Most Famous Analytic Philosophers

Philosophers in this tradition

• Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 · British

  Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and political activist whose work is foundational to 20th-century analytic philosophy. With Alfred North Whi...

• Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951 · Austrian

  Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher whose work transformed 20th-century analytic philosophy. His 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written largely while h...

• Noam Chomsky b. 1928 · American

  Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, and one of the most cited intellectuals alive. His Syntactic Structures and the theory of generative grammar transfo...

• Iris Murdoch 1919 – 1999 · British

  Iris Murdoch was a 20th-century British philosopher and novelist, the author of 26 novels and several volumes of moral philosophy. Her philosophical work, including The Sovereig...

• John Searle b. 1932 · American

  John Searle is an American philosopher long associated with the University of California, Berkeley, whose work has shaped the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. ...

• Peter Singer b. 1946 · Australian

  Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher and the most widely read utilitarian writer of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His Animal Liberation became ...

• Roberto Mangabeira Unger b. 1947 · Brazilian

  Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher and the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard, whose work has spanned legal theory, political philosophy, and Brazilian p...

• W. V. O. Quine 1908 – 2000 · American

  Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American philosopher and logician, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the post-war era. His landmark 1951 essay Two ...

• Alan Turing 1912 – 1954 · British

  Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of mind who is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intellig...

• Simon Blackburn b. 1944 · British

  Simon Blackburn is a British philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and one of the leading defenders of expressivism in contemporary metaethics. Spreadi...

• Thomas Nagel b. 1937 · American

  Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher long associated with New York University, whose work has shaped contemporary thinking in the philosophy of mind, ethics, and political ph...

• George Boole 1815 – 1864 · English

  George Boole was an English mathematician, logician, and philosopher and one of the founders of mathematical logic. Almost entirely self-taught, he became professor of mathemati...

• Mary Midgley 1919 – 2018 · British

  Mary Midgley was a British moral philosopher and one of the small group of women who shaped Oxford philosophy during the Second World War, alongside Anscombe, Foot, and Iris Mur...

• Michael Sandel b. 1953 · American

  Michael Sandel is an American political philosopher, professor at Harvard University, and one of the most widely read public philosophers of our time. Liberalism and the Limits ...

• Robert Nozick 1938 – 2002 · American

  Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and a longtime professor at Harvard. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia, published in 1974 in part as a response to Rawls's Theory of Justi...

• Gottlob Frege 1848 – 1925 · German

  Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a 19th and early 20th-century German mathematician, logician, and philosopher, regarded as the founder of modern formal logic and one of the f...

• Hans Reichenbach 1891 – 1953 · German-American

  Hans Reichenbach was a German-American philosopher of science and the founder of the Berlin Circle of logical empiricists. Trained in physics and mathematics, he produced founda...

• Ian Hacking 1936 – 2023 · Canadian

  Ian Hacking was a Canadian philosopher of science whose work bridged the analytic and historical traditions in the philosophy of science. Trained at Cambridge under Wittgenstein...

• Karl Popper 1902 – 1994 · Austrian-British

  Karl Popper was a 20th-century Austrian-British philosopher of science, social philosopher, and one of the most influential thinkers of the analytic tradition. The Logic of Scie...

• Thomas Kuhn 1922 – 1996 · American

  Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions changed how the development of the natural scienc...

• Alfred North Whitehead 1861 – 1947 · British

  Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of the late 19th and 20th centuries. With his student Bertrand Russell he co-authored the monumenta...

• Derek Parfit 1942 – 2017 · British

  Derek Parfit was a British philosopher widely regarded as one of the most important moral philosophers of the late twentieth century. A long-serving senior research fellow at Al...

• Hilary Putnam 1926 – 2016 · American

  Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher and one of the central figures of late twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Over a long career at Harvard he made foundational contri...

• John Rawls 1921 – 2002 · American

  John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher whose 1971 book A Theory of Justice is the most influential work of political philosophy of the post-war era. The bo...

• Kurt Godel 1906 – 1978 · Austrian-American

  Kurt Friedrich Godel was an Austrian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher and one of the most important logicians in the history of the discipline. His incompletene...

• Rudolf Carnap 1891 – 1970 · German-American

  Rudolf Carnap was a German-born philosopher and a leading figure of the Vienna Circle and of logical empiricism. His Logical Structure of the World attempted to construct all sc...

