List of metaphysicians

This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.

Metaphysicians born BC

 * Pythagoras
 * Thales
 * Anaximander
 * Anaximenes
 * Xenophanes
 * Heraclitus
 * Parmenides
 * Zeno of Elea
 * Melissus of Samos
 * Leucippus
 * Democritus
 * Anaxagoras
 * Empedocles
 * Alcmaeon of Croton
 * Hippasus
 * Diogenes of Apollonia
 * Plato
 * Eudoxus of Cnidus
 * Speusippus
 * Xenocrates
 * Aristotle

Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD

 * Numenius
 * Alexander of Aphrodisias
 * Ammonius Saccas
 * Origen of Alexandria
 * Origen the Pagan
 * Plotinus
 * Porphyry
 * Iamblichus
 * Syrianus
 * Proclus
 * Ammonius Hermiae
 * Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
 * Olympiodorus the Younger
 * Damascius
 * Simplicius of Cilicia
 * John Philoponus

Metaphysicians born between 600 and 1400

 * John Scotus Eriugena
 * Al-Farabi
 * Avicenna
 * Anselm of Canterbury
 * Peter Abelard
 * Al-Ghazali
 * Bernard of Chartres
 * Gilbert de la Porrée
 * Thierry of Chartres
 * Hugh of Saint Victor
 * Richard of Saint Victor
 * Maimonides
 * Averroes
 * Ibn Arabi
 * Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
 * Philip the Chancellor
 * William of Auvergne
 * Alexander of Hales
 * Albertus Magnus
 * Bonaventure
 * Roger Bacon
 * John Peckham
 * Thomas Aquinas
 * Giles of Rome
 * Godfrey of Fontaines
 * Henry of Ghent
 * Petrus Aureoli
 * Duns Scotus
 * Walter Burley
 * Hervaeus Natalis
 * William of Ockham
 * Jean Buridan
 * Jean Capréolus
 * Meister Eckhart
 * Dominic of Flanders

Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700

 * Paolo Barbò da Soncino
 * Marsilio Ficino
 * 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 and 1800

 * Immanuel Kant
 * Georg W. F. Hegel
 * Arthur Schopenhauer
 * Friedrich W. J. Schelling
 * Johann G. Fichte
 * Friedrich H. Jacobi

Metaphysicians born between 1800 and 1900
• Nikolai Berdyaev

• Henri Bergson

• Franz Brentano

• Joseph Kleutgen

• Semyon Frank

• Gottlob Frege

• Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange

• Étienne Gilson

• Nicolai Hartmann

• Martin Heidegger

• George Holmes Howison

• Jacques Maritain

• John McTaggart

• Alexius Meinong

• G. E. Moore

• Ella Norraikow

• Bertrand Russell

• Vladimir Solovyov

• Edith Stein

• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• Alfred North Whitehead

• Donald Cary Williams

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

Metaphysicians born after 1900
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 * Marilyn McCord Adams
 * Robert Merrihew Adams
 * William Alston
 * G. E. M. Anscombe
 * David Malet Armstrong
 * Alain Badiou
 * Lynne Rudder Baker
 * Hans Urs von Balthasar
 * Paul Benacerraf
 * Charles Dunbar Broad
 * Berit Brogaard
 * David Burrell
 * Ross Cameron
 * David Chalmers
 * Roderick Chisholm
 * Brian Davies (philosopher)
 * Gilles Deleuze
 * Arda Denkel
 * Michael Devitt
 * Alexander Dugin
 * Catherine Elgin
 * Edward Feser
 * Cornelio Fabro
 * Kit Fine
 * Peter Geach
 * Peter Glassen
 * Nelson Goodman
 * Jean Grondin
 * Rene Guenon
 * Pierre Hadot
 * John Hawthorne
 * Stephen Hetherington
 * Shadworth Hodgson
 * Charles H. Kahn
 * Anthony Kenny
 * Jaegwon Kim
 * David Kolb
 * Norman Kretzmann
 * Saul Kripke
 * Brian Leftow
 * David Kellogg Lewis
 * Bernard Lonergan
 * Peter Ludlow
 * William Lycan
 * Penelope Maddy
 * Ralph McInerny
 * Trenton Merricks
 * Iris Murdoch
 * Joseph Owens (Redemptorist)
 * Terence Parsons
 * Alvin Plantinga
 * Graham Priest
 * Hilary Putnam
 * Willard van Orman Quine
 * Karl Rahner
 * Jay Rosenberg
 * Nathan Salmon
 * Jean-Paul Sartre
 * Theodore Sider
 * Gilbert Simondon
 * Barry Smith
 * Wolfgang Smith
 * Robert Stalnaker
 * Peter F. Strawson
 * Eleonore Stump
 * Judith Jarvis Thomson
 * Peter Unger
 * Peter van Inwagen
 * David Wiggins
 * Stuart Wilde
 * Colin Wilson
 * Jessica Wilson
 * John Wippel
 * Dean Zimmerman
 * Xavier Zubiri
 * Traci Kochendorfer(aka Dr. Traci K)

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