List of metaphysicians

Metaphysicians born B.C.E.

• Pythagoras
• Democritus
• Heraclitus
• Anaximander
• Anaxagoras
• Lucretius
• Empedocles
• Xenophanes
• Zeno of Citium
• Cleanthes
• Crysippus
• Epicurus
• Zeno of Elea
• Parmenides
• Protagoras
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Cicero

  Metaphysicians born between 1 C.E. and 600 C.E.

• Plotinus
• Porphyry
• Ammonius Saccas
• Origen
• Iamblichus
• Proclus Lycaeus
• Numenius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Boethius
• Isidore of Seville

  Metaphysicians born between 600 C.E. and 1100 C.E.

• Bede
• Al-Farabi
• Avicenna
• Anselm of Canterbury
• Peter Abelard
• Al-Ghazali

  Metaphysicians born between 1100 C.E. and 1400 C.E.

• Maimonides
• Averroes
• Ibn Arabi
• Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
• Albertus Magnus
• Bonaventure
• Thomas Aquinas
• Giles of Rome
• Duns Scotus
• William of Ockham
• Jean Buridan
• Jean Capréolus
• Meister Eckhart

  Metaphysicians born between 1400 C.E. and 1700 C.E.

• 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 C.E. and 1800 C.E.

• Immanuel Kant
• Georg W. F. Hegel
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Friedrich W. J. Schelling
• Johann G. Fichte
• Friedrich H. Jacobi

  Metaphysicians born between 1800 C.E. and 1900 C.E.

• Alexius Meinong
• Nicolai Hartmann
• Vladimir Solovyov
• Étienne Gilson
• Jacques Maritain
• Martin Heidegger
• Edith Stein
• Gottlob Frege
• G. E. Moore
• Nikolai Berdyaev
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• John McTaggart
• Bertrand Russell
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Henri Bergson
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• George Holmes Howison
• Donald Cary Williams
• Semyon Frank

  Metaphysicians born after 1900 C.E.

• Marilyn McCord Adams
• Robert Merrihew Adams
• William Alston
• David Malet Armstrong
• Alain Badiou
• Lynne Rudder Baker
• Paul Benacerraf
• Charles Dunbar Broad
• Berit Brogaard
• Ross Cameron
• David Chalmers
• Roderick Chisholm
• Gilles Deleuze
• Arda Denkel
• Michael Devitt
• Catherine Elgin
• Kit Fine
• Peter Geach
• Peter Glassen
• Nelson Goodman
• Jean Grondin
• Rene Guenon
• John Hawthorne
• Shadworth Hodgson
• David Kolb
• Saul Kripke
• Brian Leftow
• David Kellogg Lewis
• Peter Ludlow
• William Lycan
• Penelope Maddy
• Trenton Merricks
• Iris Murdoch
• Joseph Owens
• Terence Parsons
• Alvin Plantinga
• Graham Priest
• Hilary Putnam
• Willard van Orman Quine
• Jay Rosenberg
• Nathan Salmon
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Theodore Sider
• Gilbert Simondon
• Barry Smith
• Wolfgang Smith
• Robert Stalnaker
• Peter F. Strawson
• Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Peter Unger
• Peter van Inwagen
• David Wiggins
• Stuart Wilde
• Colin Wilson
• Jessica Wilson
• Dean Zimmerman
• Xavier Zubiri
• Utkarsh Chaturvedi