In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist.

* 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher ( d. 1858 )

* 1928 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian ( d. 2010 )

* Genevieve Lloyd, philosopher and feminist

Lyndall Gordon states this was an " influential essay ", in which Fawcett cleansed the reputation of the early feminist philosopher and claimed her as a foremother of the struggle for the vote.

Vandana Shiva ( Hindi: वन ् दन ा श ि व ा; b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India ), is a philosopher, environmental activist, author and eco feminist.

Hélène Cixous (; born 5 June 1937 ) is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician.

Born Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Catlin, Williams is the daughter of a political scientist and philosopher Sir George Catlin, and the feminist and pacifist writer Vera Brittain.

* January 9-Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher ( died 1986 )

* April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and feminist writer

* June 27-Harriet Martineau, philosopher and feminist writer ( born 1802 )

* date unknown-Madeleine de Puisieux, French philosopher and feminist writer ( born 1720 )

* Date unknown-Madeleine de Puisieux, French philosopher and feminist writer ( died 1798 )

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher and feminist, lived there with her husband William Godwin, and died there in 1797 after giving birth to the future Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

Verso Books published an edition in 2004 with an introduction by feminist philosopher Avital Ronell.

Dora Black, Lady Russell ( 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986 ) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.

* Kathleen Lennon, Ferens Chair in Philosophy, leading feminist philosopher, known for her work on the body incorporating both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy

Perhaps the most cited feminist writer of the time was Mary Wollstonecraft, often characterised as the first feminist philosopher.

Luce Irigaray ( born 3 May 1930, Blaton, Belgium ) is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist.

Mary Daly ( October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010 ) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian.

Genevieve Lloyd ( born at Cootamundra, New South Wales, 16 October 1941 ) is an Australian philosopher and feminist.

Thomas Thorild ( Svarteborg, Bohuslän, 18 April 1759-Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, 1 October 1808 ), was a Swedish poet, critic, feminist and philosopher.

Susan Bordo, a modern feminist philosopher, in her writings elaborates the dualistic nature of the mind / body connection by examining the early philosophies of Aristotle, Hegel and Descartes, revealing how such distinguishing binaries such as spirit / matter and male activity / female passivity have worked to solidify gender characteristics and categorization.

The philosopher Simone Weil was his sister.

His only sibling was Simone Weil, a famous philosopher.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) 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 ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher ( b. 1909 )

* Simone Weil, philosopher, and theological writer

One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: " One is not born a woman, one becomes one ".

Simone Weil (; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943 ) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.

The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in A Very Easy Death ( Une mort très douce, 1964 ) reflects within her own conscience about her mother's attempts to develop such a moral sympathy and understanding of others.

The mystic and philosopher Simone Weil, who had helped the Spanish anarchists as a combat soldier, would later promote participatory democracy in her political manifesto The Need for Roots.

In 1982, this section was named Simone Weil Avenue, in honour of the French philosopher and mystic.

* Simone de Beauvoir-Writer and philosopher

" The French philosopher Simone Weil has argued that debt is evil, because it leads us to the false belief that the past ( a promise to pay later for instance ) give us right to a certain future ( a given money sum at a given date ).

* Simone Weil, philosopher

He belonged to a wealthy and noble Neapolitan family, and was the son of the philosopher Simone Porzio.

Simone Porzio ( Simon Portius ) ( 1496 – 1554 ) was an Italian philosopher, born and died in Naples.

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

* Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle.

The concepts in the Declaration come from the philosophical and political principles of the Age of Enlightenment, such as individualism, the social contract as theorized by the Swiss philosopher Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by the Baron de Montesquieu.

* Ronald de Sousa ( born 1940 ) – English – Canadian philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of emotions, philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology.

He was thus related to the great theologian and philosopher Martín de Azpilcueta.

* 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de ' Fiori in Rome.

* 1502 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher ( d. 1574 )

* The Third Policeman and The Dalkey Archive by Flann O ' Brien contains not only quotes from the works of a fictitious Irish philosopher named de Selby, but also has numerous footnotes and references to other fictitious authors writing about de Selby and his books.

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

Elements of historicism appear in the writings of Italian philosopher G. B. Vico and French essayist Michel de Montaigne, and became fully developed with the dialectic of G. W. F. Hegel, influential in 19th-century Europe.

Portrait by Friedrich Engels. Johann Kaspar Schmidt ( October 25, 1806 – June 26, 1856 ), better known as Max Stirner ( the nom de plume he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow, in German ' Stirn '), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary fathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism.

Alexis de Tocqueville, the French philosopher, witnessed the Choctaw removals while in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1831,

In the book Imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism, humanist philosopher Tzvetan Todorov identifies individualism as an important current of socio-political thought within modernity and as examples of it he mentions Michel de Montaigne, François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Sade, and Charles Baudelaire In La Rochefoucauld, he identifies a tendency similar to stoicism in which " the honest person works his being in the manner of an sculptor who searches the liberation of the forms which are inside a block of marble, to extract the truth of that matter.

* 1834 – Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie, French philosopher ( d. 1895 )

As early as 1819, in his famous speech “ On Ancient and Modern Liberty ,” the political philosopher Benjamin Constant, a proponent of constitutional monarchy and representative democracy, criticized Rousseau, or rather his more radical followers ( specifically the Abbé de Mably ), for allegedly believing that " everything should give way to collective will, and that all restrictions on individual rights would be amply compensated by participation in social power .”

Government in Lithuania is made up of three branches originally envisioned by enlightenment philosopher Baron de Montesquieu: executive, legislative, and judicial.

In the eulogy written for the French Academy by the French mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, he commented,

Thinkers most typically linked with Structuralism include anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, the early writings of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the early writings of literary theorist Roland Barthes, and the semiotician Algirdas Greimas.

Arminius used a philosophy called Molinism ( named for the philosopher Luis de Molina ) that attempted to reconcile freedom with God's omniscience.

Both the marquis d ' Argenson and the abbé de Saint-Pierre described politics as a science ; d ' Argenson was a philosopher and de Saint-Pierre an allied reformer of the enlightenment.