List of French philosophers
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A list of notable French language philosophers:
- Pierre Abélard
- Sylviane AgacinskiSylviane AgacinskiSylviane Agacinski-Jospin is a French philosopher, author, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , and wife of Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France.- Family life :...
- Pierre d'AillyPierre d'AillyPierre d'Ailly was a French theologian, astrologer, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....
- Alain (philosopher)
- Ferdinand AlquiéFerdinand AlquiéFerdinand Alquié was a French philosopher and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.He taught at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Sorbonne university. He was an instructor of Gilles Deleuze, who, according to Michael Hardt, charged him of drawing on biology, psychology, and...
- Louis AlthusserLouis AlthusserLouis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy....
- Bernard AndrieuBernard AndrieuBernard Andrieu is a French philosopher and historian of the body.Andrieu studied in Bordeaux from 1978 to 1984. He is a professor at the University of Nancy....
- Anselme de Laon
- Manola Antonioli
- Louis Arenilla
- Philippe Arnaud (philosophie)
- Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694)
- Raymond AronRaymond AronRaymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist and political scientist.He is best known for his 1955 book The Opium of the Intellectuals, the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people -- in contrast, Aron argued that in...
- Bernard Aspe
- Pierre Aubenque
- Gwenaëlle AubryGwenaëlle Aubry-Biography :She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in the Rue d'Ulm and at Trinity College, Cambridge.She graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy. She lectured in ancient philosophy, at the Nancy 2 University, from 1999 to 2002, a research fellow at CNRS since 2002...
- Catherine Audard
- Séverine Auffret
- Michel Authier
- Nicolas d'Autrecourt
- Kostas Axelos
- Pierre Hyacinthe AzaisPierre Hyacinthe AzaisPierre Hyacinthe Azais was a French philosopher.He was born at Soreze and died at Paris. He spent his early years as a teacher and a village organist. At the outbreak of the French Revolution he viewed it with favor, but was soon disgusted at the violence of its methods...
- Bernard Baas
- Gaston BachelardGaston BachelardGaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break...
- Suzanne BachelardSuzanne BachelardSuzanne Bachelard was a French philosopher and academic. In 1958 she published La Conscience de la rationalité. She was the daughter of philosopher Gaston Bachelard, of whom she edited the posthumous book Fragments d'une Poétique du Feu...
- Élisabeth BadinterÉlisabeth BadinterÉlisabeth Badinter is a French author, feminist, historian, and professor of Philosophy at the École Polytechnique in Paris....
- Alain BadiouAlain BadiouAlain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
- Bonaventure de Bagnorea
- Étienne BalibarÉtienne BalibarÉtienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher. After the death of his teacher Louis Althusser, Balibar quickly became the leading exponent of French Marxist philosophy.- Life and work :...
- Renaud BarbarasRenaud BarbarasRenaud Barbaras is a French contemporary philosopher. An École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud alumnus, he is Chair of Contemporary Philosophy in the Sorbonne.- Philosophy :...
- Jules Barni
- Manuela de Barros
- Jules Barthélemy-Saint-HilaireJules Barthélemy-Saint-HilaireJules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire was a French philosopher, journalist, statesman, and possible illegitimate son of Napoleon I of France.- Biography :...
- Victor BaschVictor BaschBasch Viktor Vilém, or Victor-Guillaume Basch was a French politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the Sorbonne descending vom Hungary...
- Frédéric BastiatFrédéric BastiatClaude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost.-Biography:...
- Georges BatailleGeorges BatailleGeorges Bataille was a French writer. His multifaceted work is linked to the domains of literature, anthropology, philosophy, economy, sociology and history of art...
- Charles BatteuxCharles BatteuxCharles Batteux was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.Batteux was born in Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, Ardennes, and studied theology at Reims. In 1739 he came to Paris, and after teaching in the colleges of Lisieux and Navarre, was appointed to the chair of Greek and Roman philosophy in...
- Jean BaudrillardJean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
- Louis Eugène Marie BautainLouis Eugène Marie BautainLouis Eugène Marie Bautain , French philosopher and theologian, was born at Paris.At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the university of Strasbourg...
- Raymond Bayer
- Pierre BaylePierre BaylePierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695....
- Yannick Beaubatie
- Jean BeaufretJean BeaufretJean Beaufret was a French philosopher and Germanist tremendously influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger's work in France....
- Émile Beaussire
- Simone de BeauvoirSimone de BeauvoirSimone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...
- James Becht
- Bruce Bégout
- Marc Beigbeder
- Yvon Belaval
- Charles Magloire Bénard
- Miguel Benasayag
- Julien BendaJulien BendaJulien Benda was a French philosopher and novelist. He remains famous for his essay The Betrayal of the Intellectuals.- Life :...
- Alain de BenoistAlain de BenoistAlain de Benoist is a French academic, philosopher, a founder of the Nouvelle Droite and head of the French think tank GRECE. Benoist is a critic of liberalism, free markets and egalitarianism.-Biography:...
- Jean-Marie Benoist
- Jocelyn Benoist
- Daniel BensaïdDaniel BensaïdDaniel Bensaïd was a philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the University of Paris X: Nanterre.- Life and career :...
- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Gérard Bensussan
- Nicolas Berdiaev
- Gaston BergerGaston BergerGaston Berger was a French futurist but also an industrialist, a philosopher and a state manager. He is mainly known for his remarkably lucid analysis of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology and for his studies on the character structure.Berger was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal...
- Henri BergsonHenri BergsonHenri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize...
- Harold Bernat
- Gilles BernheimGilles BernheimGilles Bernheim is a French philosopher and rabbi, currently Chief Rabbi of France. On June 22, 2008, he was elected chief rabbi of France but his seven year mandate began on January 1, 2009. Until then, he had been rabbi of synagogue de la Victoire, the main synagogue in Paris, since May 1,...
- François BernierFrançois BernierFrançois Bernier was a French physician and traveller. He was born at Joué-Etiau in Anjou. He was the personal physician of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for around 12 years during his stay in India....
- Henri BerrHenri BerrHenri Berr was a French philosopher and lycée teacher, known as the founder of the journal Revue de synthèse. He is credited with moving the centre of gravity of the study of history in France, in accordance with his ideas on "synthesis"...
- Ernest Bersot
- Jean-Michel BerthelotJean-Michel BerthelotJean-Michel Berthelot was a French sociologist, philosopher, epistemologist and social theorist, specialist in philosophy of social sciences, history of sociology, sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science and sociology of body.- Epistemology and history of sociology...
- Joël Biard
- Charles François de Bicquilley
- Abdennour Bidar
- Jacques BidetJacques BidetJacques Bidet is a French philosopher and social theorist.Currently professor emeritus in the Philosophy Department at the Université de Paris X - Nanterre....
- Guillaume BigotGuillaume BigotGuillaume Bigot was a writer, a doctor, a humanist and a French and Latin poet born 2 June 1502 and died ca. 1550....
- Jean-Cassien Billier
- Maine de BiranMaine de BiranFrançois-Pierre-Gonthier Maine de Biran , usually known simply as Maine de Biran, was a French philosopher.- Life :...
- Henri Birault
- Michel BitbolMichel BitbolMichel Bitbol is a French researcher in philosophy of science, born on March 12, 1954.He is "Directeur de recherche" at CNRS, in the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée of École polytechnique ....
- Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet
- Robert BlanchéRobert BlanchéRobert Blanché was an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toulouse. He wrote many books addressing the philosophy of mathematics.-Works :...
- Maurice BlanchotMaurice BlanchotMaurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.-Works:...
- Charles Blondel
- Éric Blondel
- Maurice BlondelMaurice BlondelMaurice Blondel was a French philosopher.Blondel developed a "philosophy of action” that integrated classical Neoplatonic thought with modern Pragmatism in the context of a Christian philosophy of religion...
- Jean BodinJean BodinJean Bodin was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty; he was also an influential writer on demonology....
