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.

A

 * A. J. Ayer
 * J. L. Austin

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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

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
 * William Whewell
 * Jamie Whyte
 * David Wiggins
 * Bernard Williams
 * Timothy Williamson
 * Gerrard Winstanley
 * John Wisdom
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * Richard Wollheim
 * Crispin Wright
 * Frances Wright