Western Philosophy Works - Randall Collins

Here is the list based on Randall Collins - only philosophers BOLDED by him in his diagrams are listed here. I excluded the Greco / Roman period as that list has already been studied based on the Leob Classic Library catalogue - so effectively it started from Chapter 9 onwards. I group things based on period after seeing the list.

 

A) High Medieval

Anselm

Abelard

Albertus Magnus

Roger Bacon

Bonaventure

Thomas Aquinas

Henry of Ghent

Duns Scotus

William of Ockham

Levi Ben Gerson

Eckhart

 

B) Early Modern

Francis Bacon

Descartes

Hobbes

Spinoza

Leibniz

Locke

Berkeley

Hume

Rousseau

 

C) Modern / German Eminence

Kant

Goethe (?)

Fichte

Schelling

Schopenhauer

Hegel

J.S. Mill

Bradley

 

(20th century - not to be included in list)

Russell

Wittgenstein

 

I am somewhat surprised of his list for 19th c. Based on my analysis on what is being taught in American University, I have a sense that the 5 "canonical" continental philosophers of the 19th century are Fichte, Hegel (he has included), Kirkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche. Of course, arguably, this list was based on the professors who taught in late 20th century who grew up studying Existentialism and Heideggar, thus the focus on Kirkegaard and Nietzsche.