Lys van filosowe

'n **Filosoof** (ook wel 'wysgeer') beoefen die studie van filosofie

## Bekende filosowe 
### Filosowe uit die Oudheid 
* Aenesidemus
* Agrippa
* Al-Kindi 
* Anaxagoras
* Anaximander (610 v.C. – 546 v.C.)
* Anaximenes
* Apollonios van Tyana
* Aristoteles (384 v.C. – 322 v.C.)
* Augustinus
* Bias van Priëne
* Marcus Tullius Cicero
* Confucius
* Demokritos (c. 460 v.C – c. 370 v.C)
* Empedokles (c. 490 v.C – c. 435 v.C)
* Epictetus
* Gorgias
* Herakleitos  (c.576 v.C – c. 480 v.C)
* Meton van Athene
* Mengzi
* Nagarjuna
* Panaitios
* Parmenides
* Plato (427 v.C. – 347 v.C.)
* Poseidonios
* Protagoras
* Pyrrho van Elis
* Pythagoras
* Lucius Annaeus Seneca
* Lucretius
* Sokrates (470 v.C. – 399 v.C.)
* Solon (c. 640 v.C – c. 558 v.C)
* Strabo
* Thales van Milete (c. 640 v.C – c. 562 v.C)
* Theophrastos
* Xenophanes
* Zeno van Citium
* Zenon van Elea

### Filosowe uit die Middeleeue 
* Al-Ghazali
* Petrus Abaelardus
* Anselmus van Kantelberg
* Thomas van Aquino
* Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
* Avicenna (Ibn Siena)
* Bonaventura
* Ibn Khaldun
* Siger van Brabant
* Meester Eckhart
* Petrus Lombardus
* Albertus Magnus
* Willem van Ockham
* Johannes Duns Scotus

### Filosowe uit Renaissance tot die 19e eeu 
* Anton Wilhelm Amo
* Francis Bacon
* George Berkeley
* Jeremy Bentham
* George Berkeley
* Jean Bodin
* Giordano Bruno
* Edmund Burke
* Joseph Butler
* Tommaso Campanella
* Ernst Cassirer
* Auguste Comte
* René Descartes
* Denis Diderot
* Émile Durkheim
* Friedrich Engels 
* Desiderius Erasmus
* Ludwig Feuerbach
* Johann Gottlieb Fichte
* Gottlob Frege
* Georg Hegel (1770–1831)
* Thomas Hobbes
* David Hume
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Immanuel Kant
* Kang Youwei
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Gottfried Leibniz
* John Locke
* Ernst Mach
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* Karl Marx
* Moses Mendelssohn
* Marin Mersenne
* John Stuart Mill
* Charles Montesquieu
* Thomas More
* Nezahualcoyotl
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Blaise Pascal
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* George Santayana
* Friedrich Schelling
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Herbert Spencer
* Oswald Spengler
* Baruch Spinoza
* Andrzej Towiański
* Voltaire
* Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

### Hedendaagse filosowe 
* Mortimer Adler
* Theodor Adorno
* Giorgio Agamben
* Louis Althusser
* Hannah Arendt
* Leo Apostel
* Alfred Jules Ayer
* Gaston Bachelard
* Georges Bataille
* Jean Baudrillard
* Zygmunt Bauman
* Simone de Beauvoir
* Daniel Bell
* David Benatar           
* Walter Benjamin
* Frithjof Bergmann
* Henri Bergson
* Maurice Blanchot
* Ned Block
* Nick Bostrom 
* Pierre Bourdieu 
* Wendy Brown
* Martin Buber
* Judith Butler‎
* Albert Camus
* John D. Caputo 
* Rudolf Carnap
* Emil Cioran
* Benedetto Croce
* Nicolás Gómez Dávila
* Guy Debord
* Gilles Deleuze
* Daniel Dennett
* Jacques Derrida
* John Dewey
* Wilhelm Dilthey
* Hubert Dreyfus
* Jacques Ellul
* Rudolf Christoph Eucken
* Frantz Fanon
* Herbert Feigl
* Paul Feyerabend
* Mark Fisher
* Luciano Floridi
* Jerry Fodor
* Michel Foucault
* Erich Fromm
* Hans-Georg Gadamer
* Eugenio Garin
* Antonio Gramsci 
* Romano Guardini
* Félix Guattari
* Jürgen Habermas
* Byung-Chul Han
* Donna Haraway
* Martin Heidegger
* Carl Hempel
* Edmund Husserl
* Ivan Illich
* Roman Ingarden
* Luce Irigaray
* Fredric Jameson
* Karl Jaspers
* Walter Kaufmann
* Alexandre Kojève
* Leszek Kołakowski
* Alexandre Koyré
* Nina Krajnik
* Julia Kristeva 
* Thomas Kuhn
* Harry Kuitert
* Imre Lakatos
* Nick Land
* François Laruelle 
* Henri Lefebvre
* Claude Lévi-Strauss 
* Emmanuel Levinas
* Jean-François Lyotard
* Niklas Luhmann
* Gabriel Marcel
* Humberto Maturana
* Achille Mbembe
* Colin McGinn
* Marshall McLuhan
* Quentin Meillassoux
* Maurice Merleau-Ponty 
* George Edward Moore
* Emmanuel Mounier
* Iris Murdoch
* John Norman
* Robert Nozick
* Toby Ord
* Willem Ouweneel
* Talcott Parsons
* Kees van Peursen
* Herman Philipse
* Jean Piaget
* Johannes Jacobus Poortman
* Karl Popper
* Hilary Putnam
* Willard Van Orman Quine
* Tariq Ramadan 
* Ayn Rand
* John Rawls
* Paul Ricœur
* Richard Rorty
* Bertrand Russell
* Gilbert Ryle
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* Max Scheler
* Carl Schmitt
* Roger Scruton
* Gilbert Simondon
* Peter Singer
* John Searle
* Peter Sloterdijk
* Hans Sluga
* Bernard Stiegler
* Max Stirner
* Leo Strauss 
* Charles Margrave Taylor
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
* Alain Touraine
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Curtis Yarvin
* Peter Zapffe
* Slavoj Zizek

## Afrikaanse filosowe 
* Gerrit Brand
* Chris Brink
* Paul Cilliers
* Johan Degenaar
* P.S. Dreyer
* André du Toit
* Pieter Duvenage
* Willie Esterhuyse
* Danie Goosen
* Johan Hattingh
* Murray Hofmeyr
* Hennie Lötter
* Eugène Marais
* Albert Meyer
* Johann Mouton
* C.K. Oberholzer
* Bert Olivier
* Daantjie Oosthuizen
* Dan Roodt
* Vasti Roodt
* Deon Rossouw
* Hennie Rossouw
* Johann Rossouw
* Emma Ruttkamp
* Marinus Schoeman
* Adam Small
* Jan Christian Smuts
* Johan Snyman
* Hendrik Gerhardus Stoker
* Danie Strauss
* Willie van der Merwe
* Anton van Niekerk
* Marlene van Niekerk
* Marthinus Versfeld
* N.P. van Wyk Louw