915 – 1980 Roland Barthes ( 138, 318)
- 1922 – 1996 Thomas Kuhn ( 49, 358)
- 1924 – 1998 Jean-Francois Lyotard ( 224, 392)
- 1925 – 1961 Frantz Fanon ( 175, 402)
- 1926 – present Noam Chomsky ( 64, 175)
- 1926 – 2016 Hilary Putnam ( 104, 265)
- 1929 – 2007 Jean Baudrillard ( 35, 476)
- 1931 – 2007 Richard Rorty ( 96, 218)
- 1941 – 2001 David Lewis ( 156, 177)
- 1942 – 2017 Derek Parfit ( 64, 107)
- 1944 – present Donna Haraway ( 305, 528)
- 1956 – present Judith Butler ( 32, 86)
- 1966 – present David Benatar ( 96, 253)
- 610 B.C. – 546 B.C. Anaximander ( 216)
- 585 B.C. – 527 B.C. Anaximendis ( 216)
- 551 B.C. – 479 B.C. Confucius ( 35)
- 485 B.C. – 380 B.C. Gorgias ( 128)
- 480 B.C. – 408 B.C. Mahavira ( 113)
- 365 B.C. – 285 B.C. Crates of Thebes ( 179)
- 99 B.C. – 55 B.C. Lucretius ( 549)
- 160 – 210 Sextus Empiricus ( 93)
- 480 – 534 Boethius ( 156)
- 490 – 420 Diotima of Mantinea ( 363)
- 973 – 1057 Al-Ma'arri ( 241)
- 1033 – 1109 Anselm of Canterbury ( 83)
- 1207 – 1273 Rumi ( 71)
- 1285 – 1347 William of Ockham ( 543)
- 1295 – 1358 Jean Buridan ( 78)
- 1564 – 1616 William Shakespeare ( 45)
- 1564 – 1642 Galileo Galilei ( 569)
- 1643 – 1727 Isaac Newton ( 84)
- 1740 – 1814 Marquis de Sade ( 104)
- 1756 – 1836 William Godwin ( 247)
- 1803 – 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 120)
- 1804 – 1872 Ludwig Feuerbach ( 148)
- 1809 – 1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ( 345)
- 1817 – 1862 Henry David Thoreau ( 120)
- 1828 – 1910 Leo Tolstoy ( 107)
- 1838 – 1900 Henry Sidgwick ( 258)
- 1839 – 1914 Charles Sander Peirce ( 115)
- 1844 – 1916 James Guillaume ( 366)
- 1845 – 1918 Georg Cantor ( 45)
- 1854 – 1938 Karl Kautsky ( 136)
- 1859 – 1938 Edmund Husserl ( 367)
- 1861 – 1947 Alfred North Whitehead ( 374)
- 1862 – 1943 David Hilbert ( 36)
- 1873 – present G.E. Moore ( 502)
- 1875 – 1961 Carl Jung ( 380)
- 1879 – 1934 Hans Hahn ( 170)
- 1881 – 1973 Ludwig von Mises ( 550)
- 1889 – 1970 Amadeo Bordiga ( 195)
- 1895 – 1973 Max Horkheimer ( 257)
- 1898 – 1979 Herbert Marcuse ( 257)
- 1898 – 1956 Bertolt Brecht ( 513)
- 1899 – 1992 Friedrich Hayek ( 186)
- 1900 – 1980 Erich Fromm ( 257)
- 1901 – 1981 Jacques Lacan ( 167)
- 1901 – 1983 Alfred Tarski ( 232)
- 1919 – 2018 Mary Midgley ( 294)
- 1924 – 2019 Mary Warnock ( 413)
- 1925 – 2011 Michael Dummett ( 88)
- 1925 – 1995 Gilles Deleuze ( 96)
- 1926 – 1995 Murray Rothbard ( 234)
- 1927 – present Edmund Gettier ( 177)
- 1929 – 2020 Judith Jarvis Thomson ( 376)
- 1930 – 2002 Pierre Bourdieu ( 135)
- 1932 – present John Searle ( 277)
- 1933 – present Robert Paul Wolff ( 350)
- 1940 – present Saul Kripke ( 277)
- 1944 – present Angela Davis ( 349)
- 1960 – present Greg B. Sadler ( 517)
- 1987 – present William MacAskill ( 485)
- 1989 – present Liam Bright ( 474)