Thinkers
The thinking behind the thinkers whose thoughts shape our worldview. Explore our expert views:
A moral perspective
The belief that trust is the key to fundamental moral notions is at the heart of the work of Annette Baier.
The master jailer
He invented the Prisoner's Dilemma, but that's just the start of the work of John Nash.
Workers unite
'The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways - the point is to change it', according to Karl Marx.
Romantically inclined
The first true Romanticist philosopher, he believed that liberty was something that all could aspire to. Meet Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
A grim viewpoint
He was one of the first philosophers to use the notion of a 'social contract'. But there was nothing warm about Thomas Hobbes.
First thoughts
Founder of the Lyceum in Athens, and tutor to Alexander the Great, we still think in ways influenced by Aristotle.
The revolutionary struggles
For Che Guevara, revolution was motivated by - and called for - extreme emotions and reactions. At its heart was love and violence.
Pens, peanuts, souls and bodies
Are we solely the sum of our body parts, or is there more to us? Descartes frames the question as a Cartesian dualism.
Er war ein Berliner
The reputation for being austere and humourless isn't bourne out by the Berlin works of Kierkegaard.
The man of rights
From the Town Council in Lewes to national hero in France and America is quite a journey - discover more about the philosophy and life of Thomas Paine.
The children of suffrage
Overshadowed by her less radical relatives, and with her role in socialism and anti-imperialism sometimes ignored completely, her reputation falls short of what was achieved by Sylvia Pankhurst.
Soothsayer or smarty?
The common view of Leonardo paints him as a man who saw the future - but if we judge him by the standards of the time, does a different picture emerge? We paint a portrait of Da Vinci.
Investigating the universe
Although much of what he thought subsequently proved to be wrong, it shouldn't ruin our view of Aristotle - Olympic thinker.
