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Aristotle
Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
Thomas Aquinas
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Avicenna
Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
Averroes
Ibn Rushd (14 April 112611 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
Zhuang Zhou
Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
Farabi
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English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)
Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
Al-Kindi
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ; ; ) was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Mozi
Mozi, personal name Mo Di,
Rudolf Carnap
German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
Bernard Bolzano
Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)
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)
Alfred Tarski
Polish-American logician (1901-1983)
Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
Jan Łukasiewicz
Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Dutch mathematician and logician (1881–1966)
Hermann Lotze
German philosopher (1817-1881)
Wilhelm Windelband
German philosopher (1848–1915)
Hans Reichenbach
German–American philosopher
Carl Gustav Hempel
German philosopher (1905–1997)
Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)
Heinrich Rickert
German philosopher (1863-1936)
Georg Henrik von Wright
Finland Swedish philosopher, professor and member of the Academy of Finland (1916–2003)
Kazimierz Twardowski
Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician (1866–1938)
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
German-born British philosopher
Hans Albert
German philosopher (1921–2023)
John McDowell
South African philosopher and academic
Quentin Meillassoux
French philosopher
John Anderson
Scottish-born Australian philosopher (1893–1962)
Dagfinn Føllesdal
Norwegian philosopher
Arthur Prior
New Zealand logician and philosopher (1914–1969)
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Lithuanian politician (1944–2006)
David Miller
philosopher
Jesús Padilla Gálvez
Spanish philosopher
Maria Baghramian
Professor of Philosophy
Annibale Pastore
Italian philosopher and logician (1868-1956)
Ernst Christian Gottlieb Reinhold
German philosopher (1793–1855)
Ted Honderich
Canadian-British philosopher (born 1933)
Ziya Movahed
Iranian writer