A Timeline of Western Philosophers

	600 B.C.E.
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
		Pythagoras
	Xenophanes
	500 B.C.E.
Heraclitus
		Parmenides
	Protagoras	Zeno of Elea
Hippias	Empedocles
Leucippus		Anaxagoras
Democritus	Socrates
	400 B.C.E.
Aristippus	Antisthenes
	Xenophon
		Plato
	Diogenes
Euclid	Aristotle	Xenocrates
Pyrrho
	300 B.C.E.
Epicurus
	Zeno of Citium
Timon
Archimedes	Chrysippus
Eratosthenes
	200 B.C.E.
	Carneades
	100 B.C.E.
Lucretius
	Cicero
	C.E.
		Philo
	Seneca
	100
	Epictetus
	Marcus Aurelius
	200
Sextus Empiricus
		Plotinus
		Porphyry
	300
	400
	Hypatia	Augustine
	500
	Boethius
	600
	700
	800
al-Kindi
		Erigena
	900
al-Faràbi
Saadiah
	1000
Ibn Sina
Ibn Gabirol
		Anselm
al-Ghazàlì
	1100
	Abelard
Ibn Daud	Peter Lombard
Ibn Rushd
Maimonides
	1200
Fibonacci
Grosseteste
	Albert the Great
Roger Bacon
	Aquinas	Bonaventure
Siger	Boetius of Dacia
	1300
	Scotus
	Eckhart	Marsilius of Padua
Ockham		Gersonides
Buridan
		Crescas
	1400
		Cusa
	Valla
	Pico della Mirandola	Ficino
	1500
		Erasmus
	Machiavelli	Thomas More
Paracelsus
Copernicus
Ramus
	1550
		Teresa of Avila
	Montaigne
Bruno
	Suarez
	1600
Kepler	Charron
		Mersenne
Francis Bacon	Grotius
Galileo		Herbert of Cherbury
Gassendi	Princess Elizabeth
Fermat	Queen Kristina	Descartes
Hobbes	Filmer
	1650
Glanvill	Geulincx	Pascal
Henry More	Cordemoy	Nicole
Cudworth	Cavendish	Arnauld
Cumberland	Rohault	Foucher
Boyle		Malebranche
	Pufendorf	Spinoza
Newton	Conway	Régis
Locke	Masham
Toland	Bayle	Souvré
	1700
Clarke	Shaftesbury	Norris
		Leibniz
Berkeley
	Cockburn	Vico
Mandeville
Hutcheson	Butler	Wolff
	Gay
Hume
	La Mettrie
Hartley	Montesquieu
	1750
Euler	Condillac
Price	d'Alembert	Voltaire
	Diderot	Rousseau
Bayes	d'Holbach	Helvétius
Smith	Jefferson
Reid	Paine	Lessing
Burke		Kant
Wollstonecraft	Bentham	Mendelssohn
Stewart	Godwin	Schiller
Malthus	Paley	Fichte
	1800
Gauss	de Staël	Schelling
		Schleiermacher
Laplace		Hegel
Lamarck	Saint-Simon
Fourier		Schopenhauer
	Whately
Babbage
Lobachevsky	John Austin	Comte
Whewell	James Mill	Proudhon
Bolzano	Emerson	Feuerbach
De Morgan	Fuller	Kierkegaard
Boole	Thoreau
	1850
Riemann	Sojourner Truth	Marx
Darwin	Taylor	Engels
	Hamilton
Mendel	J. S. Mill	Lotze
		Spencer
Venn	Anthony	Bakunin
Cantor	Brentano
	1875
	Sidgwick
Dedekind	Clifford
	Peirce	Caird
Mach		Green
Frege	Dilthey	Nietzsche
Carroll		Bosanquet
Peano	Stanton	Ritchie
Durkheim	James	Royce
	Gilman	Bradley
Pareto	Veblen

	1900
Planck	Freud	Weber	Bergson
Poincare	Meinong	Dubois	Cook Wilson
Duhem	Husserl	Addams	Seth
Zermelo	Moore		Croce
Einstein	Jung	Goldman	Vaihinger
Bohr	Watson	Luxemburg	Otto
Hilbert			Unamuno
	Adler	Lenin	Saussure
Lukasciewicz	Dewey	Trotsky	Buber
Russell			Whitehead
	Mead	Alexander	McTaggart
Keynes	Broad	Lukács	Santayana
	1925
Reichenbach	Lovejoy	Ross	Berdyaev
Heisenberg	Schlick	Kelsen	Heidegger
Neurath	Ramsey	Hartmann	Cassirer
Gödel	Perry	Gramsci	Collingwood
Schrödinger	C. I. Lewis	Ingarden
Ayer	Bachelard	Mao Zedong	Maritain
Waismann		Day	Ortega y Gasset
Tarski	Carnap		Blanshard
E. Nagel	Popper	Gandhi
	Horney		Sartre
Ryle	H.H. Price	Langer	Camus
	Stevenson	Hayek	Jaspers
Wittgenstein			Adorno
Turing	Prichard	Marcel	Beauvoir
	1950
von Neumann	Lorenz	Wisdom	Tillich
Hopper	Arrow	Hare	Merleau-Ponty
Polya	Skinner	Berlin	Weil
Church	Anscombe	Rand	Horkheimer
Feigl	Austin	Hampshire	Arendt
Hempel	Strawson	Kurt Baier	Gadamer
Quine	Grice	Hart	Lacan
Goodman	Sellars		Habermas
Kuhn	Smart	Marcuse
Feynman	Bergmann		Ricoeur
Gettier	Armstrong	King	Althusser
Chomsky	Chisholm		Derrida
Searle	Lakatos	Rawls	Foucault
Kripke	E.O. Wilson		Deleuze
	1975
Feyerabend	Thomson	Singer	Eco
Dummett	Putnam	Dworkin	Lyotard
Davidson	T. Nagel	Midgley	Daly
Hofstadter	Rorty	Nozick	Cixous
Mandelbrot	Kim	Regan	Le Dœuff
	Haraway	Gilligan	Kristeva
Minsky	Appiah	Noddings	Irigaray
Lehrer	Annette Baier	Held
Harding		Ruddick	Hoagland
	Kemerling	MacKinnon
Dennett	Nussbaum		Bordo
	West	hooks
	2000

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