This is a list of American philosophers; of
philosophers
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Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Francis Ellingwood Abbot (November 6, 1836 – October 23, 1903) was an American philosopher and theologian who sought to reconstruct theology in accord with scientific method.
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David Abram
David Abram (born June 24, 1957) is an American ecologist and philosopher best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. He is the author of ''Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cos ...
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Peter Achinstein
Peter Achinstein (born June 30, 1935) is an American philosopher of science at Johns Hopkins University.
Biography
Achinstein is the son of Betty (née Comras) and economist Asher Achinstein. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard with ...
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Marilyn McCord Adams
Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943–March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of H ...
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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.
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Jane Addams
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage ...
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Mortimer Adler
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Rogers Albritton
Rogers Garland Albritton (August 15, 1923 – May 21, 2002) was an American philosopher who served as chair of the Harvard and UCLA philosophy departments. He published little (only five research papers during his lifetime) and inspired the entry ...
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Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and av ...
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Linda Martín Alcoff
Linda Martín Alcoff is a Latin-American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Alcoff specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continen ...
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Virgil Aldrich
Virgil Charles Aldrich (13 September 1903 in Narsinghpur, India – 28 May 1998 in Salt Lake City, Utah), was an American philosopher of art, language, and religion.
Early life and education
The son of Floyd Clement Aldrich and his wife Ann H ...
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Hartley Burr Alexander
Hartley Burr Alexander, PhD (1873–1939), was an American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer.
Family and early years
Alexander was born in Syracuse, Nebraska, on April 9, 1873. His father, the Rev. George Sherman Alexa ...
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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 ...
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Robert F. Almeder
Robert F. Almeder (born December 11, 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He is known in particular for his work on the philosophy of science, and has also written on the philosophy of mind, epistemology and ethics ...
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William Alston
William Payne Alston (November 29, 1921 – September 13, 2009) was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and Philosophy of religion, philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, a ...
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Alice Ambrose
Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz (November 25, 1906 – January 25, 2001) was an American philosopher, logician, and author.
Early life and education
Alice Loman Ambrose was born in Lexington, Illinois and orphaned when she was 13 years old. She ...
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Karl Ameriks
Karl P. Ameriks (born 1947) is an American philosopher. He is the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Education and career
Ameriks studied at Yale University, A.B., summa cum laude (1969), Ph.D. (1973), ...
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C. Anthony Anderson
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Judith Andre
Judith Andre is a philosophy professor (retired) and virtue theorist. She earned her Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1979 and has taught courses on ethical issues in global public health, ethics and development, animal welfare, and virtue ...
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Julia Annas
Julia Elizabeth Annas (born 1946) is a British philosopher who has taught in the United States for the last quarter-century. She is Regents Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Arizona.
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Ruth Nanda Anshen
Ruth Nanda Anshen (June 14, 1900 – December 2, 2003) was an American philosopher, author and editor. She was the author of several books including ''The Anatomy of Evil'', ''Biography of An Idea'', ''Morals Equals Manners'' and ''The Mystery ...
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Louise Antony
Louise M. Antony is an American philosopher who is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She specializes in philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of language.
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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 born ...
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Richard Arneson
Richard J. Arneson is an American philosopher specializing in political philosophy who has taught at the University of California, San Diego since 1973. He chaired the department during 1992–1996 and served as graduate adviser. In 1996, he also ...
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Robert Arp
Robert Arp (born March 20, 1970) is an American philosopher known for his work in ethics, modern philosophy, ontology, philosophy of biology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, religious studies, and philosophy and popular culture. H ...
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Robert Arrington
Robert L. Arrington (October 19, 1938 - June 20, 2015) was an American philosopher, specialising in moral philosophy, the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of psychology.
Arrington was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, and educate ...
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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, where ...
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Warren Ashby
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Januarius Jingwa Asongu
Januarius Jingwa (JJ) Asongu is an American philosopher, scholar, journalist, author, entrepreneur, and activist. Born in the small city of Lewoh, in the former British Southern Cameroons, Africa, he moved to the United States in the mid-1990s, w ...
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Margaret Atherton
Margaret Atherton (born 1943) is an American philosopher and feminist historian who is currently a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and was a Distinguished Professor of ...
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Robert Audi
Robert N. Audi (born November 1941) is an American philosopher whose major work has focused on epistemology, ethics (especially on ethical intuitionism), rationality and the theory of action. He is O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the Universi ...