- François Boissel
- Jean Bollack
- Mayotte Bollack
- Louis de Bonald
- Mikkel Borch-JacobsenMikkel Borch-JacobsenMikkel Borch-Jacobsen , is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of Washington in Seattle. Born to Danish parents, he began his studies in France and emigrated to the United States in 1986. He is the author of many works on the history and philosophy of psychiatry,...
- Jean BorellaJean BorellaJean Borella is a Christian philosopher and theologian. Borella's works are deeply inspired by Ancient and Christian Neoplatonism, but also by the Traditionalist School of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon.-Early years:...
- Étienne BorneÉtienne BorneÉtienne Vincent Borne was born in Manduel . He was a professor of philosophy Hypokhâgne at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Étienne Borne founded the Mouvement Republicain Populaire , and the French Christian Democratic Party. He was a columnist in the newspaper La Croix...
- Christian Bouchindhomme
- Pierre Boudot
- Célestin BougléCélestin BougléCélestin Bouglé was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique.-Life:...
- Francisque BouillierFrancisque BouillierFrancisque Bouillier was a French philosopher, born in Lyons. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and in 1839 was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Lyons. From 1849 to 1864 he was dean of the faculty at Lyons and from 1867 to 1870 director of the École Normale...
- Nicolas Antoine BoulangerNicolas Antoine BoulangerNicolas Antoine Boulanger was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.Born the son of a paper merchant, Boulanger studied first mathematics, and later ancient languages...
- Olivier Boulnois
- Pierre BourdieuPierre BourdieuPierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher.Starting from the role of economic capital for social positioning, Bourdieu pioneered investigative frameworks and terminologies such as cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and the concepts of habitus, field or location,...
- Pierre Bouretz
- Dominique Bourg
- Bernard Bourgeois
- Pierre BoutangPierre BoutangPierre Boutang was a French philosopher, poet and translator. He was also a political journalist, associated with the currents of Maurrasianism and Royalism.- Biography :...
- Émile BoutrouxEmile BoutrouxÉtienne Émile Marie Boutroux was an eminent 19th century French philosopher of science and religion, and an historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritual philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the...
- Jacques BouveresseJacques BouveresseJacques Bouveresse is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Musil, Karl Kraus, philosophy of science, epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and analytical philosophy...
- Renée Bouveresse
- Charles de BovellesCharles de BovellesCharles de Bouvelles was a French mathematician, and canon of Noyon...
- Alain Boyer
- Rémi BragueRémi BragueRémi Brague is a French professor of Arabic and religious philosophy at the Sorbonne and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.- Biography :...
- Stanislas Breton
- Victor Brochard
- Jean-Marie BrohmJean-Marie BrohmJean-Marie Brohm is a french sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher. Professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier III, he was also the founder of the journal Quel Corps ?, member of the editoral staff of the monthly Répertoire and is actually director of the journal Prétentaine...
- Alain Brossat
- Jacques Brosse
- Claude Bruaire
- Jean Brun
- Claude BrunetClaude BrunetClaude Brunet, was a paraplegic man who campaigned for patients rights in Quebec. He founded the Quebec Provincial Committee of Patients in 1972...
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Jean Bruyas
- Christine Buci-GlucksmannChristine Buci-GlucksmannChristine Buci-Glucksmann is a French philosopher and Professor Emeritus from University of Paris VIII specializing in the aesthetics of the Baroque, Japan and computer art...
- Claude BuffierClaude BuffierClaude Buffier , French philosopher, historian and educationalist, was born in Poland, of French parents, who returned to France, and settled at Rouen, soon after his birth....
- Guy Bugault
- Jean BuridanJean BuridanJean Buridan was a French priest who sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe. Although he was one of the most famous and influential philosophers of the late Middle Ages, he is today among the least well known...
- Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
- Jean-Yves Calvez
- Albert CamusAlbert CamusAlbert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
- Georges CanguilhemGeorges CanguilhemGeorges Canguilhem was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science .-Life and work:...
- Monique Canto-SperberMonique Canto-SperberMonique Canto-Sperber is a French philosopher. She was born on May, 14th, 1954 Her works, translated in several languages, are focused on ethics and contemporary political issues...
- Ricciotto CanudoRicciotto CanudoRicciotto Canudo was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France. He saw cinema as "plastic art in motion". He gave cinema the label "the Seventh Art", which is still current in French....
- Philippe Capelle
- Olivier Capparos
- Albert Caraco
- Elme-Marie Caro
- Maxence CaronMaxence CaronMaxence Caron is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :He is agrégé in Philosophy , docteur ès Lettres Maxence Caron (born in 1976) is a French writer, poet, philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :He is agrégé in Philosophy (in 1999), docteur ès Lettres Maxence Caron...
- Vincent Carraud
- Barbara CassinBarbara CassinBarbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie and director of research at the CNRS,. In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of...
- Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-PierreCharles-Irénée Castel de Saint-PierreCharles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre was an influential French writer and radical. After Georg von Podiebrad in his Tractatus, he was, perhaps, one of the first to propose an international organisation responsible for maintaining peace.-Life:Saint-Pierre was born at the château de...
- Monique Castillo
- Cornelius CastoriadisCornelius CastoriadisCornelius Castoriadis was a Greek philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.-Early life in Athens:...
- Anne Cauquelin
- Jean CavaillèsJean CavaillesJean Cavaillès , was a French philosopher and mathematician, specialized in philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the Libération movement and was shot by the Gestapo on February 17, 1944....
- Vincent CespedesVincent CespedesVincent Cespedes is a French philosopher and writer.He is the author of essays on various subjects, and he published a novel on Cheikh Anta Diop and Panafricanism philosophy, set in the context of relations between Africa and the West...
- Antelme Édouard Chaignet
- Félicien Challaye
- Guillaume de Champeaux
- Janine Chanteur
- Georges Chapouthier
- Bernard Charbonneau
- Daniel CharlesDaniel CharlesDaniel Paul Charles was a French musician, musicologist and philosopher, born on November 27, 1935 in Oran and deceased on August 21, 2008 in Antibes .- Biography :...
- Bernard Charlot
- Jean-Émile Charon
- Jacques Charpentier
- André Charrak
- Pierre CharronPierre CharronPierre Charron was a French 16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel Montaigne.-Biography:...
- Amaury de Chartres
- Bernard de Chartres
- Thierry de Chartres
- Dominique Chateau
- François ChâteletFrançois ChâteletFrançois Châtelet was a historian of philosophy, political philosophy and professor in the socratic tradition. He was the husband of philosopher Noëlle Châtelet, the sister of Lionel Jospin....
- Gilles Châtelet
- Paul Chauchard
- Christiane Chauviré
- Jacques ChevalierJacques ChevalierJacques Chevalier was a French philosopher.Chevalier was born in Cérilly, Allier, and taught at the Faculty of Letters in Grenoble. He was the author of many books, mainly about the history of philosophy....
- Catherine Chevalley
- Philippe Chevallier (philosopher)
- Michel Chodkiewicz
- Jean-Louis Chrétien
- Olivier Chédin
- Emil CioranEmil Cioran-Early life:Emil M. Cioran was born in Răşinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. His father, Emilian Cioran, was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother, Elvira Cioran , was originally from Veneţia de Jos, a commune near Făgăraş.After studying humanities at the...
- Jean ClamJean ClamJean Joseph Clam , philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, Paris , presently affiliated to the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin ....
- Geneviève Clancy
- Paul Clavier
- Bruno Clément
- Catherine ClémentCatherine ClémentCatherine Clément is a prominent French philosopher, novelist, feminist, and literary critic. She received a degree in philosophy from the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, and studied under such luminaries as Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, working in the fields of anthropology and...
- Michel ClouscardMichel ClouscardMichel Clouscard was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.- Biography :Clouscard's early life was dominated by athletics...
- François-Guillaume Coëssin
- Michèle Cohen-Halimi
- Denis Collin
- Jeannette Colombel
- Muriel Combes
- Auguste ComteAuguste ComteIsidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte , better known as Auguste Comte , was a French philosopher, a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism...
- André Comte-SponvilleAndré Comte-SponvilleAndré Comte-Sponville is a French philosopher born in Paris, France. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure, and is aggregated in philosophy...