• Gilbert Ryle 1900 – 1976 · British

  Gilbert Ryle was a British analytic philosopher and one of the architects of post-war Oxford ordinary-language philosophy. As Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy and ...

• Richard Rorty 1931 – 2007 · American

  Richard Rorty was an American philosopher who began in the analytic tradition and gradually became its most celebrated internal critic. His Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature d...

• Sidney Hook 1902 – 1989 · American

  Sidney Hook was an American philosopher, long-time professor at New York University, and one of the most prominent American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. A pupi...

• A. J. Ayer 1910 – 1989 · British

  Alfred Jules Ayer was a British philosopher and the most prominent representative of logical positivism in the English-speaking world. Having spent time with the Vienna Circle w...

• Alasdair MacIntyre 1929 – 2025 · Scottish-American

  Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American moral and political philosopher and one of the principal architects of the late twentieth-century revival of virtue ethics. H...

• Amartya Sen b. 1933 · Indian

  Amartya Sen is an Indian philosopher and economist, Nobel laureate in economic sciences, and one of the most influential thinkers on famines, social choice, and the foundations ...

• C. D. Broad 1887 – 1971 · British

  Charlie Dunbar Broad was a British analytic philosopher and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge for nearly fifty years. He distinguished critical philosophy, the scrutiny of ...

• Daniel Dennett 1942 – 2024 · American

  Daniel Clement Dennett was an American philosopher of mind, philosopher of biology, and longtime professor at Tufts University. A pupil of Gilbert Ryle, he developed an influent...

• G. A. Cohen 1941 – 2009 · Canadian

  Gerald Allan Cohen was a Canadian-British political philosopher and the leading figure of the school of analytical Marxism. Born to a Communist Jewish family in Montreal, he stu...

• John Hick 1922 – 2012 · British

  John Harwood Hick was a British philosopher of religion and one of the most influential religious thinkers of the late twentieth century. Trained at Edinburgh, Oxford, and Cambr...

• Kate Manne b. 1983 · Australian

  Kate Manne is an Australian moral philosopher, associate professor at Cornell University, whose work has reshaped contemporary feminist analytic philosophy of misogyny and patri...

• Lewis White Beck 1913 – 1997 · American

  Lewis White Beck was an American philosopher and the most influential English-language Kant scholar of his generation. After studies at Emory and Duke and a long teaching career...

• Mortimer Adler 1902 – 2001 · American

  Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher and educator and the most prolific philosophical popularizer of his generation. After studies at Columbia and a long teaching c...

• Otto Neurath 1882 – 1945 · Austrian

  Otto Neurath was an Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher of science and one of the leading members of the Vienna Circle. A committed socialist and engineer of public...

• Paul Feyerabend 1924 – 1994 · Austrian

  Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his anti-methodological critique of the philosophy of science. After early work in the orbit of t...

• Roderick Chisholm 1916 – 1999 · American

  Roderick Milton Chisholm was an American philosopher and one of the principal figures of mid-twentieth-century American analytic metaphysics and epistemology. He spent his entir...

• Roger Scruton 1944 – 2020 · British

  Roger Scruton was a British philosopher, public intellectual, and the foremost philosophical exponent of conservative thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centur...

• Susan Haack b. 1945 · British-American

  Susan Haack is a British-American philosopher, distinguished professor at the University of Miami, and one of the leading defenders of pragmatism and epistemological responsibil...

• Susanne Langer 1895 – 1985 · American

  Susanne Knauth Langer was an American philosopher of mind, art, and language and one of the first women to achieve a major reputation in twentieth-century American philosophy. A...

• Walter Kaufmann 1921 – 1980 · German-American

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet and the principal English-language interpreter of Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth ce...

• William Stanley Jevons 1835 – 1882 · English

  William Stanley Jevons was an English economist, logician, and philosopher of science and one of the chief figures of the marginal revolution in economics. Trained at University...

• Yeshayahu Leibowitz 1903 – 1994 · Latvian-Israeli

  Yeshayahu Leibowitz was a Latvian-Israeli philosopher, scientist, and Orthodox Jewish religious thinker, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in biochemistry, neurolo...

• Alvin Plantinga b. 1932 · American

  Alvin Plantinga is an American philosopher of religion, long associated with Calvin College and the University of Notre Dame, and the most influential analytic Christian philoso...

