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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn is a really good introduction. I'm not really sure exactly what your asking. There is some kind of overlap between philosophy and every other academic discipline, between psychology and philosophy of mind for instance, or religion and moral philosophy perhaps. Other disciplines often break off of philosophy as well - so once 'natural philosophy' becomes well defined enough to stand on it's own we get science, etc. All of the people you mentioned would be considered philosophers, the biggest question mark would be on the psychoanalysts. You'll probably find more literary theory types interested in that than anyone else, but it's not out of the picture in philosophy. Certainly controversial, but at the very least it's still interesting to a lot of people as part of the history of the way people have thought about things.
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Monteunicorn posted:Socrates, Plato and Aristotle ---- Descartes, Hume and Kant They (might) be the six most important if if you're looking at the history of philosophy, but even just looking at it that way it's hardly going to be a comprehensive list. The youngest person on there died in 1804. Philosophy hasn't exactly stood still for 200 years. Also what about the 2000 years between Aristotle and Descartes? I get what you're saying, this was how phil 101 and 102 were organized when I first took them, the first class focusing on the Greeks the other picking up with Descartes. It's perfectly sensible, but too broad of statement to say just know these six people. If you want an overview you'd be better focusing on how ideas develop rather than just get a checklist of people, you'll encounter all the names that way anyways.
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