In what century did Gilbert Ryle live?

20th Click to see the answer

In which year did Karl Marx die?

1883

What year saw the birth of Plato?

427BC

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in which year?

1889

Complete the title of a famous work by Simone de Beauvoir 'The Second…'?

Sex

Mao Zedong stated which philosopher was 'the Philosopher of the people'?

Mozi

What year marked the birth of Aristotle?

384BC Click to see the answer

In what year did Gilles Deleuze write 'What is Philosophy?'?

1991

In what year did Al-Ghazali die?

111

In what year was Benedictus Spinoza born?

1632

In what year was Confucius born?

551BC

What year saw the birth of Immanuel Kant?

1724

John Langshaw Austin famously wrote 'How to do things wit ____'?

Words

In what year did Friedrich Nietzsche die?

1900

What nationality was Thomas Aquinas?

13th

Francis Bacon published his seminal work Novum Organum in which year?

1620 Click to see the answer

In what century did the Philosopher Plotinus live?

3rd

In what century did Karl Popper live?

20th

When did Simone de Beauvoir release The Second Sex?

1949

Willard Van Orman Quine was from which country?

USA

Where was Ludwig Wittgenstein held as a POW in the first World War?

Italy

Complete the Bertrand Russell quote 'War doe not determine who is right - only who is ___'?

Left

What year did Edmund Burke die?

1790

In what year did Jean Paul Sartre refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature?

1964

What year saw the birth of Karl Marx?

1818

What year saw the death of Niccolo Machiavelli?

1527

Sun Yat Sen stated which philosopher was 'the Philosopher of the people'?

Mozi

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in what decade?

1840s Click to see the answer

Plotinus was a philosopher from which country?

Egypt

What century did David Hume live and work?

18th

What year saw the birth of John Locke?

1632

In what century was Bulgarian philosopher Julia Kristeva born?

20th

Complete the title of a famous work by Theodo Adorno 'Philosophy of Modern…'?

Music

Noam Chomksy was born in which year?

1928

In what year was Erasmus born?

1466

Complete the famous quote attributed to Peter Strawson 'the Present King of France is…'?

Bald

Which philosopher opposed Confucian concern with ritual and emphasized self-knowledge?

Mozi

Thomas Aquinas was born in which year?

1225

In which year was Bertrand Russell awarded the Nobel prize?

1950

In what century did Mozi live?

5BC

What decade saw the birth of Karl Jaspers and Ernst Bloch?

1880s

In what century did Soren Kierkegaard live and die?

19th

In what year was In Praise of Folly by Erasmus published?

1509 Click to see the answer

In what century did John Stuart Mill live and die?

19th

In what year was Rene Descartes born?

1596

When did Michel Foucault die?

1984

What year saw the birth of Arne Naess?

1912

Pierre Abelard was born in what year?

1079

What does the J stand for in the name of JS Mill?

John

What century did Siddharta Gautama live?

6BC

John Rawls was born in which country?

USA

In which year was George Santayana born?

1863

Richard Rorty was born in which country?

USA

Karl Popper wrote 'The Self and it's _____'?

Brain

In what year did English Philosopher Peter Strawson die?

2006

Saul Kripke was born in what year?

1940

Which country was home to Han Feizi?

China

What year saw the birth of Jeremy Bentham?

1748

Which of these philosophers was born first?

Mozi

During which century did the English Philosopher John Langshaw Austin?

20th

in what century did Lao Tzu live?

6BV Click to see the answer

In what year was Simone de Beauboir born?

1908

Jacques Derrida passed away in which year?

2004

In what year was Francis Bacon born?

1561

In what year did Anselm publish 'Proslogion'?

1078

The Way of the Truth is the first section in 'On Nature' by which philosopher?

Parmenides

Which is the correct title of the most famous work by Bertrand Russell?

The History of Western Philosophy

Which of these is the title of a famous work by Jean Paul Sarte?

Nausea

Whose masterwork is entitled 'Ethics'?

