PANTHEON
ExploreBuild My Library
© 2026 Pantheon — an atlas of the ideas that shaped how we think.
Discipline Focus

history of philosophy

5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Alasdair MacIntyre

Scottish philosopher who revitalized virtue ethics with After Virtue — a sweeping critique of Enlightenment moral philosophy arguing that modern ethics has lost the teleological framework that made moral discourse coherent.

political philosophyethicshistory of philosophy
View Profile
Thinker

Daniel Garber

American historian of philosophy who has written authoritative studies of Descartes and Leibniz and the relationship between early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution.

philosophy of sciencehistory of philosophy
View Profile
Thinker

John Skorupski

British philosopher who has written the definitive study of John Stuart Mill and developed a neo-Millian account of normative reasons.

ethicsphilosophy of languagehistory of philosophy
View Profile
Thinker

Matthew Homan

American philosopher working on Spinoza's metaphysics and epistemology.

history of philosophy
View Profile
Thinker

Robert Fogelin

American philosopher who wrote influential studies of Wittgenstein and Hume and contributed to informal logic pedagogy.

logicepistemologyhistory of philosophy
View Profile