- Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the "Baconian method" or simply, the scientific method. - Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15 1861, Ramsgate, Kent, England - December 30 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA) was an English-born mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. With Bertrand Russell, he coauthored the epochal "Principia Mathematica". - Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. The lifelong bachelor contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, metaphysics, religion, politics, rhetoric, biology, sociology, and psychology. - Hilary Putnam
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. He is known for his willingness to apply an equal degree of scrutiny to his own philosophical positions and to those of others, subjecting each position to rigorous analysis until he exposes its flaws. - Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 15 November, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Frisian ancestry) is a contemporary American philosopher known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and tentative support of intelligent design. His current position is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Calvinist, despite being a professor at a traditionally Catholic university. - Avicenna
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, physics, poetry, science, and theology, and he was also a statesman and soldier. Avicenna was born around 980 (370 AH) in Afshana near Bukhara in Khorasan (now part of Uzbekistan), and died in 1037 (428 AH) in Hamadan (now in Iran). - Quentin Smith
Quentin Smith is a philosopher and professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is most well-known for his work in the philosophy of time, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics and philosophy of religion. However, Smith himself is not limited in his interests, which occasionally branch out into the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ethics, and physical cosmology. Smith is also a painter and a poet. - Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. Along with Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was one of the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. - Jane Roberts
Jane Roberts was an American author who was known primarily as a psychic and trance medium or spirit medium who "channeled" a personality named Seth. She also purportedly channeled other personalities, including the deceased philosopher William James and the deceased painter Paul Cézanne. The publication of the Seth texts established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. - Cratylus
Cratylus (ancient Greek: ", "Kratylos") was an ancient Athenian philosopher from late 5th century BC, mostly known through his portrayal in Plato's dialogue "Cratylus". Little is known of Cratylus or his mentor Heraclitus (of Ephesus, Asia Minor). According to "Cratylus" at 402a, Heraclitus proclaimed that one cannot step twice into the same stream. - Peter van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He previously taught at Syracuse University for many years and earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of action. It is largely due to his work ("An Essay on Free Will": Oxford University Press, … - Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. - Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 - October 9, 2000) was a prominent American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of St. Anselm's Ontological Argument. Hartshorne is also noted for developing Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy into process theology. - Jaegwon Kim
Jaegwon Kim (born 1934, Daegu, South Korea) is a Korean-born American philosopher, currently at Brown University. He is best known for his work on mental causation and the mind-body problem. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience, and the individuation of events. - Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been at Rutgers full-time since January, 2007; previously, he had been at Brown University since 1964. While full-time at Brown, he was also a distinguished visiting professor at Rutgers every spring from 1998-2006. Sosa's CV He is one of the leading contemporary epistemologists, and has also written on metaphysics, modern philosophy and philosophy of mind. - Michael Dummett
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett F.B.A., D. Litt, (born 1925) is a leading British philosopher. He has both written on the history of analytic philosophy, and made original contributions to the subject, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of language and metaphysics. He also devised the Quota Borda system of proportional voting, based on the Borda count, and has written scholarly works on tarot. - John Perry
John R. Perry (b. 1943) is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He has made significant contributions to areas of philosophy, including logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, and self-knowledge. - John McDowell
John Henry McDowell (b. 1942 in Boksburg, South Africa) is a contemporary philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford and now University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written extensively on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, and meta-ethics, McDowell's most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and language. - Fritjof Capra
Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist. Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966. He has done research on particle physics and systems theory, and has written popular books on the implications of science, notably "The Tao of Physics", subtitled "An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". - Charles Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although Peirce was educated as a chemist and was employed as a scientist for 30 years, it is for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and the theory of signs, or semiotics, that he is largely appreciated today. - P. F. Strawson
Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (November 23 1919 - 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was appointed as a college lecturer at University College, Oxford in 1947 and became a tutorial fellow the following year until 1968. - Frithjof Schuon
Frithjof Schuon was a metaphysician, poet, painter, Sufi, and a leading figure of traditional metaphysics. Along with René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Schuon is regarded as one of the three founders of the Traditionalist School. Frithjof Schuon is best known as a spokesman of the "religio perennis" and as a philosopher in the metaphysical current of Adi Shankara and Plato. Over the past 50 years, he has written more than 20 books on metaphysical, … - Al-Kindi