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Jody Azzouni
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Babette Babich
Babette E. Babich (born 14 November 1956, in New York City) is an American philosopher who writes from a continental perspective on aesthetics, philosophy of science and technology in addition to critical and cultural theory.
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Kent Bach
Kent Bach (born 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His primary areas of research include the philosophy of language, linguistics and epistemology. He is the author of three books: ''Exi ...
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Max Baginski
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Archie J. Bahm
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Gordon Park Baker
Gordon Park Baker (born at Englewood, New Jersey, 20 April 1938; died at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 25 June 2002) was an American-English philosopher. His topics of interest included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Waismann, Bertrand ...
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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 Virg ...
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Dan Barker
Daniel Edwin Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current ...
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William Barratt
William James Barratt (25 January 1823 – 10 September 1889) was an England, English convert to Mormonism and became the first Latter Day Saint to live in Australia when he was sent there as a Mormon missionary, missionary of the Church of Chri ...
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William Warren Bartley, III
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Daniel Barwick
Daniel Workman Barwick (born June 21, 1968) is an American author, fundraiser, journalist, podcaster, higher education administrator, and teacher. He was the President of Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas.
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Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzun (; November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and ...
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Monroe Beardsley
Monroe Curtis Beardsley (; December 10, 1915 – September 18, 1985) was an American philosopher of art.
Biography
Beardsley was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1939), where he re ...
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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 ...
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Lewis White Beck
Lewis White Beck (September 26, 1913 – June 7, 1997) was an American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy. Beck was Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Rochester and served as the Philosophy D ...
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Lawrence C. Becker
Lawrence C. Becker (April 26, 1939 – November 22, 2018) was an American philosopher working mainly in the areas of ethics and social, political, and legal philosophy.
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Becker is the author of books and journal articles on justice, Stoicis ...
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Hugo Adam Bedau
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Nuel Belnap
Nuel Dinsmore Belnap Jr. (; born 1930) is an American logician and philosopher who has made contributions to the philosophy of logic, temporal logic, and structural proof theory. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1963 until his ret ...
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Paul Benacerraf
Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (; born 26 March 1931) is a French-born American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mathematics who taught at Princeton University his entire career, from 1960 until his retirement in 2007. He wa ...
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Gustav Bergmann
Gustav Bergmann (May 4, 1906 – April 21, 1987) was an Austrian-born American philosopher. He studied at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Vienna Circle. Bergmann was influenced by the philosophers Moritz Schlick, Friedrich W ...
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Michael Bergmann
Michael Bergmann is an American writer, director, and producer.
Biography
Michael Bergmann graduated with a B.A. in Latin from Columbia University in 1975 and studied film concurrently at N.Y.U. Undergraduate Film School. He went on to study a ...
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Arnold Berleant
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Marshall Berman
Marshall Howard Berman (November 23, 1940–September 11, 2013) was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City U ...
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Andrew Bernstein
Andrew Bernstein is an American philosopher. He is a proponent of Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction.
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He is the author of ''The Capitalist Manifesto: Th ...
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Mark Bernstein
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Richard J. Bernstein
Richard Jacob Bernstein (May 14, 1932 – July 4, 2022) was an American philosopher who taught for many years at Haverford College and then at The New School for Social Research, where he was Vera List Professor of Philosophy. Bernstein wrote ...
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Marcus Berquist
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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 (baseball), manager and Coach (baseball), coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball ...
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Steven Best
Steven Best (born December 1955) is an American philosopher, writer, speaker and activist. His concerns include animal rights, species extinction, human overpopulation, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media ...
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Nalini Bhushan
Nalini Bhushan is an American philosopher and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Smith College. Her work is on the philosophy of chemistry and Indian philosophy, among other subjects.
Lee C. McIntyre described Bhushan's edite ...
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Cristina Bicchieri
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Max Black
Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philo ...
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Brand Blanshard
Percy Brand Blanshard (; August 27, 1892 – November 19, 1987) was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason and rationalism. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosop ...
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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 ...
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Benjamin Paul Blood
Benjamin Paul Blood (November 21, 1832 – January 15, 1919) was an American philosopher, mystic and poet. His idiosyncratic work explored his development of his pluralist philosophy, culminating in the posthumously published book ''Pluriverse' ...
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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 Universi ...
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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.
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George Boas
George Boas (; 28 August 1891 – 17 March 1980) was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He received his education at Brown University, obtaining both a BA and MA in philosophy there, after which he studied shortly at ...
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Chris Bobonich
Christopher Bobonich (born February 8, 1960) is an American philosopher and a leading scholar of Ancient Greek philosophy, especially known for his work on Plato's ''Laws''. He is currently Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy and Pro ...
