List of French philosophers

A list of notable

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Sylviane Agacinski Sylviane Agacinski-Jospin (born 4 May 1945) is a French philosopher, feminist, author, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and wife of Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France. Her theoretical articulati ...

* Pierre d'Ailly * Alain * Ferdinand Alquié * Louis Althusser * Bernard Andrieu * Anselm of Laon *

Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld (6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. C ...

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 19 ...

* Gwenaëlle Aubry * Nicolas d'Autrecourt * Kostas Axelos * Pierre Hyacinthe Azais * Gaston Bachelard * Suzanne Bachelard *

Élisabeth Badinter Élisabeth Badinter (née Bleustein-Blanchet; 5 March 1944) is a French philosopher, author and historian. She is best known for her philosophical treatises on feminism and women's role in society. She is an advocate of liberal feminism and ...

Alain Badiou Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouc ...

* Bonaventure * Étienne Balibar * Renaud Barbaras * Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire * Roland Barthes * Victor Basch * Frédéric Bastiat * Georges Bataille * Charles Batteux * Jean C. Baudet * Jean Baudrillard *

Louis Eugène Marie Bautain Louis Eugène Marie Bautain (17 February 179615 October 1867), was a French philosopher and theologian. Life Bautain was born at Paris. At the ''École Normale'' he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of ...

* Pierre Bayle *

Jean Beaufret Jean Beaufret (; 22 May 1907, in Auzances7 August 1982, in Paris) was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger's work in France. Life After graduating from the École Normale Supérieu ...

* Émile Beaussire * Simone de Beauvoir * Gustave Belot *

Julien Benda Julien Benda (26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist, known as an essayist and cultural critic. He is best known for his short book, ''La Trahison des Clercs'' from 1927 (''The Treason of the Intellectuals'' or '' ...

* Alain de Benoist *

Daniel Bensaïd Daniel Bensaïd (25 March 1946 – 12 January 2010) was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Life and ...

* Nikolai Berdyaev * Gaston Berger * Henri Bergson *

Gilles Bernheim Gilles Uriel Bernheim (; born 30 May 1952) is a French- Israeli rabbi who was formerly the Chief Rabbi of France. Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, in 1952, he was elected by the general assembly of the Central Consistory chief rabbi of France on ...

* François Bernier *

Henri Berr Henri Berr (31 January 1863, Lunéville – 19 November 1954, Paris) was a French philosopher and '' lycée'' teacher, known as the founder of the journal ''Revue de synthèse''. He is credited with moving the centre of gravity of the study of his ...

* Jean-Michel Berthelot * Abdennour Bidar *

Jacques Bidet Jacques Bidet (; born 1935) is a French philosopher and social theorist who is currently professor emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre. His works are mainly devoted to the construction of a theory of m ...

* Guillaume Bigot * Maine de Biran * Michel Bitbol * Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet * Robert Blanché * Maurice Blanchot * Maurice Blondel *

Jean Bodin Jean Bodin (; c. 1530 – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is known for his theory of sovereignty. He was also an influential writer on demonology. Bo ...

Jean Bollack Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic. Biography He first studied classical philology at the University of Basel, among others with and Albert Béguin, and from 1945 at the ...

Mayotte Bollack Mayotte Bollack is a French professor of philology at the University of Lille Nord de France. She was the wife and close collaborator of Jean Bollack Jean Bollack (15 March 1923 – 4 December 2012) was a French philosopher, philologist and lite ...

* Louis de Bonald *

Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (born 1951) is a Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the author of many works on the history and philosophy of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and hypnosis. Born to Danish ...

* Jean Borella *

Étienne Borne Étienne Vincent Borne (January 22, 1907 – June 14, 1993) was born in Manduel (Gard). He was a professor of philosophy Hypokhâgne at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Étienne Borne founded the Mouvement republicain populaire (MRP), and the Frenc ...

Célestin Bouglé Célestin Charles Alfred Bouglé (1 June 1870 – 25 January 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the '' L'Année Sociologique''. Life Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, Cô ...

Francisque Bouillier Francisque Bouillier (12 July 1813 – 25 September 1899) was a French philosopher, born in Lyons. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and in 1839 was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Lyons. From 1849 to ...

Nicolas Antoine Boulanger Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (11 November 1722, in Paris – 16 September 1759, in Paris) was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment. Biography Born the son of a paper merchant in Paris, Boulanger studied first ma ...

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence ...

* Dominique Bourg * Pierre Boutang *

Émile Boutroux Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was an eminent 19th-century French philosopher of science and religion, and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual phil ...

Jacques Bouveresse Jacques Bouveresse (; 20 August 1940 – 9 May 2021) was a French philosopher who wrote on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy ...

Charles de Bovelles Charles de Bovelles ( la, Carolus Bovillus; born c. 1475 at Saint-Quentin, died at Ham, Somme after 1566) was a French mathematician and philosopher, and canon of Noyon. His ''Géométrie en françoys'' (1511) was the first scientific work to be p ...

* Rémi Brague * Victor Brochard *

Jean-Marie Brohm Jean-Marie Brohm (born 14 December 1940 in Mulhouse) is a French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher. Professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the ...

* Claude Brunet * Léon Brunschvicg * Christine Buci-Glucksmann * Claude Buffier * Jean Buridan * Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis * Jean-Yves Calvez *

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...

* Georges Canguilhem *

Monique Canto-Sperber Monique Canto-Sperber (born 1954) is a French philosopher. Her works, translated in several languages, are focused on ethics and contemporary political issues. A former Director of the École normale supérieure from 2005 to 2012, she has been Pr ...

* Ricciotto Canudo * Albert Caraco * Elme-Marie Caro *

Maxence Caron Maxence Caron (born 1976) is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist. Biography He is ''agrégé'' in Philosophy (in 1999), Docteur ès lettres (at Sorbonne in 2003 with Rémi Brague as a thesis director. Director at the Publis ...

Barbara Cassin Barbara Cassin (; born 24 October 1947) is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She is an Emeritus ...

Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre (18 February 1658 – 29 April 1743) was a French author whose ideas were novel for his times. His proposal of an international organisation to maintain peace was perhaps the first in history, wi ...

* Cornelius Castoriadis *

Jean Cavaillès Jean Cavaillès (; ; 15 May 1903 – 4 April 1944) was a French philosopher and logician who specialized in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the '' Libération'' movement and was a ...

* Vincent Cespedes * Félicien Challaye * Guillaume de Champeaux * Georges Chapouthier *

Bernard Charbonneau Bernard Charbonneau (November 28, 1910 – April 28, 1996) was a French writer who authored about twenty books and numerous articles, published in La Gueule Ouverte, Foi et Vie, La République des Pyrénées. An apolitical and independent thinker ...

Daniel Charles Daniel Paul Charles was a French musician, musicologist and philosopher. He was born on 27 November 1935 in Oran (Algeria) and died on 21 August 2008 in Antibes ( France). Biography He was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservat ...

* Jean-Émile Charon *

Pierre Charron Pierre Charron (; 1541 – 16 November 1603, Paris), French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as ...

* Amaury de Chartres *

Bernard of Chartres Bernard of Chartres ( la, Bernardus Carnotensis; died after 1124) was a twelfth-century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator. Life The date and place of his birth are unknown. He was believed to have been the elder brot ...

* Thierry de Chartres * François Châtelet * Gilles Châtelet * Paul Chauchard * Jacques Chevalier * Emil Cioran * Jean Clam *

Catherine Clément Catherine Clément (; born 10 February 1939) is a French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic, born in Boulogne-Billancourt. She received a degree in philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure, and studied under its faculty ...

* Michel Clouscard * Auguste Comte * André Comte-Sponville * Marcel Conche *

Guillaume de Conches William of Conches (c. 1090/1091 – c. 1155/1170s) was a French scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science. He was a prominent memb ...

* Étienne Bonnot de Condillac * Nicolas de Condorcet *

Victor Considerant Victor Prosper Considerant (12 October 1808 – 27 December 1893) was a French utopian socialist philosopher and economist who was a disciple of Charles Fourier. Biography Considerant was born in Salins-les-Bains, Jura and studied at the Éco ...

Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed t ...

* Alain Cophignon * Henry Corbin * Géraud de Cordemoy *

Paul-Louis Couchoud Paul-Louis Couchoud (; July 6, 1879 at Vienne, Isère – April 8, 1959 at Vienne), was a French philosopher, a graduate from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, a physician, a man of letters, and a poet. He became well known as an ...

* Antoine-Augustin Cournot *

Victor Cousin Victor Cousin (; 28 November 179214 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of " eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. ...

* Louis Couturat * Marc Crépon * Marin Cureau de La Chambre * Jean le Rond D'Alembert * François Dagognet *

Étienne Noël Damilaville Étienne Noël Damilaville (21 November 1723 – 13 December 1768) was an 18th-century French man of letters, friend of Voltaire, Diderot and d'Alembert. He served in various military and administrative functions of the Ancien Régime. He was a me ...

Jean Philibert Damiron Jean-Philibert Damiron (; 10 January 1794 – 11 January 1862) was a French philosopher. Biography Damiron was born at Belleville. At nineteen he entered the École Normale, where he studied under Eugène Burnouf, Abel-Francois Villemain, and ...

Hubert Damisch Hubert Damisch (28 April 1928 – 14 December 2017), was a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 until 1996. Damisch studied at ...

* Françoise Dastur *

Jean Daujat Jean Daujat (Paris, 27 October 1906 – 31 May 1998) was a French philosopher of neo-Thomism, a disciple of Jacques Maritain, and the founder of the Centre d'études religieuses, the Center for Religious Studies, specializing in teaching Christ ...

* Lionel Dauriac * David de Dinan *

Michel Deguy Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator. Biography Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as dire ...

* Henri Delacroix *

Victor Delbos Étienne Marie Justin Victor Delbos (26 September 1862, Figeac – 16 June 1916, Paris) was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des ...

* Gilles Deleuze * Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales * Chantal Delsol * Jacques Derrida *

John Theophilus Desaguliers John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS (12 March 1683 – 29 February 1744) was a British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He had studied at ...

