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This is a list of lists of philosophers, organized by subarea, nationality, religion, and time period.

## Lists of philosophers by subfield

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* List of aestheticians
* List of critical theorists
* List of environmental philosophers
* List of epistemologists
* List of ethicists
* List of existentialists
* List of feminist philosophers
* List of humanists
* List of logicians
* List of metaphysicians
* List of social and political philosophers
* List of phenomenologists
* List of philosophers of language
* List of philosophers of mind
* List of philosophers of religion
* List of philosophers of science
* List of political philosophers
* List of political theorists
* List of rationalists
* List of utilitarians

## Lists of philosophers by language or nationality

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* List of Afghan philosophers
* List of British philosophers
* List of Canadian philosophers
* List of Chinese philosophers
* List of Finnish philosophers
* List of French philosophers
* List of German-language philosophers
* List of Icelandic philosophers
* List of Indian philosophers
* List of Iranian philosophers
* List of Italian philosophers
* List of Jewish American philosophers
* List of Korean philosophers
* List of Kurdish philosophers
* List of Lithuanian philosophers
* List of Romanian philosophers
* List of Russian philosophers
* List of Slovene philosophers
* List of Turkish philosophers

## Lists of philosophers by religion

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* List of atheist philosophers
* List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
* List of Muslim philosophers

## Lists of philosophers by time period

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* List of ancient Greek philosophers
* List of ancient Platonists
* List of Cynic philosophers
* List of Epicurean philosophers
* List of pre-Socratic philosophers
* List of Stoic philosophers

### Lists of philosophers by century

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* List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
* List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries
* List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries
* List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
* List of philosophers born in the 17th century
* List of philosophers born in the 18th century
* List of philosophers born in the 19th century
* List of philosophers born in the 20th century

### Timelines

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* Timeline of Eastern philosophers
* Timeline of Western philosophers

## Miscellaneous

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* List of women philosophers
* List of nicknames of philosophers
* Deaths of philosophers

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Epistemology|

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Metaphysics|

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Ancient|

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Greco-Roman|

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Indian|

* Hindu
* Samkhya
* Nyaya
* Vaisheshika
* Yoga
* Mīmāṃsā
* Ājīvika
* Ajñana
* Cārvāka
* Jain
* Anekantavada
* Syādvāda
* Buddhist
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* Sarvāstivadā
* Pudgalavada
* Sautrāntika
* Madhyamaka
* Svatantrika and Prasangika
* Śūnyatā
* Yogacara
* Tibetan

Persian|

* Mazdakism
* Mithraism
* Zoroastrianism
* Zurvanism

Medieval|

| East Asian|

* Neotaoism
* Tiantai
* Huayan
* Chan
* Zen
* Neo-Confucianism
* Korean Confucianism

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European|

* Christian
* Augustinianism
* Scholasticism
* Thomism
* Scotism
* Occamism
* Renaissance humanism

Indian|

* Vedanta
* Acintya bheda abheda
* Advaita
* Bhedabheda
* Dvaita
* Nimbarka Sampradaya
* Shuddhadvaita
* Vishishtadvaita
* Navya-Nyāya

Islamic|

* Aristotelianism
* Averroism
* Avicennism
* Illuminationism
* ʿIlm al-Kalām
* Sufi

Jewish|

* Judeo-Islamic

Modern|

* Anarchism
* Classical Realism
* Collectivism
* Conservatism
* Determinism
* Dualism
* Edo neo-Confucianism
* Empiricism
* Existentialism
* Foundationalism
* Historicism
* Holism
* Humanism
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* Idealism
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* New Confucianism
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* Pessimism
* Pragmatism
* Phenomenology
* Positivism
* Reductionism
* Rationalism
* Social contract
* Socialism
* Transcendentalism
* Utilitarianism

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* Cartesianism
* Kantianism
* Neo
* Kierkegaardianism
* Krausism
* Hegelianism
* Marxism
* Newtonianism
* Nietzscheanism
* Spinozism

Contemporary|

| Analytic|

* Applied ethics
* Analytic feminism
* Analytical Marxism
* Communitarianism
* Consequentialism
* Critical rationalism
* Experimental philosophy
* Falsificationism
* Foundationalism / Coherentism
* Internalism and externalism
* Logical positivism
* Legal positivism
* Meta-ethics
* Moral realism
* Quinean naturalism
* Normative ethics
* Ordinary language philosophy
* Postanalytic philosophy
* Quietism
* Rawlsian
* Reformed epistemology
* Systemics
* Scientism
* Scientific realism
* Scientific skepticism
* Transactionalism
* Contemporary utilitarianism
* Vienna Circle
* Wittgensteinian

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Continental|

* Critical theory
* Deconstruction
* Existentialism
* Feminist
* Frankfurt School
* Hermeneutics
* Neo-Marxism
* New Historicism
* Phenomenology
* Posthumanism
* Postmodernism
* Post-structuralism
* Social constructionism
* Structuralism
* Western Marxism

Miscellaneous|

* Kyoto School
* Objectivism
* Postcritique
* Russian cosmism

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| African|

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* Africana

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Eastern|

* Buddhist
* Chinese
* Indian
* Indonesian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Taiwanese
* Vietnamese

Middle Eastern|

* Iranian
* Islamic
* Jewish
* Pakistani
* Turkish

Western|

* American
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* Canada
* Czech
* Danish
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* Finland
* French
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