Chinese

Confucius Mencius Zhuangzi

Ancient Greek

Heraclitus Parmenides Zeno of Elea Thales Anaxagoras Empedocles Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle Leucippus Democritus Epicurus

Hellenic

Plotinus Proclus Porphyry

Augustine of Hippo Boethius

Medieval

Scotus Eriugena Duns Scotus Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Anselm of Canterbury Maimonides Ibn Rushd Ibn Sina al-Ghazali Meister Eckhart

Modern

René Descartes Thomas Hobbes George Berkeley Immanuel Kant Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz David Hume John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau Benedict de Spinoza Moses Mendelssohn

German Idealism

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Salomon Maimon Johann Gottlieb Fichte Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer

William James Auguste Comte Charles Sanders Peirce Edmund Husserl Ludwig Feuerbach Karl Marx

Analytic

Gottlob Frege Bertrand Russell Alfred North Whitehead Ludwig Wittgenstein Rudolf Carnap Willard Van Orman Quine Saul Kripke Karl Popper David Lewis Hilary Putnam Donald Davidson Michael Dummett Kurt Gödel Paul Benaceraff John Lucas

René Guénon Friedrich Nietzsche Julius Evola Ananda Coomaraswamy Frithjof Schuon

Continental

Henri Bergson Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida Jean Baudrillard Martin Heidegger Jean-Paul Sartre Hannah Arendt Simone de Beauvoir Theodor Adorno Max Horkheimer Walter Benjamin Herbert Marcuse Slavoj Žižek Jürgen Habermas Albert Lautman

21st Century

Reza Negarestani Ray Brassier Quentin Meillassoux Edward Zalta Graham Priest