Biographies of Famous Philosophers

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Below is an index of short biographies of a wide variety of philosophers throughout history. A few of the biographies are of other intellectuals - psychologists, sociologists, scientists and others. However, the vast majority are philosophers of one sort or another.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Abd al-Raziq, Ali
Abduh, Muhammad
Acton, JED
Adams, George Plimpton
Adler, Alfred
Adler, Felix
Adorno, Theodor
Algazali
al-Kindi, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq
Alston, William Payne
Althusser, Louis
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Anderson, John
Antiphon
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Austin, John
Averroes ibn-Rusjd
Avicenna
Ayer, A.J.

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Bacon, Francis
Bakunin, Mikhail
Bayes, Thomas
Bayle, Pierre
Simone de Beauvoir
Benjamin, Walter
Bentham, Jeremy
Bergson, Henri
Berkeley, George
Berlin, Isaiah
Bettelheim, Bruno
Blackstone, William
Bloch, Ernst
Boas, Franz
Bohr, Niels
Boyle, Robert
Burckhardt, Jacob
Burke, Edmund

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Camus, Albert
Carnap, Rudolf
Chomsky, Avram Noam
Clifford, William K.
Comte, Auguste

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Democritus of Abdera
Descartes, Rene
Dewey, John
Diderot, Denis
Diogenes

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Eliade, Mircea
Ellis, Albert
Engels, Friedrich
Erasmus, Desiderius
Euler, Leonhard
Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan

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Faraj, Abd al-Salam
Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Foucault, Michel
Freud, Sigmund
Fromm, Erich

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Galbraith, John Kenneth
Gibbon, Edward
Gödel, Kurt

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Habermas, Jurgen
Hare, Richard Mervyn
Hayek, Freidrich
Hegel, Georg W.F.
Heidegger, Martin
Heraclitus
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
Hobbes, Thomas
Hoffer, Eric
Hook, Sidney
Horkheimer, Max
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund Gustav Albrecht

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James, William
Jaspers, Karl
Jung, Carl Gustav

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Kant, Immanuel
Keynes, John Maynard
Kierkegaard, Soren
Kinsey, Alfred C.
Kuhn, Thomas

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Lakatos, Imre
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Locke, John
Lorenz, Konrad
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus

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Mach, Ernst
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Marcuse, Herbert
Marx, Karl
Maslow, Abraham Harold
Mead, Margaret
Milgram, Stanley
Mill, John Stuart
Moore, G.E.

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Nagel, Ernest
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nozick, Robert

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Ockham, William of
Otto, Rudolph

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Paine, Thomas
Parsons, Talcott
Pascal, Blaise
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Pierce, Charles Sanders
Piaget, Jean
Planck, Max
Plato
Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

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Quine, W.V.

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Rawls, John
Rorschach, Hermann
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Royce, Josiah
Russell, Bertrand
Ryle, Gilbert

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Sagan, Carl
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
Schlick, F. A. Moritz
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schrodinger, Erwin
Searle, John
Sellars, Wilfrid
Skinner, B.F.
Smith, Adam
Socrates
Spinoza, Baruch

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Thales
Toynbee, Arnold J.
Trotsky, Leon
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett

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Unamuno, Miguel de

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Venn, John
Voltaire

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Waismann, Friedrich
Weber, Max
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Xenophanes of Colophons
Xenophon

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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Elea

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