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James Hopwood Jeans
British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
Emmanuel Levinas
Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher
Nicolas Malebranche
French philosopher
Jakob Böhme
German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)
Proclus
Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor (, ), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. He set forth one of the most elaborate and fully developed systems of Neoplatonism and, through later interpreters and translators, exerted an influence on Byzantine philosophy, early Islamic philosophy, scholastic philosophy, and German idealism, especially G. W. F. Hegel, who called Proclus's Platonic Theology "the true turning point or transition from ancient to modern times, from ancient philosophy to
Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French academic
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
Richard Rorty
American philosopher (1931–2007)
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher
Franz Brentano
German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality (1838–1917)
Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
Gilbert Ryle
British philosopher
Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
Étienne Gilson
French historian and philosopher (1884-1978)
Jonathan Edwards
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher (born 1931)
Wilhelm Windelband
German philosopher (1848–1915)
Robert Anton Wilson
American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
Rudolf Otto
German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist (1869-1937)
Ludwig Büchner
German philosopher and scientist (1824-1899)
Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
Nicolai Hartmann
German philosopher (1882–1950)
Gaudapada
Gauḍapāda (Sanskrit: गौडपाद; ), also referred as Gauḍapādācārya (Sanskrit: गौडपादाचार्य; "Gauḍapāda the Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are uncertain, his ideas inspired others such as Adi Shankara who called him a Paramaguru (highest teacher).
Nelson Goodman
American philosopher (1906–1998)
Heinrich Rickert
German philosopher (1863-1936)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-American philosopher and writer
Charles Bernard Renouvier
French philosopher
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
German philosopher
Eduard Zeller
German philosopher and theologian (1814-1908)
Maine de Biran
French philosopher (1766-1824)
Samuel Alexander
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)
Roman Ingarden
Polish philosopher (1893–1970)
Ernest Nagel
American philosopher (1901-1985)
Kazimierz Twardowski
Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician (1866–1938)
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
German-born British philosopher
Louis Lavelle
French academic (1883–1951)
Hans Albert
German philosopher (1921–2023)
Georges Canguilhem
French philosopher (1904-1995)
Pierre Hadot
French historian and philosopher (1922–2010)
Hubert Dreyfus
American philosopher (1929–2017)
Eugen Fink
German philosopher (1905-1975)
John McDowell
South African philosopher and academic
Friedrich Paulsen
German philosopher and educator (1846–1908)
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
French academic (1813–1900)
Harry Frankfurt
American philosopher (1929–2023)
Ralph Barton Perry
American philosopher (1876–1957)
Clarence Irving Lewis
American philosopher (1883–1964)
Antonio Escohotado
Spanish essayist and university professor
Quentin Meillassoux
French philosopher
Gilles Lipovetsky
French philosopher, writer and sociologist
Hajime Tanabe
Japanese philosopher (1885–1962)
Constantin Noica
Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet (1909–1987)
Norman Malcolm
American philosopher (1911-1990)
Graham Harman
American philosopher (born 1968)
Charles Hartshorne
American philosopher (1897–2000)
Julius Bahnsen
German philosopher (1830–1881)
Keiji Nishitani
Japanese philosopher (1900–1990)
African Spir
Russian philosopher (1837-1890)