Thomas Whittaker (1856–1935) was an English metaphysician and critic.
Works
- The Philosophy of History (1893)
- The Neoplatonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism (1901), third impression 1928
- Origins of Christianity (1904), fourth edition 1933
- Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays (1906)
- The Liberal State (1907)
- Priests, Philosophers, and Prophets (1911)
- The Theory of Abstract Ethics (1916)
- The Metaphysics of Evolution, (1926)
- His Prolegomena to a New Metaphysic (1931)
- Reason (1934)
He wrote several lives for the Dictionary of National Biography, signing as T. W-r.
- Thomas Bedwell
- William Bewley
- John Bonnycastle
- Henry Briggs (1561–1630)
Works about Whittaker
- “Whittaker, Thomas,” in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 by Foster, Joseph, Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888-1892.
- The Times, 1935, Obituary: Thomas Whittaker. Metaphysician and critic