- Marcel ConcheMarcel ConcheMarcel Conche , is a French philosopher.A recent publication , the Tao Te Ching translation and comments in French, follows the format of previous works, such as Héraclite - Fragments :...
- Guillaume de Conches
- Étienne Bonnot de CondillacÉtienne Bonnot de CondillacÉtienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and epistemologist who studied in such areas as psychology and the philosophy of the mind.-Biography:...
- Nicolas de Condorcet
- Victor Considerant
- Benjamin ConstantBenjamin ConstantHenri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-born French nobleman, thinker, writer and politician.-Biography:...
- Alain Cophignon
- Guy Coq
- Arnaud Corbic
- Henry CorbinHenry CorbinHenry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.Corbin was born in Paris in April 1903. As a boy he revealed the profound sensitivity to music so evident in his work...
- Géraud de CordemoyGéraud de CordemoyGéraud de Cordemoy, a French philosopher, historian and lawyer. He is mainly known for his works in metaphysics and for his theory of language. -Biography:...
- Corine Pelluchon
- Paul-Louis CouchoudPaul-Louis CouchoudPaul-Louis Couchoud was a French author and poet. He was also a former scholar of the École Normale, as well as a professor of philosophy and doctor of medicine.-References:...
- Antoine-Augustin Cournot
- Jean-François Courtine
- Victor CousinVictor CousinVictor Cousin was a French philosopher. He was a proponent of Scottish Common Sense Realism and had an important influence on French educational policy.-Early life:...
- Louis CouturatLouis CouturatLouis Couturat was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist.-Life:Born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure...
- Marc Crépon
- Alain Cugno
- Marin Cureau de La ChambreMarin Cureau de la ChambreMarin Cureau de la Chambre was a French physician and philosopher who was born in Saint-Jean-d'Assé, a village near Le Mans. Details of his youth and where he attended school are unknown. He was initially a physician in Le Mans, and around 1630 moved to Paris, where he became a friend and...
- Jean-Paul Curnier
- Armand Cuvillier
- Jean le Rond D'AlembertJean le Rond d'AlembertJean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...
- François Dagognet
- Tristan Dagron
- Étienne Noël Damilaville
- Jean-Philibert Damiron
- Hubert DamischHubert DamischBorn in 1928, Hubert Damisch is a French philosopher specialised in aesthetics and art history, and professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1975 until 1996....
- Arsène Danton
- Alphonse Darlu
- Bernard Darras
- Jacques Darriulat
- Françoise Dastur
- Jean DaujatJean DaujatJean Daujat was a French philosopher of neo-Thomism, a disciple of Jacques Maritain, and the founder of the Centre d'études religieuses, the Center for Religious Studies, specializing in teaching Christian doctrine....
- Lionel DauriacLionel DauriacLionel Dauriac was a French philosopher and musicologist.Dauriac was born in Brest, the son of an admiral. He was professor of musical aesthetics at the Sorbonne between 1896 and 1903. He died 26 May 1923...
- David de Dinan
- Pascal David
- Marc de Launay
- Michel Deguy
- Christian Delacampagne
- Henri DelacroixHenri DelacroixHenri Delacroix was a French psychologist, "one of the most famous and most prolific French psychologists working at the beginning of [the twentieth] century."...
- François Delaporte
- Victor DelbosVictor DelbosVictor Delbos was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died in July 1916 as a result of an infectious mycocarditis brought on by pleurisy...
- Gilles DeleuzeGilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
- Alain de Libera
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de SalesJean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de SalesJean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales or Jean-Baptiste Isoard de Lisle was a French philosopher noted for his multi-edition, multi-volume opus The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature....
- Chantal Delsol
- Jacques DerridaJacques DerridaJacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
- John Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus DesaguliersJohn Theophilus Desaguliers was a natural philosopher born in France. He was a member of the Royal Society of London beginning 29 July 1714. He was presented with the Royal Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, in 1734, 1736 and 1741, with the 1741 award being for his discovery of the...
- Jean-Toussaint Desanti
- Jacques des Bermudes
- René DescartesRené DescartesRené Descartes ; was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day...
- Léger Marie Deschamps
- Vincent DescombesVincent DescombesVincent Descombes is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental...
- Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy
- Théodore DézamyThéodore DézamyAlexandre Théodore Dézamy was a French socialist, a representative of the Neo-Babouvist tendency in early French communism, along with Albert Laponneraye, Richard Lahautière, Jacques Pillot and others. He was also an early associate of Louis-Auguste Blanqui...
- Denis DiderotDenis DiderotDenis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer. He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie....
- Georges Didi-Huberman
- Manuel de Diéguez
- Henri Dilberman
- Monique Dixsaut
- Daniel Dobbels
- Jean DomatJean DomatJean Domat, or Daumat , French jurisconsult, was born at Clermont in Auvergne.- Biography :Domat studied the humaniora in Paris, where he befriended Blaise Pascal, and later law at Bourges. After his promotion in 1645, he practised law in Clermont and was appointed a crown prosecutor there in 1655...
- Jean-Marie DomenachJean-Marie DomenachJean-Marie Domenach was a French writer and intellectual. He was noted as a left-wing and Catholic thinker.He took over in 1957 the editorship of Esprit, the literary and political journal of personalism founded in 1945 by Emmanuel Mounier and continued from 1950 to 1957 by Albert Béguin...
- Roger-Pol DroitRoger-Pol DroitRoger-Pol Droit is a French academic and philosopher. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he has written popular books, most notably 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life, which has been translated into twenty-two languages...
- Joseph Droz
- Dominique Dubarle
- Marcel-Jacques Dubois
- Oswald DucrotOswald DucrotOswald Ducrot is a French linguist. He was a professor and former research fellow at CNRS. He is currently a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris....
- Dany-Robert Dufour
- Hugues DufourtHugues DufourtHugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory....
- Mikel DufrenneMikel DufrenneMikel Dufrenne was a French philosopher and aesthetician. He is known as an author of existentialism, and is particularly noted for the work The Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience .He encountered the work of Karl Jaspers while a prisoner of war, in a camp with Paul...
- Laurent Duhan
- Jean-Joël Duhot
- César Chesneau DumarsaisCésar Chesneau DumarsaisCésar Chesneau, sieur Dumarsais or Du Marsais was a French philosophe and grammarian. He was a prominent figure in what became known as the Enlightenment, and contributed to Diderot’s Encyclopédie....
- Jean-Pierre Dupuy
- Guillaume Durand de Saint-Pourçain
- Gilbert DurandGilbert DurandGilbert Durand is a French academic known for his work on the imagination and mythology.He was teacher of philosophy from 1947 to 1956, then professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Grenoble II. Gilbert Durand was the co-founder - with Léon Cellier and Paul Deschamps in 1966 - and the director...
- Jacques Du Roure
- Charles Duveyrier
- Bernard Edelman
- Victor Egger
- Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre
- Pascal EngelPascal EngelPascal Engel is a French philosopher, working on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of logic. He was a professor of philosophy of logic at the Sorbonne, he currently works at the University of Geneva, where he collaborates with, among others, Kevin Mulligan...
- Didier EribonDidier EribonDidier Eribon is a French author and philosopher, and a historian of French intellectual life.- Biography :Didier Eribon was born in Reims....
- Alain EtchegoyenAlain EtchegoyenAlain Etchegoyen , was a philosopher and novelist. He was the last Plan Commissionner before that Commission was abrogated...
- François Evellin
- Marcello Fabri
- Anne Fagot-Largeault
- Emmanuel Falque
- Frantz FanonFrantz FanonFrantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
- Michel FattalMichel FattalMichel Fattal is an author in French language whose works are translated in particular into Italian language and Polish language.Michel Fattal treats statute of the LOGOS in Greek Philosophy...
- André Fauconnet
- Charles Fauvety
- Emmanuel Faye
- Jean-Pierre FayeJean-Pierre FayeJean-Pierre Faye is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.-Biography:Faye was a founding member of the avant-garde literary review Tel Quel, and later of Change. He received the Prix Renaudot for his 1964 novel L'Écluse...
