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  Alcott, Amos Bronson
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Bloom, Allan
Butler, Judith
Derrida, Jacques
Dewey, John
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Foucault, Michel
Habermas, Jürgen
Herbart, Johann Friedrich
  Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Kant, Immanuel
Locke, Alain
Locke, John
Lyotard, Jean-François
MacIntyre, Alasdair
Marx, Karl
Mill, John Stuart
Natorp, Paul
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Oakeshott, Michael
  Plato
Rawls, John
Rorty, Richard
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Socrates
Spencer, Herbert
Taylor, Charles
Weil, Simone
West, Cornel
Whitehead, Alfred North
Wittgenstein, Ludwig


The philosopher occurs as human devoted to researching & producing effects within philosophy. A word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom." Greek: "φίλος + σοφία"

Popular Western philosophers in (approximate) historical order


Ex-directory above: (occasionally of) The Presocratics -- Epicurus place after Aristotle --Hellenistic Philosophers -- Cicero -- Avicenna -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- James Mill -- Rudolf Steiner -- Albert Schweitzer -- G. E. Moore -- Albert Camus -- Georg Henrik von Wright -- Mortimer Adler -- Nelson Goodman -- Imre Lakatos -- Paul Feyerabend -- Mario Bunge -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Eastern philosophers in approximate historical order:
Gautama Buddha -- Confucius -- Mozi -- Lao Zi -- Rhazes -- Mencius -- Zhuang Zi -- Xun Zi --Han Feizi -- Nagarjuna -- Bodhidharma -- Shankara -- Dogen -- Zhu Xi -- Feng Youlan -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Philosophers: listed by philosophical school

Watch Philosophical Movements. Krishnamoorti

Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers
Many mediaeval philosophers develop run Latin nicknames -- some by their coeval, others by historiographer. E.g.: Francis Mayron - Doctor acutus, the intense doctor even, or Doctor illuminatus St. Thomas Aquinas - Doctor Angelicus, the angelical doctor even, or Doctor Communis William of Ockham - Doctor Invincibilis Alexander of Hales - Doctor Irrefragibilis Roger Bacon - Doctor Mirabilis, the wondrous doctor John Bassol - Doctor Ordinatissimus, the virtually all methodical doctor Nissim Cahn - Doctor Gaon, the innovative doctor St. Bonaventure - Doctor Seraphicus Henry Goethals (Hendricus Bonicollius) - Doctor Solemnis, the solemn doctor Richard Middleton - a firm doctor even, or the profound doctor Duns Scotus - Doctor Subtilis, the sharp doctor even, or Doctor Marianus Albertus Magnus - Doctor Universalis Durandus de Sancto Portiano - the virtually all unhesitating doctor Thomas Bradwardine - the profound doctor Jean Ruysbroeck (Joannes Ruysbrokius) - the divine doctor even or rhapsodic doctor Look at Too a articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Deconstruction, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Feminism, Scientists, List of philosophers, and the to the full list at :Category:Philosophers.


A Philosopher is besides a nickname of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 22.

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Craig Cunningham's Site: John Dewey
A site that lists major resources in Dewey scholarship. Of particular value are quotes from Dewey's work, with citations to the standard edition published by Southern Illinois University Press.

Megan M. Boler
Megan M. Boler presents a theory of the emotions in her seminal book, Feeling Power. Boler's work draws upon feminism, philosophy of education, and cultural studies.

Harvey Siegel
Siegel's work encompasses the philosophy of science, epistemology, and the philosophy of education. He is one of the key figures in the philosophy of education for the last 25 years. His work on rationality and especially critical thinking has been a major influence on both theorists and practitioners in the field of education.

The Center for Dewey Studies
The Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, headed by Larry Hickman.

John Dewey Society
The John Dewey Society promotes the study of Dewey's ideas on democracy, education, and philosophy.

Famous Philosophers Quotes on Educational Philosophy, Truth and Reality
Views on Philosophy / Metaphysics of Education: Albert Einstein, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, Aristotle, Plato

Sample Philosophies of Education for Teachers
Personal, teacher philosophies of education - some famous, such as Dewey, some less famous but just as fascinating.

Merleau-Ponty's Corrective to Postmodernism's "Subjects" of Education
An essay by Marjorie O'Loughlin, considering the significance of Merleau-Ponty's thought for a feminist philosophy of education.

Rousseau and Informal Education
An essay on Rousseau's philosophy of education, with specific reference to his Émile.

Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster
Leo Tolstoy's philosophy of education and its application in the United States, examined by Ernest Howard Crosby.


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