Philosophers, Modern Period 1 (1751-1900)
A-K L-ZBelow 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."
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de
Laplace, Pierre Simon de
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lotze, Rudolf Hermann
Mach, Ernst
Maimon, Solomon
Malthus, Thomas
Marx, Karl
Mendel, Gregor
Mendelssohn, Moses
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Pater, Walter
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Priestley, Joseph
Laplace, Pierre Simon de
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lotze, Rudolf Hermann
Mach, Ernst
Maimon, Solomon
Malthus, Thomas
Marx, Karl
Mendel, Gregor
Mendelssohn, Moses
Mill, James
Mill, John Stuart
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Pater, Walter
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Priestley, Joseph
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph
Régis, Pierre Sylvain
Reid, Thomas
Ritchie, David George
Rosmini, Antonio
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Royce, Josiah
Saint-Simon, Comte de
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Sidgwick, Henry
Smith, Adam
Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich
Sorel, Georges
Spencer, Herbert
Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de
Régis, Pierre Sylvain
Reid, Thomas
Ritchie, David George
Rosmini, Antonio
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Royce, Josiah
Saint-Simon, Comte de
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Daniel Ernst
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Sidgwick, Henry
Smith, Adam
Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich
Sorel, Georges
Spencer, Herbert
Staël-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stephen, Leslie
Stewart, Dugald
Stirling, James Hutchison
Taylor, Harriet Hardy
Thoreau, Henry David
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Truth, Sojourner
Veblen, Thorsten
Venn, John
Voltaire
Warburton, William
Weber, Max
Whately, Richard
Whewell, William
Wilson, John Cook
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Stephen, Leslie
Stewart, Dugald
Stirling, James Hutchison
Taylor, Harriet Hardy
Thoreau, Henry David
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Truth, Sojourner
Veblen, Thorsten
Venn, John
Voltaire
Warburton, William
Weber, Max
Whately, Richard
Whewell, William
Wilson, John Cook
Wollstonecraft, Mary