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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 epi ...
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Peter Boghossian
Peter Gregory Boghossian (; born July 25, 1966) is an American philosopher and pedagogist. Born in Boston, he was a non-tenure track assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for ten years, and his areas of academic focus i ...
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David Bohm
David Joseph Bohm (; 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American-Brazilian-British scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th centuryPeat 1997, pp. 316-317 and who contributed u ...
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Laurence BonJour
Laurence BonJour (born August 31, 1943) is an American philosopher and Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Washington.
Education and career
He received his bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from Macalester College a ...
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John Elof Boodin John Elof Boodin (November 14, 1869 – November 14, 1950) was a Swedish-born American philosopher and educator. He was the author of numerous books proposing a systematic interpretation of nature. Boodin's work preserved the tradition of philosop ...
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George Boolos
George Stephen Boolos (; 4 September 1940 – 27 May 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Life
Boolos is of Greek-Jewish descent. He graduated with an A.B. in ...
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Susan Bordo
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Albert Borgmann
Albert Borgmann (born 1937) is a German-born American philosopher
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Francis Bowen
Francis Bowen (; September 8, 1811 – January 22, 1890) was an American philosopher, writer, and educationalist.
Biography
He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was educated at Mayhew School, Boston, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard ...
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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
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Richard Boyd
Richard Newell Boyd (May 19, 1942 – February 20, 2021) was an American philosopher, who spent most of his career teaching philosophy at Cornell University where he was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters Emeritus. He speci ...
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Robert Brandom
Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950) is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his academic output manifests both sys ...
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Richard Brandt
Richard Booker Brandt (17 October 1910 – 10 September 1997) was an American philosopher working in the utilitarian tradition in moral philosophy.
Education and career
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Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include ''Empire of Dreams'' (1988), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998) ''and United States of Banana'' (2011).
Braschi writes cross-genr ...
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David Braybrooke
David Braybrooke (October 18, 1924–August 7, 2013) was a political philosophy, political philosopher and professor emeritus at both Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the University of Texas at Austin.
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Daniel Brock
Dan W. Brock (December 1937 – September 26, 2020) was an American philosopher, bioethicist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University and Brown University. He was the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics in the Dep ...
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Baruch Brody
Baruch A. Brody (21 April 1943 – 30 May 2018) was an American bioethicist. He was the Leon Jaworski Professor of biomedical ethics and former Director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine and An ...
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Stephen Bronner
Stephen Eric Bronner (born 19 August 1949) is a political scientist and philosopher, Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and is the Director of Global Relations for ...
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Baker Brownell
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William Lowe Bryan
William Lowe Bryan (November 11, 1860 – November 21, 1955) was the 10th president of Indiana University, serving from 1902 to 1937.
Early life and education
William Lowe Bryan was born William Julian Bryan on November 11, 1860 in Monroe Count ...
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Scott Buchanan
Scott Buchanan (1895 – 1968) was an American philosopher, educator, and foundation consultant. He is best known as the founder of the Great Books program at St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland.The same program is used at St. John's Coll ...
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Justus Buchler
Justus Buchler (March 27, 1914 – March 19, 1991) was an American philosopher, author and professor. He made contributions to the subjects of naturalism and metaphysics, introducing the concept of the ''natural complex''.
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Jay Budziszewski
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Nicholas C. Burbules
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Tyler Burge
Tyler Burge (; born 1946) is an American philosopher who is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. Burge has made contributions to many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, philosop ...
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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, Burke ...
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Edwin Arthur Burtt
Edwin Arthur Burtt (October 11, 1892 – September 6, 1989), usually cited as E. A. Burtt, was an American philosopher who wrote extensively on the philosophy of religion. His doctoral thesis published as a book under the title ''The Metaphysical ...
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Panayot Butchvarov
Panayot Butchvarov ( Bulgarian: Панайот Бъчваров; born April 2, 1933, in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born American philosopher who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Iowa.
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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, Butler ...
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Charles Butterworth
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Mary Whiton Calkins
Mary Whiton Calkins (; 30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists w ...
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J. Baird Callicott
J. Baird Callicott (born 1941) is an American philosopher whose work has been at the forefront of the new field of environmental philosophy and ethics. He is a University Distinguished Research Professor and a member of the Department of Philos ...
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Donald T. Campbell
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Arthur Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan (born 1950) is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics.
Caplan has made many contribut ...
