List of British philosophers

This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad.

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Contents: 

• Top
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Elizabeth Anscombe
• J. L. Austin
• A. J. Ayer

B

• Francis Bacon
• Roger Bacon
• Julian Baggini
• Thomas Baldwin
• Alexander Bain
• John Renford Bambrough
• Owen Barfield
• Jonathan Barnes
• David Bell
• Piers Benn
• Jonathan Bennett
• Jeremy Bentham
• George Berkeley^[1]
• Isaiah Berlin
• Simon Blackburn
• George Boole
• Mary Everest Boole
• F. H. Bradley
• R. B. Braithwaite
• Ray Brassier
• C. D. Broad
• John Broome
• Thomas Browne
• Malcolm Budd
• Jeremy Butterfield

C

• John Cartwright
• Howard Caygill
• Quassim Cassam
• Peter Caws
• G. K. Chesterton
• Stephen R. L. Clark
• Frances Power Cobbe
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn
• David Cockburn
• R. G. Collingwood
• David Conway
• John Cook Wilson
• David E. Cooper
• Edward Craig
• Tim Crane
• David Cranston
• Elizabeth Cripps
• Roger Crisp
• Simon Critchley
• Helena Cronin
• Ralph Cudworth
• Nathaniel Culverwel

D

• Augustus De Morgan
• Peter Dews
• Ramsey Dukes
• Michael Dummett
• Duns Scotus

E

• Arthur Eddington
• Dorothy Edgington
• Nader El-Bizri
• Ronald Englefield
• Dylan Evans
• Gareth Evans
• A. C. Ewing

F

• Antony Flew
• Philippa Foot
• Keith Frankish
• Paul W. Franks
• Miranda Fricker

G

• W. B. Gallie
• Patrick Gardiner
• Peter Geach
• Raymond Geuss
• Margaret Gilbert
• Jonathan Glover
• William Godwin
• Iain Hamilton Grant
• John N. Gray
• A. C. Grayling
• Celia Green
• Thomas Hill Green
• John Grote
• David Guest

H

• Susan Haack
• Peter Hacker
• John Joseph Haldane
• Bob Hale
• Stuart Hampshire
• R. M. Hare
• Harold Foster Hallett
• Jane Heal
• Erich Heller
• John Hick
• J. M. Hinton
• Thomas Hobbes
• Angie Hobbs
• Ted Honderich
• Jennifer Hornsby
• Paul Horwich
• Gillian Howie
• Colin Howson
• David Hume
• Francis Hutcheson
• Aldous Huxley

J

• Harold Joachim
• C. E. M. Joad
• John Foster
• John Henry Newman

K

• Bernard Philip Kelly
• Anthony Kenny
• Damien Keown
• Philip Kitcher
• Augusta Klein
• Martha Klein
• Brian Klug
• William Angus Knight
• Arthur Koestler
• Stephan Körner
• Martin Kusch

L

• John Laird
• Nick Land
• Rae Helen Langton
• Vernon Lee
• Mike Lesser
• John Levy
• C.S. Lewis
• Casimir Lewy
• John Locke
• E.J. Lowe
• John Lucas
• Anthony Ludovici

M

• John McDowell
• Cecil Alec Mace
• Margaret MacDonald
• J. L. Mackie
• John Macmurray
• Fiona Macpherson
• Bryan Magee
• Nicholas Maxwell
• Hugh Mellor
• Mary Midgley
• John Stuart Mill
• Alan Millar
• David Miller
• Ray Monk
• George Edward Moore
• Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere
• Stephen Mulhall
• Kevin Mulligan
• Stephen Mumford
• Iris Murdoch
• Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure

N

• Constance Naden
• Stephen Neale

O

• Michael Oakeshott
• Kieron O'Hara
• Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
• William of Ockham
• Sydney Sparkes Orr
• Peter Osborne

P

• Thomas Paine
• William Paley
• David Papineau
• Derek Parfit
• Christopher Peacocke
• David Pearce
• William Penn
• Sadie Plant
• Michael Polanyi
• Karl Popper
• Ullin Place
• Graham Priest

Q

• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

R

• Janet Radcliffe Richards
• Hastings Rashdall
• Frank P. Ramsey
• Carveth Read
• Rupert Read
• Thomas Reid
• R. R. Rockingham Gill
• Gonzalo Rodríguez Pereyra
• Gillian Rose
• Robert Rowland Smith
• Richard Rufus of Cornwall
• Bertrand Russell
• Gilbert Ryle

S

• Mark Sacks
• Mark Sainsbury
• F. C. S. Schiller
• Roger Scruton
• Niall Shanks
• Mary Shepherd
• Henry Sidgwick
• Peter Simons
• Timothy Smiley
• Adam Smith
• Alic Halford Smith
• Kate Soper
• William Ritchie Sorley
• Timothy Sprigge
• Olaf Stapledon
• Susan Stebbing
• James Hutchison Stirling
• William Stoddart
• Alan Stout
• George Stout
• Galen Strawson
• P. F. Strawson
• Richard Swinburne

T

• Alfred Edward Taylor
• Gabriele Taylor
• Jenny Teichman
• George Derwent Thomson
• John Toland

U

• J. O. Urmson

W

• Alfred North Whitehead
• Richard Rudolf Walzer
• James Ward
• Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
• Alan Watts
• Jonathan Westphal
• Jared Webb
• William Whewell
• Jamie Whyte
• David Wiggins
• Bernard Williams
• Timothy Williamson
• Gerrard Winstanley
• John Wisdom
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Richard Wollheim
• Crispin Wright
• Frances Wright