List of philosophers born in the 18th century explained
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
E
F
G
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)
J
K
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
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O
P
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)
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