1. Immanuel Kant (1724)

German Philosopher

Philosopher known for his views on the Copernican Revolution, which are documented in his 1790 book The Critique of Judgement.

2. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)

German Philosopher

Said "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." The World as Will and Representation was his famous work.

3. Martin Heidegger (1889)

German Philosopher

Author of the philosophical work Being and Time. His work on the question of Being was deeply influential in modern philosophical thinking.

4. Karl-Otto Apel (1922)

German Philosopher

German philosopher most recognized as the Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. 

5. Jürgen Habermas (1929)

German Philosopher

German sociologist and a philosopher who specialized in critical theory and pragmatism.

6. Frithjof Bergmann (1930)

German Philosopher

jof Bergmann is a Professor Emeritus of philosophy at the University of Michigan where he has taught courses on existentialism and Continental philosophy.

7. Reinhard Brandt (1937)

German Philosopher

Reinhard Brandt is a German philosopher. Brandt studied Greek Latin and philosophy in Marburg Munich and Paris. In 1965 he completed his doctorate on the Aristotelian theory of judgement. His...

8. Gerhard Vollmer (1943)

German Philosopher

Gerhard Vollmer is a German physicist and philosopher. He tries to build bridges between the natural science and the more social or humanistic disciplines. He is perhaps best known for...

9. Norbert Bolz (1953)

German Philosopher

Norbert Bolz is a German philosopher and media theorist. He is a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. Bolz developed a media theory the Theorie der neuen Medien that...

10. Rüdiger Safranski (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Rüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and author.

11. Wolfgang Spohn (1950)

German Philosopher

gang Konrad Spohn is a German philosopher. He is professor of philosophy and philosophy of science at the University of Konstanz.

12. Konrad Ott (1959)

German Philosopher

Konrad Ott is a German philosopher with a special interest in discourse ethics and environmental ethics. Ott is currently Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of the Environment at Kiel University....

13. Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály (1952)

German Philosopher

Rüdiger Schmidt-Grépály is a German Cultural Manager and Director of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

14. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (1952)

German Philosopher

Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the university of Leipzig. He was the president of the international Ludwig Wittgenstein society and is now a...

15. Anselm Jappe (1962)

German Philosopher

Anselm Jappe is a professor of philosophy teaching in Italy.

16. Hans-Werner Bothe (1952)

German Philosopher

Hans-Werner Bothe is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon. Bothe is founder of the recent field of research on Neurobionics.

17. Peter Trawny (1964)

German Philosopher

Peter Trawny is a German philosopher and professor at the University of Wuppertal.

18. Rainer Forst (1964)

German Philosopher

Rainer Forst is a German philosopher and political theorist and was named the most important political philosopher of his generation in 2012 when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize....

19. Michael Bordt (1960)

German Philosopher

Michael Bordt SJ is a German philosopher and academic. He is a professor at the Munich School of Philosophy and specialized in the area of ancient philosophy especially Plato and...

20. Markus Gabriel (1980)

German Philosopher

Markus Gabriel is a German philosopher and author. He has written popular science books about philosophical issues.

21. Claus Dierksmeier (1971)

German Philosopher

Claus Dierksmeier is a German philosopher. Since 2002 he was a professor at the Stonehill College in Boston. In April 2012 he assumed the position of Director of the Global...

22. Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807)

German Philosopher

Theodor Vischer was a German novelist poet playwright and writer on the philosophy of art. Today he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch einer in which...

23. Henrik Steffens (1773)

German Philosopher

Henrik Steffens was a Norwegian-born Danish philosopher scientist and poet. He was born at Stavanger Norway. At the age of fourteen he went with his parents to Copenhagen where he...

24. Moritz Geiger (1880)

German Philosopher

Moritz Geiger was a German philosopher and a disciple of Edmund Husserl. Beside phenomenology he dedicated himself to psychology epistemology and aesthetics.

25. Albert Schwegler (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Albert Schwegler was a German philosopher and academic theologian.

26. Carl Reichenbach (1788)

German Philosopher

Baron Dr. Carl Ludwig von Reichenbach was a notable chemist geologist metallurgist naturalist industrialist and philosopher and a member of the prestigious Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best...

