philosopher
English Thesaurus
1. a specialist in philosophy (noun.person)
hypernym | : | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student, |
definition | : | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | nativist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who subscribes to nativism (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | cynic, |
definition | : | a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | eclectic, eclecticist, |
definition | : | someone who selects according to the eclectic method (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | empiricist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | epistemologist, |
definition | : | a specialist in epistemology (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | ethician, ethicist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who specializes in ethics (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | gymnosophist, |
definition | : | member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | libertarian, |
definition | : | someone who believes the doctrine of free will (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | mechanist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | moralist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | naturalist, |
definition | : | an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | necessitarian, |
definition | : | someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | nominalist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | pluralist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | pre-socratic, |
definition | : | any philosopher who lived before Socrates (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | realist, |
definition | : | a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | scholastic, |
definition | : | a Scholastic philosopher or theologian (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | sophist, |
definition | : | any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | stoic, |
definition | : | a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | yogi, |
definition | : | one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | karl popper, popper, sir karl raimund popper, |
definition | : | British philosopher (born in Austria) who argued that scientific theories can never be proved to be true, but are tested by attempts to falsify them (1902-1994) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anaxagoras, |
definition | : | a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anaximander, |
definition | : | a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anaximenes, |
definition | : | a presocratic Greek philosopher and associate of Anaximander who believed that all things are made of air in different degrees of density (6th century BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arendt, hannah arendt, |
definition | : | United States historian and political philosopher (born in Germany) (1906-1975) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aristotle, |
definition | : | one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | abu ali al-husain ibn abdallah ibn sina, avicenna, ibn-sina, |
definition | : | Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bentham, jeremy bentham, |
definition | : | English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anicius manlius severinus boethius, boethius, |
definition | : | a Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bruno, giordano bruno, |
definition | : | Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | buber, martin buber, |
definition | : | Israeli religious philosopher (born in Austria); as a Zionist he promoted understanding between Jews and Arabs; his writings affected Christian thinkers as well as Jews (1878-1965) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cassirer, ernst cassirer, |
definition | : | German philosopher concerned with concept formation in the human mind and with symbolic forms in human culture generally (1874-1945) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cleanthes, |
definition | : | ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | confucius, k'ung futzu, kong the master, kongfuze, |
definition | : | Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | democritus, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher who developed an atomistic theory of matter (460-370 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | derrida, jacques derrida, |
definition | : | French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | descartes, rene descartes, |
definition | : | French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dewey, john dewey, |
definition | : | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | denis diderot, diderot, |
definition | : | French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | diogenes, |
definition | : | an ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | empedocles, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | epictetus, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher who was a Stoic (circa 50-130) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | epicurus, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ernst heinrich haeckel, haeckel, |
definition | : | German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | david hartley, hartley, |
definition | : | English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | georg wilhelm friedrich hegel, hegel, |
definition | : | German philosopher whose three stage process of dialectical reasoning was adopted by Karl Marx (1770-1831) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | heraclitus, |
definition | : | a presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hobbes, thomas hobbes, |
definition | : | English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | david hume, hume, |
definition | : | Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edmund husserl, husserl, |
definition | : | German philosopher who developed phenomenology (1859-1938) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hypatia, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james, william james, |
definition | : | United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | immanuel kant, kant, |
definition | : | influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lao-tse, lao-tzu, lao-zi, |
definition | : | Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john locke, locke, |
definition | : | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lucretius, titus lucretius carus, |
definition | : | Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ernst mach, mach, |
definition | : | Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | machiavelli, niccolo machiavelli, |
definition | : | a statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government (1469-1527) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herbert marcuse, marcuse, |
definition | : | United States political philosopher (born in Germany) concerned about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology (1898-1979) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | karl marx, marx, |
definition | : | founder of modern communism; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels in 1848; wrote Das Kapital in 1867 (1818-1883) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | george herbert mead, mead, |
definition | : | United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john mill, john stuart mill, mill, |
definition | : | English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james mill, mill, |
definition | : | Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | friedrich wilhelm nietzsche, nietzsche, |
definition | : | influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | origen, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | parmenides, |
definition | : | a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy; held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed; said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | blaise pascal, pascal, |
definition | : | French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | plato, |
definition | : | ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | plotinus, |
definition | : | Roman philosopher (born in Egypt) who was the leading representative of Neoplatonism (205-270) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pythagoras, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | quine, w. v. quine, willard van orman quine, |
definition | : | United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | reid, thomas reid, |
definition | : | Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jean-jacques rousseau, rousseau, |
definition | : | French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | albert schweitzer, schweitzer, |
definition | : | French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lucius annaeus seneca, seneca, |
definition | : | Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | socrates, |
definition | : | ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herbert spencer, spencer, |
definition | : | English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | oswald spengler, spengler, |
definition | : | German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | rudolf steiner, steiner, |
definition | : | Austrian philosopher who founded anthroposophy (1861-1925) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dugald stewart, stewart, |
definition | : | Scottish philosopher and follower of Thomas Reid (1753-1828) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thales, thales of miletus, |
definition | : | a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | theophrastus, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher who was a student of Aristotle and who succeeded Aristotle as the leader of the Peripatetics (371-287 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | simone weil, weil, |
definition | : | French philosopher (1909-1943) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred north whitehead, whitehead, |
definition | : | English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | xenophanes, |
definition | : | Greek philosopher (560-478 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | zeno, zeno of citium, |
definition | : | ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school (circa 335-263 BC) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | zeno, zeno of elea, |
definition | : | ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC) (noun.person) |
domain category | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
2. a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity (noun.person)
3. a specialist in philosophy (noun.person)
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
4. a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity (noun.person)
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | philosophic, philosophical, |
definition | : | characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment (adj.all) |
5. a specialist in philosophy (noun.person)
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
6. a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity (noun.person)
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | philosophy, |
definition | : | the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | philosophic, philosophical, |
definition | : | characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment (adj.all) |
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