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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Contents:

* Top
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

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* Elizabeth Anscombe
* J. L. Austin
* A. J. Ayer

## B

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* 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[1]
* 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

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* 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

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* Augustus De Morgan
* Peter Dews
* Ramsey Dukes
* Michael Dummett
* Duns Scotus

## E

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* Arthur Eddington
* Dorothy Edgington
* Nader El-Bizri
* Ronald Englefield
* Dylan Evans
* Gareth Evans
* A. C. Ewing

## F

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* Antony Flew
* Philippa Foot
* Keith Frankish
* Paul W. Franks
* Miranda Fricker

## G

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* 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

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* 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

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* Harold Joachim
* C. E. M. Joad
* John Foster
* John Henry Newman

## K

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Constance Naden
* Stephen Neale

## O

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* Michael Oakeshott
* Kieron O'Hara
* Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
* William of Ockham
* Sydney Sparkes Orr

## P

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* 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

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* Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

## R

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* 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

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* 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

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* Alfred Edward Taylor
* Gabriele Taylor
* Jenny Teichman
* George Derwent Thomson
* John Toland

## U

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* J. O. Urmson

## W

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ Berkeley, George – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy