This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.

[edit] Classic and Influential Metaphysicians

• Parmenides
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Thomas Aquinas
• René Descartes
• Baruch Spinoza
• Gottfried Leibniz
• George Berkeley
• Immanuel Kant
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Bertrand Russell
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• David Kellogg Lewis
• David Malet Armstrong
• Arthur Schopenhauer

[edit] Other

• Charles François d'Abra de Raconis
• Robert Merrihew Adams
• William Alston
• Paul Benacerraf
• Brian Leftow
• C. D. Broad
• Arda Denkel
• Michael Devitt
• Kit Fine
• Peter Glassen
• John Hawthorne
• Shadworth Hodgson
• Peter van Inwagen
• David Kolb
• Saul Kripke
• William Lycan
• Trenton Merricks
• Terence Parsons
• Alvin Plantinga
• Graham Priest
• Hilary Putnam
• Jay Rosenberg
• Nathan Salmon
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Frithjof Schuon
• Gilbert Simondon
• Wolfgang Smith
• Robert Stalnaker
• P. F. Strawson
• Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Peter Unger
• David Wiggins
• Damon Young
• Dean Zimmerman

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