Question: Preformation theory is a theory that was recognized by what person that was also a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy?

Context articles: Leiser Madanes
Eduard Zeller
Thomas Leinkauf
Preformation theory
Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy
Frederick Rauscher
Immanuel Kant
Renaissance philosophy
Early modern philosophy
Anthony Kenny

Leiser Madanes (1950) is a writer, philosopher and Argentine professor.
 Throughout his career he has published several books, as the main focus the study of modern philosophy as Hobbes and Spinoza, freedom of expression and the state's relationship with the freedoms of men.
 Its main areas of study are modern philosophy and political philosophy.
Eduard Gottlob Zeller (] ; 22 January 1814, Kleinbottwar – 19 March 1908, Stuttgart), was a German philosopher and Protestant theologian of the Tübingen School of theology.
 He was well known for his writings on Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and most of all for his celebrated, multi-volume historical treatise "The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development" (1844–52).
 Zeller was also a central figure in the revival of neo-Kantianism.
Thomas Leinkauf (born November 4, 1954 in Lüneburg) is a German philosopher and a professor at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
 His fields of interest are late antique, Renaissance and early modern philosophy, as well as Idealism.
Preformation theory is a theistic epistemological theory that states that knowledge is possible only because God has endowed humans with certain innate ideas along with dispositions or aptitudes in certain ways.
 This was recognized by Immanuel Kant as an alternative to his theory regarding the categories of understanding and their source.
Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed journal of philosophy.
 The journal publishes original work, focusing on interpreting classical philosophical texts by drawing on the resources of modern formal logic.
 Logical analysis is an instrument of interpretation to shift the interpretive focus from the purely exegetical approach towards a given text to the systematic reconstruction of a theory that concerns the issues that are discussed.
 In this way, novel questions can be presented.
 New insight with regard to classical texts ensue, so that these are even more fruitful in dealing with the modern philosophy.
 Articles are published in English and German; the journal is also known as "Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse".
Frederick Rauscher (born 26 November 1961) is a philosophy professor and well known Kant scholar currently teaching at Michigan State University.
 Rauscher earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.
 Previously, he taught at Eastern Illinois University and the University of Pennsylvania.
 Rauscher currently teaches courses on Kant, early modern philosophy, ethical theory, and German Idealism.
Immanuel Kant ( ; ] ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.
 Kant argued that the human mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is independent of our concepts of it.
 Kant took himself to have effected a "Copernican revolution" in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief that the sun revolved around the earth.
 His beliefs continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and aesthetics.
The designation "Renaissance philosophy" is used by scholars of intellectual history to refer to the thought of the period running in Europe roughly between 1355 and 1650 (the dates shift forward for central and northern Europe and for areas such as Spanish America, India, Japan, and China under European influence).
 It therefore overlaps both with late medieval philosophy, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was influenced by notable figures such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and Marsilius of Padua, and early modern philosophy, which conventionally starts with René Descartes and his publication of the "Discourse on Method" in 1637.
 Philosophers usually divide the period less finely, jumping from medieval to early modern philosophy, on the assumption that no radical shifts in perspective took place in the centuries immediately before Descartes.
 Intellectual historians, however, take into considerations factors such as sources, approaches, audience, language, and literary genres in addition to ideas.
 This article reviews both the changes in context and content of Renaissance philosophy and its remarkable continuities with the past.
Early modern philosophy is a period in the history of philosophy at the beginning or overlapping with the period known as modern philosophy.
 The early modern period in history is roughly 1500-1800, but the label "early modern philosophy" is sometimes used to refer to a more specific period of time.
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 16 March 1931) is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion.
 With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of modern philosophy of traditional Thomism.
 He is one of the executors of Wittgenstein's literary estate.
 He is a former President of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.