Philosophers

The thinkers whose work we follow. Click a name to see that philosopher’s record — period, school, areas of work, major works and key concepts — alongside the related stories and books, all on one page.

Acharya PrashantVedanta teacher and author — India0 stories · India Achille MbembePostcolonial theorist — University of the Witwatersrand0 stories · Cameroon / South Africa Alain BadiouPhilosopher of ontology and politics — École Normale Supérieure (emeritus)0 stories · France Alasdair MacIntyreThe philosopher who rebuilt virtue ethics — Notre Dame (1929-2025)1 story · Scotland / United States Alenka ZupančičLacanian philosopher — Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts0 stories · Slovenia Andy ClarkPhilosopher of cognition and mind — University of Sussex0 stories · United Kingdom Anthony KennyHistorian of philosophy and philosopher of mind — University of Oxford1 story · United Kingdom Axel HonnethThird generation of critical theory — Columbia University0 stories · Germany Byung-Chul HanCultural theorist — Berlin University of the Arts0 stories · Germany Catherine MalabouTheorist of plasticity — Kingston University1 story · France Charles TaylorPhilosopher of modernity and identity — McGill University (emeritus)0 stories · Canada Christine KorsgaardKantian moral philosopher — Harvard University (emerita)0 stories · United States Cornel WestPragmatist philosopher and public intellectual — Union Theological Seminary1 story · United States David ChalmersPhilosopher of consciousness — New York University1 story · Australia Duncan PritchardEpistemologist — University of California, Irvine1 story · United Kingdom / United States Elizabeth AndersonPhilosopher of democracy and equality — University of Michigan1 story · United States Eric SchwitzgebelPhilosopher of mind — University of California, Riverside1 story · United States Friedrich NietzscheGenealogist of values — University of Basel (1844-1900)0 stories · Germany Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingOne of the three great figures of German idealism1 story · Germany Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakA founder of postcolonial theory — Columbia University0 stories · India / United States Giorgio AgambenPhilosopher of biopolitics and law — Italy1 story · Italy Graham HarmanFounder of object-oriented ontology — SCI-Arc, Los Angeles0 stories · United States Jean-Luc MarionPhenomenologist and philosopher of religion — Sorbonne (emeritus)0 stories · France Jeremy PoberResearcher in philosophy of mind — University of Lisbon1 story · Portugal Judith ButlerPhilosopher of politics and language — University of California, Berkeley1 story · United States Julia KristevaLinguist, psychoanalyst and theorist — Université Paris Cité (emerita)1 story · Bulgaria / France Jürgen HabermasSecond generation of the Frankfurt School — Goethe University (1929-2026)1 story · Germany Ken WilberFounder of integral theory — United States0 stories · United States Kwame Anthony AppiahPhilosopher of ethics and identity — New York University1 story · Ghana / United States Linda Martín AlcoffTheorist of identity and epistemology — CUNY Hunter College0 stories · United States Luciano FloridiPhilosophy of information and digital ethics — Yale University1 story · Italy / United States Martha NussbaumPhilosopher of law and ethics — University of Chicago2 stories · United States Michael SandelPolitical philosopher — Harvard University1 story · United States Miranda FrickerTheorist of epistemic justice — New York University1 story · United Kingdom Nick LandFounding figure of accelerationism — Shanghai0 stories · United Kingdom Noam ChomskyLinguist and political thinker — MIT and the University of Arizona0 stories · United States Patricia ChurchlandFounder of neurophilosophy — University of California, San Diego (emerita)0 stories · Canada / United States Peter Godfrey-SmithPhilosopher of science — University of Sydney0 stories · Australia Peter SingerMoral philosopher — Princeton University (emeritus)1 story · Australia / United States Peter SloterdijkCultural theorist — Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (emeritus)0 stories · Germany Philippe Van ParijsTheorist of basic income — UCLouvain (emeritus)0 stories · Belgium Quentin MeillassouxSpeculative realist — Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne0 stories · France Ray BrassierTheorist of nihilism — American University of Beirut0 stories · United Kingdom Rebecca GoldsteinPhilosopher and novelist — United States0 stories · United States Robert BrandomPhilosopher of language — University of Pittsburgh0 stories · United States Sally HaslangerFeminist metaphysician — MIT0 stories · United States Scott J. ShapiroPhilosopher of law — Yale Law School1 story · United States Simon BlackburnMetaethicist — University of Cambridge (emeritus)0 stories · United Kingdom Simon CritchleyContinental philosophy and ethics — The New School0 stories · United Kingdom Slavoj ŽižekCultural theorist and Lacanian philosopher — University of Ljubljana1 story · Slovenia Thomas NagelPhilosopher of mind and ethics — New York University (emeritus)0 stories · United States Thomas PoggeTheorist of global justice — Yale University0 stories · Germany / United States Timothy WilliamsonLogician and epistemologist — University of Oxford1 story · United Kingdom Will KymlickaTheorist of multiculturalism and animal rights — Queen's University0 stories · Canada Yuk HuiPhilosopher of technology — Erasmus University Rotterdam1 story · Hong Kong / Netherlands Yuval Noah HarariHistorian and public thinker — Hebrew University of Jerusalem1 story · Israel