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Updated 1 August 2024
Philosopher birthdays
Philosopher birthdays
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January
1
Arthur Danto
1924
Myles Burnyeat
1939
Tyler Burge
1946
2
Isaac Asimov
1920
3
Cicero
106
BC
4
James Ussher
1581
5
Umberto Eco
1932
6
Samuel Alexander
1859
7
Émile Borel
1871
8
C. G. Hempel
1905
9
Simone de Beauvoir
1908
10
Christian A. Crusius
1715
11
William James
1842
12
Emmanuel Lévinas
1906
Jaako Hintikka
1929
Alasdair MacIntyre
1929
13
Paul Feyerabend
1924
14
Alfred Tarski
1901
15
R. B. Braithwaite
1900
16
Franz Brentano
1838
John Perry
1943
17
Aron Gurwitsch
1901
18
Montesquieu
1689
Gilles Deleuze
1925
19
Eihei Dōgen
1200
Auguste Comte
1798
20
John Hick
1922
21
Wolfgang Köhler
1887
22
Francis Bacon
1561
Robert Stalnaker
1940
23
Antonio Gramsci
1891
24
Christian Wolff
1679
25
Robert Boyle
1627
26
1715
Claude Adrien Helvétius
27
Friedrich Schelling
1775
28
1225
Thomas Aquinas (Feast day)
29
Thomas Paine
1737
30
F. H. Bradley
1846
31
Henri Berr
1863
February
1
Richard Whately
1787
2
Ayn Rand
1905
3
Simone Weil
1909
4
Luigi Pareyson
1918
5
Roman Ingarden
1893
Galen Strawson
1952
6
Antoine Arnauld
1612
7
Thomas More
1477
8
Martin Buber
1878
9
Ali-Shir Nava'i
1441
10
Thomas Platter
1499
11
1900
Hans-Georg Gadamer
12
Charles Darwin
1809
13
Agostinho da Silva
1913
14
Max Horkheimer
1895
15
Galileo Galilei
1564
Jeremy Bentham
1748
A. N. Whitehead
1861
16
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
1866
17
Jonathan Bennett
1930
18
Ernst Mach
1838
Ian Hacking
1936
19
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473
20
Ludwig Boltzmann
1844
21
John Rawls
1921
22
1788
Arthur Schopenhauer
R. G. Collingwood
1889
Frank Ramsey
1903
23
Karl Jaspers
1883
24
Max Black
1909
Judith Butler
1956
25
Benedetto Croce
1866
26
Casimir Lewy
1919
27
1863
George Herbert Mead
Paul Ricoeur
1913
Roger Scruton
1944
28
Michel de Montaigne
1533
29
John Stuart Mackenzie
1860
March
1
Tetsurō Watsuji
1889
2
Kurt Grelling
1886
3
Georg Cantor
1845
4
P. D. Ouspensky
1878
5
Karl Rahner
1904
6
Donald Davidson
1917
7
John McDowell
1942
8
William Hamilton
1788
9
David Fabricius
1564
10
Colin McGinn
1950
11
Michael Polanyi
1891
12
George Berkeley
1685
13
H. P. Grice
1913
14
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1908
15
Gilberto Freyre
1900
16
Anthony Kenny
1931
17
Patrick Suppes
1922
18
Elizabeth Anscombe
1919
19
Rush Rhees
1905
20
B. F. Skinner
1904
21
R. M. Hare
1919
Slavoj Žižek
1949
22
Robert Millikan
1868
23
Erich Fromm
1900
24
Wilhelm Reich
1897
25
Stephen Toulmin
1922
26
William Wollaston
1659
J. L. Austin
1911
27
Franz Xaver von Baader
1765
28
Teresa of Ávila
1515
Daniel Dennett
1942
29
Peter Geach
1916
30
Moses Maimonides
1135
31
René Descartes
1596
April
1
James McCosh
1811
2
Panayot Butchvarov
1933
3
A. C. Grayling
1949
4
Benjamin Peirce
1809
5
Thomas Hobbes
1588
Bas C. van Fraassen
1941
6
Alexander Herzen
1812
7
T. H. Green
1836
8
Edmund Husserl
1859
9
Margaret MacDonald
1907
10
Hugo Grotius
1583
11
Alan Ross Anderson
1925
12
Clarence Irving Lewis
1883
Bryan Magee
1930
13
Jacques Lacan
1901
14
Averroes
1126
Moritz Schlick
1882
Mary Warnock
1924
15
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
Émile Durkheim
1858
16
Jerzy Neyman
1894
17
William Molyneux
1656
18
David Ricardo
1772
19
Dale Jacquette
1953
20
David Chalmers
1966
21
Max Weber
1864
22
Immanuel Kant
1724
Jerry Fodor
1935
23
Tim Maudlin
1958
24
Hans Sluga
1939
25
Emer de Vattel
1714
26
26
Marcus Aurelius
121
Thomas Reid
1710
David Hume
1711
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889
27
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759