27. Josef Pieper (1904)

German Philosopher

Josef Pieper was a German Catholic philosopher at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence...

28. Christoph Gottfried Bardili (1761)

German Philosopher

Christoph Gottfried Bardili was a German philosopher and cousin of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. He was critical of Kantian idealism and proposed his own system of philosophy known as logical...

29. Herman Schell (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Herman Schell was a German philosopher and theologian.

30. Hermann Lotze (1817)

German Philosopher

Rudolf Hermann Lotze was a German philosopher and logician. He also had a medical degree and was unusually well versed in biology. He argued that if the physical world is...

31. Gerhold K. Becker (1943)

German Philosopher

Gerhold K. Becker is a German philosopher.

32. Andreas Urs Sommer (1972)

German Philosopher

Andreas Urs Sommer is a German philosopher of Swiss origin. He specializes in the history of philosophy and its theory ethics philosophy of religion Skepticism and modern Stoicism. His historical...

33. Alfred Baeumler (1887)

German Philosopher

Alfred Baeumler was a German philosopher and pedagogue. From 1924 he taught at the Technische Universität Dresden at first as an unsalaried lecturer Privatdozent. Bäumler was made associate professor in...

34. Leo Kofler (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Leo Kofler was an Austrian-German Marxist sociologist. He ranks with the Marburg politicologist Wolfgang Abendroth and the Frankfurt school theoreticians Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno among the few well-known...

35. Albrecht Wellmer (1933)

German Philosopher

Albrecht Wellmer is a prominent German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.

36. Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer (1768)

German Philosopher

Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer was a German philosopher and physician.

37. Karl Kautsky (1854)

German Philosopher

Karl Johann Kautsky was a Czech-German philosopher journalist and Marxist theoretician. Kautsky was recognized as among the most authoritative promulgators of Orthodox Marxism after the death of Friedrich Engels in...

38. Walter Schulz (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Schulz was a German philosopher. Schulz studied Classial Philology Philosophy and Protestant Theology at the University of Marburg University of Breslau and University of Leipzig. After being seriously wounded as...

39. Walter Ehrlich (1896)

German Philosopher

Ehrlich was a German philosopher.

40. Hugo Kükelhaus (1900)

German Philosopher

Hugo Kükelhaus was a German carpenter writer pedagogue philosopher and artist. Hugo Kükelhaus is best known for his infant toys allbedeut and the Experience field for the development of the...

41. Albrecht von Müller (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Albrecht von Müller is a German philosopher and former entrepreneur. Since 2000 Von Müller is the director of the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking which is run by...

42. Moritz Schlick (1882)

German Philosopher

Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

43. Reinhart Maurer (Unknow)

German Philosopher

Reinhart Klemens Maurer is a philosopher and professor from Xanten Germany. Maurer studied philosophy German and English at the universities of Münster Kiel and Vienna. In 1964 he made his...

44. Samuel von Pufendorf (1632)

German Philosopher

Baron Samuel von Pufendorf was a German jurist political philosopher economist statesman and historian. His name was just Samuel Pufendorf until he was ennobled in 1684; he was made a...

45. Burghart Schmidt (1942)

German Philosopher

Burghart Schmidt is a German philosopher. He is currently professor at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

46. Richard Kroner (1884)

German Philosopher

Richard Kroner was a German neo-Hegelian philosopher known for his Von Kant bis Hegel a classic history of German idealism written from the neo-Hegelian point of view. He was a...

47. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714)

German Philosopher

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher.

48. Nicolai Hartmann (1882)

German Philosopher

Nicolai Hartmann was a Baltic German philosopher. He is regarded as a key representative of critical realism and as one of the most important twentieth century metaphysicians.

49. Martin Knutzen (1713)

German Philosopher

Martin Knutzen was a German philosopher a disciple of Alexander Baumgarten and teacher of Immanuel Kant to whom he introduced the physics of Newton. Knutzen studied philosophy mathematics and physics...

50. Wilhelm Windelband (1848)

German Philosopher

band was a German philosopher of the Baden School. Windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms nomothetic and idiographic which he introduced. These have currency in psychology and other...