Benedictus Spinoza

Meditations of Don Quixote is a work by which Spanish Philosopher?

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Which philosopher carried out the 1945 lecture 'Existentialism is a Humanism'?

Jean Paul Sarte

Metaphysics and On The Soul are works by which philosopher?

Aristotle

On The Eternal in Man and Mans Place in Nature are works who which philosopher?

Max Scheler

Which philosopher is associated with the quote 'I Think Therefore I Am'?

Rene Descartes

Mozi was a philosopher from which country?

China

Which of the following produced the masterpiece Proslogion?

Anselm of Canterbury

Pythagoras was a philosopher from which country?

Greece

Which Jewish philosopher Feld from Austria in 1937 to New Zealand?

Karl Popper

Being and Nothingness is a famous work by which philosopher?

Jean Paul Sarte

Plato was born in which country?

Greece

John Stuart Mill was the godfather of which philosopher?

Bertrand Russell

Which philosopher lived to the age of 91?

Thomas Hobbes

What does the S stand for in the name of JS Mill?

Stuart

Heraclitus was a philosopher from which country?

Greece

Truth and Method is the major work of which philosopher?

Hans-Georg Gadamer

What nationality was Immanuel Kant?

German Click to see the answer

From which country did Erasmus hail?

Holland

Complete the famous Pythagoras quote…'All things are…'?

Numbers

In which country was Aristotle born?

Greece

Which is regarded as the founder of Chinese philosophy?

Lao Tzu

Gilbert Ryle was born in which country?

England

What nationality was Auguste Comte?

French Click to see the answer

Complete the name of the famous work by John Rawls 'A Theory of….'?

Justice

Jose Oretga Y Gasset was born in which country?

Spain

What was the name of Siddhartha's Gautama's first son?

Rahula

Complete the famous Jean Paul Sarte quote 'Hell is Other….'?

People

What nationality was philosopher Titus Brandsma?

Dutch

What nationality was the philosopher Martin Heidegger?

German

What completes the title of a landmark Michel Foucault work 'The Order of….'?

Things

Which of these was a pupil of Socrates?

Plato

Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini in what modern day country?

Nepal Click to see the answer

What nationality was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?

German

What nationality was philosopher Ramon Llull?

Spain

What nationality was Rene Descartes?

French

Incoherence of the Incoherence' is a famous work by whom?

Averros

Thales of Miletus was born in which country?

Greece

Ernst Bloch and Karl Jaspers hailed from which country?

Germany

What nationality was Miguel de Unamuno?

Spanish

Where did Aristotle set up his Lyceum school?

Athens

Karl Popper hailed from which country?

Austria

Rudolf Carnap was born in which country?

Germany

John Stuart Mill came from which country?

England

Dao De Jing is a work by which famous philosopher?

Lao Tzu Click to see the answer

Which of the following Philosopher was not from China?

Erasmus

In which country was Anslem of Canterbury born?

Italy

What was the first name of the famous philosopher Machiavelli?

Niccolo

Which country was home to Niccolo Machiavelli?

Italy

Arne Naess is a philosopher from which country?

Norway

Peter Strawons hails from which country?

England

The Book of Virtue and The Book of the Way are works by which philosopher?

Lao Tzu

Francisco Suarez hailed from which country?

Spain

Hans-Georg Gadamer famously wrote the work 'Truth and _____'?

Method

Republic and Apology were major works of which philosopher?

Plato

What was the middle name of American philosopher Charles Peirce?

Sanders

What was the middle name of Karl Popper?

Raimund

Alfred North Whitehead stated philosophy was 'a series of footnotess to..'?

Plato

Michel de Montaigne hails from which country?

France

From which country does Jurgen Habermas hail?

Germany Click to see the answer

What nationality was Jacques Derrida?

French

What nationality was Karl Marx?

German

Who is considered the last of the great philosophers of Islams Golden Era?

Averros

In what country was Confucius born?

China

What nationality was Edmund Burke?

Irish

Which composer heavily influenced the work of Friedrich Nietzsche?

Wagner

Which of the following philosophers was a keeper of the archives of the Impartial Library of the Zhou Dynasty?

Lao Tzu

George Santayana was born in which country?

Spain

Zeno of Elea was a philosopher from which country?

Greece

Complete the name of a famous philosopher '_____ of Ockham'?

William

Simone de Beauvoir was born in which country?

France

In which country was Averros born?

Spain

Whose early dialogues feature Socrates as the main protagonist?

Plato

What was the first name of 'I Think…' philosopher Descartes?

Rene

In what year was Socrates born?

469 BC

Edmund Husserl was born in which country?

Germany

Which philosopher was tutor to Prince Dionysius?

Plato

Francis Bacon came from which country?

England Click to see the answer

From what country does the philosopher Alfred Ayer come from?

England

Francisco de Vitoria was from which country?

Spain

Soren Kierkegaard hailed from which country?

Denmark

Lao Tzu hailed from which country?

China

Which philosopher has a name meaning 'Old Master'?

Lao Tzu

In which city was Socrates born?

Athens

Socrates hailed from which country?

Greece

Nicholas of Cusa came from which country?

Germany

The Social Contract was a major work by whom?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Achilles and the Tortoise is the best known of the famous paradoxes by which philosopher?

Zeno of Elea

What age was Saul Kripke when he published his first papers on modal logic?

19

Which Philosopher coined the term 'semiotic'?

Julia Kristeva

Which Philosopher wrote The Archaeology of Knowledge?

Michel Foucault

Who became the Chair of Notre Dame, aged just 34?

Pierre Abelard

Complete the name of the philosopher. Karl _____.

Marx

Treatise on the World is a major work by whom?

Rene Descartes

On Learned Ignorance is a 1440 work by which philosopher?

Nicholas of Cusa

Which of the following philosophers founded the 'analytic tradition'?

Gottlob Frege

Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a major work by which philosopher?

John Locke

Which of these is considered a founder of Stoicism?

Zeno of Citium

Naming and Necessity is a key work by which philosopher?

Saul Kripke

The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho is a work by which philosophers?

Miguel de Unamuno

Either/Or is a major work by which philosopher?

Soren Kierkegaard

Which philosophers works included 'The Concept of Mind' and 'Plato's Progress'?

Gilbert Ryle

Which philosopher was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize?

Bertrand Russell

Which Philosopher and Nazi Sympathiser was Rector of Freiburg University?

Martin Heidegger

Who was the father of the official philosophy of the Han Dynasty?

Confucius

Invertebrate Spain and The Result of the Masses are works by which philosopher?

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Louis Althusser hails from which country?

France

Fill in the blank in the title of this famous work by Jean Paul Sarte 'The ____ of the family'?

Idiot

John Langshaw Austin famously wrote 'How to do things with ____'?

Words

Which of these was a member of the Vienna Circle?

Willard Van Orman Quine

Which German philosopher wrote 'Meaning and necessity'?

Rudolf Carnap

What nationality is Saul Kripke?

American Click to see the answer

Which of these philosopher was accused of treason and executed in 523?

Boethius

Which philosopher was born in 280BC in China?

Han Feizi

Which philosopher is often considered the last of the Roman philosopher?

Boethius

Wu-Wei is a notion associated with which philosopher?

Lao Tzu

Which philosopher is attributed with the quote 'All things are numbers'?

Pythagoras

What nationality was Theodor Adorno?

German Click to see the answer

Which of the following philosophers served Ostrogoth King of Italy?

Boethius

What nationality was the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein?

Austrian

Which of these philosopher has a crater on the moon named after them?

Avicenna

Who was sent to Athens aged 17 to study at Plato's Academy?

Aristotle

Consolation of Philosophy' is a work by which influential philosopher?

Boethius

Which philosopher was born in 570bc in Greece?

