List of English People - Philosophers

Philosophers

  • Donald Adamson (born 1939)
  • G.E.M. Anscombe (1919–2001), philosopher
  • Anselm of Canterbury(born 1033), philosopher, famous for creation of the Ontological Argument
  • A.J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
  • Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher and essayist
  • Roger Bacon (1214–1294), medieval philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
  • Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, founder of Utilitarianism
  • R.M. Hare (1907–2002), philosopher
  • H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher
  • Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), philosopher
  • William Godwin (1756–1836), political philosopher
  • John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
  • John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), economist, political philosopher
  • G.E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
  • Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
  • William of Ockham (c. 1285 – 1349), philosopher, theologian, created Ockham's Razor
  • Thomas Paine (1737–1809), theorist
  • Derek Parfit (born 1942), philosopher
  • Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
  • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
  • Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher
  • Peter Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher
  • William Whewell (1794–1866), philosopher
  • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician
  • Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher

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