Early Modern Period (1501-1750)
Below a list of philosophers who all published a book or books in the field of philosophy.Although many definitions of philosophy do excist, most probably the one of Teichmann and Evans is accepted by most people: "Philosophy is a study of problems which are ultimate, abstract and very general. These problems are concerned with the nature of existence, knowledge, morality, reason and human purpose."
Acosta, Uriel
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Arnauld, Antoine
Bacon, Francis
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
Bayes, Thomas
Bayle, Pierre
Berkeley, George
Binning, Hugh
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John
Boyle, Robert
Browne, Thomas
Bruno, Giordano
Butler, Joseph
Calvin, John
Cavendish, Margaret
Charron, Pierre
Clarke, Samuel
Conway, Anne
Copernicus
Cordemoy, Géraud de
Cudworth, Ralph
Cumberland, Richard
Dee, John
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Arnauld, Antoine
Bacon, Francis
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
Bayes, Thomas
Bayle, Pierre
Berkeley, George
Binning, Hugh
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John
Boyle, Robert
Browne, Thomas
Bruno, Giordano
Butler, Joseph
Calvin, John
Cavendish, Margaret
Charron, Pierre
Clarke, Samuel
Conway, Anne
Copernicus
Cordemoy, Géraud de
Cudworth, Ralph
Cumberland, Richard
Dee, John
Descartes, René
Elizabeth of Bohemia
Erasmus, Desidirius
Euler, Leonhard
Filmer, Robert
Galileo
Gassendi, Pierre
Gay, John
Geulincx, A.
Glanvill, Joseph
Gracian, Baltasar
Grotius, Hugo
Hartley, David
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward
Hobbes, Thomas
Hutcheson, Francis
Kepler, Johannes
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lipsius, Justus
Locke, John
Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Nicol
Malebranche, Nicholas
Mandeville, Bernard
Elizabeth of Bohemia
Erasmus, Desidirius
Euler, Leonhard
Filmer, Robert
Galileo
Gassendi, Pierre
Gay, John
Geulincx, A.
Glanvill, Joseph
Gracian, Baltasar
Grotius, Hugo
Hartley, David
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward
Hobbes, Thomas
Hutcheson, Francis
Kepler, Johannes
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lipsius, Justus
Locke, John
Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Nicol
Malebranche, Nicholas
Mandeville, Bernard
Mersenne, Marin
Mettrie, Julien La
Molina, Luis de
Montaigne, Michel de
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron
More, Henry
More, Thomas
Newton, Isaac
Nicole, Pierre
Norris, John
Paracelsus
Pascal, Blaise
Pufendorf, Samuel
Ramus, Petrus
Rohault, Jacques
Shaftesbury, Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper)
Spinoza, Baruch
Suarez, Francisco
Teresa of Avila
Toland, John
Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
Vattel, Emerich de
Vico, Giambattista
Wolff, Christian
Mettrie, Julien La
Molina, Luis de
Montaigne, Michel de
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron
More, Henry
More, Thomas
Newton, Isaac
Nicole, Pierre
Norris, John
Paracelsus
Pascal, Blaise
Pufendorf, Samuel
Ramus, Petrus
Rohault, Jacques
Shaftesbury, Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper)
Spinoza, Baruch
Suarez, Francisco
Teresa of Avila
Toland, John
Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
Vattel, Emerich de
Vico, Giambattista
Wolff, Christian