- List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century
Philosopher s born in the eighteenth century "(and others important in the history of philosophy)", listed alphabetically:::"Note: This list has a minimal criteria for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed."
"See also:"
* "List of philosophers "
* "List of philosophers born in the centuries BC "
* "List of philosophers born in the first through tenth centuries "
* "List of philosophers born in the eleventh through fourteenth centuries "
* "List of philosophers born in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries "
* "List of philosophers born in the seventeenth century "
* "List of philosophers born in the eighteenth century"
* "List of philosophers born in the nineteenth century "
* "List of philosophers born in the twentieth century "
* "List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy "
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Jacob Friedrich von Abel , (1751-1829)
*John Abercrombie , (1780-1844)
*Johann Heinrich Abicht , (1762-1816)
*Francesco Algarotti , (1712-1764)
*Archibald Alison, (1757-1839)fn|R
*Anton Wilhelm Amo , (1703-c. 1759)fn|R
*Georg Anton Friedrich Ast , (1778-1841)
*John Austin, (1790-1859)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Pierre Hyacinthe Azais , (1766-1845)B
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Franz Xaver von Baader , (1765-1841)
*Charles Babbage , (1791-1871)fn|C
*Pierre-Simon Ballanche , (1776-1847)
*Christoph Gottfried Bardili , (1761-1808)
*Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , (1714-1762)fn|Cfn|R
*James Beattie, (1735-1803)fn|Cfn|R
*Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria , (1738-1794)fn|C
*Jacob Sigismund Beck , (1761-1840)fn|R
*Friedrich Eduard Beneke , (1798-1854)fn|C
*Jeremy Bentham , (1748-1832)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*William Blackstone , (1723-1780)fn|R
*Hugh Blair , (1718-1800)fn|R
*Bernard Bolzano , (1781-1848)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S*
*Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald , (1754-1840)
*Charles Bonnet , (1720-1793)fn|R
*Rudjer Boscovich , (1711-1787)fn|C
*Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , (1755-1826)fn|O12
*Thomas Brown, (1778-1820)fn|R
*Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon , (1707-1788)fn|R
*Edmund Burke , (1729-1797)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|SC
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Pierre Jean George Cabanis , (1757-1808)fn|R
*George Campbell, (1719-1796)fn|R
*Thomas Carlyle , (1795-1881)fn|Cfn|R
*Petr Iakovlevich Chaadev , (1794-1856)fn|R
*Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus , (1796-1862)
*Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (or "Zhang Xuecheng"), (1738-1801)fn|C
*Tasan Chông Yagyong , (1762-1836)fn|R
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge , (1772-1834)fn|O12fn|R
*Auguste Comte , (1798-1857)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , (1715-1780)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Marquis de Condorcet , (1743-1794)fn|Cfn|O2fn|R
*Benjamin Constant , (1767-1830)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Victor Cousin , (1792-1867)fn|Cfn|R
*Johann Ulrich von Cramer , (1706-1772)
*Christian August Crusius , (1715-1775)fn|Cfn|RD
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert , (1717-1783)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Joseph de Maistre , (1753-1821)fn|Cfn|O12
*Emerich de Vattel , (1714-1767)
*Denis Diderot , (1713-1784)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Émilie du Châtelet , (1706-1749)fn|RE
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Johann Augustus Eberhard , (1739-1809)fn|R
*Jonathan Edwards, (1703-1758)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|SF
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Adam Ferguson , (1723-1816)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Johann Gottlieb Fichte, (1762-1814)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Immanuel Hermann Fichte , (1797-1879)
*David Fordyce , (1711-1751)fn|C
*Charles Fourier , (1772-1837)fn|C
*Benjamin Franklin , (1706-1790)fn|O12fn|R
*Jakob Friedrich Fries , (1773-1843)fn|RG
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Alexander Gerard , (1728-1795)fn|R
*Giacinto Cardinal Sigismondo Gerdil , (1718-1802)fn|R
*Thomas Gisbourne , (1758-1846)
*William Godwin , (1756-1836)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , (1749-1832)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*George Grote , (1794-1871)H
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Johann Georg Hamann , (1730-1788)fn|Cfn|Rfn|S
*Sir William Hamilton, (1788-1856)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*David Hartley, (1705-1757)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*G.W.F. Hegel, (1770-1831)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Claude Adrien Helvétius , (1715-1771)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Johann Friedrich Herbart , (1776-1841)fn|Cfn|R
*Johann Gottfried Herder , (1744-1803)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Laurens Perseus Hickok , (1798-1888)
*Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs , (1794-1861)
*Josef Hoëné-Wronski , (1778-1853)
*Baron d'Holbach , (1723-1789)fn|Cfn|O12fn|S
*Friedrich Hölderlin , (1770-1843)fn|Cfn|R
*Wilhelm von Humboldt , (1767-1835)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S*