- Pierre FédidaPierre Fédida-References:* * Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Publisher: French & European Pubns; 2nd edition 1988, Language: English, ISBN 0828822158...
- François Fédier
- Fénelon
- Pierre de FermatPierre de FermatPierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality...
- Cyrille Ferraton
- Jean-Marc FerryJean-Marc FerryJean-Marc Ferry is a French philosopher who is best known for his book Les puissances de l'expérience , described by Paul Ricoeur as "one of the most important works recently published in the field of social and political philosophy"...
- Luc FerryLuc FerryLuc Ferry is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank....
- André-Jean FestugièreAndré-Jean FestugièreAndré-Jean Festugière was a French philosopher, philologist, and expert on Neoplatonism. He is notable for his translation of the works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus....
- Michel Fichant
- Joseph de Finance de Clairbois
- Alain FinkielkrautAlain FinkielkrautAlain Finkielkraut is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who had been deported to Auschwitz and survived. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social...
- Franck Fischbach
- François Flahault
- Edmond Fleg
- Michaël Foessel
- Marc Foglia
- Alain Foix
- Élisabeth de Fontenay
- Aimé Forest
- Bernard Forthomme
- Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
- Simon FoucherSimon FoucherSimon Foucher was a French polemic philosopher. His philosophical standpoint was one of Academic skepticism: he did not agree with dogmatism, but didn't resort to Pyrrhonism, either.-Life:...
- Pierre Fougeyrollas
- Alfred Fouillée
- Charles FourierCharles FourierFrançois Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher. An influential thinker, some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become main currents in modern society...
- Geneviève FraisseGeneviève FraisseGeneviève Fraisse is a French philosopher.She was born within Murs blancs , a community founded by Emmanuel Mounier at Châtenay-Malabry. Her parents, Paul Fraisse and Simone Fraisse , were both professors at the Sorbonne...
- Adolphe Franck
- Didier Franck
- Nicolas FréretNicolas FréretNicolas Fréret was a French scholar.-Life:He was born at Paris on 15 February 1688. His father was procureur to the parlement of Paris, and destined him to the profession of the law. His first tutors were the historian Charles Rollin and Father Desmolets...
- Marc Froment-Meurice
- Michel Féher
- Jacques Garelli
- Joseph GabelJoseph GabelJoseph Gabel was a French Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher. His work was always strongly influenced by Marxism but he was against Stalinism and critical of the work of Louis Althusser....
- Emmanuel Gabellieri
- Jacques GaffarelJacques GaffarelJacques Gaffarel was a French scholar and astrologer. He followed the family tradition of studying medicine, and then became a priest, but mainly developed his interests in the fields of natural history and Oriental occultism, gaining fluency in the Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic languages.His...
- Maurice de Gandillac
- Roger GaraudyRoger GaraudyRoger Garaudy or Ragaa Garaudy is a French philosopher. Formerly a prominent communist author, he has converted to Islam and written several books which have been controversial due to his anti-Zionist positions and denial of the Holocaust.-Early life, politics and religion:Born to Catholic and...
- Adolphe Garnier
- Isabelle Garo
- Gaspard Koenig
- Pierre GassendiPierre GassendiPierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. With a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the...
- Marcel GauchetMarcel GauchetMarcel Gauchet is a French historian, philosopher and sociologist.Gauchet is professor at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and head of the periodical Le Débat .Gauchet is one of France's most prominent contemporary...
- Jules de GaultierJules de GaultierJules de Gaultier , born Jules Achille de Gaultier de Laguionie, was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to Mercure de France and one of the chief advocates of "nietzscheism" in vogue in the literary circles of the day...
- Gabriel Gauny
- Alain B. L. Gérard
- Étienne GilsonÉtienne GilsonÉtienne Gilson was a French Thomistic philosopher and historian of philosophy...
- René GirardRené GirardRené Girard is a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy...
- André GlucksmannAndré GlucksmannAndré Glucksmann is a French philosopher and writer, and member of the French new philosophers.-Early years:André Glucksmann was born in 1937, in Boulogne-Billancourt, the son of Ashkenazi Jewish parents from Romania and Czechoslovakia. He studied in Lyon, and later enrolled at École normale...
- Joseph Arthur de Gobineau
- Elsa Godart
- Christian Godin
- Lucien GoldmannLucien GoldmannLucien Goldmann was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin...
- Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher)
- Ferdinand Gombault
- André GorzAndré GorzAndré Gorz , pen name of Gérard Horst, born Gerhard Hirsch, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher. Also a journalist, he co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964...
- Jean Gosset
- Henri GouhierHenri GouhierHenri Gouhier was a French philosopher, a historian of philosophy, and a literary critic.Born in Auxerre, Yonne, his educational studies led to a doctorate in 1926...
- Jean-Baptiste Gourinat
- Jean-Baptiste Cousin de GrainvilleJean-Baptiste Cousin de GrainvilleJean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin De Grainville was a French writer who wrote a seminal work of fantasy literature: Le Dernier Homme...
- Gérard GranelGérard GranelGérard Granel was a French philosopher and translator.- Life and work :Born in Paris, Granel attended the lycée Louis-le-Grand and the courses of Michel Alexandre, Jean Hyppolite and, later, of Louis Althusser and Jean Beaufret...
- Jean Granier
- Jean Greisch
- Jean GrenierJean GrenierJean Grenier was a French philosopher and writer. He taught for a time in Algiers, where he became a significant influence on the young Albert Camus.-Biography:...
- Nicolas Grimaldi
- Jacques Grinevald
- Bernard Groethuysen
- Frédéric Gros
- Evelyne Grossman
- Félix GuattariFélix GuattariPierre-Félix Guattari was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist, philosopher, and semiotician; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy...
- René GuénonRené GuénonRené Guénon , also known as Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, sacred science and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation.In his writings, he...
- Michel Guérin
- Martial GuéroultMartial GuéroultMartial Guéroult was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, specialized in 17th century philosophy. His work was characterized by a close attention to history of philosophy, which he considered as noble as philosophy itself, and a strong demand for systematicity...
- François Guéry
- Claude Guillermet de Bérigard
- Claude Guillon
- Jean GuittonJean GuittonJean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.-Biography:Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, he studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His principal religious and intellectual influence was from a blind priest, Francois Pouget...
- Georges Gusdorf
- Augustin Guyau
- Jean-Marie GuyauJean-Marie GuyauJean-Marie Guyau was a French philosopher and poet.Guyau was inspired by, amongst others, the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset.- Life :Guyau got his...
- Michel Haar
- Pierre HadotPierre HadotPierre Hadot was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Neoplatonism. Hadot was ordained in 1944 but following Pope Pius XII's Encyclical "Humani Generis" left the priesthood...
- Élie HalévyÉlie HalévyÉlie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...
- Marc Halévy
- Octave HamelinOctave HamelinOctave Hamelin was a French philosopher. He taught as a professor at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Sorbonne . Hamelin was a close friend of the sociologist Émile Durkheim, with whom he shared an interest in the French philosopher Charles Renouvier...
- Pierre Hassner
- Adolphe Hatzfeld
- Claude-Adrien Helvétius
- Henri Hude
- Michel HenryMichel HenryMichel Henry was a French philosopher and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States of America, and Japan.- Biography :...
- Carlos-Miguel Herrera
- Yves Hersant
- André Hirt
- Josef Hoëné-Wronski
- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach
- Jacques D'Hondt
- Thierry Hoquet
- Marc-Vincent Howlett
- François Huet
- Pierre-Daniel Huet
- Denis Huisman
- Jean HyppoliteJean HyppoliteJean Hyppolite was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers....
- Kamal IbrahimKamal IbrahimKamal Said Ibrahim is an Ethiopian Australian football player who currently plays for A-League team...
- Claude Imbert
- Luce IrigarayLuce IrigarayLuce Irigaray is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One .-Biography:...
- Baptiste-Marie Jacob
- Albert JacquardAlbert JacquardAlbert Jacquard is a French geneticist and essayist. He is well known for defending ideas related to the concept of degrowth.- Beginnings :...
