List of philosophers of science

This is a chronological list of philosophers of science. For an alphabetical name-list, see .

Before the 19th century

• Roger Bacon
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Galileo Galilei
• David Hume

19th century

• Auguste Comte
• William Whewell
• George Henry Lewes
• William Stanley Jevons
• Ernst Mach
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Edmund Husserl
• Frederich Engels

1900–1930

• Nikola Tesla
• Henri Poincaré
• Pierre Duhem
• Niels Bohr
• Albert Einstein
• Bertrand Russell
• Frank P. Ramsey
• Moritz Schlick
• John Dewey
• Alfred North Whitehead

1930–1960

• Alfred Ayer
• Mario Bunge
• Hans Reichenbach
• Georges Canguilhem
• Noam Chomsky
• Kenneth Craik
• Alexandre Koyré
• Sir Karl Popper
• Rudolf Carnap
• Michael Polanyi
• Otto Neurath
• Carl Gustav Hempel
• Paul Oppenheim
• Gaston Bachelard
• R. B. Braithwaite
• Werner Heisenberg
• Taketani Mitsuo
• Stephen Toulmin

1960–1980

• David Bloor
• David Bohm
• Paul Feyerabend
• Hartry Field
• Mary Hesse
• Thomas Kuhn
• Imre Lakatos
• Ernest Nagel
• Hilary Putnam
• W.V. Quine
• Michael Ruse
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

1980–present

• Peter Achinstein
• David Albert
• Jeffrey A. Barrett
• Roy Bhaskar
• Maarten Boudry
• Richard Boyd
• Arturo Carsetti
• Nancy Cartwright
• David Castle
• Anjan Chakravartty
• Alan Chalmers
• Hasok Chang
• Patricia Churchland
• Paul Churchland
• Daniel Dennett
• John Dupré
• John Earman
• Bas van Fraassen
• Ronald Giere
• Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Rebecca Goldstein
• Adolf Grünbaum
• Susan Haack
• Ian Hacking
• Donna Haraway
• Sandra Harding
• Michał Heller
• Jaakko Hintikka
• Paul Hoyningen-Huene
• Philip Kitcher
• Ursula Klein
• Larry Laudan
• John Lennox
• Isaac Levi
• Peter Lipton
• Helen Longino
• Elisabeth Lloyd
• Tim Maudlin
• Deborah Mayo
• Ernan McMullin
• Peter Medawar
• Sandra Mitchell
• John E. Murdoch
• Nancey Murphy
• Basarab Nicolescu
• Massimo Pigliucci
• John Polkinghorne
• Stathis Psillos
• Hilary Putnam
• Benedict Rattigan
• Alexander Rosenberg
• Oliver Sacks
• Wesley C. Salmon
• Eric Scerri
• Kristin Shrader-Frechette
• Lawrence Sklar
• Brian Skyrms
• Quentin Smith
• Elliott Sober
• Miriam Solomon
• Wolfgang Stegmüller
• Kim Sterelny
• David Stove
• Patrick Suppes
• Claudine Tiercelin
• Roberto Torretti
• John Worrall