Herbert Spencer
1820
28
Kurt Gödel
1906
29
Dorothy Edgington
1941
30
Félix Guattari
1930
May
1
1881
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2
Henrik Steffens
1773
3
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469
Luce Irigaray
1930
4
T. H. Huxley
1825
5
Søren Kierkegaard
1813
Karl Marx
1818
6
Sigmund Freud
1856
Martha Nussbaum
1947
7
Rabin-dranath Tagore
1861
8
Friedrich Hayek
1899
Kwame Anthony Appiah
1954
9
José Ortega y Gasset
1883
10
Karl Barth
1886
11
A. C. Ewing
1899
12
Gareth Evans
1946
13
Peter A. Bertocci
1910
14
Richard J. Bernstein
1932
15
Roy Bhaskar
1944
16
Joseph Margolis
1924
17
H. H. Price
1899
1953
Huw Price
18
1048
18
Omar Khayyám Joseph Butler
1692
Bertrand Russell
1872
Rudolf Carnap
1891
Barry Stroud
1935
19
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762
20
John Stuart Mill
1806
Wilfrid Sellars
1912
21
Hermann Lotze
1817
22
Christopher Peacocke
1950
23
Thoralf Skolem
1887
24
William Whewell
1794
25
1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Smullyan
1919
26
Gilbert Harman
1938
27
Ibn Khaldun
1332
28
Frank Drake
1930
29
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929
30
Mikhail Bakunin
1814
31
Henry Sidgwick
1838
June
1
C. K. Ogden
1889
Jan Patočka
1907
B. K. Matilal
1935
2
Marquis de Sade
1740
3
Wolfgang Stegmüller
1923
4
Milan Komar
1921
5
Adam Smith
1723
Yasuo Yuasa
1925
Hélène Cixous
1937
6
Isaiah Berlin
1909
7
Kah Kyung Cho
1927
8
Francis Crick
1916
9
Pierre Duhem
1861
10
James Conant
1958
11
Norman Malcolm
1911
12
Adolf Lindenbaum
1912
13
Bruno de Finetti
1906
Julia Annas
1946
14
Alonzo Church
1903
15
Gotthard Günther
1900
16
Peter Carruthers
1952
17
Ernest Sosa
1940
18
Jürgen Habermas
1929
19
Blaise Pascal
1623
20
Adam Ferguson
1723
21
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905
22
Dagfinn Føllesdal
1932
23
Giambattista Vico
1668
Alan Turing
1912
24
Julia Kristeva
1941
25
W. V. O. Quine
1908
26
Leopold Löwenheim
1878
27
Augustus De Morgan
1806
Michael Dummett
1925
28
1712
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
29
Jon Barwise
1942
30
Adam Müller
1779
July
1
Alhazen
965
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646
2
Antonio Labriola
1843
3
Franz Kafka
1883
4
Thomas Nagel
1937
5
Desmond Paul Henry
1921
6
Peter Singer
1946
7
C. J. Ducasse
1881
8
D. M. Armstrong
1926
9
Roy Wood Sellars
1880
10
John Calvin
1509
D. H. Mellor
1938
11
Nikolay Vasiliev
1880
12
Henry D. Thoreau
1817
13
Hans Blumenberg
1920
14
Bernard Bosanquet
1848
15
Walter Benjamin
1892
Iris Murdoch
1919
Jacques Derrida
1930
16
Patricia Churchland
1943
17
Alexius Meinong
1853
18
H. L. A. Hart
1907
Thomas Kuhn
1922
19
Herbert Marcuse
1898
20
Gregor Mendel
1822
Frantz Fanon
1925
21
Marshall McLuhan
1911
22
Mikhail Shcherbatov
1733
23
Jean van Heijenoort
1912
24
Richard L. Gregory
1923
25
Michael Bratman
1945
26
Carl Jung
1875
27
Jean Baudrillard
1929
28
Ernst Cassirer
1874
Ludwig Feuerbach
1804
Karl Popper
1902
29
Alexis de Tocqueville
1805
30
Ch’ien Mu
1895
31
Hilary Putnam
1926
John Searle
1932
August
1
Oskar Negt
1934
2
1921
Ruth Barcan Marcus
3
Oswald Külpe
1862
4
John Venn
1834
5
Richard Jeffrey
1926
6
1638
Nicolas Malebranche
Timothy Williamson
1955
7
Nelson Goodman
1906
8
Francis Hutcheson
1694
9
Jean Piaget
1896
Marvin Minsky
1927
10
1924
Jean-François Lyotard
11
Scott Soames
1946
12
Ernest W. Adams
1926
13
Vladimir Odoevsky
1803
14
Martha Kneale
1909
15
Rogers Albritton
1923
16
Wilhelm Wundt
1832
17
Pierre de Fermat
1601
18
Wing-tsit Chan
1901
19
Gilbert Ryle
1900
20
Paul Tillich
1886
21
1873
Edwin Bissell Holt
22
Max Scheler
1874
23
William Lane Craig
1949
24
Jorge Luis Borges
1899
25
Johann G. Herder
1744
J. L. Mackie
1917
