Name Dates Brief Bio Nationality Area Interests Major Work(s) Video
Thomas
Hobbes
1588-1679 politics history, law Leviathan
François
de La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680 moralist affection, friendship, love, loyalty Memoirs; Maximes
Blaise
Pascal
1623-1662 natural philosophy mathematics, physics Traité du triangle arithmétique
Margaret
Cavendish
1623-1673
philosophy, poetry gender, power, manners Poems and Fancies;
Observations upon Experimental Philosophy; Philosophical Letters
Robert
Boyle
1627-1691 natural philosophy, theology chemistry, physics The Sceptical Chymist;
The Christian Virtuoso
Baruch
Spinoza
18632-1677 epistemology politics, ethics Tractatus_Theologico-Politicus;
Ethics
John
Locke
1632-1704 epistemology politics, economics, identity and self Two Treatises of Government;
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding;
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Isaac
Newton
1642-1726 physics, theology astronomy, alchemy, optics Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy;
The System of the World
Pierre
Bayle
1647-1706 philosophy, lexicography toleration, skepticism Reflections on the Comet;
Historical and Critical Dictionary
Gottfried
Leibniz
1646–1716 philosophy, mathematics, theology politics, law, history, ethics New Essays on Human Understanding;
Monadology;
Théodicée
George
Berkeley
1685-1753 philosophy immaterialism, perception, morals A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge;
The Analyst