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* Francis Ellingwood Abbot * David Abram * Peter Achinstein * Marilyn McCord Adams *

Robert Merrihew Adams Robert Merrihew Adams (born September 8, 1937) is an American analytic philosopher, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy. Life and career Adams was born on September 8, 1937, ...

* Jane Addams * Mortimer Adler * Rogers Albritton * Amos Bronson Alcott * Linda Martín Alcoff * Virgil Aldrich * Hartley Burr Alexander *

Diogenes Allen Diogenes Allen (October 17, 1932 – January 13, 2013) was an American philosopher and theologian who served as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, whi ...

* Robert F. Almeder * William Alston * Alice Ambrose * Karl Ameriks *

C. Anthony Anderson Curtis Anthony Anderson (born May 29, 1940) is a contemporary American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from University of California at Los Angeles ...

* Elizabeth S. Anderson * Gordon Anderson * Judith Andre * Julia Annas * Ruth Nanda Anshen * Louise Antony *

Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. Arendt was bor ...

* Richard Arneson * Robert Arp * Robert Arrington *

Bradley Shavit Artson Bradley Shavit "Brad" Artson (born 1959) is an American rabbi, author and speaker. He holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, wher ...

Warren Ashby Dr. Warren Ashby (May 15, 1920 – October 1, 1985) was an American philosopher, born in Newport News, Virginia. Biography Ashby graduated with a bachelor of arts from Maryville College, Tennessee, in 1939 and earned B.D. (1942) and Ph.D. (19 ...

* Januarius Jingwa Asongu * Margaret Atherton * Robert Audi *

Jody Azzouni Jody Azzouni (born Jawad Azzouni, 1954) is an American philosopher, poet, and writer. He currently is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Education He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree from New York University and his ...

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* Babette Babich * Kent Bach *

Max Baginski Max Baginski (1864 – November 24, 1943) was a German-American anarchist revolutionary. Early life Baginski was born in 1864 in Bartenstein (now Bartoszyce), a small East Prussian town. His father was a shoemaker who had been active in the ...

Archie J. Bahm Archie John Bahm (21 August 1907 – 12 March 1996) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Biography Bahm served as Acting Chair of the University of New Mexico's Department of Philosophy from 195 ...

* Gordon Park Baker *

Lynne Rudder Baker Lynne Rudder Baker (February 14, 1944 – December 24, 2017) was an American philosopher and author. At the time of her death she was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1944 to Vi ...

* Dan Barker * William Barratt * William Warren Bartley, III * Daniel Barwick * Jacques Barzun * Monroe Beardsley *

Tom Beauchamp Tom Lamar Beauchamp (born 1939) is an American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University, where he was Senior Research Schola ...

* Lewis White Beck * Lawrence C. Becker *

Hugo Adam Bedau Hugo Adam Bedau (September 23, 1926 – August 13, 2012) was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty ...

* Nuel Belnap * Paul Benacerraf * Gustav Bergmann * Michael Bergmann *

Arnold Berleant Arnold Jerome Berleant (born 4 March 1932) is an American scholar and author who is active in both philosophy and music. Arnold Berleant was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his advanced musical education at the Eastman School of Music a ...

* Marshall Berman * Andrew Bernstein * Mark Bernstein * Richard J. Bernstein *

Marcus Berquist Marcus Berquist (1934 – November 2, 2010) was one of the founders of Thomas Aquinas College, a professor, and an expert on the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the College of St. Thomas i ...

Yogi Berra Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1946–1963, 1965), all but th ...

* Steven Best * Nalini Bhushan *

Cristina Bicchieri Cristina Bicchieri (born 1950) is an Italian–American philosopher. She is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy and Psychology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, professor of Legal S ...

* Max Black *

Brand Blanshard Percy Brand Blanshard (; August 27, 1892 – November 19, 1987) was an American philosophy, American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason and rationalism. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy ...

Ned Block Ned Joel Block (born 1942) is an American philosopher working in philosophy of mind who has made important contributions to the understanding of consciousness and the philosophy of cognitive science. He has been professor of philosophy and psych ...

* Benjamin Paul Blood *

Allan Bloom Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell Uni ...

Albert Blumberg Albert E. Blumberg (August 10, 1906 – October 8, 1997) was an American philosopher and political activist. He was an official of the Communist Party for several years before joining the Democratic Party as a district leader. Early life A ...

* George Boas * Chris Bobonich *

Paul Boghossian Paul Artin Boghossian (; born 1957) is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, where he is chair of the department (having also held the position from 1994 to 2004). His research interests include ...

* Peter Boghossian * David Bohm * Laurence BonJour * John Elof Boodin * George Boolos *

Susan Bordo Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian ''c:Lotus flower (hieroglyph), sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "ros ...

* Albert Borgmann *

Oets Kolk Bouwsma Oets Kolk Bouwsma (November 22, 1898 – March 1, 1978) was an American analytic philosopher. Education and early career Bouwsma was born of Dutch-American parents in Muskegon, Michigan. He was educated at Calvin College and at the University of ...

* Francis Bowen *

Borden Parker Bowne Borden Parker Bowne (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leona ...

