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This page provides a list of British philosophers; of people who either worked within Great Britain, or the country's citizens working abroad. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Philosophers from England Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. ... Pages in category "English philosophers" The following ...
David Hume, a profoundly influential 18th-century Scottish philosopher. British philosophy refers to the philosophical tradition of the British people. "The native characteristics of British philosophy are these: common sense, dislike of complication, a strong preference for the concrete over the abstract and a certain awkward honesty of method in which an occasional pearl of poetry is embedded".
English rationalist philosopher, influenced Gottfried Leibniz, considered England most important woman philosopher. [8] [9] Author of The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, published in Latin 1690, in English 1692. Mihály Csokonai Vitéz: 1773-1805: Hungarian
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John Locke's portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London. John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ()) [13] was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of the Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
Pages in category "20th-century British philosophers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of England's earliest feminist philosophers. [33] She argued for a society based on reason and that women as well as men should be treated as rational beings. She is best known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). [34]