title: 1781 in philosophy
text: # 1781 in philosophy
  
  1781 in philosophy
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 30 Adelbert von Chamisso (died 1838)
  * May 6 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (died 1832)
  * October 5 - Bernard Bolzano (died 1848)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 15 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729)
  