* Richard Boyd * Robert Brandom * Richard Brandt * Giannina Braschi * David Braybrooke * Daniel Brock * Baruch Brody * Stephen Bronner *

Baker Brownell Baker Brownell (December 12, 1887 – April 5, 1965) was an American philosopher. Brownell was born in St. Charles, Illinois, the fifth of six children of Eugene A. and Esther Burr Baker Brownell. He grew up in St. Charles, where he graduated f ...

* William Lowe Bryan * Scott Buchanan * Justus Buchler *

Jay Budziszewski J. Budziszewski (born 1952) is an American philosopher and professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two ...

* Nicholas C. Burbules * Tyler Burge *

Kenneth Burke Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Bur ...

* Edwin Arthur Burtt * Panayot Butchvarov *

Judith Butler Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In 1993, Butle ...

* Charles Butterworth

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* Mary Whiton Calkins * J. Baird Callicott *

Donald T. Campbell Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20, 1916 – May 6, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term ''evolutionary epistemology'' and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A ''R ...

* Arthur Caplan * John Caputo * Claudia Card * Richard Carrier * Noël Carroll *

Paul Carus Paul Carus (; 18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919) was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion

* Edward S. Casey * Stanley Cavell * William H. Chamberlin * Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier * James Childress * Roderick Chisholm *

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...

* Patricia Churchland * Paul Churchland * Gordon Haddon Clark *

Kenneth Clatterbaugh Kenneth C. Clatterbaugh is an American philosopher. He was Chair of the department of Philosophy at the University of Washington for fifteen years. He retired in 2012. His interests are modern philosophy, social philosophy, and gender studies, phi ...

* Roy A. Clouser * Carl Cohen * Joshua Cohen * James F. Conant * William E. Connolly *

Moncure D. Conway Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia ...

* Josephus Flavius Cook *

Paul Copan Paul Copan (, born September 26, 1962) is a Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. He is currently a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethi ...

James A. Corbett James A. "Jim" Corbett (October 8, 1933 – August 2, 2001) was an American rancher, writer, Quaker, philosopher, and human rights activist and a co-founder of the Sanctuary movement. He was born in Casper, Wyoming, and died near Benson, Ar ...

Robert S. Corrington Robert S. Corrington (born May 30, 1950) is an American philosopher and author of many books exploring human interpretation of the universe as well as biographies on C.S. Peirce and Wilhelm Reich. He is currently the Henry Anson Buttz Professor o ...

* John Corvino * William Craig * William Lane Craig * Alice Crary *

James Edwin Creighton James Edwin Creighton (April 8, 1861, Pictou, Nova Scotia – October 8, 1924, Ithaca, New York) was an American idealist philosopher, Cornell academic, founding president of the American Philosophical Association, and president (1902) of the Amer ...

Joseph Cropsey Joseph Cropsey (New York, August 27, 1919 – Washington, D.C., July 1, 2012) was an American political philosopher and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago, where he was also associate director of the John M. Olin ...

Steven Crowell Steven Crowell is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at Rice University, where he taught from 1983 to 2022. Crowell earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1981. His work has largely focused on twentieth-century European ...

Charles Marriot Culver Charles Culver (November 7, 1934 – February 24, 2015) was a medical ethicist and a psychiatrist. He was primarily known for his work in medical ethics and his contributions in founding the field of bioethics in the United States. Biography ...

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* Norman Daniels * Arthur Danto * Donald Davidson * Michael Davis *

Michael Peter Davis Michael Peter Davis (born December 19, 1947) is an American philosopher and educator. He is a professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. Early life and education Davis earned his A.B. in Philosophy and Government at Cornell University, ...

* Alfred de Grazia * David DeGrazia *

Grace de Laguna Grace Mead de Laguna (28 September 1878 – 17 February 1978) was an American philosopher who taught at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Life Grace Mead Andrus was born on 28 September 1878 in East Berlin, Connecticut. She was the youngest chi ...

Theodore de Laguna Theodore de Leo de Laguna (July 22, 1876 – September 22, 1930) was an American philosopher who taught for years at Bryn Mawr College and was known as an early feminist. Biography Theodore de Leo de Laguna was born on 22 July 1876 in Oakland, ...

* John Deely *

Daniel Dennett Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields rel ...

Christian de Quincey Christian de Quincey is an American philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe. He is also an international speaker on consciousness. Biography De Qu ...

* Keith DeRose * Jan Deutsch *

John Dewey John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the f ...

Cora Diamond Cora Diamond (born 1937) is an American philosopher who works on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, moral philosophy, animal ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy and literature. Diamond is the Kenan Professor of ...

* Donna Dickenson * Keith Donnellan *

Elliot N. Dorff Elliot N. Dorff (born 24 June 1943) is an American Conservative rabbi. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Distinguished Professor of Jewish theology at the American Jewish University (formerly the University of Judaism) in C ...

* Bradley Dowden * Paul Draper * Theodore Drange * Burton Dreben * Gary Drescher * Fred Dretske * Hubert Dreyfus * Raymond Duncan * Barrows Dunham * Will Durant * Ronald Dworkin

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William A. Earle William A. Earle (1919 – October 16, 1988) was a twentieth-century American philosopher. Earle was an important figure within the movements of existentialism and phenomenology. He had particular expertise in the thought of Karl Jaspers and ...

