20th Century Philosophy
Although we now live in the 21st century, our lives and imaginations are nevertheless shaped from the evolving ideas and unanswered questions of the 20th century.
20th Century Philosophers
- Alfred Adler
- Theodor Adorno
- John Austin
- A.
J. Ayer
- Roland Barthes
- Georges Bataille
- Jean Baudrillard
- Walter Benjamin
- Henri Bergson
- Maurice Blanchot
- Brand Blanshard
- C.
D. Broad
- Albert Camus
- Rudolf Carnap
- Noam Chomsky
- Deleuze-Guattari
- Donald Davidson
- Jacques Derrida
- Herbert
Feigl
- Michel Foucault
- Philipp Frank
- Erich Fromm
- Sigmund Freud
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Kurt Gödel
- Jurgen Habermas
- Hans Hahn
- Friedrich Hayek
- Martin Heidegger
- Carl G. Hempel
- David Hilbert
- Max Horkheimer
- Edmund Husserl
- Don Ihde
- Karl Jaspers
- Saul Kripke
20th Century Topics & Ideas
If the names of the most prominant 20th century thinkers are foreign to you, you can use the topics list to the left. Two broad categories within which many topics fall are often described as the Continental tradition, which includes the existentialists, the phenomenologists, structuralists, post-structuralists, the critical theorists, the theoretical feminists, the psychologists, the post-modernists and deconstructionists. The other broad category is the American/British Analytic tradition, which includes the philosophers of mind, the scientific epistemologists, the neopragmatists, the logical positivists, and the ordinary language philosophers. Other philosophical movements, such as Objectivism, seem to belong in their own catagories.