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.

• 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)

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• Johann Augustus Eberhard, (1739–1809)^[d]
• Jonathan Edwards, (1703–1758)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}

• 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]

• 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)

• 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]}

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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]

• 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]

• Novalis, (1772–1801)^[a]

• Lorenz Oken, (1779–1851)^[d]
• James Oswald, (1703–1793)^[d]

• 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]

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• 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)

• 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-Rahim orWaliullah), (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]

• Tai Chen (orDai Zhen orTai 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]

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• Emerich de Vattel, (1714–1767)
• Vauvenargues, (1715–1747)^[a]

• William Whewell, (1794–1866)^{[a][b][c][d][e]}
• John Witherspoon, (1723–1794)^[d]
• Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759–1797)^[a][b][c][d]

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• Yü Cheng-hsieh, (1775–1840)

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