* John Earman * Frank Ebersole *

James M. Edie James M. Edie (November 3, 1927 – February 21, 1998) was an American philosopher. Life and career Edie was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He studied at Saint John’s University in Minnesota and at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm ...

* Paul Edwards *

Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards may refer to: Musicians *Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, pseudonym of bandleader Paul Weston and his wife, singer Jo Stafford *Jonathan Edwards (musician) (born 1946), American musician ** ''Jonathan Edwards'' (album), debut album ...

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theor ...

* Loren Eiseley * Catherine Elgin *

Marc H. Ellis Marc H. Ellis (born 1952) is an American author, liberation theologian, and a retired University Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University. He is currently visiting profe ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a cham ...

* Mylan Engel * H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. *

E. E. Ericksen Ephraim Edward Ericksen (January 2, 1882–1967) was an American philosopher and Mormon scholar who taught philosophy at the University of Utah for 30 years. He was a president of the American Philosophical Association The American Philosoph ...

* Stephen L. Esquith * David Estlund * Rod L. Evans * Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

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* Marvin Farber * James E. Faulconer *

Joel Feinberg Joel Feinberg (October 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan – March 29, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American political and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political p ...

Fred Feldman Fred Feldman (born Newark, New Jersey, 1941) is an American philosopher who specializes in ethical theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. ...

* Ernest Fenollosa * Edward Feser * Hartry Field * Arthur Fine * Kit Fine *

Guy Finley Guy Finley (born February 22, 1949) is an American self-help writer, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician. Early life and career The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up ...

* John Martin Fischer * John Fiske *

Leonard M. Fleck Leonard Michael Fleck (born 1944) is an American philosophy professor and medical ethicist. He earned his Ph.D. from Saint Louis University, St. Louis University in 1975 and taught courses at Saint Mary's College (Indiana), St. Mary's College (India ...

Ralph Tyler Flewelling Ralph Tyler Flewelling (1871–1960) was an American philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of ...

Jerry Fodor Jerry Alan Fodor (; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of many crucial works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. His writings in these fields laid the groundwork for the mo ...

William Fontaine William Thomas Valerio Fontaine (born William Thomas Fontaine; December 2, 1909 – December 29, 1968) was an American philosopher. Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1967, he was an American Professor of philosophy i ...

* Charles Frankel * William Frankena * Harry Frankfurt * Betty Friedan * Erich Fromm *

Marilyn Frye Marilyn Frye (born 1941) is an American philosopher and radical feminist theorist. She is known for her theories on sexism, racism, oppression, and sexuality. Her writings offer discussions of feminist topics, such as: white supremacy, ma ...

* Francis Fukuyama * Christopher Fynsk

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Shaun Gallagher Shaun Gallagher is an American philosopher known for his work on embodied cognition, social cognition, agency and the philosophy of psychopathology. Since 2011 he has held the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the Un ...

* David Gauthier * Norman Geisler *

Michael Gelven Michael Gelven, (1937-2018) was a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University, where he taught for 46 years. Gelven held a Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University, penned a well known commentary o ...

* Tamar Gendler * Eugene Gendlin * Alexander George * Robert P. George * Emanuel Vogel Gerhart *

Brie Gertler Brie Gertler is an American philosopher who works primarily on problems in the philosophy of mind. A mind-body dualist, she is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her special ...

* Edmund Gettier * Raymond Geuss * Alan Gewirth * Allan Gibbard * Kahlil Gibran *

Fred Gifford Fred Gifford (a.k.a.) Freddy Giff is a professor and the associate chair of the philosophy department at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 and currently teaches courses on philosophy of technology ...

Neil Gillman Neil Gillman (September 11, 1933 – November 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American rabbi and philosopher affiliated with Conservative Judaism. Biography Gillman was born in Quebec City, Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1954. He was orda ...

René Girard René Noël Théophile Girard (; ; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French polymath, historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the a ...

Sue Golding Johnny Golding (also known as Sue Golding) is Professor of Philosophy & Fine Art, and senior tutor at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Golding's work deals with the onto-epistemological nuances of radical matter: artificial and distributed ...

* Alvin Goldman *

Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of th ...

Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy of science from Princeton University, and ...

* Nelson Goodman * Allan Gotthelf * Jorge J. E. Gracia * Kersey Graves * Maxine Greene * Marjorie Grene * David Ray Griffin * Robert Grudin * Paul Guyer

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Garry L. Hagberg Garry L. Hagberg is an author, professor, philosopher, and jazz musician, He is currently the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College. Career He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph. D. at the University of Oregon and ...

* Everett W. Hall * Manly Palmer Hall * Philip Hallie *

Jean Elizabeth Hampton Jean Elizabeth Hampton (June 1, 1954 – April 2, 1996) was an American political philosopher, author of ''Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition'', ''Political Philosophy'', ''The Authority of Reason'', ''The Intrinsic Worth of Persons'' and, ...

