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Some of you may have my original Philosopher Timeline in your classrooms. Thank you for your support. Ten years later I’m unveiling my latest timeline display.

After taking the time to reflect on the previous timeline, I’ve made some modifications in order to:

• Support cognitive load and reduce distraction by removing decription text.
• Foster student interest through eye-catching, coherent and clear pictures.
• Improve representation across the board (fewer dead white men as a proportion).
• Refine and broaden the thinkers referenced.

Thinkers now pop with a new art-style that is consistent, clear and memorable.
Names and dates take centre-stage and unnecessary clutter is gone. In line with best research, I’ve reduced the number and complexity of displays in my classroom and reduced this down to almost this timeline alone. The timeline is intrinsic to my practice and it’s referred to mutliple times a lesson, from Y7 to Y13. Students repeatedly report how useful it is to be able to visually grasp the chronology.

There are now over 100 thinkers available each with an optional quote bubble. I’m also more than happy to create additions as you request them, if your particular course requires someone who is missing. I’ve taught both the OCR Religious Studies and, more recently, the AQA Philosophy A-Level course and I’ve combined both sets of thinkers here along with others who might be useful at GCSE and KS3.

I recommend they are printed at A4 on ‘actual size’ print setting. I’ve laminated mine and then cut to the edge with a guillotine.

The base pack includes:
A J Ayer
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alister McGrath
Alvin Plantinga
Angela Davis
Anselm
Anthony Flew
Aristotle
Augustine
Ayn Rand
Basil Mitchell
Bernard Williams
Bertrand Russell
Boethius
C L Stevenson
Carl Jung
Charles Darwin
Copernicus
Daniel Dennett
Daphne Hampson
David Chalmers
David Hume
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Edmund Gettier
Elizabeth Anscombe
Emil Brunner
Ernest Sosa
Frank Jackson
Fredrick Copleston
Friedrich Nietzsche
G E Moore
Gandhi
George Berkeley
Germaine Greer
Gilbert Ryle
Gottfried Leibniz
Greta Thunberg
Guru Nanak
Gustavo Gutierrez
Hannah Arendt
Harriet Mill
Henry Sidgwick
Heraclitus
Immanuel Kant
Irenaeus
Iris Murdoch
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jesus
Jeremy Bentham
Jo Marchant
John Calvin
John Hick
John Locke
John Mackie
John Stuart Mill
Joseph Fletcher
Julia Annas
Julia Galef
Karl Barth
Karl Marx
Karl Popper
Karl Rahner
Kieth Ward
Lewis Carroll
Linda Zagzebski
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Martha Nussbaum
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr
Mary Daly
Mary Warnock
Noam Chomsky
Norman Malcolm
Paul
Pelagius
Peter Geach
Peter Singer
Philippa Foot
Plato
Rene Descartes
Richard Dawkins
Richard Hare
Richard Swinburne
Robert Nozick
Rosalind Hursthouse
Rosemary Ruether
Siddharta Gautama
Sigmund Freud
Simone De Beauvoir
Soren Kierkegaard
Steven Law
Teresa of Avila
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Nagel
Vandana Shiva
W E B Du Bois
William James
William Paley