This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see :Category:Philosophers of science.

Before the 19th century

Roger Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

Galileo Galilei

19th century

Auguste Comte

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

David Bohm

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

Deborah Mayo

Ernan McMullin

Peter Medawar

Sandra Mitchell

John E. Murdoch

Nancey Murphy

Basarab Nicolescu

Massimo Pigliucci

John Polkinghorne

Stathis Psillos

Hilary Putnam

Alexander Rosenberg

Oliver Sacks

Wesley C. Salmon

Eric Scerri

Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Lawrence Sklar

Brian Skyrms

Quentin Smith

Elliott Sober

Miriam Solomon

Wolfgang Stegmüller

Kim Sterelny

David Stove

Patrick Suppes

Claudine Tiercelin

Roberto Torretti

John Worrall

Science

List of philosophers of science