This is a chronological list of philosophers
of science. For an alphabetical name-list,
see Category:Philosophers of science.
== Before the 16th century ==
Socrates
Democritus
Plato
Aristotle
Empedocles
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
Robert Grosseteste
Roger Bacon
== 16th century ==
Sir Francis Bacon
== 17th century ==
Galileo Galilei
René Descartes
Pierre Gassendi
Gottfried Leibniz
== 18th century ==
George Berkeley
Immanuel Kant
David Hume
== 19th century ==
Auguste Comte
John Stuart Mill
William Whewell
George Henry Lewes
William Stanley Jevons
Ernst Mach
Charles Sanders Peirce
Edmund Husserl
Frederick Engels
== 1900–1930 ==
Henri Poincaré
Pierre Duhem
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Frank P. Ramsey
Moritz Schlick
John Dewey
Alfred North Whitehead
== 1930–1960 ==
Alfred Ayer
Hans Reichenbach
Georges Canguilhem
Kenneth Craik
Alexandre Koyré
Sir Karl Popper
Rudolf Carnap
Michael Polanyi
Otto Neurath
Carl Gustav Hempel
Paul Oppenheim
Gaston Bachelard
R. B. Braithwaite
Werner Heisenberg
Taketani Mitsuo
Stephen Toulmin
== 1960–1980 ==
David Bloor
Mario Bunge
Paul Feyerabend
Mary Hesse
Thomas Kuhn
Imre Lakatos
Ernest Nagel
Hilary Putnam
W.V. Quine
Michael Ruse
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
== 1980–present ==
Roy Bhaskar
David Albert
Richard Boyd
Arturo Carsetti
Nancy Cartwright
David Castle
Alan Chalmers
Noam Chomsky
Tim Crane
Daniel Dennett
John Dupré
John Earman
Bas van Fraassen
Ronald Giere
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Adolf Grünbaum
Susan Haack
Ian Hacking
Donna Haraway
Sandra Harding
Michał Heller
Jaakko Hintikka
Pierre Jacob
Philip Kitcher
Larry Laudan
John Lennox
Isaac Levi
Peter Lipton
Helen Longino
Elisabeth Lloyd
Ernan McMullin
Peter Medawar
Stephen C. Meyer
Sandra Mitchell
John E. Murdoch
Nancey Murphy
Basarab Nicolescu
Roger Penrose
John Polkinghorne
Alexander Rosenberg
Oliver Sacks
Wesley C. Salmon
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Lawrence Sklar
Brian Skyrms
Elliott Sober
Wolfgang Stegmüller
Kim Sterelny
David Stove
Patrick Suppes
Richard Swinburne
Claudine Tiercelin
Gerard Verschuuren
Mario Bunge
John Worrall
Roberto Torretti
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
