'n Filosoof (ook wel 'wysgeer') beoefen die studie van filosofie
Bekende filosowe Filosowe uit die Oudheid
Aenesidemus Agrippa Al-Kindi Anaxagoras Anaximander (610 v.C. – 546 v.C.) Anaximenes Apollonios van Tyana Aristoteles (384 v.C. – 322 v.C.) Augustinus Bias van Priëne Marcus Tullius Cicero Confucius Demokritos (c. 460 v.C – c. 370 v.C) Empedokles (c. 490 v.C – c. 435 v.C) Epictetus Gorgias Herakleitos (c.576 v.C – c. 480 v.C) Meton van Athene Mengzi Nagarjuna Panaitios Parmenides Plato (427 v.C. – 347 v.C.) Poseidonios Protagoras Pyrrho van Elis Pythagoras Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucretius Sokrates (470 v.C. – 399 v.C.) Solon (c. 640 v.C – c. 558 v.C) Strabo Thales van Milete (c. 640 v.C – c. 562 v.C) Theophrastos Xenophanes Zeno van Citium Zenon van Elea
Filosowe uit die Middeleeue Al-Ghazali Petrus Abaelardus Anselmus van Kantelberg Thomas van Aquino Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Avicenna (Ibn Siena) Bonaventura Ibn Khaldun Siger van Brabant Meester Eckhart Petrus Lombardus Albertus Magnus Willem van Ockham Johannes Duns Scotus
Filosowe uit Renaissance tot die 19e eeu
Anton Wilhelm Amo Francis Bacon George Berkeley Jeremy Bentham George Berkeley Jean Bodin Giordano Bruno Edmund Burke Joseph Butler Tommaso Campanella Ernst Cassirer Auguste Comte René Descartes Denis Diderot Émile Durkheim Friedrich Engels Desiderius Erasmus Ludwig Feuerbach Johann Gottlieb Fichte Gottlob Frege Georg Hegel (1770–1831) Thomas Hobbes David Hume Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Immanuel Kant Kang Youwei Søren Kierkegaard Gottfried Leibniz John Locke Ernst Mach Niccolò Machiavelli Karl Marx Moses Mendelssohn Marin Mersenne John Stuart Mill Charles Montesquieu Thomas More Nezahualcoyotl Friedrich Nietzsche Blaise Pascal Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Jean-Jacques Rousseau George Santayana Friedrich Schelling Arthur Schopenhauer Herbert Spencer Oswald Spengler Baruch Spinoza Andrzej Towiański Voltaire Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
Hedendaagse filosowe
Mortimer Adler Theodor Adorno Giorgio Agamben Louis Althusser Hannah Arendt Leo Apostel Alfred Jules Ayer Gaston Bachelard Georges Bataille Jean Baudrillard Zygmunt Bauman Simone de Beauvoir Daniel Bell David Benatar Walter Benjamin Frithjof Bergmann Henri Bergson Maurice Blanchot Ned Block Nick Bostrom Pierre Bourdieu Wendy Brown Martin Buber Judith Butler Albert Camus John D. Caputo Rudolf Carnap Emil Cioran Benedetto Croce Nicolás Gómez Dávila Guy Debord Gilles Deleuze Daniel Dennett Jacques Derrida John Dewey Wilhelm Dilthey Hubert Dreyfus Jacques Ellul Rudolf Christoph Eucken Frantz Fanon Herbert Feigl Paul Feyerabend Mark Fisher Luciano Floridi Jerry Fodor Michel Foucault Erich Fromm Hans-Georg Gadamer Eugenio Garin Antonio Gramsci Romano Guardini Félix Guattari Jürgen Habermas Byung-Chul Han Donna Haraway Martin Heidegger Carl Hempel Edmund Husserl Ivan Illich Roman Ingarden Luce Irigaray Fredric Jameson Karl Jaspers Walter Kaufmann Alexandre Kojève Leszek Kołakowski Alfred Korzybski Alexandre Koyré Nina Krajnik Julia Kristeva Thomas Kuhn Harry Kuitert Imre Lakatos Nick Land François Laruelle Henri Lefebvre Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Levinas Jean-François Lyotard Niklas Luhmann Gabriel Marcel Humberto Maturana Achille Mbembe Colin McGinn Marshall McLuhan Quentin Meillassoux Maurice Merleau-Ponty George Edward Moore Emmanuel Mounier Iris Murdoch John Norman Robert Nozick Toby Ord Willem Ouweneel Talcott Parsons Kees van Peursen Herman Philipse Jean Piaget Johannes Jacobus Poortman Karl Popper Hilary Putnam Willard Van Orman Quine Tariq Ramadan Ayn Rand John Rawls Paul Ricœur Richard Rorty Bertrand Russell Gilbert Ryle Jean-Paul Sartre Max Scheler Carl Schmitt Roger Scruton Gilbert Simondon Peter Singer John Searle Peter Sloterdijk Hans Sluga Bernard Stiegler Max Stirner Leo Strauss Charles Margrave Taylor Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Alain Touraine Ludwig Wittgenstein Curtis Yarvin Peter Zapffe Slavoj Zizek
Afrikaanse filosowe
Gerrit Brand Chris Brink Paul Cilliers Johan Degenaar P.S. Dreyer André du Toit Pieter Duvenage Willie Esterhuyse Danie Goosen Johan Hattingh Murray Hofmeyr Hennie Lötter Eugène Marais Albert Meyer Johann Mouton C.K. Oberholzer Bert Olivier Daantjie Oosthuizen Dan Roodt Vasti Roodt Deon Rossouw Hennie Rossouw Johann Rossouw Emma Ruttkamp Marinus Schoeman Adam Small Jan Christian Smuts Johan Snyman Hendrik Gerhardus Stoker Danie Strauss Willie van der Merwe Anton van Niekerk Marlene van Niekerk Marthinus Versfeld N.P. van Wyk Louw
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