List of metaphysicians

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

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## Contents

* 1 Metaphysicians born BC
* 2 Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD
* 3 Metaphysicians born between 600 and 1400
* 4 Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700
* 5 Metaphysicians born between 1700 and 1800
* 6 Metaphysicians born between 1800 and 1900
* 7 Metaphysicians born after 1900
* 8 References

## Metaphysicians born BC

* Veda Vyasa
* Kapila
* Pythagoras
* Thales
* Anaximander
* Anaximenes
* Xenophanes
* Heraclitus
* Parmenides
* Zeno of Elea
* Melissus of Samos
* Leucippus
* Democritus
* Anaxagoras
* Empedocles
* Alcmaeon of Croton
* Hippasus
* Diogenes of Apollonia
* Kaṇāda
* 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

* Adi Shankaracharya
* John Scotus Eriugena
* Al-Farabi
* Vāchaspati Misra
* Avicenna
* Anselm of Canterbury
* Peter Abelard
* Al-Ghazali
* Bernard of Chartres
* Ramanujacharya
* 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
* Madhwacharya
* Giles of Rome
* Godfrey of Fontaines
* Henry of Ghent
* Petrus Aureoli
* Duns Scotus
* Walter Burley
* Hervaeus Natalis
* William of Ockham
* Vidyaranya
* Jean Buridan
* Jean Capréolus
* Meister Eckhart
* Dominic of Flanders
* Jayatirtha

## Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700

* Paolo Barbò da Soncino
* Marsilio Ficino
* Vyasatirtha
* Thomas Cajetan
* Francisco Suárez
* Domingo Báñez
* Robert Bellarmine
* John of St. Thomas
* René Descartes
* Thomas Hobbes
* 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

* William Lane Craig
* 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
* Graham Harman
* 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
* Quentin Meillassoux
* 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
* Richard Clyde Taylor[1][2][3]
* Judith Jarvis Thomson
* Colin Murray Turbayne
* Peter Unger
* Peter van Inwagen
* David Wiggins
* Stuart Wilde
* Colin Wilson
* Jessica Wilson
* John Wippel
* Dean Zimmerman
* Xavier Zubiri

## References

1. ↑ Taylor, Richard (1968). "Dare to be Wise". The Review of Metaphysics 21 (4): 615–629. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20124689.
2. ↑ Taylor, Richard (1974). Metaphysics. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs. ISBN 9780135784686.
3. ↑ "Metaphysics." Taylor, Richard. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1963) Introduction p. 2 Richard Taylor on hathitrust.org

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Metaphysics

Metaphysicians|

* Parmenides
* Plato
* Aristotle
* Plotinus
* Duns Scotus
* Thomas Aquinas
* Francisco Suárez
* Nicolas Malebranche
* René Descartes
* John Locke
* David Hume
* Thomas Reid
* Immanuel Kant
* Isaac Newton
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Baruch Spinoza
* Georg W. F. Hegel
* George Berkeley
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
* Henri Bergson
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Charles Sanders Peirce
* Joseph Maréchal
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Martin Heidegger
* Alfred N. Whitehead
* Bertrand Russell
* Dorothy Emmet
* G. E. Moore
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* Gilbert Ryle
* Hilary Putnam
* P. F. Strawson
* R. G. Collingwood
* Adolph Stöhr
* Rudolf Carnap
* Saul Kripke
* Willard V. O. Quine
* G. E. M. Anscombe
* Donald Davidson
* Michael Dummett
* David Malet Armstrong
* David Lewis
* Alvin Plantinga
* Peter van Inwagen
* Derek Parfit
* more ...

Theories|

* Abstract object theory
* Action theory
* Anti-realism
* Determinism
* Dualism
* Enactivism
* Essentialism
* Existentialism
* Free will
* Idealism
* Libertarianism
* Liberty
* Materialism
* Meaning of life
* Monism
* Naturalism
* Nihilism
* Phenomenalism
* Realism
* Physicalism
* Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality
* Platonic idealism
* Relativism
* Scientific realism
* Solipsism
* Subjectivism
* Substance theory
* Truthmaker theory
* Type theory

Concepts|

* Abstract object
* Anima mundi
* Being
* Category of being
* Causality
* Causal closure
* Choice
* Cogito, ergo sum
* Concept
* Embodied cognition
* Essence
* Existence
* Experience
* Hypostatic abstraction
* Idea
* Identity
* Information
* Insight
* Intelligence
* Intention
* Linguistic modality
* Matter
* Meaning
* Memetics
* Mental representation
* Mind
* Motion
* Nature
* Necessity
* Notion
* Object
* Pattern
* Perception
* Physical object
* Principle
* Property
* Qualia
* Quality
* Reality
* Soul
* Subject
* Substantial form
* Thought
* Time
* Truth
* Type–token distinction
* Universal
* Unobservable
* Value
* more ...

Related topics|

* Axiology
* Cosmology
* Epistemology
* Feminist metaphysics
* Interpretations of quantum mechanics
* Mereology
* Meta-
* Ontology
* Philosophy of mind
* Philosophy of psychology
* Philosophy of self
* Philosophy of space and time
* Teleology
* Theoretical physics

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