Greatest Philosophy Geniuses — Ranked by IQ
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2,122
Highest IQ
198
Average IQ
167
#1 Genius
Evangelos
Top 15 Philosophy Geniuses by IQ
Ranked by estimated IQ score, based on historical records and psychometric research.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evangelos Katsioulis | 198 | 1976 | Highest adult IQ in the world (2012): IQ 198, sd 15 or IQ 205, sd 16 |
| 2 | Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales | 185 | 1741 | The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature |
| 3 | Ernst Haeckel | 180 | 1834 | Mapping a genealogical tree relating all life forms |
| 4 | Theophrastus | 175 | 0371 | Greek philosopher, not to be confused with the Anon Theophrastus (c.1609-1665), pupil and successor |
| 5 | Boethius | 175 | 0477 | The Consolation of Philosophy |
| 6 | Pherecydes of Syros | 175 | 0580 | Forming a bridge between the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy. |
| 7 | Lucilio Vanini | 175 | 1585 | Nomological determinism, |
| 8 | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 175 | 1889 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| 9 | Epictetus | 170 | 0050 | Greek stoicism philosopher; ranked by Thomas Jefferson as on par with Epicurus; he tends to be read |
| 10 | Edmund Husserl | 170 | 1859 | "Phenomenology, epoché (also bracketing, transcendental reduction, or phenomenological reduction), e |
| 11 | Isaac Asimov | 170 | 1920 | The Foundation series |
| 12 | Jean de La Bruyère | 165 | 1645 | French philosopher, moralist, and satirist, |
| 13 | Carl Jung | 165 | 1875 | Analytical psychology Psychological types Collective unconscious Complex Archety |
| 14 | Peter Abelard | 160 | 1079 | French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician, characterized a “fine genius” (Bayle, c.169 |
| 15 | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | 160 | 1486 | Three Books of Occult Philosophy |
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English philosopher and Anglican clergyman; was a Boyle anti-atheism lecturer for two years.
Erich Fromm
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics and Escape from Freedom
Diogenes Laërtius
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
William Temple (logician)
Runne from Rome (1624)
William Warburton
English prelate, theological controversialist, and critic.
Aesop
Greek moral philosopher; noted for his fabulist storytelling using animal-human figures to convey te
Hippolyte Taine
Being a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist
Plutarch
Al-Kindi
Being the father of Arab philosophy.
Saul Kripke
Kripke-Platek set theory.
Ecphantus the Pythagorean
Being one of the first philosophers to accept the existence of atoms
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