Please note:

In this case "contemporary philosophers" refers not just to figures who are alive, but also those who passed away within the past three decades, irrespective of when their major works were written or when their work was most popular. Similarly, "contemporary philosophical movements" may refer to philosophies that have actually been under discussion for several decades. These lists currently refer only to Western philosophy.

Continental Philosophers

Louis Althusser | Giorgio Agamben | Roland Barthes | Jean Baudrillard | Isaiah Berlin | Maurice Blanchot | Pierre Bourdieu | Hélène Cixous | Guy Debord | Gilles Deleuze | Jacques Derrida | Michel Foucault | Hans-Georg Gadamer | Jürgen Habermas | Werner Hamacher | Julia Kristeva | Henri Lefebvre | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Emmanuel Levinas | Jean-François Lyotard | Paul de Man | Jean-Luc Nancy | Antonio Negri | Paul Ricoeur | Michel Serres | Paul Virilio | Slavoj Žižek

Contemporary Continental Philosophical Movements

Deconstruction -- Postmodernism -- Post-structuralism -- Post-colonialism

Anglo-American Philosophers

Paul Churchland | Daniel Dennett | Susan Haack | Saul Kripke | Thomas Samuel Kuhn | Ruth Barcan Marcus | Colin McGinn | Thomas Nagel | Robert Nozick | Alvin Plantinga | Hilary Putnam | W. V. Quine | John Rawls | John Searle

Contemporary Anglo-American Philosophical Movements

Cognitivism -- Reductionism -- Materialism -- Virtue Ethics -- Objectivism