Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

male, deceased (1626)
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and...
Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead

male, deceased (1947)
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born...
Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

male, deceased (1903)
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of...
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

male, 83 years old
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s,...
Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga

male, 76 years old
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work...
Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Quentin Smith

Quentin Smith

male
Quentin Smith is a philosopher and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is most well-known for his...
Aristotle

Aristotle

male
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics,...
Jane Roberts

Jane Roberts

female, deceased (1984)
Jane Roberts was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who "channeled" a personality named...

Cratylus

male
Cratylus (ancient Greek: ", "Kratylos") was an ancient Athenian philosopher from late 5th century BC, mostly known through his portrayal in Plato's...