Emergent philosophies are those newly formed philosophies which are at, or are on the cusp of serious recognition as philosophical schools and theories. This implies a temporal criterion; for example, at the point in time which Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus were sitting down to formulate and expound their philosophies, French existentialism could have been conceived of as being an emergent philosophy; it now, of course, is no such thing, it is recognised as a particular branch of existentialism. Since currently the preponderance of the emergent philosophies are or appear to be inspired by or related to developments in technology, we have elected to deal with them within this ambit rather than in the realm of pure philosophy. Philosophy (from the Greek words philos and sophia meaning love of wisdom) is understood in different ways historically and by different philosophers. ... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Albert Camus Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views the individual, the self, the individuals experience, and the uniqueness therein as the basis for understanding the nature of human existence. ...

Since history will decide whether a school of thought comes to be recognized as a serious field of philosophy, or whether it is forgotten, it is obviously possible to apply this label only retrospectively: we may say of an accepted school of philosophy when it was merely emergent. For example:

German idealism was an emergent school of philosophy between 1781 (with the publication of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason) and, probably, 1807 (with the publication of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit). German idealism was a philosophical movement in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ... 1781 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804) was a Prussian philosopher, generally regarded as one of Europes most influential thinkers and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. ... The Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft), first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, is widely regarded as the most influential and widely read work of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. ... 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ... The work called in German Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) has multiple names in English, due to the translation of the German Geist variously as spirit and mind. The most important philosophical work of Hegel, it explores the concept of Geist, asking how it is that it can conceive of...

Existentialism, as mentioned above, was emergent in the 1930s. // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...

Only history will be able to tell what today's emergent philosophies are. Proponents of the following philosophies claim the philosophies are emergent philosophies.

• Objectivism
• Transhumanism
• Extropianism (Extropy)
• Pancritical rationalism