Philosopher


A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. The word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom."
This article is part of the Influential Western Philosophers series
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This article is part of The Contemporary Philosophers series
Analytic philosophers:
Simon BlackburnNed Block > David ChalmersPatricia Churchland > Paul Churchland Donald Davidson > Daniel DennettJerry Fodor > Susan Haack Saul KripkeThomas Samuel Kuhn > Bryan MageeRuth Barcan Marcus > Colin McGinnThomas Nagel > Robert NozickMartha Nussbaum > Alvin PlantingaKarl Popper > Hilary PutnamW. V. Quine > John RawlsRichard Rorty > Roger ScrutonPeter Singer > John Searle Charles Taylor
Continental philosophers:
Louis AlthusserGiorgio Agamben > Roland BarthesJean Baudrillard > Isaiah BerlinMaurice Blanchot > Pierre BourdieuHélène Cixous > Guy DebordGilles Deleuze > Jacques DerridaMichel Foucault > Hans-Georg GadamerJürgen Habermas > Werner HamacherJulia Kristeva > Henri LefebvreClaude Lévi-Strauss > Emmanuel LevinasJean-François Lyotard > Paul de ManJean-Luc Nancy > Antonio NegriPaul Ricoeur > Michel SerresPaul Virilio > Slavoj Žižek
Not listed above: (some of) The Presocratics -- Epicurus place after Aristotle --Hellenistic Philosophers -- Cicero -- Avicenna -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- James Mill -- Rudolf Steiner -- Albert Schweitzer -- G. E. Moore -- Albert Camus -- Georg Henrik von Wright -- Mortimer Adler -- Nelson Goodman -- Imre Lakatos -- Ayn Rand -- Paul Feyerabend -- Mario Bunge -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Eastern philosophers in approximate historical order:

Gautama Buddha -- Confucius -- Lao Zi -- Rhazes -- Mencius -- Zhuang Zi -- Xun Zi -- Nagarjuna -- Bodhidharma -- Shankara -- Dogen -- Zhu Xi -- Feng Youlan -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Philosophers: listed by philosophical school

See Philosophical Movements.

Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers

Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames -- some by their contemporaries, others by historians. For example: See Also the articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Scientists, List of philosophers, and a fuller listing at :Category:Philosophers. ---- The Philosopher is also the nickname of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 22. Category:Philosophy Category:Humanities occupations de:Philosopheo:Filozofoes:Filosofos A-Zfr:Philosophegd:Feallsanachdnl:Filosoofpt:Filósofossl:filozofsv:Filosofuk:Філософ

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