List of metaphysicians

This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.

Metaphysicians born BC

Pythagoras

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes

Xenophanes

Heraclitus

Parmenides

Zeno of Elea

Melissus of Samos

Leucippus

Democritus

Anaxagoras

Empedocles

Alcmaeon of Croton

Hippasus

Diogenes of Apollonia

Plato

Eudoxus of Cnidus

Speusippus

Xenocrates

Aristotle

Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD

Numenius

Alexander of Aphrodisias

Ammonius Saccas

Origen of Alexandria

Origen the Pagan

Plotinus

Porphyry

Iamblichus

Syrianus

Proclus

Ammonius Hermiae

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Olympiodorus the Younger

Damascius

Simplicius of Cilicia

John Philoponus

Metaphysicians born between 600 and 1400

John Scotus Eriugena

Al-Farabi

Avicenna

Anselm of Canterbury

Peter Abelard

Al-Ghazali

Bernard of Chartres

Gilbert de la Porrée

Thierry of Chartres

Hugh of Saint Victor

Richard of Saint Victor

Maimonides

Averroes

Ibn Arabi

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Philip the Chancellor

William of Auvergne

Alexander of Hales

Albertus Magnus

Bonaventure

Roger Bacon

John Peckham

Thomas Aquinas

Giles of Rome

Godfrey of Fontaines

Henry of Ghent

Petrus Aureoli

Duns Scotus

Walter Burley

Hervaeus Natalis

William of Ockham

Jean Buridan

Jean Capréolus

Meister Eckhart

Dominic of Flanders

Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700

Paolo Barbò da Soncino

Marsilio Ficino

Thomas Cajetan

Francisco Suárez

Domingo Báñez

Robert Bellarmine

John of St. Thomas

René Descartes

Anne Conway

Baruch Spinoza

Nicolas Malebranche

Gottfried Leibniz

George Berkeley

Christian Wolff

Jakob Böhme

Metaphysicians born between 1700 and 1800

Immanuel Kant

Georg W. F. Hegel

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friedrich W. J. Schelling

Johann G. Fichte

Friedrich H. Jacobi

Metaphysicians born between 1800 and 1900

Metaphysicians born after 1900

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