This dataset contains information about various philosophers, including their life spans, nationalities, and significant works. It provides a concise overview of influential thinkers in philosophy and highlights their contributions to the field.
Philosopher | Birth Year | Death Year | Nationality | Major Works |
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Plato | 427 BC | 347 BC | Greek | The Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | 1770 | 1831 | German | Phenomenology of Spirit, The Science of Logic |
Immanuel Kant | 1724 | 1804 | German | Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason |
Friedrich Schelling | 1775 | 1854 | German | Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, System of Transcendental Idealism |
Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788 | 1860 | German | The World as Will and Representation |
Benedict de Spinoza | 1632 | 1677 | Dutch | Ethics, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803 | 1882 | American | Nature, Self-Reliance |
George Berkeley | 1685 | 1753 | Irish | A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge |
Josiah Royce | 1855 | 1916 | American | The World and the Individual, The Philosophy of Loyalty |
Bertrand Russell | 1872 | 1970 | British | The Problems of Philosophy, Human Knowledge |
Josiah Royce | 1855 | 1916 | American | The World and the Individual |
David Hume | 1711 | 1776 | Scottish | A Treatise of Human Nature |
William James | 1842 | 1910 | American | The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism |
John Dewey | 1859 | 1952 | American | Experience and Nature, Democracy and Education |
Alfred North Whitehead | 1861 | 1947 | British | Process and Reality, Adventures of Ideas |
Robert Brandom | 1947 | NaN | American | Making It Explicit, A Spirit of Trust |
Edward M. MacKinnon | 1939 | NaN | American | A New Integral Science |
Ernst Mach | 1838 | 1916 | Austrian | The Analysis of Sensations, The Science of Mechanics |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 | 1900 | German | Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil |
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905 | 1980 | French | Being and Nothingness, Existentialism is a Humanism |
Martin Heidegger | 1889 | 1976 | German | Being and Time, What is Metaphysics? |
Alfred Tarski | 1901 | 1983 | Polish-American | The Semantic Conception of Truth |
Baruch Spinoza | 1632 | 1677 | Dutch | Ethics, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus |
Henri Bergson | 1859 | 1941 | French | Creative Evolution, Time and Free Will |
Karl Popper | 1902 | 1994 | Austrian-British | The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Conjectures and Refutations |
Wilfrid Sellars | 1912 | 1989 | American | Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind |
Gustav Fechner | 1801 | 1887 | German | Elements of Psychophysics |
Wilhelm Wundt | 1832 | 1920 | German | Principles of Physiological Psychology |
Robert Nozick | 1938 | 2002 | American | Anarchy, State, and Utopia |
Donald Davidson | 1917 | 2003 | American | Essays on Actions and Events |
Niels Bohr | 1885 | 1962 | Danish | Philosophical Essays |
Simone de Beauvoir | 1908 | 1986 | French | The Second Sex, The Ethics of Ambiguity |
Michel Foucault | 1926 | 1984 | French | Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality |
Jacques Derrida | 1930 | 2004 | Algerian-French | Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference |
Jürgen Habermas | 1929 | NaN | German | The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere |
Maurice Merleau-Ponty | 1908 | 1961 | French | Phenomenology of Perception |
Paul Ricoeur | 1913 | 2005 | French | Time and Narrative, Oneself as Another |
Lev Vygotsky | 1896 | 1934 | Russian | Mind in Society, Thought and Language |
Richard Rorty | 1931 | 2007 | American | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Bernard Lonergan | 1904 | 1984 | Canadian | Insight, Method in Theology |
Julian Jaynes | 1920 | 1997 | American | The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind |
Gilbert Ryle | 1900 | 1976 | British | The Concept of Mind |
John Searle | 1932 | NaN | American | Speech Acts, The Construction of Social Reality |
Thomas Kuhn | 1922 | 1996 | American | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
John Stuart Mill | 1806 | 1873 | British | A System of Logic, On Liberty |
Henry James | 1843 | 1916 | American | The Turn of the Screw |
Gabriel Marcel | 1889 | 1973 | French | The Mystery of Being |
Willem de Donder | 1870 | 1956 | Dutch | The Theory of Chemical Equilibrium |
Ernst Cassirer | 1874 | 1945 | German | Philosophy of Symbolic Forms |
Paul Tillich | 1886 | 1965 | German-American | The Courage to Be, Systematic Theology |
Isaiah Berlin | 1909 | 1997 | British | Four Essays on Liberty |
Robert Solomon | 1942 | 2007 | American | In the Spirit of Hegel, From Rationalism to Existentialism |
David Peat | 1938 | NaN | British | Patterns of Perception, Blackfoot Physics |
Julia Kristeva | 1941 | NaN | Bulgarian-French | Revolution in Poetic Language |
Axel Honneth | 1949 | NaN | German | The Struggle for Recognition |
Richard Taylor | 1919 | 2003 | American | Metaphysics, Philosophy and the Future |
A.J. Ayer | 1910 | 1989 | British | Language, Truth and Logic |
George Santayana | 1863 | 1952 | Spanish-American | The Life of Reason, The Sense of Beauty |
Arthur Danto | 1924 | 2013 | American | The Artworld, After the End of Art |
John Rawls | 1921 | 2002 | American | A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism |
Hannah Arendt | 1906 | 1975 | German-American | The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism |
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl | 1857 | 1939 | French | How Natives Think |
George Edward Moore | 1873 | 1958 | British | Principia Ethica, The Nature of Judgment |
Friedrich von Schelling | 1775 | 1854 | German | Philosophical Investigations |