26
1878
Giorgio Del Vecchio
27
G. W. F. Hegel
1770
28
Leo Tolstoy
1828
29
John Locke
1632
30
Ito Jinsai
1627
31
Hermann von Helmholtz
1821
Frank Jackson
1943
September
1
Stanley Cavell
1926
2
Paul Edwards
1923
3
John McTaggart
1866
4
George Boolos
1940
5
Arthur Koestler
1905
6
Moses
Mendelssohn
1729
7
Francisco Varela
1946
8
Marin Mersenne
1588
9
John Passmore
1914
10
Charles Sanders Peirce
1839
11
Theodor Adorno
1903
12
Stanisław Lem
1921
Jaegwon Kim
1934
13
Mary Midgley
1919
14
Robert C. Solomon
1942
15
David Stove
1927
16
J. J. C. Smart
1920
17
Marquis de Condorcet
1743
David Kaplan
1933
18
Samuel Johnson
1709
19
Theodor Mundt
1808
20
Leo Strauss
1899
21
Bernard Williams
1929
22
Maurice Blanchot
1907
Sidney Morgenbesser
1921
23
Harvey Friedman
1948
24
Girolamo Cardano
1501
25
Rudolph Otto
1869
26
Martin Heidegger
1889
Hans Reichenbach
1891
27
Rodney Cotterill
1933
28
Confucius
551
BC
David K. Lewis
1941
29
Miguel de Unamuno
1864
Sydney Shoemaker
1931
30
1714
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
October
1
Stuart Hampshire
1914
2
Mohandas Gandhi
1869
Howard Robinson
1945
3
Philippa Foot
1920
4
Judith Jarvis Thomson
1929
Richard Rorty
1931
5
Denis Diderot
1713
Bernard Bolzano
1781
6
Graham Oppy
1960
7
Niels Bohr
1885
8
Harriet Taylor Mill
1807
9
Peter Lipton
1954
10
Arthur Lovejoy
1873
11
Samuel Clarke
1675
12
Henry More
1614
Edith Stein
1891
13
Arthur Burks
1915
14
Hannah Arendt
1906
15
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844
Michel Foucault
1926
Hubert Dreyfus
1929
16
Louis Althusser
1918
17
1760
Henri de Saint-Simon
18
Zhu Xi
1130
Henri Bergson
1859
19
Joel Feinberg
1926
20
John Dewey
1859
21
Paul Churchland
1942
Jane Heal
1946
22
Paul Ziff
1920
23
Dov Gabbay
1945
24
U. T. Place
1924
25
Max Stirner
1806
26
1757
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
27
Francis Fukuyama
1952
28
Desiderius Erasmus
1466
29
A. J. Ayer
1910
30
José Ferrater Mora
1912
31
Bertrand de Jouvenel
1903
Edmund Gettier
1927
November
1
Edward Said
1935
2
George Boole
1815
3
Amartya Sen
1933
4
G. E. Moore
1873
5
Richard Taylor
1919
6
Richard Ithamar Aaron
1901
7
Albert Camus
1913
8
Gottlob Frege
1848
Richard Sorabji
1934
9
Imre Lakatos
1922
10
Friedrich Schiller
1759
11
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
1821
12
Roland Barthes
1915
13
Augustine of Hippo
354
Saul Kripke
1940
14
Jawaharlal Nehru
1889
15
Alvin Plantinga
1932
16
Robert Nozick
1938
17
Mikhail Bakhtin
1895
18
Jacques Maritain
1882
19
Wilhelm Dilthey
1833
20
Josiah Royce
1855
21
Voltaire
1694
22
Fritz Mauthner
1849
23
P. F. Strawson
1919
24
Baruch Spinoza
1632
25
Alice Ambrose
1906
26
Ferdinand de Saussure
1857
27
Roderick Chisholm
1916
28
Friedrich Engels
1820
29
William Alston
1921
30
John Toland
1670
December
1
1847
Christine Ladd-Franklin
2
William Fontaine
1909
3
1483
Nicolaus von Amsdorf
4
Arthur Prior
1914
5
Werner Heisenberg
1901
6
Max Müller
1823
7
Noam Chomsky
1928
8
Baron d’Holbach
1723
9
Ernest Gellner
1925
Fred Dretske
1932
10
Monroe Beardsley
1915
11
Ronald Dworkin
1931
Derek Parfit
1942
12
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
1890
13
1924
Hector-Neri Castañeda
14
Anne Conway
1631
Herbert Feigl
1902
15
Freeman Dyson
1923
16
George Santayana
1863
17
Émilie du Châtelet
1706
18
Rom Harré
1927
19
A. A. Michelson
1852
20
Susanne Langer
1895
21
Crispin Wright
1942
22
1694
Hermann Samuel Reimarus
23
Emil Brunner
1889
24
Enrique Dussel
1934
25
Isaac Newton
1643
26
Elisabeth of Bohemia
1618
Charles Babbage
1791
27
Johannes Kepler
1571
28
Mortimer J. Adler
1902
29
1908
John Oulton Wisdom
30
C. D. Broad
1887
31
Andreas Vesalius
1514
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