* Norwood Russell Hanson *

Sandra Harding Sandra G. Harding (born 1935) is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited ...

* John E. Hare * Gilbert Harman * Errol Harris * Leonard Harris * Sam Harris * William Torrey Harris * Sally Haslanger * Gilbert Harman *

Robert S. Hartman Robert Schirokauer Hartman (January 27, 1910 – September 20, 1973) was a German-American logician and philosopher. His primary field of study was scientific axiology (the science of value) and he is known as its original theorist. His axi ...

* Charles Hartshorne *

Donald West Harward Donald West "Don" Harward is an American philosopher who served as the sixth President of Bates College from March 1989 to November 2002, where he was succeeded by the first female president, Elaine Tuttle Hansen. Early life and career Harwar ...

William Hasker R. William Hasker (; born 1935) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington University. For many years he was editor of the prestigious journal ''Faith and Philosophy''. He has published many journa ...

* John Haugeland *

Spencer Heath Spencer Heath (January 3, 1876, Vienna, Virginia – October 6, 1963, Leesburg, Virginia) was an American engineer, attorney, inventor, manufacturer, horticulturist, poet, philosopher of science and social thinker.Spencer Heath MacCallum" ...

John Heil John Heil is an American philosopher, known primarily for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. Heil is Professor of Philosophy at the Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and an Honorar ...

* Laurens Perseus Hickok * Stephen Hicks * Kathleen Higgins *

Marian Hillar Marian Hillar is an American philosopher, theologian, linguist, and scientist. He is a recognized authority on Michael Servetus and together with classicist and political theorist, C. A. Hoffman, translated the major works of Michael Servetus from ...

* William Hirstein * William Ernest Hocking * Eric Hoffer * Douglas Hofstadter *

Arthur F. Holmes Arthur Frank Holmes (March 15, 1924 – October 8, 2011) was an English philosopher who served as Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois, US from 1951 to 1994. He built the philosophy department at Wheaton where he taught, wrote ...

* Gerald Holton *

Sidney Hook Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of pragmatism known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics. After embracing communism in his you ...

* John Hospers *

Vernon Howard Vernon Linwood Howard (March 16, 1918 – August 23, 1992) was an American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher. Career as writer and teacher Howard was born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and began his writing career in the 1940s as an ...

* George Holmes Howison * Elbert Hubbard * Michael Huemer * Colin Hughes * David Hull * Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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* Peter van Inwagen

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William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the la ...

Fredric Jameson Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jam ...

* Martin Jay *

Nancy S. Jecker Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker (born October 25, 1960) is a bioethicist, philosopher, and author. She is Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, with Adjunct ...

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the nati ...

* Alexander Bryan Johnson * David Alan Johnson * Mark Johnson * Rufus Jones *

Edward Jones-Imhotep Edward Jones-Imhotep is a historian of science and technology, academic and Director and Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in History of Sci ...

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John Kaag John Kaag (born 1979) is an American philosopher and Chair and Professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Kaag specializes in American philosophy. His writing has been published in ''The Paris Review'', ''The New York Time ...

* Shelly Kagan * Horace Kallen *

Frances Kamm Frances Myrna Kamm () is an American philosopher specializing in normative and applied ethics. Kamm is currently the Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Bruns ...

* Robert Kane *

Abraham Kaplan Abraham Kaplan (June 11, 1918 – June 19, 1993) was an American philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book ''The Conduct of Inquiry'' (1964). His thinking was influence ...

* David Kaplan * Mordecai Kaplan * Jerrold Katz * Peter Kaufmann * Walter Kaufmann *

R.P. Kaushik New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

* Sam Keen * David Kelley * Cassius Jackson Keyser * Jaegwon Kim *

Stanton Davis Kirkham Stanton Davis Kirkham (December 7, 1868 – January 6, 1944) was a naturalist, philosopher, ornithologist and author. Although widely travelled, he resided primarily in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritime ...

* Patricia Kitcher * Jacob Klein *

Peter D. Klein Peter David Klein (born September 17, 1940) is an American philosopher specializing in issues in epistemology who spent most of his career at Rutgers University. Education and career He received a BA at Earlham College (1962), and an MA (1964 ...

* Joshua Knobe * Ned Kock * David Koepsell * David Kolb * Robert Koons * Hilary Kornblith * Christine Korsgaard *

Matthew Kramer Matthew Henry Kramer (born 9 June 1959) is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He writes mainly in the areas of metaethics, ...

* Michael Krausz * Peter Kreeft * Werner Krieglstein * Saul Kripke * J Krishnamurti *

Mark Kuczewski Mark Kuczewski is an American philosopher and bioethicist who has been a key contributor to the New Professionalism movement in medicine and medical education. In general, interest in professionalism has been widespread in medicine probably owin ...

* Thomas Samuel Kuhn *

Paul Kurtz Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was an American scientific skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism". He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buff ...

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* Corliss Lamont * Mark Lance * Charles Lane * William Lane Craig * Susanne Langer * Charles Larmore * Jonathan Lear * Keith Lehrer * Brian Leiter *

James G. Lennox James G. Lennox (born January 11, 1948) is an emeritus professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, United States, with secondary appointments in the departments of Classics and Philosophy. He i ...