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher, mathematician, physician, astronomer and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is well known for his efforts to introduce Greek philosophy to the Arab world. Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe. He was born and educated in Kufa, before going to pursue further studies in Baghdad. - Hossein Nasr
Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar .Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (1933-), a University Professor of the department of Islamic studies at George Washington University, is a leading Iranian Muslim philosopher. He is the author of many scholarly books and articles. Nasr is a Persian philosopher and renowned scholar of comparative religion, a lifelong student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and a prominent authority in the fields of Islamic esoterism, Sufism, … - Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (June 23, 1668 - January 23, 1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist. Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker in Naples, Italy, Vico attended a series of grammar schools, but ill-health and dissatisfaction with Jesuit scholasticism led to home schooling. - Jonathan Bennett
Jonathan F. Bennett (born 1930, New Zealand) is a British philosopher of language and metaphysics, and a historian of early modern philosophy. Among many other accomplishments, his 1966 book "Kant's Analytic", along with P. F. Strawson's "The Bounds of Sense", reinvigorated Kant studies. In his retirement, he maintains a website devoted to making the texts of early modern philosophers more accessible to today's students. - René Guénon
René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon also named Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya upon his acceptance of Islam, was a French-born author. His field was metaphysics, applied to the study of cultural traditions. Labels such as philosopher and thinker were disowned by Guénon, who described himself as an "exposer of traditional data". - Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher. His first introduction to philosophy was in his youth in the Catholic environment of Bergerac. It is evident from his first publications that Nancy has been influenced by many varied and diverse thinkers. He has written "Le Discours de la Syncope" (1976) and "L’Impératif Catégorique" (1983) on Kant, "La remarque spéculative" (translated as "The Speculative Remark", 2001) on Hegel, … - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (1919-2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally-known beekeeper. Taylor took his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester, and had visiting appointments at about a dozen other institutions. His best known book was "Metaphysics" (1963). - J. L. Mackie
John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was an Australian philosopher, originally from Sydney. He is perhaps best known for his views on meta-ethics, especially his defence of moral skepticism. However, he has also made significant contributions to philosophy of religion and metaphysics. - Galen Strawson
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), Locke, Hume and Kant. Strawson taught at the University of Oxford for many years, as Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College Oxford. He is currently professor of philosophy at the University of Reading and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. - Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson, FBA, FRSE, (born Uppsala, Sweden, 6 August 1955) is a distinguished British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is currently the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of New College, Oxford. - Philip Kitcher
Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 1947) is a British philosophy professor who specializes in the philosophy of science. Born in London, Kitcher spent his early life in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the South Coast of the United Kingdom. He earned his B.A. in Mathematics/History and Philosophy of Science from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1969, and his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from Princeton University in 1974. - Kit Fine
Kit Fine (born March 26, 1946) is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He previously taught for several years at UCLA. The author of several books and dozens of articles in international academic journals, he has made notable contributions to the fields of philosophical logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language and also has written on ancient philosophy, in particular on Aristotle's account of logic and modality. - Gilbert Harman
Gilbert Harman (born 1938) is a contemporary American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University, who has published widely on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophies of language and mind. He was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy. Harman shares the belief of his Ph.D. advisor Willard Van Orman Quine that philosophy and science are continuous, as well as his skepticism about conceptual analysis. - Brian Weatherson
Brian Weatherson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy. As of January 2008 he will move to Rutgers University. Australian born, he received his PhD from Monash University in 1998, with a dissertation on formal models for reasoning under uncertainty, titled "On Uncertainty." He has held previous appointments at Syracuse and Brown. His areas of expertise are Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, and Decision Theory. - Harry Binswanger
Harry Binswanger, Ph.D. (born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1944) is an American philosopher and writer. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in "Humanities and Engineering" from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he was instrumental in establishing the student group "Radicals for Capitalism") and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation, in the philosophy of biology, … - Norman Kemp Smith
Norman Kemp Smith was a philosopher who lectured at Princeton University and was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is best-known for his influential English translation of Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", which is often used as the standard English version of the text, and is considered by many to be the most readable rendering of the work. His commentaries on the "Critique" are also well regarded, … - Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension. - Roderick Chisholm
Roderick M Chisholm (Seekonk, Massachusetts, 1916 -- Providence, Rhode Island, 1999) was an American philosopher, known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of perception. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University under Clarence Irving Lewis and Donald C. Williams, and taught at Brown University. Chisholm's first major work was "Perceiving" (1957). His epistemological views were summed up in a popular text, …
|
| |