Johann Bernhard Merian or Jean-Bernard Mérian (28 September 1723, Liestal – 12 February 1807, Berlin) was a Swiss philosopher active in the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
Merian studied at the University of Basle, gaining his doctorate in 1740.
[1] Merian translated the work of David Hume into French.
He published widely in the Mémoires of the Academy.
A series of essays on the Molyneux problem appeared in the 1770s.