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John Caputo
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Claudia Card
Claudia Falconer Card (September 30, 1940 – September 12, 2015) was the Emma Goldman (WARF) Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with teaching affiliations in Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Environmental Studi ...
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Richard Carrier
Richard Cevantis Carrier (born December 1, 1969) is an American historian, author, and activist, whose work focuses on empiricism, atheism, and the historicity of Jesus.
A long-time contributor to skeptical web sites, including The Secular We ...
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Noël Carroll
Noël Carroll (born 1947) is an American philosopher considered to be one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy of art. Although Carroll is best known for his work in the philosophy of film (he is a proponent of cognitive film theory) ...
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Paul Carus
Paul Carus (; 18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919) was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion
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Edward S. Casey
Edward S. Casey (born February 24, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American philosopher and university professor. He has published several volumes on phenomenology, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of space and place. His work is widely ...
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Stanley Cavell
Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, an ...
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William H. Chamberlin
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Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier
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James Childress
James Franklin Childress (; born October 4, 1940) is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics. Currently he is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the Department of Religious ...
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Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Milton Chisholm (; November 27, 1916 – January 19, 1999) was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, value theory, and the philosophy of perception.
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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 ...
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Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Calif ...
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Paul Churchland
Paul Montgomery Churchland (born October 21, 1942) is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under Wilfrid Sellars (1969), Churchland ros ...
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Gordon Haddon Clark
Gordon Haddon Clark (August 31, 1902 – April 9, 1985) was an American philosopher and Calvinist theologian. He was a leading figure associated with presuppositional apologetics and was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Butler Univer ...
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Kenneth Clatterbaugh
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Roy A. Clouser
Roy A. Clouser is professor emeritus of the College of New Jersey. He has served as professor of philosophy, religion, and logic at the college since 1968. He serves as the resident philosopher of Christian Leaders Institute.
Clouser earned hi ...
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Carl Cohen
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Joshua Cohen
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James F. Conant
James Ferguson Conant (born June 10, 1958) is an American philosopher at the University of Chicago who has written extensively on topics in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaphilosophy. He is perhaps best known for his writings on Ludwig Wit ...
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William E. Connolly
William Eugene Connolly is an American political theorist known for his work on democracy, pluralism, capitalism and climate change. He is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His 1974 work ''The Ter ...
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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 and ...
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Josephus Flavius Cook
Josephus Flavius Cook (January 26, 1838 – June 24, 1901), commonly known as Joseph Cook, was an American philosophical lecturer, clergyman, and writer.
Life and career
Born in Ticonderoga, New York, he attended Phillips Academy, and then en ...
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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 Ethics. ...
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James A. Corbett
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Robert S. Corrington
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John Corvino
John Frank Corvino (born 1969) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and the dean of the Honors College at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and the author of several books, with a focus on the morality of homosexu ...
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William Craig
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William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. He is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist Univ ...
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Alice Crary
Alice Crary (; born 1967) is an American philosopher who currently holds the positions of University Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research in New York City and Visiting Fellow at Regent's Park Colle ...
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James Edwin Creighton
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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. Ol ...
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Steven Crowell
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Charles Marriot Culver
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Norman Daniels (born 1942) is an American political philosopher and philosopher of science, political theorist, ethicist, and bioethicist at Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before his career at Harvard ...
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Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for ''The Nation'' and for his work in philosophi ...
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Donald Davidson
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Michael Davis
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Michael Peter Davis
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Alfred de Grazia
Alfred de Grazia (December 29, 1919 – July 13, 2014), born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ideas about personal digital ar ...
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David DeGrazia
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Daniel Dennett
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John Dewey
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Cora Diamond
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Donna Dickenson
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Keith Donnellan
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Bradley Dowden
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Theodore Drange
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Burton Dreben
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Gary Drescher
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Fred Dretske
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Hubert Dreyfus
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Barrows Dunham
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Will Durant
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Ronald Dworkin
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John Earman
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Frank Ebersole
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Albert Einstein
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Loren Eiseley
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Catherine Elgin
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joel Feinberg
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Edward Feser
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Hartry Field
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Kit Fine
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John Martin Fischer
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Jerry Fodor
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Charles Frankel
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William Frankena
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Harry Frankfurt
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Betty Friedan
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Erich Fromm
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Marilyn Frye
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Francis Fukuyama
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Christopher Fynsk
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David Gauthier
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Norman Geisler
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Tamar Gendler
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Eugene Gendlin
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Edmund Gettier
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Raymond Geuss
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Alan Gewirth
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Alvin Goldman
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Rebecca Goldstein
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Nelson Goodman
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Allan Gotthelf
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Maxine Greene
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Marjorie Grene
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David Ray Griffin
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Robert Grudin
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Paul Guyer
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Philip Hallie
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Norwood Russell Hanson
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Sandra Harding
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John E. Hare
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Gilbert Harman
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Errol Harris
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Sam Harris
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William Torrey Harris
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Gilbert Harman
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Charles Hartshorne
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Donald West Harward
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William Hasker
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Laurens Perseus Hickok Laurens Perseus Hickok (December 20, 1798 – May 7, 1888), American philosopher and divine, was born at Bethel, Connecticut.
