List of philosophers born in the 18th century

Philosophersborn 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.

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(orZhang 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(orSalomon 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(orJames 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(orQutb al-Din Ahmad al-RahimorWaliullah), (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(orDai ZhenorTai 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