List of German-language philosophers


This is a list of German-language philosophers. The following individuals have written philosophical texts in the German language. Many are categorized as :Category:German philosophers|German philosophers or :Category:Austrian philosophers|Austrian philosophers, 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
  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:
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy,. Cambridge University Press; 1999.
' Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1st edition, 1973. ' 2nd edition, 2006,
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Metzler Philosophen Lexikon: von den Vorsokratikern bis zu den Neuen Philosophen, 3rd ed., Bernd Lutz.
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 1995,. ' 2005,
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, 1998,. ' Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge, 2000,
' Peer-reviewed online
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ' Brigitte Sassen. "" in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''

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