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Kathleen Higgins
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William Hirstein
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Eric Hoffer
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Douglas Hofstadter
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Sidney Hook
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John Hospers
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George Holmes Howison
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Elbert Hubbard
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Michael Huemer
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Fredric Jameson
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Martin Jay
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Horace Kallen
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Frances Kamm
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Abraham Kaplan
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Jerrold Katz
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Sam Keen
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David Kelley
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Cassius Jackson Keyser
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Jaegwon Kim
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Peter D. Klein
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Joshua Knobe
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Ned Kock
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Background
Kock holds a B.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Technol ...
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David Koepsell
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David Kolb
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Kolb received a B.A. from Fordham University in 1963 and an M.A. in 1965. He later received a M.Phil. from Yal ...
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Robert Koons
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Hilary Kornblith
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Kornblith received his ...
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Christine Korsgaard
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Matthew Kramer
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Michael Krausz
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Peter Kreeft
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Werner Krieglstein
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Saul Kripke
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J Krishnamurti
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Mark Kuczewski
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Thomas Samuel Kuhn
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Paul Kurtz
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George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd (; January 19, 1842 – August 8, 1921) was an American philosopher, educator and psychologist.
Biography
Early life and ancestors
Ladd was born in Painesville, Ohio, on January 19, 1842, the son of Silas Trumbull Ladd and ...
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Grace de Laguna
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Corliss Lamont
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Mark Lance
Mark Norris Lance (born 1959) is a professor in the Philosophy Department and Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Life
Lance earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh under the direction of Robert Brandom and Nuel ...
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Charles Lane
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William Lane Craig
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Susanne Langer
Susanne Katherina Langer (; ''née'' Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the earliest American women to achieve ...
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Charles Larmore
Charles Larmore (born 23 March 1950) is an American philosopher. He is the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, noted for his writings on political liberalism as well as on vario ...
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Jonathan Lear
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Keith Lehrer
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Brian Leiter
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James G. Lennox
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Isaac Levi
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Education and career
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Michael Levin
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Clarence Irving Lewis
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David Kellogg Lewis
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Mark Lilla
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Hilde Lindemann
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Alphonso Lingis
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Leonard Linsky
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Matthew Lipman
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Alfred Henry Lloyd
Alfred Henry Lloyd (January 3, 1864 – May 11, 1927) was an American philosopher.
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Lloyd received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard. He studied philosophy at Göttingen University and Heidelberg University, before returning to Harva ...
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Elisabeth Lloyd
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Alain LeRoy Locke
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Loren Lomasky
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Max Freedom Long
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Helen Longino
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William Lycan
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Helen Lynd
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Dwight Macdonald
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Tibor R. Machan
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Alasdair MacIntyre
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Louis H. Mackey
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Early life
Louis Henry Mackey was born in Sidney, Ohio in 1926. After earning a B.A. at Capital University in Colum ...
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Ruth Macklin
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James Madison
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Robert Magliola
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Norman Malcolm
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Jesse Mann
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Ruth Barcan Marcus
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Joseph Margolis
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Don Marquis
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Erwin Marquit
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Bill Martin
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Donald A. Martin
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Everett Dean Martin
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Michael Martin
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Richard Milton Martin
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Benson Mates
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Gareth Matthews
Gareth B. Matthews (July 8, 1929 – April 17, 2011) was an American philosopher who specialized in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, philosophy of childhood and philosophy for children.
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George I. Mavrodes
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Todd May
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Ernst W. Mayr
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Thomas A. McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy (born 1940) is John Shaffer Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Northwestern University. Before joining Northwestern in 1985, he taught for four years at Munich University and for thirteen years at Boston University. After retiri ...
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Ron McClamrock
Ronald Albert McClamrock is an associate professor of philosophy at the University at Albany, The State University of New York. His primary areas of research are the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and cognitive science.
