公元前的西方著名哲学家就有,
Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – 546 BC). Of the Milesian school. Believed that all was made of water.
Pherecydes of Syros (c. 620 – c. 550 BC). Cosmologist.
Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610 – 546 BC). Of the Milesian school. Famous for the concept of Apeiron, or "the boundless".
Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 – 525 BC). Of the Milesian school. Believed that all was made of air.
Pythagoras of Samos (c. 580 – c. 500 BC). Of the Ionian School. Believed the deepest reality to be composed of numbers, and that souls are immortal.
Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 – 480 BC). Sometimes associated with the Eleatic school.
Epicharmus of Kos (c. 530 – 450 BC). Comic playwright and moralist.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC). Of the Ionians. Emphasized the order and mutability of the universe.
Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 BC). Of the Eleatics. Reflected on the concept of Being.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500 – 428 BC). Of the Ionians. Pluralist.
Empedocles (492 – 432 BC). Eclectic cosmogonist. Pluralist.
Zeno of Elea (c. 490 – 430 BC). Of the Eleatics. Known for his paradoxes.
Protagoras of Abdera (c. 481 – 420 BC). Sophist. Early advocate of relativism.
Antiphon (480 – 411 BC). Sophist.
Hippias (Middle of the 5th century BC). Sophist.
Gorgias. (c. 483 – 375 BC). Sophist. Early advocate of solipsism.
Socrates of Athens (c. 470 – 399 BC). Emphasized virtue ethics. In epistemology, understood dialectic to be central to the pursuit of truth.
Critias of Athens (c. 460 – 413 BC). Atheist writer and politician.
Prodicus of Ceos (c. 465 – c. 395 BC). Sophist.
Leucippus of Miletus (First half of the 5th century BC). Founding Atomist, Determinist.
Thrasymachus of Miletus (c. 459 – c. 400 BC). Sophist.
Democritus of Abdera (c. 450 – 370 BC). Founding Atomist.
Diagoras of Melos (c. 450 – 415 BC). Atheist.
Archelaus. A pupil of Anaxagoras.
Melissus of Samos. Eleatic.
Cratylus. Follower of Heraclitus.
Ion of Chios. Pythagorean cosmologist.
Echecrates. Pythagorean.
Timaeus of Locri. Pythagorean.
Antisthenes (c. 444 – 365 BC). Founder of Cynicism. Pupil of Socrates.
Aristippus of Cyrene (c. 440 – 366 BC). A Cyrenaic. Advocate of ethical hedonism.
Alcidamas c. 435 – c. 350 BC). Sophist.
Lycophron (Sophist) c. 430 – c. 350 BC). Sophist.
Diogenes of Apollonia (c. 425 BC – c 350 BC). Cosmologist.
Hippo (c. 425 – c 350 BC). Atheist cosmologist.
Xenophon (c. 427 – 355 BC). Historian.
Plato (c. 427 – 347 BC). Famed for view of the transcendental forms. Advocated polity governed by philosophers.
Speusippus (c. 408 – 339 BC). Nephew of Plato.
Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 408 – 355 BC). Pupil of Plato.
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 399 – 323 BC). Cynic.
Xenocrates (c. 396 – 314 BC). Disciple of Plato.
Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BC). A polymath whose works ranged across all philosophical fields.
Theophrastus (c. 371 BC–c. 287 BC). Peripatetic.
Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360 – 270 BC). Skeptic.
Strato of Lampsacus (c. 340 BC–c. 268 BC). Atheist, Materialist.
Epicurus (c. 341 – 270 BC). Materialist Atomist, hedonist. Founder of Epicureanism
Zeno of Citium (c. 333 – 264 BC). Founder of Stoicism.
Timon (c. 320 – 230 BC). Pyrrhonist, skeptic.
Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 – 207 BC). Major figure in Stoicism.
Carneades (c. 214 – 129 BC). Academic skeptic. Understood probability as the purveyor of truth.
Lucretius (c. 99 – 55 BC). Epicurean.
更多公元后的参见Timeline_of_Western_philosophe
巴门尼德(Parmenides) 赫利克里特(Heractitus) 马可·奥勒留(Marcus Aurelius) 柏拉图(Plato) 亚里士多德(Aristotle) 苏格拉底(Socrates) 笛卡尔(Descartes)