List of philosophers of science
This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see Category:Philosophers of science.
Before the 16th century[]
- Socrates
- Democritus
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Empedocles
- Al-Ghazali
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Robert Grosseteste
- Roger Bacon
- Albert the Great
- Thomas Aquinas
16th century[]
- Sir Francis Bacon
17th century[]
- Galileo Galilei
- René Descartes
- Pierre Gassendi
- Gottfried Leibniz
18th century[]
- George Berkeley
- Immanuel Kant
- David Hume
19th century[]
- Auguste Comte
- John Stuart Mill
- William Whewell
- George Henry Lewes
- William Stanley Jevons
- Ernst Mach
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Edmund Husserl
- Frederich Engels
1900–1930[]
- Nikola Tesla
- Henri Poincaré
- Pierre Duhem
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Bertrand Russell
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Moritz Schlick
- John Dewey
- Alfred North Whitehead
1930–1960[]
- Alfred Ayer
- Mario Bunge
- Hans Reichenbach
- Georges Canguilhem
- Noam Chomsky
- Kenneth Craik
- Alexandre Koyré
- Sir Karl Popper
- Rudolf Carnap
- Michael Polanyi
- Otto Neurath
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Paul Oppenheim
- Gaston Bachelard
- R. B. Braithwaite
- Werner Heisenberg
- Taketani Mitsuo
- Stephen Toulmin
1960–1980[]
- David Bloor
- Paul Feyerabend
- Mary Hesse
- Thomas Kuhn
- Imre Lakatos
- Ernest Nagel
- Hilary Putnam
- W.V. Quine
- Michael Ruse
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
1980–present[]
- Peter Achinstein
- David Albert
- Jeffrey A. Barrett
- Roy Bhaskar
- Maarten Boudry
- Richard Boyd
- Arturo Carsetti
- Nancy Cartwright
- David Castle
- Anjan Chakravartty
- Alan Chalmers
- Hasok Chang
- Patricia Churchland
- Paul Churchland
- Daniel Dennett
- John Dupré
- John Earman
- Bas van Fraassen
- Ronald Giere
- Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Adolf Grünbaum
- Susan Haack
- Ian Hacking
- Donna Haraway
- Sandra Harding
- Michał Heller
- Jaakko Hintikka
- Paul Hoyningen-Huene
- Philip Kitcher
- Ursula Klein
- Larry Laudan
- John Lennox
- Isaac Levi
- Peter Lipton
- Helen Longino
- Elisabeth Lloyd
- Tim Maudlin
- Ernan McMullin
- Peter Medawar
- Sandra Mitchell
- John E. Murdoch
- Nancey Murphy
- Basarab Nicolescu
- Massimo Pigliucci
- John Polkinghorne
- Stathis Psillos
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Oliver Sacks
- Wesley C. Salmon
- Eric Scerri
- Kristin Shrader-Frechette
- Lawrence Sklar
- Brian Skyrms
- Quentin Smith
- Elliott Sober
- Wolfgang Stegmüller
- Kim Sterelny
- David Stove
- Patrick Suppes
- Claudine Tiercelin
- Roberto Torretti
- Gerard Verschuuren
- John Worrall
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