1. Walter Charleton (1619)

British Philosopher

A seventeenth-century English philosopher and author, he is known for works such as "The Darkness of Atheism Dispelled by the Light of Nature" (1652) and "Epicurus's Morals" (1656). His writings...

2. Alexander Bain (1818)

British Philosopher

Scottish philosopher and important contributor to psychology.

3. Michael Oakeshott (1901)

British Philosopher

English philosopher and political theorist who was known as one of the 20th century's most conservative thinkers.

4. Peter Geach (1916)

British Philosopher

English philosopher most recognized for his work on the theory of identity.

5. Richard Swinburne (1934)

British Philosopher

Acclaimed academic and philosopher most recognized as an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

6. Derek Parfit (1942)

British Philosopher

British philosopher best known for his exploration of subjects including personal identity, rationality, and ethics.

7. Gillian Rose (1947)

British Philosopher

Social philosopher and critic of neo-Kantianism and post-modernism. She was known as a forceful defendant of Hegel's speculative thought.

8. Alan Ryan (1940)

British Philosopher

Alan James Ryan FBA was Warden of New College Oxford and Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.

9. P. F. Strawson (1919)

British Philosopher

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson FBA was an English philosopher. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Before that he was...

10. R. M. Hare (1919)

British Philosopher

Richard Mervyn Hare was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subsequently taught...

11. Stephen Neale (1958)

British Philosopher

Stephen Roy Albert Neale is a British Analytic philosopher and specialist in the philosophy of language who has written extensively about meaning information interpretation and communication and more generally about...

12. Alasdair MacIntyre (1929)

British Philosopher

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He...

13. Richard Sorabji (1934)

British Philosopher

Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji CBE FBA is a British historian of ancient Western philosophy and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at King's College London. He has written his own 'Intellectual Autobiography'...

14. John Campbell (philosopher) (Unknow)

British Philosopher

John Campbell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley California. Before moving to Berkeley Campbell taught at Oxford University for a number of years eventually...

15. Peter Hacker (1939)

British Philosopher

Peter Michael Stephan Hacker is a British philosopher. His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind andphilosophy of language. He is known for his detailedexegesis of the work of...

16. Crispin Wright (1942)

British Philosopher

Crispin James Garth Wright is a British philosopher who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics Wittgenstein's later philosophy and on issues related to truth realism cognitivism skepticism knowledge and...

17. Huw Price (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Huw Price is an Australian philosopher currently the Bertrand Russell Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He was previously Challis Professor of...

18. Raymond Tallis (1946)

British Philosopher

Raymond C. Tallis F. Med. Sci. F. R. C. P. F. R. S. A. is a polymath from Great Britain. He is a philosopher poet novelist cultural critic and...

19. Alex Callinicos (1950)

British Philosopher

Alexander Theodore Callinicos is a Zimbabwean-born British political theorist and activist. In an academic capacity he serves as Professor of European Studies at King's College London. An adherent of Trotskyism...

20. David Conway (Unknow)

British Philosopher

David Conway is a British academic philosopher. He grew up in London read Philosophy as an undergraduate at Cambridge University in the 1960s and went on to obtain his doctorate...

21. Colin McGinn (1950)

British Philosopher

Colin McGinn is a British philosopher. He has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London the University of Oxford Rutgers University and the University of Miami. McGinn is...

22. Christopher Peacocke (1950)

British Philosopher

Christopher Arthur Bruce Peacocke is a British philosopher especially known for his work in philosophy of mind and epistemology. His recent publications in the field of epistemology have defended a...

23. Peter Simons (academic) (1950)

British Philosopher

Peter Simons FBA is a professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He studied at the University of Manchester and has held teaching posts at the University of Bolton the...

24. Kevin Mulligan (1951)

British Philosopher

Kevin Mulligan is a British philosopher working on ontology the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of logic. He is currently Professor for philosophy at the University of Geneva where...

25. Nick Land (1962)

British Philosopher

Nick Land is a British philosopher. He was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy from 1987 to 1999 at the University of Warwick. He was the faculty co-founder along with Sadie...

26. John Milbank (1952)

British Philosopher

Alasdair John Milbank is a Christian theologian and the Professor of Religion Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham where he also directs the Centre of Theology and Philosophy....

