Timeline 1 - APUS - PHIL202

  • William Whewell

    William Whewell was born on May 24th, 1794 in Lancaster, England and died on March 6th, 1866 in Cambridge, England. He was an English philosopher and historian that spent much of career with Trinity College of Cambridge for which he was a student, tutor, and professor.
  • Aguste Comte

    Aguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France on January 19th, 1798 and died on September 5th, 1857 in Paris, France. He is a French philosopher and is known as a founder of sociology. In a contribution to philosophy and science came with his beliefs. Comte believed that social phenomena outlined in laws such as ones found in other sciences, such as gravitational theory (Encyclopedia Britannica, Auguste Comte, n.d.).
  • John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill was born on May 20th, 1806 in London, England and died on May 8th, 1873 in Avignon, France. He was a utilitarian English philosopher and political theorist and avid writer.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England and Died on April 19th, 1882 in Down, England. He was an English naturalist and adventurer who’s main contribution to science was his theory of evolution by natural selection that he formulated in 1832.