This page provides a list of British

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

s; of people who either worked within

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ...

, or the country's citizens working abroad. __NOTOC__

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* Elizabeth Anscombe * J. L. Austin * A. J. Ayer

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* 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 Jeremy Bentham (; 4 February Dual dating, 1747/8 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S. 5 February 1748 Old Style and New Style dates, N.S.– 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of mo ...

* George BerkeleyBerkeley, George
– Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy * Isaiah Berlin * Simon Blackburn *

George Boole George Boole ( ; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. H ...

* Mary Everest Boole * F. H. Bradley * R. B. Braithwaite * Ray Brassier * C. D. Broad * John Broome * Thomas Browne * Malcolm Budd * Jeremy Butterfield

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* 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

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* Augustus De Morgan * Peter Dews * Ramsey Dukes * Michael Dummett * Duns Scotus

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* Arthur Eddington * Dorothy Edgington * Nader El-Bizri * Ronald Englefield * Dylan Evans * Gareth Evans * A. C. Ewing

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* Antony Flew * Philippa Foot * Keith Frankish * Paul W. Franks * Miranda Fricker

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* 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

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* Susan Haack * Peter Hacker * John Joseph Haldane * Bob Hale * Stuart Hampshire * R. M. Hare * Harold Foster Hallett * Jane Heal * Erich Heller * John Hick * J. M. Hinton *

Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan (Hobbes book), Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered t ...

* Angie Hobbs * Ted Honderich * Jennifer Hornsby * Paul Horwich * Gillian Howie * Colin Howson * David Hume * Francis Hutcheson *

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction novel, non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the ...

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* Harold Joachim * C. E. M. Joad * John Foster * John Henry Newman

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* Bernard Philip Kelly * Anthony Kenny * Damien Keown * Philip Kitcher * Augusta Klein * Martha Klein * Brian Klug * William Angus Knight * Arthur Koestler * Stephan Körner * Martin Kusch

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* 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

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* 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 George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasiz ...

* Charles Morris, Baron Morris of Grasmere * Stephen Mulhall * Kevin Mulligan * Stephen Mumford * Iris Murdoch * Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure

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* Constance Naden * Stephen Neale

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* Michael Oakeshott * Kieron O'Hara * Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve * William of Ockham * Sydney Sparkes Orr

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* Thomas Paine * William Paley * David Papineau * Derek Parfit * Christopher Peacocke * David Pearce * William Penn * Sadie Plant * Michael Polanyi *

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

* Ullin Place * Graham Priest

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* Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton

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* Janet Radcliffe Richards * Hastings Rashdall *

Frank P. Ramsey Frank Plumpton Ramsey (; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British people, British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of ...

* Carveth Read * Rupert Read * Thomas Reid * R. R. Rockingham Gill * Gonzalo Rodríguez Pereyra * Gillian Rose * Robert Rowland Smith * Richard Rufus of Cornwall *

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic ...

* Gilbert Ryle

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* Mark Sacks * Mark Sainsbury * F. C. S. Schiller * Roger Scruton * Niall Shanks * Mary Shepherd *

Henry Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English Utilitarianism, utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise ''The Methods of Ethics''. His work in economics has also had a ...

* Peter Simons * Timothy Smiley * Adam Smith * Alic Halford Smith * Kate Soper * William Ritchie Sorley * Timothy Sprigge * Olaf Stapledon * Susan Stebbing * James Hutchison Stirling * William Stoddart * Alan Stout * George Stout * Galen Strawson * P. F. Strawson * Richard Swinburne

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* Alfred Edward Taylor * Gabriele Taylor * Jenny Teichman * George Derwent Thomson * John Toland

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* J. O. Urmson

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* Alfred North Whitehead * Richard Rudolf Walzer * James Ward * Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock * Alan Watts * Jonathan Westphal * Jared Webb * William Whewell * Jamie Whyte * David Wiggins * Bernard Williams * Timothy Williamson * Gerrard Winstanley * John Wisdom * Ludwig Wittgenstein * Richard Wollheim * Crispin Wright * Frances Wright

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