Philosophers of psychology

Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

German philosopher (1788-1860)

Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

Ibn Rushd (14 April 112611 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".

Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)

French philosopher (1930–2004)

Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)

German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)

thumbnail|200px|Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975) Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (; – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. He has been designated as "Father of Islamic Neoplatonism", and the "Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy".

American behaviorist (1904–1990)

French philosopher (1925–1995)

Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ; ; ) was an Arab polymath who was active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

French psychoanalyst and writer (1901–1981)

Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)

Mozi, personal name Mo Di,

German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)

French phenomenological philosopher

German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)

French academic

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality (1838–1917)

Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)

American philosopher (born 1947)

Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)

German philosopher (1848–1915)

German theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist (1869-1937)

Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)

American philosopher (1935–2017)

British philosopher

17th-century Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian

French philosopher (1766-1824)

Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)

Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)

Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician (1866–1938)

German psychologist and philosopher (1872–1956)

American philosopher (1929–2017)

Prussian Doctor (1849–1901)

French academic (1813–1900)

American philosopher (1911-1990)

German philosopher (1830–1881)

Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst (born 1948)

Belgian philosopher

American philosopher (1933-)

French psychiatrist (1885–1972)

Swiss philosopher and educationist (1847-1914)

philosopher from United States of America

French philosopher

German philosopher (1880–1937)

American philosopher

American philosopher (1942-2021)

American philosopher (1910–1997)

Austrian philosopher and psychologist (1855–1921)

German physician, psychologist and philosopher