17th-century philosophy

17th-century philosophy in the West is generally regarded as seeing the start of modern philosophy, and the shaking off of the mediæval approach, especially scholasticism.

List of 17th-century philosophers

(Still very incomplete)

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• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Marin Mersenne (1588–1648)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
• Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694)
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
• Anne Conway (1631–1679)
• Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
• John Locke (1632–1704)
• Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715)
• Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
• Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)
• Giambattista Vico (1668–1744)

Outside Europe

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• Wang fu-zi (1619–1693)