List of philosophers of science

This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science.

Before the 19th century

 * Roger Bacon
 * Sir Francis Bacon
 * Galileo Galilei
 * David Hume

19th century

 * Auguste Comte
 * William Whewell
 * George Henry Lewes
 * William Stanley Jevons
 * Ernst Mach
 * Charles Sanders Peirce
 * Edmund Husserl
 * Frederich Engels

1900–1930

 * Nikola Tesla
 * Henri Poincaré
 * Pierre Duhem
 * Niels Bohr
 * Albert Einstein
 * Bertrand Russell
 * Frank P. Ramsey
 * Moritz Schlick
 * John Dewey
 * Alfred North Whitehead

1930–1960

 * Alfred Ayer
 * Mario Bunge
 * Hans Reichenbach
 * Georges Canguilhem
 * Noam Chomsky
 * Kenneth Craik
 * Alexandre Koyré
 * Sir Karl Popper
 * Rudolf Carnap
 * Michael Polanyi
 * Otto Neurath
 * Carl Gustav Hempel
 * Paul Oppenheim
 * Gaston Bachelard
 * R. B. Braithwaite
 * Werner Heisenberg
 * Taketani Mitsuo
 * Stephen Toulmin

1960–1980

 * David Bloor
 * David Bohm
 * Paul Feyerabend
 * Mary Hesse
 * Thomas Kuhn
 * Imre Lakatos
 * Ernest Nagel
 * Hilary Putnam
 * W.V. Quine
 * Michael Ruse
 * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

1980–present

 * Peter Achinstein
 * David Albert
 * Jeffrey A. Barrett
 * Roy Bhaskar
 * Maarten Boudry
 * Richard Boyd
 * Arturo Carsetti
 * Nancy Cartwright
 * David Castle
 * Anjan Chakravartty
 * Alan Chalmers
 * Hasok Chang
 * Patricia Churchland
 * Paul Churchland
 * Daniel Dennett
 * John Dupré
 * John Earman
 * Bas van Fraassen
 * Ronald Giere
 * Peter Godfrey-Smith
 * Rebecca Goldstein
 * Adolf Grünbaum
 * Susan Haack
 * Ian Hacking
 * Donna Haraway
 * Sandra Harding
 * Michał Heller
 * Jaakko Hintikka
 * Paul Hoyningen-Huene
 * Philip Kitcher
 * Ursula Klein
 * Larry Laudan
 * John Lennox
 * Isaac Levi
 * Peter Lipton
 * Helen Longino
 * Elisabeth Lloyd
 * Tim Maudlin
 * Deborah Mayo
 * Ernan McMullin
 * Peter Medawar
 * Sandra Mitchell
 * John E. Murdoch
 * Nancey Murphy
 * Basarab Nicolescu
 * Massimo Pigliucci
 * John Polkinghorne
 * Stathis Psillos
 * Hilary Putnam
 * Benedict Rattigan
 * Alexander Rosenberg
 * Oliver Sacks
 * Wesley C. Salmon
 * Eric Scerri
 * Kristin Shrader-Frechette
 * Lawrence Sklar
 * Brian Skyrms
 * Quentin Smith
 * Elliott Sober
 * Miriam Solomon
 * Wolfgang Stegmüller
 * Kim Sterelny
 * David Stove
 * Patrick Suppes
 * Claudine Tiercelin
 * Roberto Torretti
 * John Worrall