Dominique Janicaud | 1932 | 2002 | French | The Shadow of Presence |
Karl Mannheim | 1893 | 1947 | Hungarian-German | Ideology and Utopia |
Fernand Braudel | 1902 | 1985 | French | The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World |
Max Horkheimer | 1895 | 1973 | German | Critique of Instrumental Reason |
Theodor Adorno | 1903 | 1969 | German | Dialectic of Enlightenment |
Paul Klee | 1879 | 1940 | Swiss | Notebooks, The Thinking Eye |
Victor Turner | 1920 | 1983 | British | The Ritual Process |
Wilhelm Dilthey | 1833 | 1911 | German | Introduction to the Human Sciences |
Alfred Adler | 1870 | 1937 | Austrian | The Neurotic Constitution |
Søren Kierkegaard | 1813 | 1855 | Danish | Fear and Trembling, Either/Or |
Edmund Husserl | 1859 | 1938 | Austrian-German | Logical Investigations, Ideas |
Jacques Lacan | 1901 | 1981 | French | Écrits |
John Venn | 1834 | 1923 | British | The Logic of Chance |
Mikhail Bakhtin | 1895 | 1975 | Russian | Dialogue and Dialectics, Rabelais and His World |
Ho Ching | 1978 | NaN | Chinese | The Conceptual World of Art |
Jimi Hendrix | 1942 | 1970 | American | Songs and Themes |
Carl Jung | 1875 | 1961 | Swiss | Psychological Types, Man and His Symbols |
Friedrich Hayek | 1899 | 1992 | Austrian | The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty |
Antonio Gramsci | 1891 | 1937 | Italian | Prison Notebooks |
David Lewis | 1941 | 2001 | American | On The Plurality of Worlds |
Daniel Dennett | 1942 | NaN | American | Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea |
Gilles Deleuze | 1925 | 1995 | French | Difference and Repetition, Anti-Oedipus |
Richard Dawkins | 1941 | NaN | British | The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion |
Edward Said | 1935 | 2003 | Palestinian-American | Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism |
Iris Marion Young | 1949 | 2006 | American | Justice and the Politics of Difference |
Martha Nussbaum | 1947 | NaN | American | The Fragility of Goodness, Women and Human Development |
Angela Davis | 1944 | NaN | American | Women, Race & Class, Are Prisons Obsolete? |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 1960 | NaN | Lebanese-American | The Black Swan, Antifragile |
Julien Offray de La Mettrie | 1709 | 1751 | French | Man a Machine |
John Locke | 1632 | 1704 | English | Two Treatises of Government, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
Zeno of Citium | 335 BC | 263 BC | Greek | Enchiridion |
Louis Althusser | 1918 | 1990 | French | For Marx, Reading Capital |
Martin Buber | 1878 | 1965 | Austrian-Israeli | I and Thou |
Jürgen Habermas | 1929 | NaN | German | The Theory of Communicative Action |
Alexis de Tocqueville | 1805 | 1859 | French | Democracy in America |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889 | 1951 | Austrian-British | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations |
Karl Friedrich Benz | 1844 | 1929 | German | The Automobile, The Benz Patent Motorwagen |
Henrik Ibsen | 1828 | 1906 | Norwegian | A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler |
John Stuart Mill | 1806 | 1873 | British | Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government |
Simone Weil | 1909 | 1943 | French | Gravity and Grace, The Need for Roots |
Doris Lessing | 1919 | 2013 | British | The Golden Notebook, The Fifth Child |
Rosa Luxembourg | 1871 | 1919 | Polish-German | The Accumulation of Capital |
George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | British | 1984, Animal Farm |
Martin Amis | 1949 | NaN | British | Money, London Fields |
Umberto Eco | 1932 | 2016 | Italian | The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum |
Philip K. Dick | 1928 | 1982 | American | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle |
Christopher Alexander | 1936 | NaN | American | A Pattern Language, The Timeless Way of Building |
Jean-François Lyotard | 1924 | 1998 | French | The Postmodern Condition |
Richard Rorty | 1931 | 2007 | American | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Albert Camus | 1913 | 1960 | French | The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger |
John McDowell | 1942 | NaN | British | Mind and World, Having the World in View |
Daniel Kahneman | 1934 | NaN | Israeli-American | Thinking, Fast and Slow |
Annette Baier | 1929 | 2017 | American | Postures of the Mind |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1860 | 1935 | American | The Yellow Wallpaper |
Martha Nussbaum | 1947 | NaN | American | The Fragility of Goodness |
Shoshana Zuboff | 1951 | NaN | American | The Support Economy, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism |
Richard Rorty | 1931 | 2007 | American | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Timothy Williamson | 1955 | NaN | British | Knowledge and Its Limits, Tetralogue |
Michel Foucault | 1926 | 1984 | French | The Archaeology of Knowledge |
Chantal Mouffe | 1943 | NaN | Belgian | The Democratic Paradox, On the Political |
Kate Manne | 1984 | NaN | American | Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny |
Marina Abramović | 1946 | NaN | Yugoslav | The Artist Is Present |
Yascha Mounk | 1982 | NaN | American-German | The People Vs. Democracy |
Avicenna | 980 | 1037 | Persian | The Book of Healing, The Book of Salvation |
Al-Ghazali | 1058 | 1111 | Persian | The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Revival of the Religious Sciences |
Siddhartha Gautama | 563 BC | 483 BC | Indian | Dhammapada |
Thomas More | 1478 | 1535 | English | Utopia |
Giordano Bruno | 1548 | 1600 | Italian | On Cause, Principle and Unity |
Ibn Rushd | 1126 | 1198 | Spanish | The Incoherence of the Incoherence |
David Hume | 1711 | 1776 | Scottish | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 | 1834 | English | Biographia Literaria |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | 1809 | 1892 | English | In Memoriam |
Ivan Turgenev | 1818 | 1883 | Russian | Fathers and Sons |
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