List of philosophers born in the 18th century

Philosophers born in the 18th century (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:

Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

• See also

A

• Jacob Friedrich von Abel, (1751–1829)
• John Abercrombie, (1780–1844) ^[f]
• Johann Heinrich Abicht, (1762–1816)
• John Adams, (1735–1826)
• Francesco Algarotti, (1712–1764)
• Archibald Alison, (1757–1839) ^[d]
• John Allen, (1771–1843) ^[f]
• Anton Wilhelm Amo, (1703 – c. 1759) ^[d]
• Robert Aspland, (1782–1845) ^[f]
• Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, (1778–1841)
• John Austin, (1790–1859) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f]}
• Pierre Hyacinthe Azais, (1766–1845)

B

• Franz Xaver von Baader, (1765–1841)
• Charles Babbage, (1791–1871) ^{[a] [f]}
• Samuel Bailey, (1791–1870) ^[f]
• Pierre-Simon Ballanche, (1776–1847)
• John Ballantyne, (1778–1830) ^[f]
• Christoph Gottfried Bardili, (1761–1808)
• Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, (1714–1762) ^{[a] [d]}
• James Beattie, (1735–1803) ^{[a] [d]}
• Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, (1738–1794) ^[a]
• Jacob Sigismund Beck, (1761–1840) ^[d]
• Charles Bell, (1774–1842) ^[f]
• Thomas Belsham, (1750–1829) ^[f]
• William Belsham, (1752–1829) ^[f]
• Friedrich Eduard Beneke, (1798–1854) ^[a]
• Jeremy Bentham, (1748–1832) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• William Blackstone, (1723–1780) ^[d]
• Hugh Blair, (1718–1800) ^[d]
• William Blake, (1757–1827) ^[f]
• Robert Blakey, (1795–1878) ^[f]
• Bernard Bolzano, (1781–1848) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]} *
• Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, (1754–1840)
• Charles Bonnet, (1720–1793) ^[d]
• Rudjer Boscovich, (1711–1787) ^[a]
• David Brewster, (1781–1868) ^[f]
• Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755–1826) ^{[b] [c]}
• Benjamin Collins Brodie, (1783–1862) ^[f]
• Henry Brougham, (1778–1868) ^[f]
• Thomas Brown, (1778–1820) ^{[d] [f]}
• Robert Buchanan, (1786–1873) ^[f]
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707–1788) ^[d]
• William Burdon, (1764–1818) ^[f]
• Edmund Burke, (1729–1797) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Lawrence Butterworth, (1740–1828) ^[f]

C

• Pierre Jean George Cabanis, (1757–1808) ^[d]
• George Campbell, (1719–1796) ^[d]
• Thomas Carlyle, (1795–1881) ^{[a] [d]}
• Petr Iakovlevich Chaadev, (1794–1856) ^[d]
• Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, (1796–1862)
• Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or Zhang Xuecheng), (1738–1801) ^[a]
• Tasan Chông Yagyong, (1762–1836) ^[d]
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772–1834) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Auguste Comte, (1798–1857) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, (1715–1780) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Marquis de Condorcet, (1743–1794) ^{[a] [c] [d]}
• Benjamin Constant, (1767–1830) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Victor Cousin, (1792–1867) ^{[a] [d]}
• Johann Ulrich von Cramer, (1706–1772)
• Christian August Crusius, (1715–1775) ^{[a] [d]}

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert, (1717–1783) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Joseph de Maistre, (1753–1821) ^{[a] [b] [c]}
• Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
• Denis Diderot, (1713–1784) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Émilie du Châtelet, (1706–1749) ^[d]

E

• Johann Augustus Eberhard, (1739–1809) ^[d]
• Jonathan Edwards, (1703–1758) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}

F

• Adam Ferguson, (1723–1816) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte, (1762–1814) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Immanuel Hermann Fichte, (1797–1879)
• David Fordyce, (1711–1751) ^[a]
• Charles Fourier, (1772–1837) ^[a]
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Jakob Friedrich Fries, (1773–1843) ^[d]

G

• Alexander Gerard, (1728–1795) ^[d]
• Giacinto Sigismondo Gerdil, (1718–1802) ^[d]
• Thomas Gisbourne, (1758–1846)
• William Godwin, (1756–1836) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• George Grote, (1794–1871)

H

• Johann Georg Hamann, (1730–1788) ^{[a] [d] [e]}
• Sir William Hamilton, (1788–1856) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [f]}
• Renn Dickson Hampden, (1793–1868) ^[f]
• David Hartley, (1705–1757) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Julius Charles Hare, (1795–1855) ^[f]
• Graves Chamney Haughton, (1788–1849) ^[f]
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, (1759–1851) ^[f]
• David Ramsay Hay, (1798–1866) ^[f]
• Mary Hays, (1760–1843) ^[f]
• Francis Haywood, (1798–1858) ^[f]
• William Hazlitt, (1778–1830) ^[f]
• G.W.F. Hegel, (1770–1831) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Claude Adrien Helvétius, (1715–1771) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Johann Friedrich Herbart, (1776–1841) ^{[a] [d]}
• Johann Gottfried Herder, (1744–1803) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• John Herschel, (1792–1871) ^[f]
• Samuel Heywood, (1753–1828) ^[f]
• Laurens Perseus Hickok, (1798–1888)
• Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, (1794–1861)
• Thomas Hodgskin, (1787–1869) ^[f]
• Josef Hoëné-Wronski, (1778–1853)
• Baron d'Holbach, (1723–1789) ^{[a] [b] [c] [e]}
• Friedrich Hölderlin, (1770–1843) ^{[a] [d]}
• John Hoppus, (1789–1875) ^[f]
• Wilhelm von Humboldt, (1767–1835) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]} *
• David Hume, (1711–1776) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}

