A collated web index of significant
Historians and Philosophers
Modern Period (1750 - today)

index

Historians and Philosophers of the Modern Period (1750 - today):
George Berkeley | Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu | Claude-Adrien Helvétius | David Hume | Voltaire (François Marie Arounet) | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Adam Smith | Richard Price | Thomas Reid | Edmund Burke | Immanuel Kant | Thomas Paine | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | David Ricardo | Thomas Jefferson | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Jeremy Bentham | James Mill | William Hamilton | Arthur Schopenhauer | James Frederick Ferrier | John Stuart Mill | Immanuel Hermann Fichte | Karl Marx | Arnold Toynbee | Leopold von Ranke | Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | William James | Pierre Duhem | Franz Brentano | Francis Herbert Bradley | Gottlob Frege | Rudolf Christoph Eucken | Edmund Husserl | Ernst Cassirer | Otto Neurath | Alfred North Whitehead | Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein | John Dewey | Hans Reichenbach | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Yves R. Simon | Clarence Irving Lewis | Martin Buber | Bertrand Arthur William Russell | Rudolf Carnap | Jacques Maritain | Martin Heidegger | Herbert Marshall McLuhan | Ayn Rand | Michel Foucault | Ernest Nagel | Richard Bevan Braithwaite | Justus Buchler | Karl Reimund Popper | Richard B. Brandt | Stuart Newton Hampshire | Donald Herbert Davidson | Richard M. Hare | David W. Hamlyn | Alastair Hannay | Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri | Thomas Nagel | Gilbert Harman | Malcolm Budd | Jonathan Glover | Daniel C. Dennett | Nancy Cartwright | Tyler Burge | Peter Dain Suber

Main Historians and Philosophers page

Historians and Philosophers
- of the Classical Period (until 500 A.D.)
- of the Medieval and Renaissance Period (500 - 1500)
- of the Early Modern Period (1500 - 1750)

NOTE: Deceased philosophers and historians are listed chronologically by year of death, whereas living individuals are listed by year of birth.

Name and brief
biographical notes

Major works available on-line,
web pages, etc.

George Berkeley
(1685-1753)
Irish philosopher and empiricist.
Charles Louis de Secondat
Montesquieu

(1689-1755)
French aristocrat and philosopher.
Claude-Adrien Helvétius
(1715-1771)
French philosopher.
David Hume
(1711-1776)
Scottish philosopher and historian.
Voltaire
(François Marie Arounet)

(1694-1778)
French author and philosopher.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778)
Swiss/French philosopher.
Adam Smith
(1723-1790)
Scottish economist and philosopher.
Richard Price
(1723-1791)
Scottish moral philosopher.
Thomas Reid
(1710-1796)
Scottish astronomer, clergyman and philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Edmund Burke
(1729-1797)
British statesman and political philosopher.
Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)
German philosopher.
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
American philosopher and statesman.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762-1814)
German philosopher, and father of Immanuel Hermann Fichte.
David Ricardo
(1772-1823)
Economic philosopher.
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
U.S. political philosopher; 3rd President of the U.S.A. (1801-1809).
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel

(1770-1831)
German philosopher.
Jeremy Bentham
(1748-1832)
British philosopher.
James Mill
(1773-1836)
Scottish historian, economist and philosopher, father of John Stuart Mill.
William Hamilton
(1788-1856)
Scottish historian, logician, and philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
Polish philosopher.
James Frederick Ferrier
(1808-1864)
Scottish philosopher and historian.
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
British philosopher, son of James Mill.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
(1797-1879)
German philosopher, and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
Karl Marx
(1818-1883)
German economic/political philosopher.
Arnold Toynbee
(1852-1883)
British historian.
Leopold von Ranke
(1795-1886)
German historian and historical theorist.
Lewis Carroll
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

(1832-1898)
British philosopher, mathematician, logician, clergyman and author.
    (no links at present)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
German philosopher.
William James
(1842-1910)
American philosopher, psychologist and educator.
Pierre Duhem
(1861-1916)
French physicist, philosopher, and historian of science.
    (no links at present)
Franz Brentano
(1838-1917)
German philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Francis Herbert Bradley
(1846-1924)
British philosopher.
Gottlob Frege
(1848-1925)
German mathematician and philosopher.
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
(1846-1926)
German philosopher.
Edmund Husserl
(1859-1938)
Czech philosopher.
Ernst Cassirer
(1874-1945)
German philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Otto Neurath
(1882-1945)
Austrian philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Alfred North Whitehead
(1861-1947)
British mathematician and philosopher.
Ludwig Joseph Johann
Wittgenstein

(1889-1951)
Austrian philosopher.
John Dewey
(1859-1952)
American philosopher and educator.
Hans Reichenbach
(1891-1953)
German philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(1881-1955)
French philosopher and theologian.
    (no links at present)
Yves R. Simon
(1903-1961)
French philosopher.
Clarence Irving Lewis
(1883-1964)
American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Martin Buber
(1878-1965)
German-born Israeli philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
(1872-1970)
British philosopher.
Rudolf Carnap
(1891-1970)
German-born American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Jacques Maritain
(1882-1973)
French philosopher.
Martin Heidegger
(1889-1976)
German philosopher.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
(1911-1980)
Canadian philosopher.
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
Russian-born American philosopher.
Michel Foucault
(1926-1984)
French historian and philosopher.
Ernest Nagel
(1901-1985)
Philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Richard Bevan Braithwaite
(1900-1990)
British philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Justus Buchler
(1914-1991)
American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Karl Reimund Popper
(1902-1994)
Austrian philosopher.
Richard B. Brandt
(1910-)
American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Stuart Newton Hampshire
(1914-)
British philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Donald Herbert Davidson
(1917-)
American philosopher.
Richard M. Hare
(1919-)
British moral philosopher.
    (no links at present)
David W. Hamlyn
(1924-)
British philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Alastair Hannay
(1932-)
Scottish philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri
(1934-)
Indian historian and eminent scholar of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Thomas Nagel
(1937-)
American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Gilbert Harman
(1938-)
American philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Malcolm Budd
(1941-)
British philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Jonathan Glover
(1941-)
British philosopher.
    (no links at present)
Daniel C. Dennett
(1942-)
American philosopher
Nancy Cartwright
(1943-)
American philosopher.
Tyler Burge
(1946-)
American philosopher.
Peter Dain Suber
(1951-)
American philosopher.

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