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)