Bryan Jackson recently wrote to Sally Haslanger to ask why there were no women on the list of metaphysicians on wikipedia. Sally shared this very good question with a few philosophers who have been interested in similar questions. After some discussion via email Sally started revising the entry. I have no idea how to revise wiki entries or what the rules are for making revisions, but I strongly encourage wiki-tech-y people to make further improvements to the list. Below the fold you can see the old wiki entry, which Bryan was referring to, and the entry as of tonight.
List of metaphysicians
This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.
Classic and influential Metaphysicians
- Parmenides
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Henri Bergson
- Willard V. O. Quine
- Gilles Deleuze
- David K. Lewis
- David Malet Armstrong
Other
- Charles François d'Abra de Raconis
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- William Alston
- Paul Benacerraf
- Brian Leftow
- C. D. Broad
- Arda Denkel
- Michael Devitt
- Kit Fine
- Peter Glassen
- John Hawthorne
- Shadworth Hodgson
- Peter van Inwagen
- David Kolb
- Saul Kripke
- William Lycan
- Trenton Merricks
- Terence Parsons
- Alvin Plantinga
- Graham Priest
- Hilary Putnam
- Ayn Rand
- Jay Rosenberg
- Nathan Salmon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Frithjof Schuon
- Gilbert Simondon
- Wolfgang Smith
- Robert Stalnaker
- P. F. Strawson
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Unger
- David Wiggins
- Damon Young
- Dean Zimmerman
And here is the updated one (still very incomplete but much improved, and without the insulting distinction "classical and influential" versus "others"):
List of metaphysicians
This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.
Metaphysicians Born Prior to 1900
- Parmenides
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Henri Bergson
Metaphysicans Born After 1900
- Charles François d'Abra de Raconis
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- William Alston
- David Malet Armstrong
- Paul Benacerraf
- C. D. Broad
- Gilles Deleuze
- Arda Denkel
- Michael Devitt
- Kit Fine
- Peter Glassen
- Susan Haack
- John Hawthorne
- Shadworth Hodgson
- David Kolb
- Saul Kripke
- Brian Leftow
- David K. Lewis
- William Lycan
- Penelope Maddy
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Trenton Merricks
- Terence Parsons
- Alvin Plantinga
- Graham Priest
- Hilary Putnam
- Willard V. O. Quine
- Ayn Rand
- Jay Rosenberg
- Nathan Salmon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Frithjof Schuon
- Gilbert Simondon
- Wolfgang Smith
- Robert Stalnaker
- P. F. Strawson
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Unger
- Peter van Inwagen
- David Wiggins
- Damon Young
- Dean Zimmerman
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