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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Lord Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
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.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through ...
Francis Hutcheson (/ ˈ h ʌ tʃ ɪ s ən /; 8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher known as one of the founding fathers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Born in Ulster to a family of Scottish Presbyterians , he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University and is remembered as author of A System of Moral Philosophy .
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".
Bradley rejected the utilitarian and empiricist trends in British philosophy represented by John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill.Instead, Bradley was a leading member of the philosophical movement known as British idealism, which was strongly influenced by Kant and the German idealists Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, and Hegel, although Bradley tended to ...
A figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, known as a philosopher, minister, and professor of divinity. Campbell was primarily interested in rhetoric and faculty psychology. Dimitrie Cantemir: 1673–1723: Moldavian(Romanian) Philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer. Émilie du Châtelet: 1706–1749 ...
Appearance and Reality (1893; second edition 1897) [1] is a book by the English philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley, in which the author, influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, argues that most things are appearances and attempts to describe the reality these appearances misrepresent, which Bradley calls the Absolute.