20th-century English philosophers

The list 20th-century English philosophers includes Christopher Hitchens, Aldous Huxley, Alan Turing, A. C. Grayling and Alan Watts. The list consists of 156 members.

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Richard Dawkins

English evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)

Overview: Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born Clinton Richard Dawkins; 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1941

Age: 84

Nationality: British

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Male

Partner: Lalla Ward (Married)

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21st-century English male writers 486T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

English atheist writers 12T
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Christopher Hitchens

British author and journalist (1949–2011)

Overview: Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1949

Date of death: 15 December 2011

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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New Atheism 31T

Jewish American atheism activists 8T

Deaths from pneumonia in Texas 44T
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Aldous Huxley

Writer; author

Overview: Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1894

Date of death: 22 November 1963

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

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Bates method 6T

Philosophers of literature 95T

Anti-consumerists 98T
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Alan Turing

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

Overview: Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1912

Date of death: 7 June 1954

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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British artificial intelligence researchers 35T

Scientists with secret work 4T

English gay sportsmen 35T
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John Maynard Keynes

British economist (1883–1946)

Overview: John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes CB FBA ( KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic ...

Date of birth: 5 June 1883

Date of death: 21 April 1946

Age: 62 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 7" (201 cm)

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Bisexual male writers 160T

English LGBT scientists 15T

English bisexual writers 48T
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George Orwell

English, Author

Overview: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1903

Date of death: 21 January 1950

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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English ethicists 30T

Independent Labour Party members 15T

English male essayists 71T
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Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

Overview: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist ...

Date of birth: 18 May 1872

Date of death: 2 February 1970

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Residents of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park 9T

19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T

20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T
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A. C. Grayling

English philosopher

Overview: Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE FRSA FRSL (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland (now ...

Date of birth: 3 April 1949

Age: 76

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

Zambian philosophers 1T

Zambian humanists 1T
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Alan Watts

English philosopher

Overview: Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1915

Date of death: 16 November 1973

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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British Buddhist scholars 27T

English Buddhist teachers 3T

Converts to Buddhism from Christianity 40T
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A.J. Ayer

English philosopher

Overview: Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer FBA (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books L ...

Date of birth: 29 October 1910

Date of death: 27 June 1989

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of logic 129T

20th-century British non-fiction writers 191T

20th-century British philosophers 250T
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John Cowper Powys

British writer

Overview: John Cowper Powys (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of St ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1872

Date of death: 17 June 1963

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century British philosophers 250T

Anti-Stalinist left 50T

Male essayists 1,373T
12.

Iris Murdoch

British writer and philosopher

Overview: Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships ...

Date of birth: 15 July 1919

Date of death: 8 February 1999

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Honorary Degree Recipients of the University of London 12T

20th-century English women writers 711T

Irish women non-fiction writers 70T
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George Catlin (political scientist)

English political scientist and philosopher

Overview: Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a p ...

Date of birth: 29 July 1896

Date of death: 8 February 1979

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

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Members of the Fabian Society Executive Committee 211T

People educated at St Paul's School, London 453T

English political scientists 24T
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Gerald Heard

British writer and academic

Overview: Henry FitzGerald Heard (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-born American historian, science writer, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many ...

Date of birth: 6 October 1889

Date of death: 14 August 1971

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

20th-century British male writers 1,407T

20th-century British short story writers 272T
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R. G. Collingwood

British historian and philosopher

Overview: Robin George Collingwood FBA (1889–1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including The Principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously ...

Date of birth: 22 February 1889

Date of death: 9 January 1943

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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People from Cartmel 16T

20th-century British philosophers 250T

20th-century English historians 340T
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Olaf Stapledon

British novelist and philosopher

Overview: William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1886

Date of death: 6 September 1950

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Philosophical cosmologists 28T

Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T
17.

Colin Wilson

British author

Overview: Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1931

Date of death: 5 December 2013

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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Atlantis proponents 36T

Pseudoarchaeologists 35T

English male novelists 1,096T
18.

Nick Land

British philosopher

Overview: Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, short-story horror writer and blogger. He is known by some as "the father of accelerationism".

Date of birth: 17 January 1962

Age: 63

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

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Critics of Humanism 3T

20th-century British philosophers 250T

Dark Enlightenment 2T
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Thomas Dewar Weldon

English philosopher

Overview: Thomas Dewar "Harry" Weldon MC (5 December 1896 – 13 May 1958) was a British philosopher.

Date of birth: 5 December 1896

Date of death: 13 May 1958

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Philosopher

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People educated at Tonbridge School 301T

Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford 232T

English philosophers 299T
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Pamela Sue Anderson

British philosopher

Overview: Pamela Sue Anderson (April 16, 1955 – March 12, 2017) was an American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy and continental philosophy.

Date of birth: 16 April 1955

Date of death: 12 March 2017

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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20th-century American philosophers 713T

2017 deaths 9,371T

English women philosophers 30T