* Jean-Toussaint Desanti *

René Descartes René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Ma ...

* Léger Marie Deschamps *

Vincent Descombes Vincent Descombes (; born 1943) is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Philosophical work Descombes is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he cal ...

* Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy *

Théodore Dézamy Alexandre Théodore Dézamy (4 March 1808 – 24 July 1850) was a French socialist, a representative of the Neo-Babouvist tendency in early French communism, along with Albert Laponneraye, Richard Lahautière, Jacques Pillot and others. He wa ...

Denis Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the '' Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a promi ...

Georges Didi-Huberman Georges Didi-Huberman FBA (born 13 June 1953) is a French philosopher and art historian. Biography Georges Didi-Huberman was born on 13 June 1953 in Saint-Étienne. He has been a scholar at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) and reside ...

Jean Domat Jean Domat, or Daumat (30 November 162514 March 1696) was a French jurist. Life Domat was born at Clermont in Auvergne. He studied the humaniora in Paris, where he befriended Blaise Pascal, and later law at the University of Bourges. Domat clo ...

* Jean-Marie Domenach * Roger-Pol Droit *

Joseph Droz François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (; 31 December 1773 – 9 November 1850) was a reactionary French writer on ethics, political science and political economy. Biography He was born at Besançon, where his family had supplied many notable members of ...

* Marcel-Jacques Dubois * Oswald Ducrot * Dany-Robert Dufour *

Hugues Dufourt Hugues Dufourt () is a French composer and philosopher associated with the spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28, 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory. Dufourt became co-director of the E ...

Mikel Dufrenne Mikel Dufrenne (9 February 1910, in Clermont, Oise – 10 June 1995, in Paris) was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism and is particularly noted for the work ''The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience' ...

César Chesneau Dumarsais César Chesneau, sieur Dumarsais or Du Marsais (July 17, 1676 – June 11, 1756) was a French ''philosophe'', grammarian and contributor to the '' Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. He was a promi ...

Jean-Pierre Dupuy Jean-Pierre Dupuy (born February 20, 1941) is a French engineer and philosopher. Biography Dupuy attended the Ecole polytechnique, where he graduated in 1965 and attended the Ecole des Mines. He was a professor of French and a researcher at th ...

* Durandus of Saint-Pourçain * Gilbert Durand * Charles Duveyrier * Jacques Ellul * Pascal Engel *

Didier Eribon Didier Eribon (born 10 July 1953) is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life. He lives in Paris. Life Didier Eribon was born in Reims into a working-class family. He was the first in his family to finish ...

Alain Etchegoyen Alain Etchegoyen (6 November 1951 in Lille – 9 April 2007 in Le Mans), was a philosopher and novelist. He was the last Plan Commissionner before that Commission was abrogated. He wrote some twenty books, essays and novels. A former student of ...

* Frantz Fanon *

Michel Fattal Michel Fattal (born in 1954 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a French-language author whose works are translated into Italian and Polish. Michel Fattal treats statute of Logos (language, reason) in Greek Philosophy. The works of Heraclitus and Aristot ...

* Jean-Pierre Faye *

Pierre Fédida Pierre Fédida (30 October 1934, Lyon – 1 November 2002, Paris) was a French psychoanalyst, who studied under Gilles Deleuze. References Obituary from ''Le Monde''* * ''Dictionary of Psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set ...

* Fénelon * Pierre de Fermat * Jean-Marc Ferry *

Luc Ferry Luc Ferry (; born 3 January 1951) is a French philosopher and politician, and a proponent of secular humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank. Biography He received an Agrégation de philosophie (1975), a Do ...

* André-Jean Festugière *

Alain Finkielkraut Alain Finkielkraut (, ; ; born 30 June 1949) is a French philosopher and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary nonviolence, including Jewish identity and ant ...

* Edmond Fleg * Michel Foucault * Simon Foucher * Alfred Fouillée *

Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (;; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical ...

* Geneviève Fraisse *

Nicolas Fréret Nicolas Fréret (; 15 February 1688 – 8 March 1749) was a French scholar. Life He was born at Paris on 15 February 1688. His father was ''procureur'' to the ''parlement'' of Paris, and destined him to the profession of the law. His first tuto ...

* Marc Froment-Meurice * Michel Féher * Jacques Garelli * Joseph Gabel * Jacques Gaffarel * Maurice de Gandillac * Roger Garaudy *

Pierre Gassendi Pierre Gassendi (; also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi; 22 January 1592 – 24 October 1655) was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much t ...

* Marcel Gauchet *

Jules de Gaultier Jules de Gaultier (1858 in Paris – 1942 in Boulogne-sur-Seine), born Jules Achille de Gaultier de Laguionie, was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to ''Mercure de France'' and one of the chief advocates of " nietzscheism" ...

* Étienne Gilson * René Girard * André Glucksmann *

Joseph Arthur de Gobineau Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan ...

* Lucien Goldmann * Victor Goldschmidt *

André Gorz André Gorz ( né Gerhart Hirsch ; 9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst and Michel Bosquet , was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work. He co-founde ...

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