A Timeline of Western Philosophers
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600 B.C.E.
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Pythagoras
Xenophanes
500 B.C.E.
Heraclitus
Hippias
Leucippus
Democritus
Aristippus
Protagoras
Empedocles
Parmenides
Zeno of Elea
Anaxagoras
Socrates
400 B.C.E.
Antisthenes
Xenophon
Plato
Euclid
Pyrrho
Diogenes
Aristotle
300 B.C.E.
Epicurus
Zeno of Citium
Timon
Archimedes
Eratosthenes
Chrysippus
200 B.C.E.
Carneades
Xenocrates
100 B.C.E.
Lucretius
Cicero
1 AD
Philo
Seneca
100 AD
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
200 AD
Sextus Empiricus
Plotinus
Porphyry
300 AD
400 AD
Hypatia
Augustine
500 AD
Boethius
600 AD
700 AD
800 AD
al-Kindi
Erigena
900 AD
al-Faràbi
Saadiah
1000 AD
Ibn Sina
Ibn Gabirol
Anselm
al-Ghazàlì
1100 AD
Ibn Daud
Ibn Rushd
Maimonides
Abelard
Peter Lombard
1200 AD
Fibonacci
Grosseteste
Albert the Great
Roger Bacon
Siger
Aquinas
Boetius of Dacia
1300 AD
Scotus
Eckhart
Ockham
Buridan
Bonaventure
Marsilius of Padua
Gersonides
Crescas
1400 AD
Cusa
Valla
Pico della Mirandola
Ficino
1500 AD
Machiavelli
Erasmus
Thomas More
Paracelsus
Copernicus
Ramus
1550 AD
Teresa of Avila
Montaigne
Bruno
Kepler
Suarez
1600 AD
Charron
Mersenne
Francis Bacon
Galileo
Gassendi
Fermat
Hobbes
Glanvill
Henry More
Cudworth
Cumberland
Boyle
Newton
Locke
Toland
Clarke
Grotius
Herbert of Cherbury
Princess Elizabeth
Queen Kristina
Filmer
1650 AD
Geulincx
Cordemoy
Cavendish
Rohault
Pufendorf
Conway
Masham
Bayle
1700 AD
Shaftesbury
Descartes
Pascal
Nicole
Arnauld
Foucher
Malebranche
Spinoza
Régis
Souvré
Norris
Leibniz
Berkeley
Mandeville
Hutcheson
Cockburn
Vico
Butler
Gay
Wolff
Hume
Hartley
Euler
Price
Bayes
Smith
Reid
Burke
Wollstonecraft
Stewart
Malthus
La Mettrie
Montesquieu
1750 AD
Condillac
d'Alembert
Diderot
d'Holbach
Jefferson
Paine
Bentham
Godwin
Paley
1800 AD
Voltaire
Rousseau
Helvétius
Lessing
Kant
Mendelssohn
Schiller
Fichte
Gauss
de Staël
Schelling
Schleiermacher
Hegel
Laplace
Lamarck
Fourier
Saint-Simon
Schopenhauer
Whately
Babbage
Lobachevsky
Whewell
Bolzano
De Morgan
Boole
Riemann
Darwin
Mendel
Venn
Cantor
Dedekind
Mach
Frege
Carroll
Peano
Durkheim
Pareto
Planck
Poincare
Duhem
Zermelo
Einstein
Bohr
Hilbert
Lukasciewicz
John Austin
James Mill
Emerson
Fuller
Thoreau
1850 AD
Sojourner Truth
Comte
Proudhon
Feuerbach
Kierkegaard
Taylor
Hamilton
J. S. Mill
Engels
Lotze
Spencer
Bakunin
Anthony
Brentano
1875 AD
Sidgwick
Clifford
Peirce
Caird
Green
Nietzsche
Bosanquet
Ritchie
Royce
Bradley
Dilthey
Stanton
James
Gilman
Veblen
1900 AD
Freud
Weber
Meinong
Dubois
Husserl
Addams
Moore
Jung
Goldman
Watson
Luxemburg
Adler
Dewey
Marx
Lenin
Trotsky
Bergson
Cook Wilson
Seth
Croce
Vaihinger
Otto
Unamuno
Saussure
Buber
Russell
Keynes
Reichenbach
Heisenberg
Neurath
Gödel
Schrödinger
Ayer
Waismann
Tarski
E. Nagel
Ryle
Wittgenstein
Turing
von Neumann
Hopper
Polya
Church
Feigl
Hempel
Quine
Goodman
Kuhn
Feynman
Gettier
Chomsky
Searle
Kripke
Feyerabend
Dummett
Davidson
Hofstadter
Mandelbrot
Minsky
Mead
Broad
Alexander
Lukács
Whitehead
McTaggart
Santayana
1925 AD
Lovejoy
Ross
Berdyaev
Schlick
Kelsen
Heidegger
Ramsey
Hartmann
Cassirer
Perry
Gramsci
Collingwood
C. I. Lewis
Ingarden
Bachelard Mao Zedong
Maritain
Ortega y
Day
Gasset
Carnap
Blanshard
Popper
Gandhi
Horney
Sartre
H.H. Price
Langer
Camus
Stevenson
Hayek
Jaspers
Adorno
Prichard
Marcel
Beauvoir
1950 AD
Lorenz
Wisdom
Tillich
Arrow
Hare
Merleau-Ponty
Skinner
Berlin
Weil
Anscombe
Rand
Horkheimer
Austin
Hampshire
Arendt
Strawson
Kurt Baier
Gadamer
Grice
Hart
Lacan
Sellars
Habermas
Smart
Marcuse
Bergmann
Ricoeur
Armstrong
King
Althusser
Chisholm
Derrida
Lakatos
Rawls
Foucault
E.O. Wilson
Deleuze
1975 AD
Thomson
Singer
Putnam
Dworkin
T. Nagel
Midgley
Rorty
Nozick
Kim
Regan
Haraway
Gilligan
Appiah
Noddings
Eco
Lyotard
Daly
Cixous
Le Dœuff
Kristeva
Irigaray
Lehrer
Harding
Dennett
Annette Baier
Kemerling
Nussbaum
West
Held
Ruddick
MacKinnon
Hoagland
Bordo
hooks
2000 AD
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