Philosopher

Philosophers: in (approximate) historical order

The Presocratics -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Epicurus -- Hellenistic Philosophy[?] -- Avicenna -- Rhazes --Cicero -- Augustine -- Anselm -- Aquinas -- William of Ockham -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Hobbes -- Rene Descartes -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Baruch Spinoza -- Gottfried Leibniz -- Blaise Pascal -- John Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Charl du Montesquieu -- Voltaire -- Immanuel Kant -- Gottlieb Fichte -- Georg Hegel -- James Mill -- John Stuart Mill -- Karl Marx -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Rudolf Steiner -- Albert Schweizer -- Bertrand Russell -- Alfred North Whitehead -- Karl Popper -- -- G. E. Moore -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Rudolph Carnap[?] -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Albert Camus -- Georg Henrik von Wright -- Mortimer Adler -- W. V. O. Quine -- Nelson Goodman[?] -- Imre Lakatos -- Paul Feyerabend -- Mario Bunge -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Daniel Dennett --

Philosophers: listed by philosophical school

See Philosophical Movements.

Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames by historians. For example:

• Francis Mayron[?] - Doctor acutus, the acute doctor, or Doctor illuminatus
• St. Thomas Aquinas - Doctor Angelicus, the angelic doctor, or Doctor Communis
• William of Ockham - Doctor Invincibilis
• Alexander of Hales - Doctor Irrefragibilis
• Roger Bacon - Doctor Mirabilis, the wonderful doctor
• John Bassol[?] - Doctor Ordinatissimus, the most methodical doctor
• St. Bonaventure - Doctor Seraphicus
• Henry Goethals[?] (Hendricus Bonicollius[?]) - Doctor Solemnis, the solemn doctor
• Richard Middleton[?] - the solid doctor, or the profound doctor
• Duns Scotus - Doctor Subtilis, the discriminating doctor, or Doctor Marianus
• Albertus Magnus - Doctor Universalis
• Durandus de Sancto Portiano[?] - the most resolute doctor
• Thomas Bradwardine - the profound doctor
• Jean Ruysbroeck[?] (Joannes Ruysbrokius) - the divine doctor

See Also: Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Ontology, Reason, Mathematicians, Scientists, List of philosophers