• Antony Flew 1923 – 2010 · British

  Antony Garrard Newton Flew was a British analytic philosopher of religion and ethics who, for most of a long career, was one of the most prominent philosophical defenders of ath...

• Bernard Williams 1929 – 2003 · British

  Bernard Williams was a British analytic philosopher and one of the most original and influential moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Holding chairs at Cambridge, Berkel...

• Frank Ramsey 1903 – 1930 · British

  Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher of extraordinary precocity who, in a career cut short by his death at twenty-six, made foundational ...

• J. L. Austin 1911 – 1960 · British

  John Langshaw Austin was a British philosopher, the leading figure of post-war Oxford ordinary-language philosophy alongside Gilbert Ryle. As White's Professor of Moral Philosop...

• Ronald Dworkin 1931 – 2013 · American

  Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal and political philosopher and one of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the late twentieth century. Successor to H. L. A...

• Alfred Tarski 1901 – 1983 · Polish-American

  Alfred Tarski was a Polish-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher and one of the founders of modern mathematical logic and model theory. After his early career in the...

• Charles Mills 1951 – 2021 · Jamaican-American

  Charles Mills was a Jamaican-American philosopher, distinguished professor at the City University of New York, and one of the most original political philosophers of his generat...

• Donald Davidson 1917 – 2003 · American

  Donald Davidson was an American philosopher whose work in the philosophy of action, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind shaped late twentieth-century analytic thought...

• Ernest Nagel 1901 – 1985 · American

  Ernest Nagel was a Czech-American philosopher of science and one of the leading representatives of logical empiricism in the United States. After studies under Morris Cohen at C...

• Imre Lakatos 1922 – 1974 · Hungarian-British

  Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-British philosopher of mathematics and science. After surviving the Second World War in the Hungarian Communist underground and later being imprison...

• Susan Stebbing 1885 – 1943 · British

  L. Susan Stebbing was a British analytic philosopher and the first woman in the United Kingdom to hold a full professorship in philosophy, at Bedford College, London. A pupil of...

• C. I. Lewis 1883 – 1964 · American

  Clarence Irving Lewis was an American philosopher and the principal figure of the third generation of American pragmatism. A long-serving professor at Harvard, he made foundatio...

• David Chalmers b. 1966 · Australian

  David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher, professor at New York University and the Australian National University, and a leading voice in the contemporary philosophy of mind....

• Mary Hesse 1924 – 2016 · British

  Mary Brenda Hesse was a British philosopher of science and one of the first women to hold a senior chair in the philosophy of science in the United Kingdom. After early studies ...

• P. F. Strawson 1919 – 2006 · British

  Sir Peter Frederick Strawson was a British analytic philosopher and a long-standing fellow of University College, Oxford. His paper On Referring criticized Russell's theory of d...

• Susan Wolf b. 1952 · American

  Susan Wolf is an American moral philosopher, distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose work has shaped contemporary thinking on the meani...

• Daya Krishna 1924 – 2007 · Indian

  Daya Krishna was an Indian philosopher and the most influential figure in the post-independence Indian philosophical scene, professor of philosophy at the University of Rajastha...

• Elizabeth Anscombe 1919 – 2001 · British

  G. E. M. Anscombe was a British analytic philosopher, a student and literary executor of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the leading translator of his later works. She succeeded Wittge...

• G. E. Moore 1873 – 1958 · British

  George Edward Moore was a British philosopher and, with Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, a founding figure of the analytic tradition at Cambridge. In Principia Ethica h...

• Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz 1890 – 1963 · Polish

  Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz was a Polish philosopher and logician of the Lwow-Warsaw school and one of the leading philosophers of language and theory of knowledge of the interwar per...

• R. M. Hare 1919 – 2002 · British

  Richard Mervyn Hare was a British analytic moral philosopher and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. After captivity in the Far East during the Second World War, he...

• Stanley Cavell 1926 – 2018 · American

  Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher and one of the most distinctive voices in late twentieth-century Anglo-American thought. After early studies at Berkeley and Harvard, ...

• Joseph Raz 1939 – 2022 · Israeli-British

  Joseph Raz was an Israeli-British legal and moral philosopher and one of the leading legal positivists of his generation. Trained at Hebrew University and Oxford, he held the ch...

• Michael Dummett 1925 – 2011 · British

  Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett was a British philosopher of logic, language, and mathematics and a long-serving Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford. His monumental Frege: ...