Pythagoras

Which of the following was heavily influenced by Jeremy Bentham?

JS Mill

David Hume hailed from which country?

Scotland

Which of the following philosophers is most associated with Utilitarianism?

JS Mill Click to see the answer

Which philosopher is attributed with the quote 'Every Realm of nature is Marvellous'?

Aristotle

Which philosopher acted as a tutor to Alexander the Great?

Aristotle

In Praise of Folly (1509) is a work by whom?

Erasmus

Which philosopher was brought up in the Chinese province of Lu?

Confucius

Fill in the blank in the title of a famous Jean Paul Sartre lecture 'Existenalism is a …'?

Humanism

Which philosopher is regarded as the father of Daoism?

Lao Tzu

Which philosopher was born in 384 BC in Greece?

Aristotle

Who is often considered the first of the Scholastic Philosophers?

Boethius

Siddharta Gautama was the founder of which religion?

Buddhism

What nationality was philosopher William James?

American

What nationality is philosopher Julia Kristeva?

Bulgarian

Which philosophers father was physician to King Phillip of Macedon?

Aristotle Click to see the answer

The Book of Healing and Canon of Medicine were works by which medical philosopher?

Avicenna

John Duns Scotus was from which country?

Scotland

The Analects are a work by which philosopher?

Confucius

What nationality is Noam Chomsky?

American

Which philosopher was born in the Greek island of Samos?

Pythagoras

Peter Singer comes from which country?

Australian

Complete the title of a landmark work by philosopher Noam Chomsky 'Sytactic…'?

Structures

Who is considered the most important figure of new Humanism?

Erasmus

Which philosopher established the Lyceum school?

Aristotle

Which philosopher wrote Virtuous City?

Al-Farabi

Which philosophers birthplace is Stageira, Greece?

Aristotle

In which city did Niccolo Machiavelli spend his life?

Florence

Which of the following was born in Italy?

Boethius

The Subjection of Women' is a work by which artist?

JS Mill

Which philosopher has the first name Anicus Manilus Severinus?

Boethius Click to see the answer

Which of these founded the school of Legalism?

Han Feizi

Which of these philosophers did now writing of his own?

Socrates

Han Feizi founded which school of philosophy?

Legalism

Which philosopher is believed to have been born in modern day Kazakhstan?

Al-Farabi

What was Mozi's trade?

Engineer

Which of these philosophers was involved in the 'Kalam argument'?

Avicenna

Which of these was a leading figure in 'Oxford Philosophy'?

John Langshaw Austin

The Will to Believe (1897) was an early work by whom?

William James

Language, Truth and Logic (1936) is a famous work by…..?

Alfred Ayer

Which philosopher was exiled from Spain for opposing the dictatorship of Primo De Rivera?

Miguel de Unamuno

Tractus is the title of the early major work by which philosopher?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Which philosopher had the nickname 'The Subtle Doctor'?

John Duns Scotus

Which of the following philosophers spent their entire career at Harvard?

William James

Which of these philosopher is commonly called 'The Sceptic'?

Pyrrho of Elis

Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma was the first major sermon of whom?

Siddhartha Gautama

Which philosopher is associated with the quote 'War does not determine who is right…only who is left'?

Bertrand Russell

Which of these philosophers served as a naval intelligence officer in World Ware Two?

Willard Van Orman Quine

Which of these was the head of the prestigious Nizamiyyah school in Baghdad?

Al-Ghazali

Complete the title of Michel Foucaults first major work 'Madness and…'?

Civilization

Which of the following was considered a founder of the Scholastic movement?

Francisco de Vitoria

The Birth of Tragedy is a work by which philosopher?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Augustine of Hippo was based on what continent?

Africa

His student Porphyry wrote a biography entitled 'Enneads' about whom?

Plotinus

Which of the following studied at the Frankfurt Institute under Adorno and Horkheimer?

Jurgen Habermas

How To Do Things With Words (1962) is a work by which philosopher?

John Langshaw Austin