List of metaphysicians
Appearance
This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.
Metaphysicians born B.C.E.
- Pythagoras
- Democritus
- Heraclitus
- Anaximander
- Anaxagoras
- Lucretius
- Empedocles
- Xenophanes
- Zeno of Citium
- Cleanthes
- Crysippus
- Epicurus
- Zeno of Elea
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Cicero
Metaphysicians born between 1 C.E. and 600 C.E.
- Plotinus
- Porphyry (philosopher)
- Ammonius Saccas
- Origen
- Iamblichus
- Proclus Lycaeus
- Numenius
- Augustine of Hippo
- Boethius
- Isidore of Seville
Metaphysicians born between 600 C.E. and 1100 C.E.
Metaphysicians born between 1100 C.E. and 1400 C.E.
- Maimonides
- Averroes
- Ibn Arabi
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Albertus Magnus
- Bonaventure
- Thomas Aquinas
- Giles of Rome
- Duns Scotus
- William of Ockham
- Jean Buridan
- Jean Capréolus
- Meister Eckhart
Metaphysicians born between 1400 C.E. and 1700 C.E.
- Thomas Cajetan
- Francisco Suárez
- Domingo Báñez
- Robert Bellarmine
- John of St. Thomas
- René Descartes
- Anne Conway
- Baruch Spinoza
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
- Christian Wolff
- Jakob Böhme
Metaphysicians born between 1700 C.E. and 1800 C.E.
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Friedrich W. J. Schelling
- Johann G. Fichte
- Friedrich H. Jacobi
Metaphysicians born between 1800 C.E. and 1900 C.E.
- Alexius Meinong
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Étienne Gilson
- Jacques Maritain
- Martin Heidegger
- Edith Stein
- Gottlob Frege
- G. E. Moore
- Nikolai Berdyaev
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- John McTaggart
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Henri Bergson
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- George Holmes Howison
- Donald Cary Williams
- Semyon Frank
Metaphysicians born after 1900 C.E.
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- William Alston
- David Malet Armstrong
- Alain Badiou
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- Paul Benacerraf
- Charles Dunbar Broad
- Berit Brogaard
- Ross Cameron
- David Chalmers
- Roderick Chisholm
- Gilles Deleuze
- Arda Denkel
- Michael Devitt
- Catherine Elgin
- Kit Fine
- Peter Geach
- Peter Glassen
- Nelson Goodman
- Jean Grondin
- Rene Guenon
- John Hawthorne
- Shadworth Hodgson
- David Kolb
- Saul Kripke
- Brian Leftow
- David Kellogg Lewis
- Peter Ludlow
- William Lycan
- Penelope Maddy
- Trenton Merricks
- Iris Murdoch
- Joseph Owens (Redemptorist)
- Terence Parsons
- Alvin Plantinga
- Graham Priest
- Hilary Putnam
- Willard van Orman Quine
- Jay Rosenberg
- Nathan Salmon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Theodore Sider
- Gilbert Simondon
- Barry_Smith_(ontologiest) Barry Smith
- Wolfgang Smith
- Robert Stalnaker
- Peter F. Strawson
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Unger
- Peter van Inwagen
- David Wiggins
- Stuart Wilde
- Colin Wilson
- Jessica Wilson
- Dean Zimmerman
- Xavier Zubiri
- Utkarsh Chaturvedi