*David Hume , (1711-1776)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|SI
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , (1743-1819)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Thomas Jefferson , (1743-1826)fn|O12fn|R
*Alexander Bryan Johnson , (1786-1867)fn|R
*Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784)fn|O12fn|R
*Théodore Simon Jouffroy , (1796-1842)K
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Immanuel Kant , (1724-1804)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S*
*Heinrich von Kleist , (1777-1811)fn|C
*Richard Payne Knight , (1750-1824)
*Martin Knutzen , (1713-1751)fn|R
*Hugo Kołłątaj , (1750-1812)
*Karl Christian Friedrich Krause , (1781-1832)fn|Cfn|R
*Nachman Krochmal , (1785-1840)fn|R
*Wilhelm Traugott Krug , (1770-1842)L
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie , (1709-1751)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , (1744-1829)fn|O12
*Johann Heinrich Lambert , (1728-1777)fn|Cfn|R
*Lamennais , (1752-1854)
*Pierre-Simon Laplace , (1749-1827)fn|Cfn|O12
*Pierre Laromiguière , (1756-1837)
*Pierre Leroux , (1798-1871)fn|C
*Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , (1729-1781)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , (1742-1799)fn|O12fn|R
*Carolus Linnaeus , (1707-1778)fn|RM
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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably , (1709-1785)
*Salomon Maimon (or "Salomon ben Joshua"), (1753-1800)fn|Cfn|Rfn|S
*Maine de Biran , (1766-1824)fn|O12fn|R
*Moses Mendelssohn , (1729-1786)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*James Mill , (1773-1836)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*John Millar , (1735-1801)fn|R
*Lord Monboddo (or "James Burnett"), (1714-1799)fn|R
*Motoori Norinaga , (1730-1801)fn|RN
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Novalis , (1772-1801)fn|CO
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Lorenz Oken , (1779-1851)fn|R
*James Oswald, (1703-1793)fn|R
*Thomas Paine , (1737-1809)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*William Paley , (1743-1805)fn|Cfn|R
*Thomas Percival , (1740-1804)fn|C
*Issac de Pinto , (1715-1787)
*Richard Price , (1723-1791)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Joseph Priestley , (1733-1804)fn|Cfn|O12fn|RQ
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Daniel Raymond , (1786-1849)
*August Wilhelm Rehberg , (fl. late 18th century)fn|S*
*Thomas Reid , (1710-1796)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Karl Leonhard Reinhold , (1757-1823)fn|Cfn|Rfn|S
*David Ricardo , (1772-1823)
*Antonio Rosmini-Serbati , (1797-1855)fn|Cfn|Rfn|S
*Jean Jacques Rousseau , (1712-1778)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon , (1760-1825)
*Pierre Paul Royer-Collard , (1763-1845)S
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Mulla Hadi Sabzevari , (1797-1873)fn|R
*Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon , (1760-1825)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Friedrich Karl von Savigny , (1779-1861)fn|R
*Friedrich Schelling , (1775-1852)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Friedrich Schiller , (1759-1805)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Friedrich von Schlegel , (1772-1829)fn|Cfn|O2fn|Rfn|S*
*Friedrich Schleiermacher , (1768-1834)fn|Cfn|O2fn|Rfn|S
*Arthur Schopenhauer , (1788-1860)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*Gottlob Ernst Schulze , (1761-1833)fn|C
*Shah Wali Allah (or "Qutb al-Din Ahmad al-Rahim" or "Waliullah"), (1703-1762)fn|R
*Lady Mary Shepherd , (1777-1847)fn|C
*Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart , (1789-1844)
*Hryhori Skovoroda , (1722-1794)fn|R
*Adam Smith , (1723-1790)fn|Cfn|O12fn|R
*Jan Sniadecki , (1756-1830)
*Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger , (1780-1890)
*Anne Louise Germaine de Staël , (1766-1817)fn|R
*Stanislaw Staszic , (1755-1826)
*Dugald Stewart , (1753-1828)fn|O12fn|RT
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Tai Chen (or "Dai Zhen" or "Tai Tung-Yuan"), (1724-1777)fn|Cfn|R
*Johannes Nikolaus Tetens , (1736-1807)fn|Cfn|R
*William Thompson, (1775-1833)
*Tominaga Nakamoto , (1715-1746)fn|R
*Abraham Tucker , (1705-1774)fn|RU
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Emerich de Vattel , (1714-1767)
*Vauvenargues, (1715-1747)fn|CW
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William Whewell , (1794-1866)fn|Cfn|O12fn|Rfn|S
*John Witherspoon , (1723-1794)fn|R
*Mary Wollstonecraft , (1759-1797)fn|Cfn|O12fn|RX
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Notes
* - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in "
The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy , (Second Edition)". Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8
* - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy ". :"1": Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0:"2": Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN 0-19-926479-1
* - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the "Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ". Routledge; 2000. ISBN 0-415-22364-4
* - This person is featured in the peer-reviewed online "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ". Subjects with an asterisk have an article solicited about them, but not yet published at the encyclopedia (as of 2-22-2006).
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List of philosophers
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