- Francis Jacques
- Christian Jambet
- Paul JanetPaul JanetPaul Janet was a French philosopher and writer.-Biography:Born in Paris, he became professor of moral philosophy at Bourges and Strasbourg , and of logic at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris...
- Pierre JanetPierre JanetPierre Marie Félix Janet was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory....
- Dominique Janicaud
- Vladimir JankélévitchVladimir JankélévitchVladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.- Biography :Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France....
- Patricia Janody
- Chantal Jaquet
- Louis de JaucourtLouis de JaucourtChevalier Louis de Jaucourt was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopedia, all done voluntarily...
- Francis Jeanson
- Lucien Jerphagnon
- Marc Jimenez
- Jean JolivetJean Jolivet-Biography:Jolivet is an authority on Medieval philosophy and honorary Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He is co-director of the publication series "Études de philosophie médiévale" for the Vrin Library of philosophy...
- Henri Joly (sociologist)
- Henri Joly (philosopher)
- Gérard Jorland
- Charles-Etienne Jordan
- Jean-Paul Jouary
- Théodore Simon JouffroyThéodore Simon JouffroyThéodore Simon Jouffroy was a French philosopher.He was born at Les Pontets, Franche-Comté, département of Doubs. In his tenth year, his father, a tax-gatherer, sent him to an uncle at Pontarlier, under whom he began his classical studies...
- François JullienFrançois JullienFrançois Jullien is a French Sinologist. Jullien was President of the French Association for Chinese Studies , director of the East Asian Department of the University of Paris VII and President of the Collège international de philosophie...
- Jean Kahn-Dessertenne
- Ariane Kalfa
- Denis Kambouchner
- Bruno Karsenti
- Frédéric Keck
- Jean-François Kervégan
- Catherine Kintzler
- Raymond KlibanskyRaymond KlibanskyRaymond Klibansky, was a German-Canadian historian of philosophy.Born in Paris, to Rosa Scheidt and Hermann Klibansky, he was educated at the University of Kiel, University of Hamburg and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, where he received a Ph.D. in 1928...
- Pierre KlossowskiPierre KlossowskiPierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.-Life:...
- Sarah KofmanSarah KofmanSarah Kofman was a French philosopher, born in Paris.Kofman began her teaching career in Toulouse in 1960, and worked with both Jean Hyppolite and Gilles Deleuze. Her primary thesis, later published as Nietzsche et la métaphore, was supervised by Deleuze...
- Alexandre KojèveAlexandre KojèveAlexandre Kojève was a Russian-born French philosopher and statesman whose philosophical seminars had an immense influence on twentieth-century French philosophy, particularly via his integration of Hegelian concepts into continental philosophy...
- Alexandre KoyréAlexandre KoyréAlexandre Koyré , sometimes anglicised as Alexander Koiré, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science.-Life:...
- Angèle Kremer-MariettiAngèle Kremer-MariettiAngèle Kremer-Marietti is a French philosopher. She gives her attention to the epistemological origin as a problem relative to any symbolicity, whether related to action or to knowledge...
- Blandine Kriegel
- Julia KristevaJulia KristevaJulia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...
- Lucien Laberthonnière
- Georges Labica
- Étienne de La BoétieÉtienne de La BoétieÉtienne de La Boétie was a French judge, writer, anarchist, and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France." He "has been best remembered as the great and close friend of the eminent essayist Michel de Montaigne, in one of history's most notable friendships."-Life:"La Boétie was born in...
- Henri LaboritHenri LaboritHenri Laborit was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Laborit was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgeon in the Marines and then moved on to fundamental research. He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957...
- Élisabeth Labrousse
- Gerard de Lacaze-Duthiers
- Jean-Marc Lachaud
- Jules Lachelier
- Pierre Lachièze-Rey
- Olivier Lacombe
- Jean Lacoste
- Philippe Lacoue-LabarthePhilippe Lacoue-LabarthePhilippe Lacoue-Labarthe was a French philosopher. He was also a literary critic and translator....
- Jean LacroixJean LacroixJean Lacroix was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1928 Summer Olympics.-References:...
- Jean-René Ladmiral
- Louis de La ForgeLouis de La ForgeLouis de La Forge was a French philosopher who in his Tractatus de mente humana expounded a doctrine of occasionalism...
- Antoine de La Garanderie
- Jules Lagneau
- Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine
- Joseph LakanalJoseph LakanalJoseph Lakanal was a French politician, and an original member of the Institut de France.-Early career:...
- André Lalande (philosopher)
- Charles Lalo
- Bernard Lamblin
- Bianca LamblinBianca LamblinBianca Lamblin is a French writer who was romantically involved with both Jean-Paul Sartre and his lifelong companion Simone de Beauvoir, for a number of years...
- Félicité Robert de Lamennais
- François de La Mothe Le VayerFrançois de La Mothe Le VayerFrançois de La Mothe Le Vayer , was a French writer who was known to use the pseudonym Orosius Tubero...
- Bernard Lamy
- Pierre Lance
- Georges Lapassade
- Pierre de la PlacePierre de la PlaceDuke Pierre de la Place was a French Huguenot martyr, who died a few days after the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of the Huguenots. According to Foxe, he was informed of the massacre, and ordered to report to the King, to await the King's pleasure...
- Jean LaplancheJean LaplancheJean Laplanche is a French author, theorist and psychoanalyst. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and has written more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory...
- Utilisateur:Bruinek/JL
- François Laplantine
- David Lapoujade
- Guy Lardreau
- Jean Largeault
- Pierre LaromiguièrePierre LaromiguièrePierre Laromiguière was a French philosopher.He was born at Livignac, and died in Paris. As professor of philosophy at the University of Toulouse, he was unsuccessful and incurred the displeasure of the French parliament by his thesis on the rights of property in connection with taxation...
- François LaruelleFrançois LaruelleFrançois Laruelle is a French philosopher, formerly of the Collège international de philosophie and the University of Paris X: Nanterre. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure, Laruelle is notable for developing a science of philosophy that he calls "non-philosophy"...
- Bruno LatourBruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
- Auguste LaugelAuguste LaugelAntoine-Auguste Laugel was a French historian and engineer born in Strasbourg.He received his education at the École polytechnique in Paris, and for a period of time was secretary and confidant to the Duke of Aumale...
- Sandra LaugierSandra LaugierSandra Laugier is a French philosopher, working on moral philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of action and philosophy of science...
- Alain Laurent
- Jérôme Laurent
- Albert LautmanAlbert LautmanAlbert Lautman was a French mathematical philosopher. An escaped prisoner-of-war, he was shot by the German authorities in Toulouse, on 1 August 1944.-Selected bibliography:Translation...
- Jean Lauxerois
- Louis LavelleLouis LavelleLouis Lavelle was a French philosopher. His magnum opus is La Dialectique de l'éternel présent, a metaphysical work in four volumes: De l'Être , De l'Acte , Du Temps et de l'Eternité , and De l'Âme Humaine .Lavelle's other writings include La dialectique du monde...
- Antoine LavoisierAntoine LavoisierAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the "father of modern chemistry", was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology...
- Maurizio Lazzarato
- Pierre Le Coz
- Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval
- Véronique Le Ru
- Gérard Lebrun
- Annie Leclerc
- Albert Leclère
- Pierre Lecomte du NoüyPierre Lecomte du NoüyPierre Lecomte du Noüy was a French biophysicist and philosopher. He probably is best-remembered by scientists for his work on the surface tension, and other properties, of liquids.- Life and work :...
- Dominique LecourtDominique LecourtDominique Lecourt is a French philosopher and editor born on 5 February 1944 in Paris. He is known in the anglophone world primarily for his work developing a materialist interpretation of the philosophy of science of Gaston Bachelard....
- Henri LefebvreHenri LefebvreHenri Lefebvre was a French sociologist, Marxist intellectual, and philosopher, best known for his work on dialectics, Marxism, everyday life, cities, and space.-Biography:...
- Claude LefortClaude LefortClaude Lefort was a French philosopher and activist.He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty...
