| VOLTAIRE | French philosopher and writer |
| SIMONE | ___ de Beauvoir, French philosopher and writer (6) |
| DIDEROT | French philosopher and writer (1713-84) (7) |
| DENIS | French philosopher and writer (1713-84) (5) |
| SARTRE | French philosopher and author of Being and Nothingness |
| ROUSSEAU | Jean-Jacques --, 1712-78, French philosopher and writer (8) |
| COMTE | Auguste - - -, French philosopher and writer who founded positivism (5) |
| CAMUS | French philosopher and author (5) |
| RAND | Ayn ___ (1905-82), Russian- born US philosopher and writer (4) |
| NICCOLOMACHIAVELLI | Italian philosopher and writer best known for The Prince |
| SCRUTON | Roger, philosopher and writer noted for his conservative viewpoint (7) |
| DEBEAUVOIR | Major French existentialist philosopher and author best known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, |
| AJAYER | British philosopher and author of the influential 1936 book on logical positivism, Language, Truth and Logic (1,1,4) |
| AYER | AJ _, English philosopher and author of Language,Truth And Logic (4) |
| THOMASHOBBES | English philosopher and author of Leviathan |
| RENEDESCARTES | French philosopher and mathematician (4,9) |
| MARCEL | Gabriel --, 1889-1973, French philosopher and dramatist (6) |
| DESCARTES | Rene _, 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician (9) |
| ABELARD | Peter --, French philosopher and scholar (1079-1142) (7) |
| WEIL | French philosopher and mystic Simone |
