List of metaphysicians

This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.

Metaphysicians born BC Veda Vyasa Kapila Pythagoras Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Xenophanes Heraclitus Parmenides Zeno of Elea Melissus of Samos Leucippus Democritus Anaxagoras Empedocles Alcmaeon of Croton Hippasus Diogenes of Apollonia Kaṇāda Plato Eudoxus of Cnidus Speusippus Xenocrates Aristotle

Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD Numenius Alexander of Aphrodisias Ammonius Saccas Origen of Alexandria Origen the Pagan Plotinus Porphyry Iamblichus Syrianus Proclus Ammonius Hermiae Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Olympiodorus the Younger Damascius Simplicius of Cilicia John Philoponus

Metaphysicians born between 600 and 1400 Adi Shankaracharya John Scotus Eriugena Vāchaspati Misra Anselm of Canterbury Peter Abelard Bernard of Chartres Ramanujacharya Gilbert de la Porrée Thierry of Chartres Hugh of Saint Victor Richard of Saint Victor Maimonides Philip the Chancellor William of Auvergne Alexander of Hales Albertus Magnus Bonaventure Roger Bacon John Peckham Thomas Aquinas Madhwacharya Giles of Rome Godfrey of Fontaines Henry of Ghent Petrus Aureoli Duns Scotus Walter Burley Hervaeus Natalis William of Ockham Vidyaranya Jean Buridan Jean Capréolus Meister Eckhart Dominic of Flanders Jayatirtha

Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700 Paolo Barbò da Soncino Marsilio Ficino Vyasatirtha Mir Fendereski Thomas Cajetan Francisco Suárez Domingo Báñez Robert Bellarmine John of St. Thomas René Descartes Thomas Hobbes Anne Conway Baruch Spinoza Nicolas Malebranche Gottfried Leibniz George Berkeley Christian Wolff Jakob Böhme

Metaphysicians born between 1700 and 1800 Immanuel Kant Georg W. F. Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich W. J. Schelling Johann G. Fichte Friedrich H. Jacobi

Metaphysicians born between 1800 and 1900 Nikolai Berdyaev Henri Bergson Franz Brentano Joseph Kleutgen Semyon Frank Gottlob Frege Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange Étienne Gilson Nicolai Hartmann Martin Heidegger George Holmes Howison Jacques Maritain John McTaggart Alexius Meinong G. E. Moore Ella Norraikow Bertrand Russell Vladimir Solovyov Edith Stein Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Alfred North Whitehead Donald Cary Williams Ludwig Wittgenstein

Metaphysicians born after 1900 William Lane Craig Marilyn McCord Adams Robert Merrihew Adams William Alston G. E. M. Anscombe David Malet Armstrong Alain Badiou Lynne Rudder Baker Hans Urs von Balthasar Paul Benacerraf Charles Dunbar Broad Berit Brogaard David Burrell Ross Cameron David Chalmers Roderick Chisholm Brian Davies (philosopher) Gilles Deleuze Arda Denkel Michael Devitt Alexander Dugin Catherine Elgin Edward Feser Cornelio Fabro Kit Fine Peter Geach Peter Glassen Nelson Goodman Jean Grondin Rene Guenon Pierre Hadot Graham Harman John Hawthorne Stephen Hetherington Shadworth Hodgson Charles H. Kahn Anthony Kenny Jaegwon Kim David Kolb Norman Kretzmann Saul Kripke Brian Leftow David Kellogg Lewis Bernard Lonergan Peter Ludlow William Lycan Penelope Maddy Ralph McInerny Quentin Meillassoux Trenton Merricks Iris Murdoch Joseph Owens (Redemptorist) Terence Parsons Alvin Plantinga Graham Priest Hilary Putnam Willard van Orman Quine Karl Rahner Jay Rosenberg Nathan Salmon Jean-Paul Sartre Theodore Sider Gilbert Simondon Barry Smith Wolfgang Smith Robert Stalnaker Peter F. Strawson Eleonore Stump Richard Clyde Taylor"Metaphysics." Taylor, Richard. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1963) Introduction p. 2 Richard Taylor on hathitrust.org Judith Jarvis Thomson Colin Murray Turbayne Peter Unger Peter van Inwagen David Wiggins Stuart Wilde Colin Wilson Jessica Wilson John Wippel Dean Zimmerman Xavier Zubiri

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