List of British philosophers

This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad.

A

A. J. Ayer

J. L. Austin

B

Francis Bacon

Roger Bacon

Julian Baggini

Thomas Baldwin

Alexander Bain

John Renford Bambrough

Owen Barfield

Jonathan Barnes

David Bell

Piers Benn

Jonathan Bennett

Jeremy Bentham

George Berkeley

Isaiah Berlin

Simon Blackburn

George Boole

Mary Everest Boole

F. H. Bradley

R. B. Braithwaite

Ray Brassier

C. D. Broad

John Broome

Thomas Browne

Malcolm Budd

Jeremy Butterfield

C

John Cartwright

Quassim Cassam

Peter Caws

G. K. Chesterton

Stephen R. L. Clark

Frances Power Cobbe

Catherine Trotter Cockburn

David Cockburn

R. G. Collingwood

David Conway

John Cook Wilson

David E. Cooper

Edward Craig

Tim Crane

David Cranston

Elizabeth Cripps

Roger Crisp

Simon Critchley

Helena Cronin

Ralph Cudworth

Nathaniel Culverwel

D

Augustus De Morgan

Peter Dews

Ramsey Dukes

Michael Dummett

Duns Scotus

E

Dorothy Edgington

Nader El-Bizri

Ronald Englefield

Dylan Evans

Gareth Evans

A. C. Ewing

F

Antony Flew

Philippa Foot

Keith Frankish

Paul W. Franks

Miranda Fricker

G

W. B. Gallie

Patrick Gardiner

Peter Geach

Raymond Geuss

Margaret Gilbert

Jonathan Glover

William Godwin

Iain Hamilton Grant

John N. Gray

A. C. Grayling

Celia Green

Thomas Hill Green

John Grote

David Guest

H

Susan Haack

Peter Hacker

John Joseph Haldane

Bob Hale

R. M. Hare

Harold Foster Hallett

Jane Heal

Erich Heller

John Hick

J. M. Hinton

Thomas Hobbes

Angie Hobbs

Ted Honderich

Jennifer Hornsby

Paul Horwich

Gillian Howie

Colin Howson

David Hume

Francis Hutcheson

Aldous Huxley

J

Harold Joachim

C. E. M. Joad

John Foster

John Henry Newman

K

Bernard Philip Kelly

Anthony Kenny

Damien Keown

Philip Kitcher

Augusta Klein

Martha Klein

Brian Klug

William Angus Knight

Arthur Koestler

Stephan Körner

Martin Kusch

L

John Laird

Nick Land

Rae Helen Langton

Vernon Lee

Mike Lesser

John Levy

C.S. Lewis

Casimir Lewy

John Locke

E.J. Lowe

John Lucas

Anthony Ludovici

M

John McDowell

Cecil Alec Mace

Margaret MacDonald

J. L. Mackie

John Macmurray

Fiona Macpherson

Bryan Magee

Nicholas Maxwell

Hugh Mellor

Mary Midgley

John Stuart Mill

Alan Millar

David Miller

Ray Monk

George Edward Moore

Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere

Stephen Mulhall

Kevin Mulligan

Stephen Mumford

Iris Murdoch

Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure

N

Constance Naden

Stephen Neale

O

Michael Oakeshott

Kieron O'Hara

Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve

William of Ockham

Sydney Sparkes Orr

P

Thomas Paine

William Paley

David Papineau

Derek Parfit

Christopher Peacocke

David Pearce

William Penn

Sadie Plant

Michael Polanyi

Karl Popper

Ullin Place

Graham Priest

Q

Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

R

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Hastings Rashdall

Frank P. Ramsey

Carveth Read

Rupert Read

Thomas Reid

R. R. Rockingham Gill

Gonzalo Rodríguez Pereyra

Gillian Rose

Robert Rowland Smith

Richard Rufus of Cornwall

Bertrand Russell

Gilbert Ryle

S

Mark Sacks

Mark Sainsbury

F. C. S. Schiller

Roger Scruton

Niall Shanks

Mary Shepherd

Henry Sidgwick

Peter Simons

Timothy Smiley

Adam Smith

Alic Halford Smith

Kate Soper

William Ritchie Sorley