LIST OF PHILOSOPHERS  

For Use in ELCF200 and ELCF400

Dr. Makedon

Course:______  Section:___________ Term:__________ Year:___________

THIS LIST BELOW IS INTENDED ONLY TO INSPIRE STUDENTS TO THINK OF POSSIBLE "PHILOSOPHERS" THEY COULD USE FOR THEIR POSITION AND ROLE PLAY PRESENTATIONS. IT SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS THE ONLY LIST THEY COULD USE, AS THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHERS THEY COULD CONSULT TO FIND A "PHILOSOPHER" FOR THEIR POSITION OR ROLE PLAY PRESENTATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, SEE THIS LIST OF PHILOSOPHERS ON THE INTERNET:  http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/philo.html#philosophers OTHER SOURCES OF NAMES OF PHILOSOPHERS MIGHT INCLUDE THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY; OR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT: http://educacao.pro.br/entries.htm OR ANY OF THE LISTS CITED AT THE MIDWEST PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOURCES PAGE AT: http://webs.csu.edu/~big0ama/mpes/journals/journals.html#Books

A STUDENT MAY ADD A NAME TO THE LIST BELOW THAT HE OR SHE SAW IN ANOTHER LIST, OR KNOWS FROM OTHER CLASSES OR READINGS  HE OR SHE MAY HAVE DONE. TO ADD A NAME TO THE LIST BELOW, A STUDENT MUST FIRSTLY CONSULT WITH THE INSTRUCTOR TO MAKE SURE SUCH NAME COUNTS AS A "PHILOSOPHER;" AND SECONDLY , ONCE APPROVAL IS GRANTED BY THE INSTRUCTOR, INSERT SUCH NAME ALPABETICALLY IN THE LIST, AND SIGN HIS OR HER NAME NEXT TO THAT PHILOSOPHER, AND ATTENDANCE NUMBER,  IN ORDER TO "RESERVE" SUCH PHILOSOPHER FOR HIM/HERSELF.

THE WAY A STUDENT MAY "RESERVE" A PHILOSOPHER FROM THE LIST BELOW IS AS FOLLOWS:

1. STUDENTS WRITE THEIR NAMES AND ATTENDANCE NUMBERS NEXT TO THE PHILOSOPHER OF THEIR CHOICE.

2. NO TWO STUDENTS MAY CHOOSE THE SAME PHILOSOPHER.

3. STUDENTS MAY NOT CHOOSE PHILOSOPHERS MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK (=STUDIED IN CLASS).

  1. Addams, Jane

  2. *Adler, Mortimer

  3. Anaxagoras

  4. Anaximander

  5. Apple, Michael W.

  6. *Aristotle

  7. Arnold, Matthew

  8. Augustine, Saint

  9. Ayer, A. J.

  10. Bacon, Francis

  11. Baldwin, James

  12. Barnard, Henry

  13. Barthes, Roland

  14. Bernstein, Basil

  15. Bethune, Mary McLeod

  16. Bourdieu, Pierre

  17. Bowles, Herbert

  18. Buber, Martin

  19. Buddha

  20. Carmichael, Stokley

  21. Chomsky, Noam

  22. Christ, Jesus

  23. Cole, Johnetta B.

  24. Collins, Marva

  25. Comenius, Jan Amos

  26. Comte, Auguste

  27. Conant, James

  28. Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas

  29. Confucius

  30. Counts, George S.

  31. Darwin, Charles

  32. Derrida, Jacques

  33. Descartes, Rene

  34. *Dewey, John

  35. Diogenes

  36. *DuBois, W.E.B.

  37. Eliot, Charles William

  38. Engels, Friedrich

  39. Erikson, Erik H.

  40. Escalante, Jaime

  41. Farrakhan, Louis

  42. Foucault, Michel

  43. Freire, Paulo

  44. Freud, Anna

  45. Freud, Sigmund

  46. Froebel, Friedrich

  47. Gadamer, Hans-Georg

  48. Gandhi, Mahatma

  49. Garvey, Marcus

  50. Gassendi, Pierre

  51. Gintis, Samuel

  52. Goodman, Paul

  53. Habermas, Jurgen

  54. Haeckel, Ernst

  55. Hall, G. Stanley

  56. Harris, William T.

  57. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  58. Heidegger, Martin

  59. Heraclitus

  60. Herbart, Johann Friedrich

  61. Hesiod

  62. Hirst, Paul H.

  63. Holt, John

  64. Hsun Tzu

  65. Huizinga, Johan

  66. Hughes, Langston

  67. Hume, David

  68. Husserl, Edmund

  69. *Hutchins, Robert Maynard

  70. Illich, Ivan

  71. Jackson, Jesse

  72. James, William

  73. *Jefferson, Thomas

  74. King, Martin Luther

  75. Kohl, Herbert

  76. Kohlberg, Laurence

  77. Kozol, Jonathan

  78. Kuhn, Thomas

  79. Kunjufu, Jawanza

  80. Lacan, Jacques

  81. Lancaster, Joseph

  82. Langevin, Paul

  83. Lao Tzu

  84. Leibnitz, Gottfried

  85. Levi-Strauss, Claude

  86. Locke, John

  87. Luther, Martin

  88. Madhubuti, Haki R.

  89. Malcolm X

  90. Makedon, Alexander

  91. Mao Zedong

  92. Marcus Aurelius

  93. Marcuse, Herbert

  94. Maritain, Jacques

  95. Marshall, Thurgood

  96. McGuffey, William H.

  97. Mead, George Herbert

  98. Mead, Margaret

  99. Melissus of Samos

  100. Montessori, Maria

  101. Morrill, Justin S.

  102. Morrison, Toni

  103. Neill, A.S.

  104. Oakeshott, Michael

  105. Parker, Francis W.

  106. Parmenides

  107. Peabody, George

  108. Peiper, L.

  109. Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich

  110. Piaget, Jean

  111. *Plato

  112. Pythagoras

  113. Rael, Joseph

  114. Rensselaer, Stephen Van

  115. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  116. Rorty, Richard

  117. Rousseau, Jean-Jaqcues

  118. Russell, Bertrand

  119. Satir, Virginia

  120. Saunders, Warner

  121. Scheffler, Israel

  122. Schiller, Friedrich

  123. Skinner, B.F.

  124. Smith, Adam

  125. *Socrates

  126. Soltis, Jonas F.

  127. Spinoza, Baruch

  128. Steiner, Rudolph

  129. Suits, Bernard

  130. Tolstoy

  131. Tubman, Harriet Ross

  132. Vico, Giambattista

  133. Voltaire

  134. Wang Yang-ming

  135. *Washington, Booker T.

  136. Weber, Max

  137. Webster, Noah

  138. Whitehead, Alfred North

  139. Woodson, Carter G.

  140. Xenophanes

  141. Zeno

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