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)

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)

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)

V

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

W

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

Y

 * Yü Cheng-hsieh, (1775–1840)