- Antoine Legrand
- Alain Le Guyader
- Jean-Michel Le Lannou
- Marguerite Léna
- Lazare Lenain
- Roger Lenglet
- Xavier LéonXavier LéonXavier Léon was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal Revue de métaphysique et de morale. Léon remained editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique...
- Jules LequierJules LequierJules Lequier was a French philosopher from Brittany. He wrote in favour of dynamic divine omniscience, wherein God's knowledge of the future is one of possibilities rather than actualities...
- Pierre LerouxPierre LerouxPierre Henri Leroux , French philosopher and political economist, was born at Bercy, now a part of Paris, the son of an artisan.- Life :...
- Sylvain Leroy
- Édouard Le RoyEdouard Le RoyÉdouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy was a French philosopher and mathematician.Le Roy was received at the École Normale Supérieure in 1892, and at the agrégation in mathematics in 1895...
- Marie-Anne Lescourret
- René Le Senne
- Charles Lévêque
- Jean Lévêque
- René Levesque (pédagogue)
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology"....
- Emmanuel LevinasEmmanuel LévinasEmmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmudic commentator.-Life:Emanuelis Levinas received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania...
- Benny LévyBenny LévyBenny Lévy was a philosopher, political activist and author. A political figure of May 1968 in France, he was the disciple and last personal secretary of Jean-Paul Sartre from 1974 to 1980....
- Pierre Lévy (philosopher)
- Lucien Lévy-BruhlLucien Lévy-BruhlLucien Lévy-Brühl was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality....
- Jean-Marc Lévy-LeblondJean-Marc Lévy-LeblondJean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, born in 1940, is a physicist and essayist.After a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the université d’Orsay in 1965, he was successively in charge of research at CNRS, lecturer at the université de Nice, a professor at the Paris Diderot University, and at Nice, where he...
- Louis Liard
- Jacqueline Lichtenstein
- Gilles LipovetskyGilles LipovetskyGilles Lipovetsky is a French philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble....
- Émile LittréÉmile LittréÉmile Maximilien Paul Littré was a French lexicographer and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called "The Littré".-Biography:Émile Littré was born in Paris...
- Pierre Lombard
- Frédéric LordonFrédéric LordonFrédéric Lordon is a French economist born in 1962. He has, since 2004, served as a CNRS Director of Research at the Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée in Strasbourg. He has a number of works published.-References:...
- Lucien Scubla
- Stéphane LupascoStéphane LupascoStéphane Lupasco Stéphane Lupasco Stéphane Lupasco (born Ştefan Lupaşcu; (1900–1988) was a Romanian philosopher who developed Non-Aristotelian logic.-Early years:Stéphane Lupasco was born in Bucharest on 11 August 1900. His family belonged to the old Moldavian aristocracy...
- Georges-Henri Luquet
- Jean-François LyotardJean-François LyotardJean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition...
- Bernard Mabille (philosopher)
- Gabriel Bonnot de MablyGabriel Bonnot de MablyGabriel Bonnot de Mably , sometimes known as Abbé de Mably, was a French philosopher and politician. He was born in Grenoble of a legal family, and, like his younger brother, the well-known philosopher, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , took holy orders...
- Pierre MachereyPierre MachereyPierre Macherey is a French Marxist literary critic at Université Lille Nord de France. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume Reading "Capital", Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism and Marxism...
- Gabriel Madinier
- Robert Maggiori
- Pierre Magnard
- Gilbert Maire
- Gérard Mairet
- Catherine MalabouCatherine MalabouCatherine Malabou is a French philosopher. She is currently professor in the Philosophy Department at the Université Paris-X Nanterre and Visiting Professor in the Comparative Literature Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo...
- Henri Maldiney
- Nicolas MalebrancheNicolas MalebrancheNicolas Malebranche ; was a French Oratorian and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesize the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world...
- André Malet (philosopher)André Malet (philosopher)André Malet was a French Catholic priest and philosopher who became a Unitarian Protestant. Specialising in Martin Heidegger, he translated Rudolf Bultmann into French...
- Michel Malherbe (philosopher)
- Philippe Malrieu
- Manegold de Lautenbach
- Pierre ManentPierre ManentPierre Manent teaches political philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. Every fall, he is also a visiting teacher at Boston College at the department of Political Science....
- Alexandre Marc
- Gabriel MarcelGabriel MarcelGabriel Honoré Marcel was a French philosopher, a leading Christian existentialist, and author of about 30 plays.He focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society...
- Jan Marejko
- Louis Marin (philosopher)
- Jean-Luc MarionJean-Luc MarionJean-Luc Marion is among the best-known living philosophers in France, former student of Jacques Derrida and one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. Marion's take on the postmodern is informed by his expertise in patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy...
- Jacques MaritainJacques MaritainJacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
- Jean-François Marquet
- Jean-Clet Martin
- Emmanuel Martineau
- Eric Marty
- Michela Marzano
- Nicolas Massias
- Paul Masson-Oursel
- Jean-François MattéiJean-François MattéiJean-François Mattéi, born 9 March 1941 in Oran, Algeria, is a French philosopher.-External links:...
- Jean Maugüe
- André Maurin
- Charles MaurrasCharles MaurrasCharles-Marie-Photius Maurras was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme...
- Dominique Méda
- Quentin MeillassouxQuentin MeillassouxQuentin Meillassoux is a French philosopher. He teaches at the École Normale Supérieure, and is the son of the anthropologist Claude Meillassoux....
- Philippe Mengue
- René MénilRené MénilRené Ménil was a French surrealist writer and philosopher who lived on the island of Martinique.Born and raised on the island of Martinique, Ménil was one of several of the island's natives who studied in France and returned to influence the independence movement with the ideas of Marxism, and...
- Jacques Merleau-Ponty
- Maurice Merleau-PontyMaurice Merleau-PontyMaurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...
- Marin MersenneMarin MersenneMarin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics"...
- Jean MeslierJean MeslierJean Meslier was a French Catholic priest who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. Described by the author as his "testament" to his parishioners, the text denounces all religion.-Life:Jean Meslier was born in Mazerny in the Ardennes...
- Régis Messac
- Émile MeyersonÉmile MeyersonEmile Meyerson was Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Emile Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74....
- Roland Meynet
- Yves Michaud (philosopher)Yves Michaud (philosopher)Yves Michaud is a French philosopher. He was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1989 to 1997. In 2007 Le Figaro published his article entitled "Ce nouveau fondamentalisme moral qui menace la société française".-Works by Michaud:* Violence et politique, 1978* Hume et la...
- Jean-Claude Michéa
- Fabrice Midal
- Gaston MilhaudGaston MilhaudGaston Milhaud was a French philosopher and historian of science.Gaston Milhaud studied mathematics with Gaston Darboux at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1881 he took a teaching post at the University of Le Havre. In 1891 he became professor of mathematics at Montpellier University, and in 1895...
- Jean-Claude MilnerJean-Claude MilnerJean-Claude Milner is a linguist, philosopher and a French essayist. In particular, he is a specialist in the field of both linguistics and psychoanalysis...
- Alain Milon (universitaire)
- Victor Riqueti de Mirabeau
- Robert MisrahiRobert MisrahiRobert Misrahi is a French philosopher born in Paris in 1926, who specialises in Spinoza.Emeritus professor of ethical philosophy at the Université de Paris I , he has published a number of works on Spinoza and published the essentials of his work on the question of happiness...
- Damien Mitton
- Olivier Mongin
- Henri Mongis
- Michel de MontaigneMichel de MontaigneLord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne , February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592, was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism...
- Charles de Montalembert
- Pierre Montebello
- Montesquieu
- Joseph Moreau (philosopher)
- Pierre-François Moreau (philosopher)
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
- Edgar MorinEdgar MorinEdgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist born Edgar Nahoum in Paris on July 8, 1921. He is of Judeo-Spanish origin. He is known for the transdisciplinarity of his works.- Biography :...
- Stéphane Mosès
- Emmanuel MounierEmmanuel MounierEmmanuel Mounier was a French philosopher.Mounier was the guiding spirit in the French Personalist movement, and founder and director of Esprit, the magazine which was the organ of the movement. Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne...