J

• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, (1743–1819) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Thomas Jefferson, (1743–1826) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Alexander Bryan Johnson, (1786–1867) ^[d]
• Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Théodore Simon Jouffroy, (1796–1842)

K

• Theophilos Kairis (1784–1853)
• Immanuel Kant, (1724–1804) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]} *
• Heinrich von Kleist, (1777–1811) ^[a]
• Richard Payne Knight, (1750–1824)
• Martin Knutzen, (1713–1751) ^[d]
• Hugo Kołłątaj, (1750–1812)
• Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, (1781–1832) ^{[a] [d]}
• Nachman Krochmal, (1785–1840) ^[d]
• Wilhelm Traugott Krug, (1770–1842)

L

• Julien Offray de La Mettrie, (1709–1751) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, (1744–1829) ^{[b] [c]}
• Johann Heinrich Lambert, (1728–1777) ^{[a] [d]}
• Lamennais, (1752–1854)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace, (1749–1827) ^{[a] [b] [c]}
• Pierre Laromiguière, (1756–1837)
• Giacomo Leopardi, (1798–1837)
• Pierre Leroux, (1798–1871) ^[a]
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, (1729–1781) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742–1799) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Carl Linnaeus, (1707–1778) ^[d]

M

• Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, (1709–1785)
• Salomon Maimon (or Salomon ben Joshua), (1753–1800) ^{[a] [d] [e]}
• Maine de Biran, (1766–1824) ^{[b] [c] [d]}
• Moses Mendelssohn, (1729–1786) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• James Mill, (1773–1836) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• John Millar, (1735–1801) ^[d]
• Lord Monboddo (or James Burnett), (1714–1799) ^[d]
• Motoori Norinaga, (1730–1801) ^[d]

N

• Novalis, (1772–1801) ^[a]

O

• Lorenz Oken, (1779–1851) ^[d]
• James Oswald, (1703–1793) ^[d]

P

• Thomas Paine, (1737–1809) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• William Paley, (1743–1805) ^{[a] [d]}
• Thomas Percival, (1740–1804) ^[a]
• Issac de Pinto, (1715–1787)
• Richard Price, (1723–1791) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}

R

• Daniel Raymond, (1786–1849)
• August Wilhelm Rehberg, (fl. late 18th century) ^[e] *
• Thomas Reid, (1710–1796) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Karl Leonhard Reinhold, (1757–1823) ^{[a] [d] [e]}
• David Ricardo, (1772–1823)
• Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, (1797–1855) ^{[a] [d] [e]}
• Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1712–1778) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760–1825)
• Pierre Paul Royer-Collard, (1763–1845)

S

• Mulla Hadi Sabzevari, (1797–1873) ^[d]
• Marquis de Sade, (1740–1814) ^[a]
• Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, (1760–1825) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Friedrich Carl von Savigny, (1779–1861) ^[d]
• Friedrich Schelling, (1775–1852) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Friedrich Schiller, (1759–1805) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Friedrich von Schlegel, (1772–1829) ^{[a] [c] [d] [e]} *
• Friedrich Schleiermacher, (1768–1834) ^{[a] [c] [d] [e]}
• Arthur Schopenhauer, (1788–1860) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• Gottlob Ernst Schulze, (1761–1833) ^[a]
• Shah Wali Allah (or Qutb al-Din Ahmad al-Rahim or Waliullah), (1703–1762) ^[d]
• Lady Mary Shepherd, (1777–1847) ^[a]
• Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart, (1789–1844)
• Hryhori Skovoroda, (1722–1794) ^[d]
• Adam Smith, (1723–1790) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}
• Jan Sniadecki, (1756–1830)
• Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, (1780–1890)
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (1766–1817) ^[d]
• Stanisław Staszic, (1755–1826)
• Dugald Stewart, (1753–1828) ^{[b] [c] [d]}

T

• Tai Chen (or Dai Zhen or Tai Tung-Yuan), (1724–1777) ^{[a] [d]}
• Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, (1736–1807) ^{[a] [d]}
• William Thompson, (1775–1833)
• Tominaga Nakamoto, (1715–1746) ^[d]
• Abraham Tucker, (1705–1774) ^[d]

V

• Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
• Vauvenargues, (1715–1747) ^[a]

W

• William Whewell, (1794–1866) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d] [e]}
• John Witherspoon, (1723–1794) ^[d]
• Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759–1797) ^{[a] [b] [c] [d]}

Y

• Yü Cheng-hsieh, (1775–1840)

See also

• List of philosophers
• 18th-century philosophy
• List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
• List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
• List of philosophers born in the 17th century
• List of philosophers born in the 19th century
• List of philosophers born in the 20th century

Notes

1. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN   0-521-63722-8
2. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN   0-19-866132-0
3. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy . Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN   0-19-926479-1
4. Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Routledge; 2000. ISBN   0-415-22364-4
5. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
6. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. Thoemmes Press; 2002. ISBN   1-85506-955-5