• Norman Malcolm 1911 – 1990 · American

  Norman Adrian Malcolm was an American philosopher and the principal American interpreter of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. After studies at Nebraska, Harvard, and Cambridge, w...

• A. C. Graham 1919 – 1991 · British

  Angus Charles Graham was a British sinologist and philosopher, professor of classical Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and the most influential E...

• Annette Baier 1929 – 2012 · New Zealander

  Annette Claire Baier was a New Zealand-born moral philosopher and one of the most distinctive analytic voices in late twentieth-century ethics. After studies at Otago and Oxford...

• Judith Jarvis Thomson 1929 – 2020 · American

  Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral and metaphysical philosopher and a long-serving professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her A Defense of Abortion, pu...

• Philippa Foot 1920 – 2010 · British

  Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher and one of the principal figures in the twentieth-century revival of virtue ethics. A founder of Oxfam and a longtime fellow of ...

• Saul Kripke 1940 – 2022 · American

  Saul Kripke was an American philosopher and logician and one of the most consequential analytic philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Already in his teens he...

• Stephen Toulmin 1922 – 2009 · British

  Stephen Edelston Toulmin was a British philosopher of science, ethics, and argumentation. Trained at Cambridge under Wittgenstein, he held posts in Britain, Australia, and the U...

• Gilbert Harman 1938 – 2021 · American

  Gilbert Helms Harman was an American philosopher of language, mind, and ethics and a long-serving professor at Princeton. After studies at Swarthmore and Harvard under W. V. O. ...

• Mary Warnock 1924 – 2019 · British

  Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock of Weeke, was a British moral philosopher and one of the most consequential public philosophers of late twentieth-century Britain. After a l...

• Akeel Bilgrami b. 1950 · Indian-American

  Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian-American philosopher, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and one of the leading contemporary analytic philosophers o...

• David Lewis 1941 – 2001 · American

  David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher and one of the most influential figures of late twentieth-century analytic metaphysics. Holding chairs at UCLA and Princeton, he ...

• Harry Frankfurt 1929 – 2023 · American

  Harry Frankfurt was an American moral philosopher, professor emeritus at Princeton University, and one of the most influential analytic theorists of the will. Freedom of the Wil...

• Helen Longino b. 1944 · American

  Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science, professor emerita at Stanford University, and one of the leading defenders of social epistemology in the late twentieth and ...

• Jeremy Waldron b. 1953 · New Zealand

  Jeremy Waldron is a New Zealand-born British and American legal and political philosopher, University Professor at the New York University School of Law and emeritus Chichele Pr...

• Martha Nussbaum b. 1947 · American

  Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher whose work spans ancient Greek ethics, political philosophy, the philosophy of emotion, and feminist theory. The Fragility of Goodness...

• Patricia Churchland b. 1943 · Canadian-American

  Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher, professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, and one of the founders of the field she named neurop...

• Peter Geach 1916 – 2013 · British

  Peter Thomas Geach was a British philosopher of logic, language, and metaphysics, husband and long philosophical companion of Elizabeth Anscombe, and for most of his career prof...

• Bas van Fraassen b. 1941 · Dutch-American

  Bas C. van Fraassen is a Dutch-born American philosopher of science, distinguished professor emeritus at Princeton University and former professor at San Francisco State Univers...

• Bimal Krishna Matilal 1935 – 1991 · Indian

  Bimal Krishna Matilal was an Indian philosopher and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at the University of Oxford, widely credited with putting classical Indian...

• John Finnis b. 1940 · Australian-British

  John Finnis is an Australian-British legal and moral philosopher, emeritus professor of law at Oxford and a long-time professor at the University of Notre Dame. Natural Law and ...

• John Mackie 1917 – 1981 · Australian

  John Leslie Mackie was an Australian philosopher who spent the greater part of his career at the University of Sydney, the University of York, and University College, Oxford. Hi...

• Richard Swinburne b. 1934 · British

  Richard Swinburne is a British philosopher of religion, long associated with the University of Oxford, and the most prolific defender of natural theology in late-twentieth-centu...

• A. N. Prior 1914 – 1969 · New Zealander

  Arthur Norman Prior was a New Zealand-born logician and the founder of modern tense logic. After early work in theology and ethics, he turned to logic and, in a series of articl...

