List of metaphysicians
This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.
Metaphysicians born before 1900
- Pythagoras
- Democritus
- Heraclitus
- Anaximander
- Plotinus
- Lucretius
- Proclus Lycaeus
- Zeno of Elea
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Thomas Aquinas
- Duns Scotus
- Galileo Galilei
- René Descartes
- Anne Conway (philosopher)
- Baruch Spinoza
- Nicolas Malebranche
- John McTaggart
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Austin Osman Spare
- Nicolai Hartmann
- Martin Heidegger
- Gottlob Frege
- G. E. Moore
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Henri Bergson
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- George Holmes Howison
Metaphysicians born after 1900
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- William Alston
- David Malet Armstrong
- Alain Badiou
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- Paul Benacerraf
- C. D. Broad
- Berit Brogaard
- David Chalmers
- Gilles Deleuze
- Arda Denkel
- Michael Devitt
- Nader El-Bizri
- Catherine Elgin
- Kit Fine
- Peter Geach
- Peter Glassen
- Nelson Goodman
- Jean Grondin
- Susan Haack
- John Hawthorne
- Sally Haslanger
- Shadworth Hodgson
- Suzy Kassem
- David Kolb
- Saul Kripke
- Brian Leftow
- David K. Lewis
- Peter Ludlow
- William Lycan
- Penelope Maddy
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- Trenton Merricks
- L.A. Paul
- Terence Parsons
- Gualtiero Piccinini
- Alvin Plantinga
- Graham Priest
- Hilary Putnam
- Willard V. O. Quine
- Jay Rosenberg
- Nathan Salmon
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Frithjof Schuon
- Theodore Sider
- Gilbert Simondon
- Wolfgang Smith
- Robert Stalnaker
- P. F. Strawson
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Unger
- Peter van Inwagen
- David Wiggins
- Stuart Wilde
- Colin Wilson
- Jessica Wilson
- Damon Young
- Dean Zimmerman
- Xavier Zubiri