- Paul Mouy
- Jean-Marie Muller
- Philippe MurayPhilippe MurayPhilippe Muray , was a French essayist and novelist. Although none of his works has yet been translated into English, Muray is considered one of the most influential thinkers of his generation...
- Marc Antoine Muret
- Pierre Musso
- Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyJean-Luc Nancy is a French philosopher.Nancy's first book, published in 1973, was Le titre de la lettre , a reading of the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, written in collaboration with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...
- Gabriel NaudéGabriel NaudéGabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. An influential work on library science was the 1627 book Advice on Establishing a Library...
- Maurice Nédoncelle
- Frédéric Nef
- André NeherAndré NeherAndré Neher was a Jewish scholar and philosopher, born 12, rue du Marche, in Obernai, Bas-Rhin. He was a student at the College Freppel in Obernai, then at the Lycee Fustel de Coulange in Strasbourg. He became professor at the College Erckmann-Chatrian in Sarrebourg, then at the Lycee Kleber in...
- Philippe Nemo
- Frédéric Neyrat
- Jean NicodJean NicodJean George Pierre Nicod was a French philosopher and logician.In his best known work, he showed that the classical propositional calculus could be derived from one axiom and one rule, both expressed using the Sheffer stroke...
- Désiré Nolen
- François NoudelmannFrançois NoudelmannFrançois Noudelmann is a contemporary French philosopher, university professor and radio producer.François Noudelmann is currently a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee , the University of Paris VIII , Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and New York University...
- Jean-Félix Nourrisson
- Pierre Nourry
- Philippe NysPhilippe NysPhilippe Nys is a Belgian-born French philosopher. The focus of his work is hermeneutics, poetics and theory of Space's design...
- Ruwen Ogien
- Michel OnfrayMichel OnfrayMichel Onfray is a contemporary French philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism and anarchism...
- Philippe Orantin
- Nicole Oresme
- Marc-Alain OuakninMarc-Alain OuakninMarc-Alain Ouaknin was born in Paris in 1957.Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin and Eliane Erlich Ouaknin Marc-Alain Ouaknin was born in Paris in 1957.Both a rabbi and a philosopher, he is the son of Rabbi Jacques Ouaknin (b. 1932, Marrakesh, Morocco) and Eliane...
- Mélika Ouelbani
- Georges PalanteGeorges PalanteGeorges Toussaint Léon Palante was a French philosopher and sociologist.He advocated aristocratic individualist ideas similar to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. He was opposed to Émile Durkheim's holism, promoting methodological individualism instead.-Life:Palante was born in Blangy-les-Arras in the...
- Kostas Papaïoannou
- Thierry Paquot
- Brice Parain
- Jeanne Parain-Vial
- Dominique Parodi
- Blaise PascalBlaise PascalBlaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
- Frédéric Paulhan
- Bernard Pautrat
- Emmanuel Peillet
- Pierre Péju
- Charles Pépin
- Jean Pépin (philosopher)
- Catherine PerretCatherine PerretCatherine Perret is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University . She obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy and is known for her work on Walter Benjamin, most notably by her book "Walter Benjamin ou la critique en effet". Dr. Perret was the director of the...
- Jean Petitot (philosopher)
- Alexis Philonenko
- Yvonne Picard
- François PicavetFrançois PicavetFrançois Picavet was a French philosopher, translator and authority on Kant.He is now best known for an 1891 essay, Les idéologues, on the history of ideas and of scientific theories, philosophy and religious and political ideas in France since 1789.- Works:* Mémoire sur le scepticisme *...
- Emmanuel Picavet
- Frank Pierobon
- Pierre Jacerme
- Bruno Pinchard
- Richard Pinhas
- Claude Pithoys
- Rafaël Pividal
- Fred Poché
- Claude Polin
- Raymond PolinRaymond PolinRaymond Polin was a French philosopher.He taught at the Paris University .-Literary works:* La création des valeurs, 1944* La compréhension des valeurs, 1945...
- Georges PolitzerGeorges PolitzerGeorges Politzer was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" . He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania.-Biography:Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the...
- Amédée Ponceau
- Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
- Gilbert de la PorréeGilbert de la PorréeGilbert de la Porrée , also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, Gilbertus Porretanus or Pictaviensis, was a scholastic logician and theologian.-Life:...
- Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
- Jean Pouillon
- Nicos PoulantzasNicos PoulantzasNicos Poulantzas was a Greek Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s, Poulantzas was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and, while at first a Leninist, eventually became a proponent of eurocommunism. He is most well known for his theoretical work on the state...
- François Poullain de la BarreFrançois Poullain de la BarreFrançois Poulain de la Barre , was a writer, Cartesian and feminist philosopher.-Life:...
- Ollivier Pourriol
- Jean-François Pradeau
- Maurice PradinesMaurice PradinesMaurice Pradines was a French philosopher. Although his thought was largely original, Pradines may be categorized among the interwar period philosophers of the mind...
- Michel Puech
- Pierre Pyrard
- Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy
- Bernard Quelquejeu
- Dominique Quessada
- Jean Quillien
- Roland Quillot
- Pierre-Yves Quiviger
- Jean-François Raguet
- Pierre de La Ramée
- Jacques RancièreJacques RancièreJacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...
- Frédéric Rauh
- Gérard Raulet
- Félix Ravaisson
- Philippe Raynaud
- Olivier Reboul
- Robert RedekerRobert RedekerRobert Redeker is a French writer and philosophy teacher. He was teaching at the Pierre-Paul-Riquet high school, in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, and at the École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile...
- Charles de RémusatCharles de RémusatCharles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat , was a French politician and writer.-Biography:He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, of a good family of Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute...
- Ernest RenanErnest RenanErnest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany...
- Emmanuel Renault
- Alain Renaut
- Jacques Rennes
- Charles Renouvier
- René Daval
- Olivier Revault d'Allonnes
- Jean-François RevelJean-François RevelJean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française from June 1998...
- Judith Revel
- Jean ReynaudJean ReynaudJean Reynaud was a French socialist philosopher.He was a member of the Saint-Simonian community. He was a co-founder of the Encyclopédie nouvelle.-External links:* -Bibliography:...
- Paul Ricœur
- Pierre A. RiffardPierre A. RiffardPierre A. Riffard is a French philosopher and specialist in esotericism. Born in Toulouse , he is a professor of pedagogy and philosophy at the University of the French West Indies and Guiana ....
- Dominique-François Rivard
- Léon RobinLéon RobinLéon Robin was a French philosopher and scholar of Greek philosophy, professor of history of ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1924 to 1936....
- André Robinet
- Jean-Baptiste-René Robinet
- Rainer Rochlitz
- Claude Roëls
- Alain Roger
- Roland Dalbiez
- Claude Romano
- Gilbert Romeyer-Dherbey
- Roscelin de Compiègne
- Alexis RosenbaumAlexis RosenbaumAlexis Rosenbaum is a French essayist. After studying philosophy and psychology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, he graduated with a dissertation on "hierarchical representations in the history of philosophy"...
- Irène Rosier-Catach
- Clément RossetClément RossetClément Rosset is a French philosopher and writer.After studying at the École Normale Supérieure, he took the agrégation of philosophy in 1965. For the next two years, Rosset taught French at the Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, then settled in Nice, France, where he taught philosophy until...
- Jean RostandJean RostandJean Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher.Active as an experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist...
- Yves RoucauteYves RoucauteYves Roucaute is a French christian philosopher , Phd , Phd , writer, professeur agrégé teaching at Paris X University Nanterre, President of the scientific Council of the "Institut National des Hautes Etudes de Securité et de Justice" , director of...
- Louis RougierLouis RougierLouis Auguste Paul Rougier was a French philosopher. Rougier made many important contributions to epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy and the history of Christianity.-Biography:Rougier was born in Lyon...
- Philippe de Rouilhan
- Serge Roure
- François Roustang
- Jean-Marc Rouvière
- Joseph RovanJoseph RovanJoseph Adolph Rovan , was a French philosopher and politician, and is considered a spiritual father of post-war Europe...
- Jacqueline Russ
- Raymond RuyerRaymond RuyerRaymond Ruyer was a French philosopher in the late 20th century. Author of many important works, he covered several topics such as the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of informatics, the philosophy of value and others...
- Théodore Ruyssen
- Han RynerHan RynerJacques Élie Henri Ambroise Ner , also known by the pseudonym Han Ryner, was a French individualist anarchist philosopher and activist and a novelist...
- Marquis de SadeMarquis de SadeDonatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle...
- Henri Dominique Saffrey
- Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux
- Charles de Saint-ÉvremondCharles de Saint-ÉvremondCharles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the peace of the Pyrenees . He is buried in Poets' Corner,...
- Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
- Bertrand Saint-Sernin
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon
- Jumeaux Saint-Vincent
- Émile SaissetÉmile SaissetÉmile Edmond Saisset was a French philosopher.He was born at Montpellier. He studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, and carried on the eclectic tradition of his master along with Ravaisson and Jules Simon...
- Philippe-Joseph SalazarPhilippe-Joseph SalazarPhilippe-Joseph Salazar is a French rhetorician and philosopher born 1955, Casablanca, Morocco. Educated at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Alumnus of École Normale Supérieure, Paris and past director at Collège international de philosophie, Paris, founded by Jacques Derrida. Currently...
- Jean Salem
- Michel Sales
- Paule Salomon
- Pierre Sansot
- Jean Saphary
- Georges-Elia SarfatiGeorges-Elia SarfatiGeorges Elia Sarfati is a linguist, philosopher and Franco-Israeli poet writing in French. He is a University Professor, a director of research at the Sorbonne University of Paris IV. A former professor at the University of Tel Aviv , and an associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs...
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
- Auguste Saugey-Avisard
- Anne Sauvagnargues
- Alexandre Savérien
- Patrick Savidan
- Alexandre Savoyen
- André Scala
- Jean-Marie Schaeffer
- René Schérer
- Frédéric Schiffter
- Judith E. Schlanger
- Monique Schneider
- Pierre-Maxime Schuhl
- Albert SchweitzerAlbert SchweitzerAlbert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...
- Alain-Philippe Segonds
- Michel SerresMichel SerresMichel Serres is a French philosopher and author, celebrated for his unusual career.-Life and career:...
- Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges
- Lucien Sève
- Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc
- Bernard Sichère
- Jean de SilhonJean de SilhonJean de Silhon was a French philosopher and politician. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 24 of the Académie française in 1634....
- Gérard Simon
- Jules SimonJules SimonJules François Simon was a French statesman and philosopher, and one of the leader of the Opportunist Republicans faction.-Biography:Simon was born at Lorient. His father was a linen-draper from Lorraine, who renounced Protestantism before his second marriage with a Catholic Breton. Jules Simon...
- Gilbert SimondonGilbert SimondonGilbert Simondon was a French philosopher best known for his theory of individuation, a major source of inspiration for Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler.- Career :...
- Roger de Sizif
- Michael Smadja
- Jean Soldini
- Samuel Sorbière
- Georges SorelGeorges SorelGeorges Eugène Sorel was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Oron J...
- Marc Soriano
- Philippe Soulez
- Étienne SouriauÉtienne SouriauÉtienne Souriau was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics.He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received his agrégation of philosophy in 1925. After teaching at the universities of Aix-en-provence and Lyon he eventually became a professor at the Sorbonne, where he...
- Arnaud Spire
- Jean-Fabien Spitz
- André Stanguennec
- George SteinerGeorge SteinerFrancis George Steiner, FBA , is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust...
- Bernard StieglerBernard StieglerBernard Stiegler is a French philosopher at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne. In addition, he is Director of the , founder in 2005 of the political and cultural group, , and founder in 2010 of the philosophy school,...
- Michel Surya
- Gilles Susong
- Peter SzendyPeter SzendyPeter Szendy is a French philosopher and musicologist.His Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles , with a preface by Jean-Luc Nancy, has been translated into Spanish and English...
- Pierre-André TaguieffPierre-André TaguieffPierre-André Taguieff is a philosopher and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in an Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris laboratory, the CEVIPOF...
- Hippolyte TaineHippolyte TaineHippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism, and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate...
- Philippe Tancelin
- Gabriel TardeGabriel TardeJean-Gabriel De Tarde or Gabriel Tarde in short French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals , the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation.- Theory :Among the concepts...
- Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
- Claude Tedguy
- Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere...
- Michel Terestchenko
- Pierre Tevanian
- Jacques Texier
- Ludivine Thiaw-Po-Une
- Thibaud d'Étampes
- Paul Thibaud
- Gustave ThibonGustave ThibonGustave Thibon was a French philosopher.He loved poetry very early although he left school at the age of thirteen, especially Victor Hugo and the Parnasse. He was very impressed by First World War, what led him to hate patriotism and democracy. Young Gustave Thibon travelled to London and to Italy...
- Pierre Thillet
- Pierre Thuillier
- Gilles A. Tiberghien
- Xavier TillietteXavier TillietteXavier Tilliette is a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and theologian, born on July 23, 1921, in Corbie . Former student of Jean Wahl and of Vladimir Jankélévitch, he is a member of the Society of Jesus and professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris , at the Pontifical...
- Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de TocquevilleAlexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution . In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in...
- Patrick Tort
- Charles Touati
- Emmanuel Tourpe
- Claude TresmontantClaude TresmontantClaude Tresmontant was a French philosopher, Hellenist and theologian.- Biography :He taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne. He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science...
- Jean Tricot
- André Tubeuf
- Jean Marie Turpin
- Vladimir Tybin
- Jean Ullmo
- Paul Vignaux
- Étienne VacherotÉtienne VacherotÉtienne Vacherot was a French philosophical writer.-Life:He was born of peasant parentage at Torcenay, near Langres in the Haute-Marne département of France....
- Paul Valadier
- Serge Valdinoci
- Paul ValéryPaul ValéryAmbroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath...
- Georges Vallin
- Patrick Vauday
- Augusto VeraAugusto VeraAugusto Vera was an Italian philosopher who followed Hegel's theories and translated many of his works.-Life:Vera was born in Amelia in the province of Terni. He was educated in Rome and Paris, and, after teaching classics for some years in Geneva, held chairs of philosophy in various colleges in...
- Alexandre Veret
- Francisco Vergara
- Bertrand Vergely
- Denis Vernant
- François Vezin
- Jordi Vidal
- Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron
- Arnaud Villani
- Michel Villey
- Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
- Jean-Marie Vincent
- Paul VirilioPaul VirilioPaul Virilio is a cultural theorist and urbanist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military....
- Jean-Marc Vivenza
- VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
- Jean-Pierre VoyerJean-Pierre VoyerJean-Pierre Voyer is a post-situationist French philosopher. His main thesis is the non-existence of economy, and he claims to be inspired by Hegel and Marx, although he is very critical of the latter. He criticizes utilitarism...
- Jules VuilleminJules VuilleminJules Vuillemin was a French philosopher, succeeding to Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the Collège de France from 1962 to his death. A friend of Michel Foucault, he supported his election at the College, and was also close to Michel Serres...
- Jean-Louis Vullierme
- Charles-Pendrell Waddington
- François WahlFrançois WahlFrançois Wahl is a French editor and structuralist.-Biography:François Wahl was editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris. He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others....
- Jean WahlJean WahlJean André Wahl was a French philosopher.-Early career:He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S...
- Henri Wallon (1879-1962)
- Jean Wallon
- Éric Weil
- Simone WeilSimone WeilSimone Weil , was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.-Biography:Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, and her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was...
- Heinz Wismann
- Francis Wolff (philosopher)
- Frédéric Worms
- Patrick Wotling
- Jean-Jacques Wunenburger
- Mikhaïl Xifaras
- Yannis Youlountas
- Léontine Zanta
- Pierre Zaoui
- Jean-Pierre Zarader
- Marlène ZaraderMarlène ZaraderMarlene Zarader, born in 1949, is a French philosopher. She teaches philosophy at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III in Montpellier. Since became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2007....
- Yves Charles Zarka
- François Zourabichvili
- Hervé Zwirn