Philosophers

A Philosopher: "Someone who studies or writes about the meaning of life" - Cambridge Dictionary

The List of Philosophers
Stage One of a WIP: Started 11/13
 * Produced a list of thinkers off the top of my head in roughly chronological order.
 * Added a few more thinkers and filled in most of the given names.
 * Sorted the names into periods and added a few lifetime details.
 * So far attention has primarily been payed to the Presocratics and Sophists section.

Presocratics and Sophists
The timeline information for this section comes from The First Philosophers by Robin Waterfield.

Thales: Lived circa 580 B.C.E. Interested in the Cosmos, Politics, Invention, Mathematics and metaphysics.

Anaximander: Lived c. 570 B.C.E.

Anaximenes: Lived c. 550 B.C.E.

Xenophanes: Lived c. 530 B.C.E.

Pythagoras: Lived c. 530 B.C.E.

Heraclitus: Lived c. 500 B.C.E.

Parmenides: Lived c. 490 B.C.E.

Zeno: Lived c. 460 B.C.E.

Anaxagoras: Lived c. 470 B.C.E.

Empedocles: Lived c. 450 B.C.E.

Melissus: Lived c. 440 B.C.E.

Democritus: Lived c. 420 B.C.E.

Leucippus: Lived c. 440 B.C.E.

Protagoras

Gorgias

Antiphon

Classical Philosophers
Timeline information taken from relevant SEP articles.

Plato

Aristotle

Theophrastus

Epicurus

Cicero

Seneca the Younger

Epictetus

Sextus Empiricus

Plotinus

Medieval Philosophers
St. Augustine

Boethius

Anselm

Peter Abelard

Thomas Aquinas

William of Ockham

Niccolò Machiavelli

Thomas More

Francis Bacon

Early Modern Philosophers
René Descartes

Thomas Hobbes

Blaise Pascal

Baruch Spinoza

John Locke

Gottfried Leibniz

George Berkeley

Voltaire

Thomas Reid

David Hume

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Adam Smith

Immanuel Kant

Jeremy Bentham

Mary Wollstonecraft

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Modern Philosophers
G.W.F. Hegel

Husserl

Schoppenhaur

Nietzsche

etc...

Post-Modern and Contemporary Philosophers
Chomsky

Žižek

Irigaray

Oliver

etc...

Unsorted
Heidegger

Marx

Engels

Frege

Whitehead

Russell

Wittgenstein

Carnap

Quine

Sartre

Merleau Ponty

de Beauvoir

Kierkegaard

Foucault

Chomsky

Derrida

Ardent

Brentano

Mill

Bejamin

Adorno

Horkheimer

Brecht

Moore

Ayer

Ryle

etc...