27. Sir Ralph Wedgwood 4th Baronet (1964)

British Philosopher

Professor Sir Ralph Nicholas Wedgwood 4th Baronet is a British philosopherWedgwood was born in Vancouver British Columbia Canada the only son of Martin Wedgwood later 3rd Baronet and his wife...

28. Alan Carter (philosopher) (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Alan Brian Carter is the Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He earned a BA at the University of Kent at Canterbury an MA at the University...

29. Timothy Williamson (1955)

British Philosopher

Timothy Williamson is a British philosopher whose main research interests are in philosophical logic philosophy of language epistemology and metaphysics. He is currently the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the...

30. Andrew Pyle (philosopher) (1955)

British Philosopher

Andrew Pyle is a British philosopher on the history of philosophical atomism. Pyle is currently a Reader in Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Bristol where he also received...

31. Stephen Mumford (1965)

British Philosopher

Stephen Dean Mumford is a British philosopher who is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The University of Nottingham and Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy....

32. Simon Critchley (1960)

British Philosopher

Simon Critchley is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School who writes primarily on the history of philosophy political theory religion ethics and aesthetics especially literature and theatre....

33. Ray Monk (1957)

British Philosopher

Ray Monk is a British philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton where he has taught since 1992. He won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and...

34. Quassim Cassam (1961)

British Philosopher

Quassim Cassam was born in Mombasa Kenya and educated at Keble College Oxford.

35. Maurice Glasman Baron Glasman (1961)

British Philosopher

Maurice Glasman Baron Glasman is an English academic social thinker and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan...

36. Sangharakshita (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Sangharakshita is a Buddhist teacher and writer and founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community which was known until 2010 as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order or FWBO. He...

37. John Gay (philosopher) (1699)

British Philosopher

John Gay a cousin of the poet John Gay was an English philosopher biblical scholar and Church of England clergyman. The greatest happiness principle Gay supposed represented a middle ground...

38. Owen Barfield (1898)

British Philosopher

Owen Barfield was a British philosopher author poet and critic. Barfield was born in London. He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College Oxford and in 1920 received a...

39. Angie Hobbs (1961)

British Philosopher

Angela Hunter Hobbs is a British philosopher and Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. After A-levels taken at The College of Richard Collyer. Hobbs...

40. Jonathan Glover (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher known for his studies on ethics. He was educated at Tonbridge School later going on to Corpus Christi College Oxford. He was a fellow...

41. Philip Kitcher (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Philip Stuart Kitcher is a British philosophy professor who specialises in the philosophy of science the philosophy of biology the philosophy of mathematics the philosophy of literature and more recently...

42. Richard Stanley Peters (1919)

British Philosopher

Richard Stanley Peters was a British philosopher. His work belongs mainly to the areas of political theory philosophical psychology and philosophy of education.

43. John N. Gray (1948)

British Philosopher

John Nicholas Gray is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He retired as School Professor of European Thought at the London School...

44. Bernard Mayo (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Bernard Mayo was an English philosopher. He worked at University of Birmingham until 1968 when he joined University of St. Andrews as professor of moral philosophy from which he retired...

45. Alexander Campbell Fraser (1819)

British Philosopher

Alexander Campbell Fraser was a Scottish philosopher. Born at Ardchattan Argyll the son of the parish minister he was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh where from 1846...

46. John Skorupski (1946)

British Philosopher

John Skorupski is a philosopher whose main interests are epistemology ethics and moral philosophy political philosophy and the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy. He is best known for...

47. Richard Lewis Nettleship (1846)

British Philosopher

Richard Lewis Nettleship was an English philosopher.

48. Sydney Sparkes Orr (Unknow)

British Philosopher

Sydney Sparkes Orr was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and the centre of the Orr case a celebrated academic scandal of the 1950s. Born in Belfast in...

49. Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659)

British Philosopher

Damaris Cudworth Masham was an English philosopher. Born Damaris Cudworth she became Lady Masham upon her marriage to Sir Francis Masham in 1685. She was the daughter of Cambridge Platonist...

50. George Dalgarno (Unknow)

British Philosopher

George Dalgarno was a Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems. Originally from Aberdeen he later worked as a schoolteacher in Oxford in collaboration with John Wilkins although the two parted...