两个英国老师Diané Collinson和Kathryn Plant编了一本《50个大哲学家》（Fifty Major Philosophers, Routledge,1988, 2006)，所列名单如下： 

Thales of Miletus (about 624–546 BCE)

Pythagoras (about 571–496 BCE)

Heraclitus of Ephesus (flourished 504–501 BCE)

Parmenides (flourished 501–492 BCE)

Zeno of Elea(flourished 464 BCE or perhaps later)

Socrates (469–399 BCE)

Democritus of Abdera (about 460–371BCE)

Plato (427–347 BCE)

Aristotle (384–322 BCE)

Plotinus (205–270 AD)

Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD)

Moses Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)(1135–1204)

St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74)

John Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308)

William of Ockham (c. 1285–1349)

Niccolò diBernardo dei Machiavelli (1469–1527)

FrancisBacon (1561–1626)

GalileoGalilei (1564–1642)

ThomasHobbes (1588–1679)

René Descartes (1591–1650)

Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77)

John Locke (1632–1704)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz(1646–1716)

George Berkeley (1685–1753)

David Hume (1711–77)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(1770–1831)

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

John Stuart Mill (1806–73)

SørenKierkegaard (1813–55)

Karl Marx(1818–83)

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

William James (1842–1910) 159

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)

John Dewey (1859–1952)

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

George Edward Moore (1873–1958)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

Robin George Collingwood (1889–1943)

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

Karl Raimund Popper (1902–94)

Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961)

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–89)

John Rawls (1921–2002)

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80)

名单里没有东方人，他们另编了一本Fifty Eastern Thinkers，似乎说明他们严格区分了东方思想与西方哲学。研究中国哲学和思想史的人也常常纠结，我们的思想是那个“哲学”吗？我们的思想史有与西方思想路线平行的“进化”吗？