Science & Ideas

🧠 Great Philosophers

From Plato to Foucault, Confucius to Avicenna — the thinkers whose ideas have shaped how humanity understands existence, knowledge, and morality.

74 historical figures, born between 604 BC and 1956, across 27 countries.

Birth years 604 BC to 1956 · 27 countries · 5 continents · Main fields: Philosophy (51), Science (8), Religion (6), Literature (4), Politics (4), Military (1)

How to play

• A historical figure from Great Philosophers is shown
• Drop a pin on the world map where you think they were born
• Score by how close you are, over five rounds

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Who you might get

48 of 74 figures in this map. Birthplaces are hidden — that's what the game asks you to guess.

• Adi Shankara b. 788
• Albert Camus b. 1913
• Alfred North Whitehead b. 1861
• Anselm of Canterbury b. 1033
• Aristotle b. 384 BC
• Arthur Schopenhauer b. 1788
• Auguste Comte b. 1798
• Augustine of Hippo b. 354
• Averroes b. 1126
• Avicenna b. 980
• Baruch Spinoza b. 1632
• Bertrand Russell b. 1872
• Blaise Pascal b. 1623
• Charles Sanders Peirce b. 1839
• Confucius b. 552 BC
• David Hume b. 1711
• Denis Diderot b. 1713
• Duns Scotus b. 1265
• Edmund Husserl b. 1859
• Epicurus b. 342 BC
• Francis Bacon b. 1561
• Friedrich Nietzsche b. 1844
• G. E. Moore b. 1873
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel b. 1770
• George Berkeley b. 1685
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz b. 1646
• Gottlob Frege b. 1848
• Hannah Arendt b. 1906
• Henri Bergson b. 1859
• Heraclitus b. 535 BC
• Immanuel Kant b. 1724
• Jacques Derrida b. 1930
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau b. 1712
• Jean-Paul Sartre b. 1905
• Jeremy Bentham b. 1749
• John Dewey b. 1859
• John Locke b. 1632
• John Rawls b. 1921
• John Stuart Mill b. 1806
• Judith Butler b. 1956
• Jürgen Habermas b. 1929
• Karl Marx b. 1818
• Karl Popper b. 1902
• Laozi b. 604 BC
• Ludwig Wittgenstein b. 1889
• Marcus Aurelius b. 121
• Martin Heidegger b. 1889
• Mary Wollstonecraft b. 1759