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- This is a list containing all known philosophers of the Western canon and the works they have written.
- 02/19/13 - Edit: Took out the names of books for now for the sake of clarity.
- 02/20/13 - Edit: Added Postcolonial section.
- **Must read
- *Recommended
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- Canon of Western Philosophy
- I. Ancient
- Pre-Socratics
- MILESIANS
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Anaximenes
- PYTHAGOREANS
- Pythagoras of Samos
- EPHESIANS
- Heraclitus of Ephesus*
- ELEATICS
- Parmenides of Elea
- Zeno of Elea
- PLURALISTS
- Empedocles of Agrigentum
- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
- ATOMISTS
- Leucippus and Democritus
- SOPHISTS
- Protagoras
- Gorgias
- Prodicus
- Hippias
- Thrasymachus
- Lycophron
- Callicles
- Antiphon
- Cratylus
- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Socrates
- Plato**
- Aristotle**
- Greco-Romans
- STOICS
- Zeno of Citium
- Aristo of Chios
- Herillus of Carthage
- Cleanthes
- Chrysippus
- Diogenes of Babylon
- Antipater of Tarsus
- Panaetius of Rhodes
- Posidonius of Apameia
- Diodotus
- Cato the Younger
- Seneca
- Musonius Rufus
- Rubellius Plautus
- Thrasea Paetus
- Epictetus
- Hierocles
- Marcus Aurelius
- EPICUREANS
- Epicurus
- Amafinius
- Rabirius
- Lucretius
- SKEPTICS
- Pyrrho
- Sextus Empiricus
- CYNICS
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Demetrius
- Peregrinus Proteus
- Demonax
- Jesus(?)
- NEO-PLATONISTS
- Ammonius Saccas
- Plotinus
- Porphyry
- Hypatia
- Hierocles of Alexandria
- Iamblichus
- Proclus
- Damascius
- Olympiodorus the Younger
- Simplicius of Cilicia
- Gemistus Pletho
- EARLY CHRISTIANS
- St. Augustine**
- Boëthius
- MISC
- Cicero
- Galen
- Julian the Apostate
- II. Medieval and Renaissance
- Scholastics
- St. Thomas Aquinas*
- John Scotus
- William of Ockham
- Peter Abelard
- Lanfranc of Canterbury
- St. Anselm
- St. Bonaventure
- Mahometans
- Avicenna
- Averroës
- Renaissance humanists
- Dante Alighieri
- Petrarch
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Erasmus
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Galileo Galilei
- III. Modern
- Rationalists
- EARLY RATIONALISTS
- René Descartes**
- Baruch Spinoza*
- Gottfried Leibniz*
- Immanuel Kant**
- GERMAN IDEALISTS
- J.G. Fichte
- Friedrich Schelling
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Gottlob Ernst Schulze
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- G.W.F Hegel**
- Arthur Schopenhauer**
- Empiricists
- BRITISH EMPIRICISTS
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- George Berkeley*
- David Hume**
- MATERIALISTS - NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
- Robert Boyle
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Denis Diderot
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Leopold von Ranke
- Charles Darwin
- Herbert Spencer(?)
- MATERIALISTS - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS
- Voltaire
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Baron de Montesquieu
- Adam Smith
- Edmund Burke
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Jefferson
- William James
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Karl Marx
- Mikhail Bakunin
- IV. Contemporary
- Analytic
- LOGICIANS AND LINGUISTS
- Gottlob Frege
- G.E. Moore
- Bertrand Russell**
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Wittgenstein**
- Sir Karl Popper
- W.V. Quine**
- A.J. Ayer*
- John Rawls
- John Searle
- Saul Kripke
- Peter Singer
- Noam Chomsky
- LOGICAL POSITIVISTS (VIENNA CIRCLE)
- Moritz Schlick
- Otto Neurath
- Hans Hahn
- Rudolf Carnap
- Herbert Feigl
- Kurt Gödel
- LOGICAL POSITIVISTS (BERLIN CIRCLE)
- Hans Reichenbach
- Kurt Grelling
- Walter Dubislav
- C.G. Hempel
- David Hilbert
- Richard von Mises
- PSYCHOANALYSTS
- Sigmund Freud
- C.G. Jung
- Jacques Lacan
- Continental
- EXISTENTIALISTS
- Søren Kierkegaard**
- Friedrich Nietzsche**
- Franz Kafka
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Jean-Paul Sartre**
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Albert Camus
- PHENOMENOLOGISTS
- Edmund Husserl*
- Martin Heidegger**
- Postmodern
- Richard Rorty
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jacques Derrida
- Michel Foucault
- Gilles Deleuze
- Roland Barthes
- Umberto Eco
- Postcolonial
- Frantz Fanon
- Achille Mbembe
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Homi K. Bhabha
- Slavoj Žižek
- Julia Kristeva
- Judith Butler
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