Historians and Philosophers Modern Period (1750 - today) |
Name and brief biographical notes | Major works available on-line, web pages, etc. |
George Berkeley (1685-1753) Irish philosopher and empiricist. |
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Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755) French aristocrat and philosopher. |
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Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) French philosopher. |
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David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher and historian. |
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Voltaire (François Marie Arounet) (1694-1778) French author and philosopher. |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss/French philosopher. |
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist and philosopher. |
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Richard Price (1723-1791) Scottish moral philosopher. |
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) Scottish astronomer, clergyman and philosopher. |
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British statesman and political philosopher. |
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher. |
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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) American philosopher and statesman. |
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) German philosopher, and father of Immanuel Hermann Fichte. |
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David Ricardo (1772-1823) Economic philosopher. |
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) U.S. political philosopher; 3rd President of the U.S.A. (1801-1809). |
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher. |
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) British philosopher. |
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James Mill (1773-1836) Scottish historian, economist and philosopher, father of John Stuart Mill. |
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William Hamilton (1788-1856) Scottish historian, logician, and philosopher. |
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Polish philosopher. |
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James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) Scottish philosopher and historian. |
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) British philosopher, son of James Mill. |
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Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1797-1879) German philosopher, and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. |
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Karl Marx (1818-1883) German economic/political philosopher. |
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Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883) British historian. |
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Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) German historian and historical theorist. |
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898) British philosopher, mathematician, logician, clergyman and author. |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher. |
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William James (1842-1910) American philosopher, psychologist and educator. |
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Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science. |
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Franz Brentano (1838-1917) German philosopher. |
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Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) British philosopher. |
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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) German mathematician and philosopher. |
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Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846-1926) German philosopher. |
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Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) Czech philosopher. |
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Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) German philosopher. |
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Otto Neurath (1882-1945) Austrian philosopher. |
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) British mathematician and philosopher. |
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Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Austrian philosopher. |
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John Dewey (1859-1952) American philosopher and educator. |
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Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) German philosopher. |
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) French philosopher and theologian. |
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Yves R. Simon (1903-1961) French philosopher. |
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Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) American philosopher. |
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Martin Buber (1878-1965) German-born Israeli philosopher. |
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher. |
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Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German-born American philosopher. |
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Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) French philosopher. |
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Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) German philosopher. |
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) Canadian philosopher. |
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Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American philosopher. |
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Michel Foucault (1926-1984) French historian and philosopher. |
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Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) Philosopher. |
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Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1900-1990) British philosopher. |
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Justus Buchler (1914-1991) American philosopher. |
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Karl Reimund Popper (1902-1994) Austrian philosopher. |
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Richard B. Brandt (1910-) American philosopher. |
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Stuart Newton Hampshire (1914-) British philosopher. |
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Donald Herbert Davidson (1917-) American philosopher. |
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Richard M. Hare (1919-) British moral philosopher. |
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David W. Hamlyn (1924-) British philosopher. |
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Alastair Hannay (1932-) Scottish philosopher. |
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Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri (1934-) Indian historian and eminent scholar of the 16th and 17th centuries. |
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Thomas Nagel (1937-) American philosopher. |
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Gilbert Harman (1938-) American philosopher. |
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Malcolm Budd (1941-) British philosopher. |
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Jonathan Glover (1941-) British philosopher. |
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Daniel C. Dennett (1942-) American philosopher |
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Nancy Cartwright (1943-) American philosopher. |
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Tyler Burge (1946-) American philosopher. |
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Peter Dain Suber (1951-) American philosopher. |
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Updated: August 10, 1998.