• Anne Phillips b. 1950 · British

  Anne Phillips is a British political philosopher, Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science emerita at the London School of Economics, and one of the most influential contemp...

• Arne Naess 1912 – 2009 · Norwegian

  Arne Naess was a Norwegian philosopher, the youngest person ever appointed to a full professorship at the University of Oslo, and the founder of the deep ecology movement. His e...

• Avishai Margalit b. 1939 · Israeli

  Avishai Margalit is an Israeli philosopher, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...

• Bernard Bolzano 1781 – 1848 · Bohemian

  Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano was a Bohemian Catholic priest, mathematician, logician, and theologian, often called the great-grandfather of analytic philosophy. Train...

• Brand Blanshard 1892 – 1987 · American

  Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher of an Anglo-American rationalist temper, a long-serving professor at Yale, and one of the principal twentieth-century defenders...

• Carl Hempel 1905 – 1997 · German-American

  Carl Gustav Hempel was a German-American philosopher of science and one of the most influential members of the logical empiricist tradition. After early association with the Ber...

• Charles Stevenson 1908 – 1979 · American

  Charles Leslie Stevenson was an American moral philosopher and the principal architect of the emotivist account of ethical language. After studies at Yale, Cambridge, and Harvar...

• Christine Korsgaard b. 1952 · American

  Christine Korsgaard is an American philosopher long associated with Harvard University and one of the most important contemporary interpreters of Kantian ethics. The Sources of ...

• D. M. Armstrong 1926 – 2014 · Australian

  David Malet Armstrong was an Australian philosopher and the leading representative of the school of Australian materialism. Educated at Sydney and Oxford, he held the chair of p...

• Ernst Tugendhat 1930 – 2023 · German

  Ernst Tugendhat was a Czech-born German philosopher and one of the most important twentieth-century bridges between analytic and continental traditions. Educated at Stanford and...

• Frank Jackson b. 1943 · Australian

  Frank Jackson is an Australian philosopher, distinguished honorary professor at the Australian National University, and one of the most influential analytic philosophers working...

• Galen Strawson b. 1952 · British

  Galen Strawson is a British philosopher, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the son of P. F. Strawson, whose work has reshaped contemporary debate on free will,...

• Georg Henrik von Wright 1916 – 2003 · Finnish

  Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher and logician, Wittgenstein's chosen successor at Cambridge, and one of his three literary executors. Returning to Helsinki, he ...

• Graham Priest b. 1948 · British-Australian

  Graham Priest is a British-born Australian and American philosopher, distinguished professor at the City University of New York, and the foremost living advocate of dialetheism,...

• Hans Albert 1921 – 2023 · German

  Hans Albert was a German philosopher, sociologist, and the principal continental representative of critical rationalism, the tradition founded by Karl Popper. After service in t...

• Jaakko Hintikka 1929 – 2015 · Finnish

  Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka was a Finnish philosopher and logician and one of the most prolific and inventive logicians of the late twentieth century. Trained at Helsinki and ...

• Jaegwon Kim 1934 – 2019 · Korean-American

  Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American analytic philosopher, long associated with Brown University, and one of the most influential philosophers of mind of his generation. His early ...

• Jan Lukasiewicz 1878 – 1956 · Polish

  Jan Lukasiewicz was a Polish logician and philosopher and one of the founders of the Lwow-Warsaw school of analytic philosophy. After holding chairs at Lwow and Warsaw and servi...

• John Findlay 1903 – 1987 · South African

  John Niemeyer Findlay was a South African-born philosopher whose long career took him from Pretoria and Otago to Newcastle, King's College London, the University of Texas, Yale,...

• Jonardon Ganeri b. 1963 · British-Indian

  Jonardon Ganeri is a British-Indian philosopher, professor at the University of Toronto, and one of the leading interpreters of classical Indian philosophy in the English-speaki...

• Kit Fine b. 1946 · British

  Kit Fine is a British philosopher, university professor at New York University, and one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians and philosophical logicians. His earl...

• Kwame Anthony Appiah b. 1954 · Ghanaian-American

  Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British and American philosopher whose work has reshaped contemporary debates on ethics, identity, race, and cosmopolitanism. In My Father's H...

• Linda Zagzebski b. 1946 · American

  Linda Zagzebski is an American philosopher, George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and one of the leading contemporary theorists of virtue epistemol...

