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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.
David Hume, a profoundly influential 18th-century Scottish philosopher. British philosophy refers to the philosophical tradition of the British people. "The native characteristics of British philosophy are these: common sense, dislike of complication, a strong preference for the concrete over the abstract and a certain awkward honesty of method in which an occasional pearl of poetry is embedded".
English: English rationalist philosopher, influenced Gottfried Leibniz, considered England most important woman philosopher. [8] [9] Author of The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, published in Latin 1690, in English 1692. Mihály Csokonai Vitéz: 1773-1805: Hungarian
English philosophers (10 C, 156 P) Philosophers from Northern Ireland (3 P) Scottish philosophers (9 C, 90 P) Welsh philosophers (30 P) + British women philosophers ...
Simple English; Slovenčina; Slovenščina; ... Pages in category "English philosophers" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total.
John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Thomas Hobbes (/ h ɒ b z / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4]
20th-century English philosophers (143 P) ... Pages in category "20th-century British philosophers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately ...