Contemporary philosophy
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The term contemporary philosopher refers not just to figures who are alive, but also those who died within the past three decades, irrespective of when their major philosophy works were written or when their work was most popular. Similarly, "contemporary philosophical movements" may refer to philosophies that have actually been under discussion for several decades.
It is almost always difficult, some would say impossible, to describe the shape of any particular era while it is happening. Controversy does not imply later importance, and ideas which seem antithetical are often later seen as aspects of the same inquiry in slightly different forms. "Contemporary" almost always means diversity, because there has been no time to anneal away the less important work, join together ideas, and codify systems in a manner that is easy to explain to others.
Contemporary philosophy is sometimes divided into analytic philosophy and continental philosophy. This is obviously a category mistake, opposing a geographical identifier with a certain style of philosophising. There are of course undeniable differences within and between different countries.
The editors of this article have therefore chosen to identify the two dominant styles in contemporary philosophy as "analytical philosophy" and "phenomenological/structuralist/post-structuralist philosophy".
Philosophers of the phenomenological, structuralist and post-structuralist schools
- Althusser, Louis
- Agamben, Giorgio
- Badiou, Alain
- Barthes, Roland
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Blanchot, Maurice
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Butler, Judith
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Cixous, Hélène
- Debord, Guy
- Deleuze, Gilles
- Derrida, Jacques
- Foucault, Michel
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg
- Girard, Rene
- Grayling, Anthony
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Hamacher, Werner
- Kristeva, Julia
- Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
- Lefebvre, Henri
- Lefort, Claude
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Levinas, Emmanuel
- Lyotard, Jean-François
- de Man, Paul
- Nancy, Jean-Luc
- Negri, Antonio
- Ricoeur, Paul
- Serres, Michel
- Vattino, Gianni
- Virilio, Paul
- Žižek, Slavoj
Philosophers of the analytical school
- Anscombe, Elisabeth
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Broad, C. D.
- Butterworth, Charles
- Churchland, Paul
- Dennett, Daniel
- Davidson, Donald
- Ducasse, Curt
- Fodor, Jerry
- Gellner, Ernest
- Gendlin, Eugene
- Haack, Susan
- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel
- Lewis, David
- Lyons, David
- Marcus, Ruth Barcan
- McGinn, Colin
- Nagel, Thomas
- Nozick, Robert
- Nussbaum, Martha
- Plantinga, Alvin
- Putnam, Hilary
- Quine, Willard Van Orman
- Rawls, John
- Rorty, Richard
- Searle, John
- Sellars, Wilfrid
- Thomson, Judith Jarvis
- Williams, Bernard
- Wolterstorff, Nicholas
Some philosophical movements
Deconstruction – Existentialism – Hermeneutics – Infinitism – Phenomenology – Post-colonialism – Post-structuralism – Postmodernism – Structuralism – Cognitivism – Materialism – Objectivism – Pragmatism – Positivism – Reductionism – Virtue ethics - Philosophical AutonomismExternal links
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