* Isaac Levi * Michael Levin * Clarence Irving Lewis * David Kellogg Lewis * Mark Lilla * Hilde Lindemann * Alphonso Lingis *

Leonard Linsky Leonard Linsky (November 13, 1922 – August 27, 2012) was an American philosopher of language. He was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago. Philosophical work Linsky was best known for work on the theory of reference, and also as ...

Matthew Lipman Matthew Lipman (August 24, 1923 in Vineland, New Jersey – December 26, 2010 in West Orange, New Jersey) is recognized as the founder of Philosophy for Children. His decision to bring philosophy to young people came from his experience as ...

* Alfred Henry Lloyd * Elisabeth Lloyd * Alain LeRoy Locke * Loren Lomasky *

Max Freedom Long Max Freedom Long (October 26, 1890 – September 23, 1971) was an American novelist and New Age author. Early life and career Max Freedom Long was born on October 26, 1890, in Sterling, Colorado to Toby Albert Long and his wife Jessie Diffendaffe ...

Helen Longino Helen Elizabeth Longino (born July 13, 1944) is an American philosopher of science who has argued for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry. She has written about the role of women in science and is a central ...

William Lycan William G. Lycan (; born September 26, 1945) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was formerly the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since 2011, Lycan is also ...

* Helen Lynd

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Dwight Macdonald Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, editor, film critic, social critic, literary critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist mag ...

Tibor R. Machan Tibor Richard Machan (; 18 March 1939 – 24 March 2016) was a Hungarian-American philosopher. A professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Machan held the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise ...

* Alasdair MacIntyre * Louis H. Mackey * Ruth Macklin *

James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for h ...

* Robert Magliola * Norman Malcolm * David Manley *

Jesse Mann Jesse Aloysius Mann (May 18, 1922 – April 10, 2016), a native of Washington, D.C., was an American educator of philosophy. Education Mann graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He earned a Ph.D. at the Catholic University ...

* Ruth Barcan Marcus * Joseph Margolis *

Don Marquis Donald Robert Perry Marquis ( ; July 29, 1878 – December 29, 1937) was an American humorist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is remembered best for creating the characters Arc ...

* Erwin Marquit * Bill Martin * Donald A. Martin * Everett Dean Martin * Michael Martin * Richard Milton Martin * Benson Mates * Gareth Matthews *

George I. Mavrodes George I. Mavrodes (November 23, 1926 – July 31, 2019) was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Biography Mavrodes received his B.S. degree (1945) from Oregon State College, his B.D. degre ...

* Todd May * Ernst W. Mayr * Thomas A. McCarthy * Ron McClamrock *

John H. McClendon John H. McClendon III is a professor in the department of philosophy at Michigan State University. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kansas, and taught at Binghamton University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Il ...

Janet McCracken Janet McCracken is the Chair of Classical Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Lake Forest College. She specializes in aesthetics. Biography McCracken earned a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Arts and PhD from University of ...

* Evander Bradley McGilvary *

Leemon McHenry Leemon McHenry is a bioethicist and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, in the United States. He has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central M ...

* Terence McKenna * Matthew W. McKeon *

Richard McKeon Richard McKeon (; April 26, 1900 – March 31, 1985) was an American philosopher and longtime professor at the University of Chicago. His ideas formed the basis for the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Life, times, and influences McKeo ...

* Jeff McMahan * William McNeill * George Herbert Mead * Jack Meiland * Alfred Mele * Stephen Menn *

Franklin Merrell-Wolff Franklin Merrell-Wolff (born Franklin Fowler Wolff; 11 July 1887 – 4 October 1985) was an American mystic and esoteric philosopher. After formal education in philosophy and mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, Wolff devoted himself to the goa ...

* Trenton Merricks * Leonard B. Meyer *

Stephen C. Meyer Stephen C. Meyer (; born 1958) is an American author and former educator. He is an advocate of the pseudoscience of intelligent design and helped found the Center for Science and Culture (CSC) of the Discovery Institute (DI), which is the mai ...

* Sidney Edward Mezes * John William Miller * Mitchell Miller *

Richard W. Miller Richard W. Miller the Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life and Director of the Program on Ethics and Public Life in the Cornell University Department of Philosophy. He specializes in moral philosophy, political philo ...

Elijah Millgram Elijah "Lije" Millgram (born 1958) is an American philosopher. He is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research specialties include practical reason and moral philosophy. Elijah Millgram received his Ph.D. f ...

* Ruth Millikan * Philip Mirowski *

Carl Mitcham Carl Mitcham (born 1941) is a philosopher of engineering and technology, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines and Visiting International Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Renmin Univers ...

* Sandra Mitchell *

Ann M. Mongoven Ann M. Mongoven is an American philosophy professor and medical ethicist. She earned her Ph.D. in religious studies/ethics from the University of Virginia in 1996 and a M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health i ...

* Richard Montague * William Pepperell Montague * Ernest Addison Moody * Addison Webster Moore *

Charles A. Moore Charles Alexander Moore (March 11, 1901 – April 1967) was an American philosopher, historian, sinologist, and writer. He was a professor of comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii. Biography He was born in Chicago, Illinois on ...

* Paul Elmer More *

J. P. Moreland James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), better known as J. P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola Univ ...

* John Henry Morgan * Sidney Morgenbesser * Charles W. Morris * Christopher W. Morris * Thomas V. Morris * Paul Moser *

Athanasios Moulakis Athanasios Moulakis ( el, Αθανάσιος Μουλάκης; July 11, 1945 – July 18, 2015) was President Emeritus of the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani (AUI-S) and a former Acting President and Chief Academic Officer, Professor o ...

* V. Y. Mudimbe

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*Ernest Nagel *

Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, ...

Debra Nails Debra Nails (born November 15, 1950) is an American philosophy professor who taught at Michigan State University. Nails earned her M.A. in philosophy and classical Greek from Louisiana State University before going on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy ...

* Louis Narens * Jacob Needleman *

John Neihardt John Gneisenau Neihardt (January 8, 1881 – November 3, 1973) was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been ...

* Jamie Lindemann Nelson *

Michael P. Nelson Michael Paul Nelson is an environmental scholar, writer, teacher, speaker, consultant, and Professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University. Nelson is also the philosopher in residence of the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Proj ...

Jay Newman Jay Newman (February 28, 1948 – June 17, 2007) was a philosopher and Professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Biography Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lou Newman and his wife, Kitty. He received his B.A. f ...

Shaun Nichols Shaun Nichols (born 7 February 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Cornell University specializing in the philosophy of cognitive sciences, moral psychology and philosophy of mind. Education and career Nichols received his PhD in ph ...

Jeffrey Nielsen Jeffrey Nielsen is founder of the Democracy House Project, and a published author. He is also a philosophy instructor at Westminster College, Salt Lake City; and Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He is perhaps best known for being both a suppo ...

* Richard Thomas Nolan * Calvin Normore * David L. Norton * Michael Novak * Claude Nowell * Robert Nozick * Martha Nussbaum

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James Otteson James R. Otteson (; born June 19, 1968) is an American philosopher and political economist. He is the John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Formerly, he was the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Bus ...

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Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

* George Herbert Palmer * Thomas Pangle * George Pappas *

Leonard Peikoff Leonard Sylvan Peikoff (; born October 15, 1933) is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a national ...

Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for ...

* Gregory Pence *

Stephen Pepper Stephen C. Pepper (April 29, 1891 – May 1, 1972) was an American pragmatism philosopher, the Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. He may be best known for World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence (1942) but was ...

Ralph Barton Perry Ralph Barton Perry (July 3, 1876 in Poultney, Vermont – January 22, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently ...

Robert B. Pippin Robert Buford Pippin (born September 14, 1948) is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the Univ ...

Robert M. Pirsig Robert Maynard Pirsig (; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher. He was the author of the philosophical novels ''Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An ...

Walter B. Pitkin Walter Boughton Pitkin (February 6, 1878 – January 25, 1953) was an American author and university professor. He taught at Columbia University for 38 years, and he authored more than 30 books, including the 1932 best-selling book, ''Life Beg ...

* Alvin Plantinga *

Richard Popkin Richard Henry Popkin (December 27, 1923 – April 14, 2005) was an American academic philosopher who specialized in the history of enlightenment philosophy and early modern anti-dogmatism. His 1960 work ''The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to ...

* Richard Posner * Robert M. Price *

Harry Prosch Harry Prosch (May 4, 1917 – March 11, 2005) was an American philosopher born in Logansport, Indiana. Life Prosch, the son of a grocer, was told he was ineligible to enter college because he had not studied Latin. "He was placed in the Industrial ...

* Hilary Putnam *

Ruth Anna Putnam Ruth Anna Putnam (born Ruth Anna Jacobs; 20 September 1927 – 4 May 2019) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Biography Ruth Anna Jacobs was born in Berlin on 20 September 1927. Her father, born Karl ...

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Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine (; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century ...

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* James Rachels * John Herman Randall, Jr. *

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...

* Robert Bruce Raup * Jerome Ravetz * Heidi Ravven * John Rawls *

Frederick Rauscher 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 taugh ...

* George Lansing Raymond *

Michael C. Rea Michael Cannon Rea is an American analytic philosopher and, since 2017, John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He delivered the 2017 Gifford Lecture on divine hiddenness. Work In ''World Without Design: The ...

* William L. Reese * Tom Regan * Victor Reppert * Hans Reichenbach * Nicholas Rescher * Philip H. Rhinelander * Adrienne Rich * William J. Richardson * Laurence Rickels * Isaac Woodbridge Riley * James Robb * Daniel N. Robinson * Rick Roderick *

Bernard Rollin Bernard Elliot Rollin (February 18, 1943 – November 19, 2021) was an American philosopher, who was emeritus professor of philosophy, animal sciences, and biomedical sciences at Colorado State University. He was considered to be the "father of ...

* Holmes Rolston III * Avital Ronell * Richard Rorty * Stanley Rosen * Alexander Rosenberg * Jay Rosenberg * Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy * David M. Rosenthal *

Stephen David Ross Stephen David Ross (born 1935) is an American philosopher, currently Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture and of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. He has published over 30 books in interdiscipl ...

