PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS
a priori
absolute
absolute space and time
acosmism
Adams, John (1735–1826)
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719)
Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' (1717–1783)
analogy, argument from
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c.500–c.428 BC)
Anaximander of Miletus (c.610–c.540 BC)
Anaximenes of Miletus (c.585–525 BC)
ancient philosophy, related to the possibility of extraterrestrial life
animism
Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274)
Aristotle of Stagira (384–322 BC)
associationism
Averroës (1126–1198)
axiom
axiomatic method
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)
Bacon, Roger (c.1214–c.1292)
Baker, Thomas (1656–1740)
Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850)
Barnes, Ernest William (1874–1953)
Beattie, James (1735–1803)
Beck, Lewis White
Bentley, Richard (1662–1727)
Bergson, Henri (1859–1941)
Berkeley, George (1685–1753)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri (1737–1814)
Bohm, David Joseph (1917–1992)
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (1678–1751)
Bonnet, Charles (1720–1793)
Borel, Pierre (c.1620–1671)
Boscovich, Roger Joseph (1711–1787)
Brewster, David (1781–1868)
Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882–1961)
Büchner, Ludwig (1824–1899)
Buridan, Jean (c.1295–1358)
Cambridge Platonists
Campanella, Tommaso (1568–1634)
Carnap, Rudolf (1891–1970)
category
causality
chain of being, great
Chalmers, Thomas (1780–1847)
Christian doctrines and pluralism
collective unconscious
common sense school
Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)
conceptualism
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (1715–1780)
Coyne, George V.
de Concilio, Januarius (1836–1898)
deism
Democritus of Abdera (c.470–400 BC)
Derham, William (1657–1735)
Descartes, René (1596–1650)
Design Argument
determinism
Dewey, John (1859–1952)
Dick, Thomas (1774–1857)
Diderot, Denis (1713–1784)
dualism
du Prel, Carl Freiherr (1839–1899)
Empedocles (c. 490–430 BC)
empiricism
Epicurus (341–270 BC)
epistemology
Fontanelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657–1757)
free will
Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848–1925)
Gettier problem
God
Great Monad
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)
Heraclitus (c.540–c.480 BC)
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich (1723–1789)
holism
Hutton, Richard Holt (1826–1897)
Hume, David (1711–1776)
idealism
incarnation and redemption
infinity
instrumentalism
James, William (1842–1910)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
Leucippus (5th century BC)
Locke, John (1632–1704)
logic
logical positivism
Lucretius (c. 99–55 BC)
Mascall, Eric Lionel (1905–1993)
materialism
medieval philosophy, related to the possibility of extraterrestrial life
Metrodorus of Chios (fourth century BC)
microscope argument
Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
mind
monism
Mormonism
natural theology
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464)
nominalism
nothing
Ockham (Occam), William of (c.1280–1347)
Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
Parmenides (fl. c.475 BC)
Platonism
plenitude, principle of
pluralism
Plutarch (c.AD 46–120)
positivism
pragmatism
pre-Socratic philosophy
process philosophy
Proclus Diadochus (c.AD 410–485)
rationalism
realism
reductionism
Reynaud, Jean (1806–1863)
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970)
skepticism
solipsism
Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903)
Socrates (c.469–399 BC)
Spinoza, Baruch (1632–1677)
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772)
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre (1881–1955)
teleology
Teng Mu
Theophrastus (c.370–c.285 BC)
transmigration of souls
universal
Ussher, James (1581–1656)
vitalism
Vorilong, William (d. 1463)
Whewell, William (1794–1866)
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
Xenophanes (c.570–475 BC)
Zeno of Elea (c.450 BC)
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