List of German-language philosophers

This is a list of German-languagephilosophers. The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German language. Many are categorized as or , but some are neither German nor Austrian by ethnicity or nationality. Each one, however, satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

1. s/he has been identified as a philosopher in any reputable, reliable encyclopedic/scholarly publication (e.g. MacMillan, Stanford, Routledge, Oxford, Metzler.)
2. s/he has written multiple articles published in reputable, reliable journals of philosophy and/or written books that were reviewed in such journals.

Reference works such as the following discuss the lives and summarize the works of notable philosophers:

• (Cambridge)The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN
• (Macmillan)Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1st edition (Paul Edwards, chief editor), 1973.
  • (Macmillan2) 2nd edition (Donald M. Borchert, chief editor), 2006, ISBN
• (Metzler)Metzler Philosophen Lexikon: von den Vorsokratikern bis zu den Neuen Philosophen, 3rd ed., Bernd Lutz (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2003). ISBN
• (Oxford 1995)The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN .
  • (Oxford 2005) 2005, ISBN
• (Routledge 1998)Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, 1998, ISBN .
  • (Routledge 2000)Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, 2000, ISBN
• (Stanford) Peer-reviewed online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • (Sassen) Brigitte Sassen. "18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy