MADSEN PIRIE is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.

• Introduction; 101 Great Philosophers [provisional list]; Anaxagoras; Anaximander; Anselm; Antisthenes; Aquinas; Archimedes; Aristotle; Augustine; Ayer; Bacon; Bakunin; Bastiat; de Beauvoir; Bentham; Berkeley; Burke; Carnap; de Chardin; Chomsky; Comte; Democritus; Derrida; Descartes; Dewey; Diderot; Diogenes; Diogenes Laertius; Empedocles; Empiricus; Epictetus; Epicurus; Erasmus; Ferguson; Feuerbach; Franklin; Galileo; Gasset; Hayek; Hegel; Heidegger; Heraclitus; Hobbes; Hume; James; Jefferson; Kant; Kierkegaard; Koestler; Kuhn; Lakatos; Leibniz; Locke; Machiavelli; Mandeville; Marcus Aurelius; Marcuse; Marx; Mill; Montesquieu; Moore; Newton; Nietzsche; Nozick; Oakeshott; Ockham; Parmenides; Pascal; Peirce; Petrarch; Plato; Plotinus; Popper; Protagoras; Proudhon; Ptolemy; Pythagoras; Quine; Rand; Rawls; Rousseau; Ryle; Russell; Sartre; Schopenhauer; Seneca; Shelley; Smith; Socrates; Spencer; Spinoza; Strawson; Thales; Vico; Voltaire; Weber; Weil; Wittgenstein; Wollstonecraft; Xenophanes; Zeno List of entries.

Fans of the "dip-in-and-have-a-go" approach to philosophy should form an orderly queue.

MADSEN PIRIE is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.

• Introduction; 101 Great Philosophers [provisional list]; Anaxagoras; Anaximander; Anselm; Antisthenes; Aquinas; Archimedes; Aristotle; Augustine; Ayer; Bacon; Bakunin; Bastiat; de Beauvoir; Bentham; Berkeley; Burke; Carnap; de Chardin; Chomsky; Comte; Democritus; Derrida; Descartes; Dewey; Diderot; Diogenes; Diogenes Laertius; Empedocles; Empiricus; Epictetus; Epicurus; Erasmus; Ferguson; Feuerbach; Franklin; Galileo; Gasset; Hayek; Hegel; Heidegger; Heraclitus; Hobbes; Hume; James; Jefferson; Kant; Kierkegaard; Koestler; Kuhn; Lakatos; Leibniz; Locke; Machiavelli; Mandeville; Marcus Aurelius; Marcuse; Marx; Mill; Montesquieu; Moore; Newton; Nietzsche; Nozick; Oakeshott; Ockham; Parmenides; Pascal; Peirce; Petrarch; Plato; Plotinus; Popper; Protagoras; Proudhon; Ptolemy; Pythagoras; Quine; Rand; Rawls; Rousseau; Ryle; Russell; Sartre; Schopenhauer; Seneca; Shelley; Smith; Socrates; Spencer; Spinoza; Strawson; Thales; Vico; Voltaire; Weber; Weil; Wittgenstein; Wollstonecraft; Xenophanes; Zeno List of entries.

Fans of the "dip-in-and-have-a-go" approach to philosophy should form an orderly queue.

MADSEN PIRIE is President of the Adam Smith Institute and author of numerous books including Boost Your IQ and The Sherlock Holmes IQ Book. He was formerly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA. He appears regularly as an expert on CNN and BBC television.

• Introduction; 101 Great Philosophers [provisional list]; Anaxagoras; Anaximander; Anselm; Antisthenes; Aquinas; Archimedes; Aristotle; Augustine; Ayer; Bacon; Bakunin; Bastiat; de Beauvoir; Bentham; Berkeley; Burke; Carnap; de Chardin; Chomsky; Comte; Democritus; Derrida; Descartes; Dewey; Diderot; Diogenes; Diogenes Laertius; Empedocles; Empiricus; Epictetus; Epicurus; Erasmus; Ferguson; Feuerbach; Franklin; Galileo; Gasset; Hayek; Hegel; Heidegger; Heraclitus; Hobbes; Hume; James; Jefferson; Kant; Kierkegaard; Koestler; Kuhn; Lakatos; Leibniz; Locke; Machiavelli; Mandeville; Marcus Aurelius; Marcuse; Marx; Mill; Montesquieu; Moore; Newton; Nietzsche; Nozick; Oakeshott; Ockham; Parmenides; Pascal; Peirce; Petrarch; Plato; Plotinus; Popper; Protagoras; Proudhon; Ptolemy; Pythagoras; Quine; Rand; Rawls; Rousseau; Ryle; Russell; Sartre; Schopenhauer; Seneca; Shelley; Smith; Socrates; Spencer; Spinoza; Strawson; Thales; Vico; Voltaire; Weber; Weil; Wittgenstein; Wollstonecraft; Xenophanes; Zeno List of entries.

Fans of the "dip-in-and-have-a-go" approach to philosophy should form an orderly queue.