100 Great Philosophers Who Changed the World

by Philip Stokes

Overview

A lucid and engaging book full of thought-provoking quotations, as well as clear explanations and definitions, this book is sure to appeal students and laymen alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789509168
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	04/01/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	564,146
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Philip Stokes graduated with a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Reading in 1993, and gained his Masters degree from Bristol University in 1995. His Masters dissertation was a critique of Quine from a Wittgensteinian perspective. After working for several years in academic publishing, Philip returned to academia proper, beginning his PhD at the University of Reading, where he was Course tutor within the Department of Continuing Education at Reading. In 2005 he took up a post at Chulalongkom University in Thailand, where he is a member of the Language Faculty.

Table of Contents

The Presocraties

Thales of Miletus 8

Pythagoras of Samos 10

Xenophanes of Colophon 12

Heraclitus 14

The Eleatics

Parmenides of Elea 16

Zeno of Elea 18

The Academics

Socrates 20

Plato 22

Aristotle 24

The Atomists

Democritus 26

Epicurus 28

The Cynics

Diogenes of Sinope 30

The Stoics

Marcus Tullius Cicero 32

Philo of Alexandria 34

Lucius Annaeus Seneca 36

Marcus Aurelius 38

The Sceptics

Sextus Empiricus 40

The Neoplatonists

Plotinus 42

The Christians

St Augustine of Hippo 44

Boethius 46

The Scholastics

St Anselm 48

St Thomas Aquinas 50

John Duns Scotus 52

William of Occam 54

The Age of Science

Nicolaus Copernicus 56

Niccolò Machiavelli 58

Desiderus Erasmus 60

Thomas More 62

Francis Bacon 64

Galileo Galilei 66

Thomas Hobbes 68

Sir Isaac Newton 70

The Rationalists

René Descartes 72

Antoine Arnauld 74

Nicolas Malebranche 76

Benedict de Spinoza 78

Gottfried von Leibniz 80

The Empiricists

John Locke 82

David Hume 84

Thomas Reid 86

Voltaire 88

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 90

Denis Diderot 92

The Idealists

George Berkeley 94

Immanuel Kant 96

Johann Schiller 98

Frederick Schelling 100

Georg Hegel 102

Arthur Schopenhauer 104

The Liberals

Adam Smith 106

Mary Wollstonecraft 108

Thomas Paine 110

Jeremy Bentham 112

John Stuart Mill 114

Auguste Comte 116

The Evolutionists

Charles Darwin 118

Henri Louis Bergson 120

A.N. Whitehead 122

The Pragmatists

Ernst Mach 124

Charles Peirce 126

William James 128

John Dewey 130

The Materialists

Karl Marx 132

Friedrich Engels 134

Vladimir Lenin 136

Sigmund Freud 138

Carl Jung 140

John Maynard Keynes 142

The Existentialists

Søren Kierkegaard 144

Friedrich Nietzsche 146

Edmund Husserl 148

Martin Heidegger 150

Jean-Paul Sartre 152

Albert Camus 154

Simone de Beauvoir 156

The Linguistic Turn

Gottlob Frege 158

Bertrand Russell 160

Ludwig Wittgenstein 162

Ferdinand de Saussure 164

George Edward Moore 166

Moritz Schlick 168

Lev Vygotsky 170

Rudolph Carnap 172

A.J. Ayer 174

Alfred Tarski 176

J.L. Austin 178

Gilbert Ryle 180

Noam Chomsky 182

The Postmodernists

Claude Levi-Strauss 184

Michel Foucault 186

Jacques Derrida 188

The New Scientists

Emile Durkheim 190

Albert Einstein 192

Karl Popper 194

Kurt Gödel 196

Alan Turing 198

B.F. Skinner 200

Thomas Kuhn 202

Paul Feyerabend 204

W.V.O. Quine 206