* Gian-Carlo Rota *

Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertaria ...

* William L. Rowe *

Josiah Royce Josiah Royce (; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his version of personalism, defense of absolutism, idealism and his ...

Michael Ruse Michael Ruse (born 21 June 1940) is a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and works on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demar ...

David Rynin David Rynin (October 15, 1905 – February 24, 2000) was an American philosopher. He is known mostly as an exponent of logical positivism. He served as president of the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association in the years 1 ...

* Ravi Zacharias

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William S. Sahakian William S. Sahakian (Armenian: Ուիլյամ Սահակյան) (January 1, 1922–April 6, 1986) was an Armenian-American philosopher. Receiving his BS at Northeastern University with a major in psychology and sociology in 1944, Sahakian later co ...

Paul Saka Paul Saka is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is known for his works on philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of languag ...

* John Sallis * Nathan Salmon * Michael Sandel * Ellis Sandoz *

David H. Sanford David H. Sanford (born 1937-2022) was a professor of philosophy at Duke University. He specializes in perception and metaphysics. Sanford studied at Cass Technical High School, Oberlin College and at Wayne State University. He received his Ph.D. ...

Larry Sanger Lawrence Mark Sanger (; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who co-founded the online encyclopedia Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name and wrote much of Wikipedia's original govern ...

* George Santayana * Crispin Sartwell * Jennifer Saul *

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (né McCord, born December 10, 1956) is an American philosopher who works in moral theory, ethics, meta-ethics, the history of ethics, and epistemology. He teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is als ...

* Kenneth M. Sayre *

T.M. Scanlon Thomas Michael "Tim" Scanlon (; born 1940), usually cited as T. M. Scanlon, is an American philosopher. At the time of his retirement in 2016, he was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity"The Alford Professo ...

Diana Schaub Diana Schaub is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political t ...

* Tommie Shelby * Naomi Scheman * Theodore Schick *

Tad Schmaltz Tad M. Schmaltz (born 1960) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to that, he was a professor of philosophy at Duke University, where he began his teaching career in 1989. He graduated magna cum laude with a ...

* David Schmidtz *

J. B. Schneewind Jerome Borges Schneewind (born May 17, 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Life He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Schneewind taught at the University ...

* Herbert Schneider *

Harold M. Schulweis Harold M. Schulweis (April 14, 1925 – December 18, 2014) was an American rabbi and author. He was the longtime spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. Biography Schulweis was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1925 to secula ...

Alfred Schütz Alfred Schutz (; born Alfred Schütz, ; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions. Schutz is gradually being recognized as one of the 20th century's leadi ...

* Lisa H. Schwartzman * David Schweickart *

John Searle John Rogers Searle (; born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. He began teaching at UC Berkeley in 1959, and was Willis S. and Mari ...

* Roy Wood Sellars *

Wilfrid Sellars Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 – July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States". Life and career His father ...

* Michael J. Shapiro *

Scott J. Shapiro Scott Jonathan Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale's Center for Law and Philosophy and of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia C ...

* Stewart Shapiro * William Shaw * George Sher * Warren Shibles * Sydney Shoemaker * Richard Shusterman *

Hugh J. Silverman Hugh J. Silverman (August 17, 1945 – May 8, 2013) was an American philosopher and cultural theorist whose writing, lecturing, teaching, editing, and international conferencing participated in the development of a postmodern network. He was exe ...

Edgar A. Singer, Jr. Edgar Arthur Singer Jr. (November 13, 1873 – April 4, 1954) was an American philosopher, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and proponent of experimentalism. Life and work Singer was a graduate student of George S. Fullerton (1839–1 ...

* Irving Singer * David Skrbina * Brian Skyrms * Barry Smith * George H. Smith * Quentin Smith * Tara Smith * T. V. Smith * Wolfgang Smith * Raymond Smullyan *

Joseph D. Sneed Joseph D. Sneed (September 23, 1938 – February 7, 2020) was an American physicist, and philosopher at the Colorado School of Mines. Early life He was born in Durant, OK. His father, Dabney W. Sneed, was a civil servant with the Postal Service ...

* Laura J. Snyder * Scott Soames * Alan Soble * Robert C. Solomon *

Joseph B. Soloveitchik Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( he, יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק ''Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik''; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion o ...

* Tamler Sommers * Frederick Sontag * Pitirim Sorokin * David Sosa * Ernest Sosa * Lysander Spooner * Elmer Sprague * Robert Stalnaker *

Lawrence Stepelevich Lawrence S. Stepelevich (July 22, 1930 – August 14, 2022) was an American philosopher associated with a renewed interest in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, particularly since the fall of the Soviet Union, with less emphasis placed on ...

* Charles Stevenson * Stephen Stich * Leo Strauss * David Strong * Barry Stroud * Peter Suber *

William Graham Sumner William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American clergyman, social scientist, and classical liberal. He taught social sciences at Yale University—where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology—and becam ...

