Philosophy: The Great Thinkers showcases the major philosophers of the western tradition. Written with the general reader in mind, it provides an ideal introduction to their ideas and the effects those ideas have had on the wider world.

Anselm, St. --Aquinas, St. Thomas -- Aristotle -- Arnauld, Antoine -- Augustine, St. -- Aurelius, Marcus -- Austin, John Langshaw -- Avicenna -- Ayer, Alfred Jules -- Bacon, Francis -- Beauvoir, Simone de -- Bentham, Jeremy -- Bergson, Henri Louis -- Berkeley, George -- Boethius -- Camus, Albert -- Carnap, Rudolph -- Chomsky, Noam -- Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Comte, Auguste -- Copernicus, Nicolaus -- Darwin, Charles Robert -- Democritus -- Dennett, Daniel -- Derrida, Jacques -- Descartes, Rene -- Dewey, John -- Diderot, denis -- Diogenes of Sinope -- Duns Scotus, John -- Durkheim, Emile -- Einstein, Albert -- Empiricus, Sextus -- Engels, Friedrich -- Epicurus -- Erasmus, Desiderius -- Feyerabend, Paul -- Foucault, Michel -- Frege, Gottlob -- Freud, Sigmund -- Galilei, Galileo -- Godel, Kurt -- Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich -- Heidegger, Martin -- Heraclitus -- Hobbes, Thomas -- HUme, David -- Husserl, Edmund -- James, William -- Jung, Carl Gustav -- Kant, Immanuel -- Keynes, John Maynard -- Kierkegaard, Soren -- Kripke, Saul -- Kuhn, Thomas -- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von -- Lenin, Vladimir Illych -- Levi-Strauss, Claude -- Locke, John -- Mach. Ernst -- Machiavelli, Niccolo -- Malebranche, Nicolas -- Marx, Karl -- Merleau-Ponty, Mauric -- Mill, John Stuart -- Montaigne, Michel de -- Moore, George Edward -- More, Sir Thomas -- Newton, Isaac -- Nietzche, Friedrich -- Nozick, Robert -- Paine, Thomas -- Parmenides of Elea -- Pascal, Blaise -- Peirce, Charles Sanders -- Philo of Alexandria -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Popper, Karl -- Pythagoras of Samors Quine, Willard -- van Orman -- Rawls, John -- Reid, Thomas -- Rorty, Richard -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Russell, Bertrand -- Ryle, Gilbert -- Sartre, Jean-Paul -- Saussure, Ferdinand de -- SChelling, Frederick Wilhelm -- Schiller, Johann Christoph -- Schlick, Moritz -- Schopenhauer, Arthur -- Searle, John -- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus -- Sidgwick, Henry -- Singer, Peter -- Skinner, Burrhus Frederic -- Smith, Adam -- Socrates -- Spinoza, Benedict de -- Tarski, Alfred -- Thales of miletus -- Turing, Alan -- Voltaire -- Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich -- Whitehead, Alfred North -- William of Occam -- Wittgenstein, Ludwig -- Wollstonecraft, Mary -- Xenophanes of Colophon -- Zeno of Elea.