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.

A

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

B

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

C

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

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert, (1717–1783)
• Joseph de Maistre, (1753–1821)
• Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
• Denis Diderot, (1713–1784)
• Émilie du Châtelet, (1706–1749)

E

• Johann Augustus Eberhard, (1739–1809)
• Jonathan Edwards, (1703–1758)

F

• Adam Ferguson, (1723–1816)
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte, (1762–1814)
• Immanuel Hermann Fichte, (1797–1879)
• David Fordyce, (1711–1751)
• Charles Fourier, (1772–1837)
• Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790)
• Jakob Friedrich Fries, (1773–1843)

G

• Alexander Gerard, (1728–1795)
• Giacinto Sigismondo Gerdil, (1718–1802)
• Thomas Gisbourne, (1758–1846)
• William Godwin, (1756–1836)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832)
• George Grote, (1794–1871)

H

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

I

J

• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, (1743–1819)
• Thomas Jefferson, (1743–1826)
• Alexander Bryan Johnson, (1786–1867)
• Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784)
• Théodore Simon Jouffroy, (1796–1842)

K

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

L

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

M

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

N

• Novalis, (1772–1801)

O

• Lorenz Oken, (1779–1851)
• James Oswald, (1703–1793)

P

• Thomas Paine, (1737–1809)
• William Paley, (1743–1805)
• Thomas Percival, (1740–1804)
• Issac de Pinto, (1715–1787)
• Richard Price, (1723–1791)
• Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804)

Q

R

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

S

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

T

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

U

V

• Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
• Vauvenargues, (1715–1747)

W

• William Whewell, (1794–1866)
• John Witherspoon, (1723–1794)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759–1797)

X

Y

• Yü Cheng-hsieh, (1775–1840)

Ya lamu maa baiyana (1841-1850

Z

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

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