Frederick Suppe Frederick Suppe (; born 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is a professor Emeritus of philosophy at the University of Maryland. He has prominent work in the philosophy of science including much work with the semantic view of theories. Biograp ...

* Patrick Suppes

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William W. Tait William Walker Tait (born 1929) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he served as a faculty member from 1972 to 1996, and as department chair from 1981 to 1987. Education and career Tait received his B.A. f ...

* Nassim Nicholas Taleb *

Richard Tarnas Richard Theodore Tarnas is a cultural historian and astrologer known for his books '' The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View'' and '' Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View''. Tarnas i ...

Alfred I. Tauber Alfred I. Tauber (born 1947) is an American philosopher and historian of science, who, from 1993 to 2010, served as director of the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Tauber has published extensi ...

Kenneth Allen Taylor Kenneth Allen Taylor (November 4, 1954 – December 2, 2019) was an American philosopher and co-host (with John Perry) of the radio program ''Philosophy Talk''. Education and career Taylor received his A.B. from the University of Notre Dame i ...

* Mark C. Taylor * Paul Taylor * Richard Taylor * Neil Tennant *

Larry Temkin Larry Temkin is an American philosopher specializing in normative ethics and political philosophy. His research into equality, practical reason, and the nature of the good has been very influential. His work on the intransitivity of the "all thin ...

* Irving Thalberg, Jr. *

Laurence Thomas Laurence Thomas (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Science at Syracuse University. Thomas is noted for his work on moral luck, social philosophy and American Blacks and Jews. Work Thomas ...

* Paul B. Thompson * Iain Thomson * Judith Jarvis Thomson * Henry David Thoreau *

Paul Tillich Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theolo ...

Samuel Martin Thompson Samuel Martin Thompson (1901—1983) was an American philosopher, frequent contributor to scholarly journals and author of three bestselling textbooks of philosophy. His textbooks were used by many top universities and seminaries in the United Sta ...

* Samuel Todes * Michael Tooley * Benjamin Tucker * Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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* Robert Ulanowicz * Peter Unger * Wilbur Marshall Urban

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William F. Vallicella William F. Vallicella is an American people, American philosopher. Biography Vallicella has a Ph.D. (Boston College; 1978), taught for a number of years at University of Dayton (where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Philosophy; 1978–91) ...

* Paul van Buren * Bas van Fraassen * Peter van Inwagen * Achille Varzi *

Henry Babcock Veatch Henry Babcock Veatch Jr. (September 26, 1911 – July 9, 1999) was an American philosopher. Life and career Veatch was born September 26, 1911, in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Harvard University, where he received his A.B. and M.A. degre ...

* J. David Velleman * Eric Voegelin * Alice von Hildebrand

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* James D. Wallace * Kendall Walton *

Mary Anne Warren Mary Anne Warren (August 23, 1946 – August 9, 2010) was an American writer and philosophy professor, noted for her writings on the issue of abortion and animal rights. Biography Warren was a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State Univ ...

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David Weinberger David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker. Trained as a philosopher, Weinberger's work focuses on how technology — particularly the internet and machine learning — is changing our ideas, with books about the ...

* Jack Russell Weinstein * Max Weismann * Paul Weiss *

Morris Weitz Morris Weitz (; July 24, 1916 – February 1, 1981) "was an American philosopher of aesthetics who focused primarily on ontology, interpretation, and literary criticism". From 1972 until his death he was Richard Koret Professor of Philosophy at ...

* Cornel West * Anthony Weston * Jonathan Westphal * Gregory Wheeler * Morton White *

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found applic ...

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among ...

* Dan Wikler * Ken Wilber *

John Daniel Wild John Daniel Wild (April 10, 1902 – October 23, 1972) was a twentieth-century American philosopher. Wild began his philosophical career as an empiricist and realist but became an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology in ...

* Dallas Willard * William Mackintire Salter * Michael Williams *

Bruce Wilshire Bruce W. Wilshire (February 8, 1932 – January 1, 2013) was an American philosopher who taught in the philosophy department at Rutgers University, from which he retired as Professor Emeritus in 2009. Beginning as a specialist in William James, he ...

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilso ...

William J. Winslade William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D. (born 18 November 1941) is the ''James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine'' at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and ''Distinguished Visiting Pro ...

* Susan Wolf *

Robert Paul Wolff Robert Paul Wolff (born December 27, 1933) is an American political philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Wolff has written widely on topics in political philosophy such as Marxism, tolerance (again ...

* Nicholas Wolterstorff * Paul Woodruff * Chauncey Wright

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Stephen Yablo Stephen Yablo is a Canadian-born American philosopher. He is David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and taught previously at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He specializes in the philos ...

* Keith Yandell * Igor Yefimov * Arthur M. Young * Iris Marion Young

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* Naomi Zack * Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski * John Zerzan * Paul Ziff * Dean Zimmerman *

Michael E. Zimmerman Michael E. Zimmerman (born July 7, 1946) is an American integral theorist whose interests include Buddhism, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ken Wilber. After a year as assistant professor at Denison University, he was Professor of Phi ...

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List of African American philosophers Africana philosophy is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora. The name does not refer to a particular philosophy, philosophical system, method, or tradition. Rathe ...

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