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Table of content of the Western Philosophers across the time periods:

• Ancient Philosophers
• Medieval Philosophers
• Modern Philosophers
• Contemporary Philosophers

The Ancient Philosophers

1. Thales of Milete
2. Pythagoras of Samos
3. Xenophanes of Colophon
4. Parmenides of Elea
5. Heraclites
6. Zeno of Elea
7. Socrates
8. Plato
9. Aristoteles
10. Democtrites
11. Epicurus
12. Diogenes of Sinope
13. Marcus Tullius Cicero
14. Philo of Alexandria
15. Lucius Anneas Seneca
16. Marcus Aurelius
17. Sextus Empiricus
18. Plotinus

Medieval Philosophers

The western Medieval Philosophers includes some of the top christians and scholastic Philosophers

1. St. AUgustinus of Hippo
2. Boëthius
3. St. Anselmus
4. St. Thomas of Aquino
5. Johannes Duns Scotus
6. William of Occam

Modern Philosophers

Modern Philosophers include those between the 17 century and 19 century, a period also know as the Renassance (french word for being born again). Those modern philosophers base lot of their text on science, as it is the age of reason.

• The scientific area Philosophers
• The rationalists
• The empirists
• The idealists
• The liberals
• The evolutionists

The scientific area Philosophers

1. Nicolaus Copernicus
2. Piccolo Machiavelli
3. Desiderius Grasmus
4. Thomas More
5. Francis Bacon
6. Galileo Galilei
7. Thomas Hobbes
8. Sir Isaac Newton

The rationalists Philosophers

1. René Descartes
2. Antoine Arnauld
3. Nicolas Male branche
4. Benedict de Spinoza
5. Gottfried von Leibniz

The empirists

1. John Locke
2. David Hume
3. Thomas Reid
4. Voltaire
5. Jean-jaques Rousseau
6. Denis Diderot

The idealists

1. George Berkley
2. Immanuel Kant
3. Johan Schiller
4. Frederick Schelling
5. George Hegel
6. Arthur Schopenhauer

The liberals

1. Adam Smith
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
3. Thomas Paine
4. Jeremy Bentham
5. John Stuart Mill
6. Auguste Comte

The evolutionists

1. Charles Darwin
2. Henri Louis Bergson
3. A.N. Whitehead

Contemporary Philosophers

The Contemporary Philosophers are the most recent philosophers, mainly from the 20th century.
Some of the different school includes:

• The pragmatists
• The materialists
• The existentialists
• The linguistic schools
• The postmodernists
• The new scientists

The pragmatists

1. Ernst Mach
2. Charles Peirce
3. William James
4. John Dewey

The materialists

1. Karl Marx
2. Friedrich Engels
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. Sigmund Freud
5. Carl Jung
6. John Maynard Keynes

The existentialists

1. Soren Kierkegaard
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Edmund Husserl
4. Martin Heidegger
5. Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Albert Camus
7. Simone de Beauvoir

The linguistic schools

1. Gottlog Frege
2. Bertrand Russell
3. Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Ferdinand de Saussure
5. George Edward Moore
6. Moritz Schlick
7. Lev Vygotsky
8. Rudolph Carnap
9. A.J. Ayer
10. Alfred Tarski
11. J.L. Austin
12. Gilbert Ryle
13. Avram Chomsky

The postmodernists

1. Claude Levi-Strauss
2. Michel Foucault
3. Jaques Derrida

The new scientists

1. Emile Durkheim
2. Albert Einstein
3. Karl Popper
4. Kurt Gödel
5. Alan Turing
6. B.F. Skinner
7. Thomas Kuhn
8. Paul Feyerabend
9. W.V.O. Quine