• Luis Villoro 1922 – 2014 · Mexican

  Luis Villoro Toranzo was a Mexican philosopher of Spanish origin and one of the leading voices of twentieth-century Mexican thought. After studies in Mexico and Paris under Gast...

• Mary Anne Warren 1946 – 2010 · American

  Mary Anne Warren was an American moral philosopher long associated with San Francisco State University, whose work in applied ethics shaped the late-twentieth-century debates ov...

• Miranda Fricker b. 1966 · British

  Miranda Fricker is a British philosopher, professor at the City University of New York, and the originator of the influential concept of epistemic injustice. Epistemic Injustice...

• Mohammed Abed al-Jabri 1935 – 2010 · Moroccan

  Mohammed Abed al-Jabri was a Moroccan philosopher, long associated with Mohammed V University in Rabat, and one of the most influential Arab thinkers of the late twentieth centu...

• Nelson Goodman 1906 – 1998 · American

  Henry Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher who made fundamental contributions to logic, the theory of induction, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of art. The...

• Onora O'Neill b. 1941 · British

  Onora O'Neill is a British philosopher and Crossbench member of the House of Lords, formerly principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, whose work has shaped contemporary Kantian ...

• Richard Wollheim 1923 – 2003 · British

  Richard Arthur Wollheim was a British philosopher of art, mind, and emotion and a long-serving Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. ...

• Robert Brandom b. 1950 · American

  Robert Brandom is an American analytic philosopher, distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most influential contemporary defenders of inferentia...

• Roy Bhaskar 1944 – 2014 · British

  Ram Roy Bhaskar was a British philosopher and the principal founder of the school of critical realism. After studies at Oxford under Rom Harre, he produced his foundational A Re...

• Roy Wood Sellars 1880 – 1973 · American

  Roy Wood Sellars was an American philosopher, long-time professor at the University of Michigan, and one of the founders of the school of critical realism in early twentieth-cen...

• Ruth Barcan Marcus 1921 – 2012 · American

  Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American philosopher and logician and one of the principal architects of twentieth-century quantified modal logic. Her doctoral thesis, written in 1946...

• Sadiq Jalal al-Azm 1934 – 2016 · Syrian

  Sadiq Jalal al-Azm was a Syrian philosopher, professor at the University of Damascus and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and one of the most uncompromising secula...

• Souleymane Bachir Diagne b. 1955 · Senegalese

  Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Senegalese philosopher, professor at Columbia University, and one of the leading living voices on African philosophy, Islamic thought, and translat...

• Stanislaw Lesniewski 1886 – 1939 · Polish

  Stanislaw Lesniewski was a Polish logician, philosopher of mathematics, and the most uncompromising formalist of the Lwow-Warsaw school. After studies under Kazimierz Twardowski...

• Stuart Hampshire 1914 – 2004 · British

  Stuart Newton Hampshire was a British philosopher and one of the leading figures of postwar Oxford philosophy. After service in British intelligence during the Second World War,...

• T. M. Scanlon b. 1940 · American

  Thomas Michael Scanlon is an American moral and political philosopher, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity Emeritus at Harvard University, a...

• Tadeusz Kotarbinski 1886 – 1981 · Polish

  Tadeusz Marian Kotarbinski was a Polish philosopher and logician and one of the leading figures of the Lwow-Warsaw school of analytic philosophy. Long-time professor at Warsaw, ...

• Timothy Williamson b. 1955 · British

  Timothy Williamson is a British philosopher, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and one of the most influential analytic philosophers of his generation. Kno...

• Wesley Salmon 1925 – 2001 · American

  Wesley Charles Salmon was an American philosopher of science and one of the leading writers on scientific explanation, causation, and induction in the second half of the twentie...

• Wilfrid Sellars 1912 – 1989 · American

  Wilfrid Sellars was an American philosopher and one of the most influential analytic thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century. His seminal essay Empiricism and the P...

• Will Kymlicka b. 1962 · Canadian

  Will Kymlicka is a Canadian political philosopher, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and one of the most influential contemporary theorists of...

• William Frankena 1908 – 1994 · American

  William Klaas Frankena was an American moral philosopher and one of the most respected ethicists of the mid-twentieth century. Trained at Calvin College, the University of Michi...

• John McDowell b. 1942 · British

  John McDowell is a South African-born British philosopher, the University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most influential figures in con...