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John H. McClendon
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Janet McCracken
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Evander Bradley McGilvary
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Leemon McHenry
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Terence McKenna
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Matthew W. McKeon
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Richard McKeon
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Jeff McMahan
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William McNeill
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George Herbert Mead
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Jack Meiland
Jack W. Meiland (1934–1998) was an American philosopher and educator. As a philosopher, Meiland is best known for his analyses of relativism, particularly on cognitive relativism. Meiland is also known for a "salvage operation" from the "paradox ...
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Alfred Mele Alfred Remen Mele is an American philosopher and the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is also the past Director of the Philosophy and Science of Self-Control Project (2014-2017) and the Big ...
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Stephen Menn
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff
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Trenton Merricks
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Merricks's published articles includ ...
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Leonard B. Meyer
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Stephen C. Meyer
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Sidney Edward Mezes
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Biography
He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California on September 23, 1863, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother. He graduat ...
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John William Miller John William Miller (1895–1978) was an American philosopher in the idealist tradition. His work appears in six published volumes, including ''The Paradox of Cause'' (1978) and most recently The ''Task of Criticism'' (2006). His principal philosoph ...
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Mitchell Miller
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Richard W. Miller
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Elijah Millgram
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Ruth Millikan
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Philip Mirowski
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Career
In his 1989 book ''More ...
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Carl Mitcham
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Sandra Mitchell
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Ann M. Mongoven
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Richard Montague
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William Pepperell Montague
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Ernest Addison Moody
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Addison Webster Moore
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Charles A. Moore
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Paul Elmer More
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Paul Elmer More, the son of Enoch Anson and Katherine Hay Elmer, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educ ...
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J. P. Moreland
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John Henry Morgan
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Sidney Morgenbesser
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Charles W. Morris
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Early life and education
A son of Charles William and Laura (Campbell) Morris, Charles William Morris was born on May 23, 1901, in Denver, Co ...
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Christopher W. Morris
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His main research areas are moral, legal and po ...
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Thomas V. Morris
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Paul Moser
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Athanasios Moulakis
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V. Y. Mudimbe
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Thomas Nagel
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Debra Nails
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Louis Narens
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Jacob Needleman
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Needleman was Jewish and was educated at Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Freiburg, Germany.[John Neihardt
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Jamie Lindemann Nelson
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Michael P. Nelson
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Jay Newman
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Shaun Nichols
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Jeffrey Nielsen
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Richard Thomas Nolan
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Calvin Normore Calvin Normore (born June 25, 1948) is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an expert in medieval philosophy and the history of logic.
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David L. Norton
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Michael Novak
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Claude Nowell
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Robert Nozick
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Martha Nussbaum
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James Otteson
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Thomas Paine
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George Herbert Palmer
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Thomas Pangle
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George Pappas
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Leonard Peikoff
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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Gregory Pence
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Stephen Pepper
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Ralph Barton Perry
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Robert B. Pippin
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Alvin Plantinga
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Richard Popkin
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Richard Posner
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Robert M. Price
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Harry Prosch
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Hilary Putnam
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Ruth Anna Putnam
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James Rachels
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John Herman Randall, Jr.
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Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of a Baptist minister, he graduated from Morris High School in New Yor ...
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Ayn Rand
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Robert Bruce Raup
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Jerome Ravetz
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Heidi Ravven
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Victor Reppert
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Nicholas Rescher
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Philip H. Rhinelander Philip H. Rhinelander (January 1, 1908 – March 24, 1987), was an American philosopher, professor, and former dean of the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences.
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Laurence Rickels
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Daniel N. Robinson
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Rick Roderick
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Holmes Rolston III
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Avital Ronell
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Richard Rorty
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Stanley Rosen
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Alexander Rosenberg
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Jay Rosenberg
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Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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David M. Rosenthal
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Gian-Carlo Rota
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Murray Rothbard
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William L. Rowe
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Josiah Royce
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Michael Ruse
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Nathan Salmon
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Michael Sandel
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Larry Sanger
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George Santayana
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Kenneth M. Sayre
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T.M. Scanlon
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Naomi Scheman
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Lisa H. Schwartzman
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David Schweickart
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John Searle
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Wilfrid Sellars
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Michael J. Shapiro
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Stewart Shapiro
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George Sher
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Sydney Shoemaker
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Richard Shusterman
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Hugh J. Silverman
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Irving Singer
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David Skrbina
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Brian Skyrms
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George H. Smith
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Quentin Smith
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T. V. Smith
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Wolfgang Smith
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Raymond Smullyan
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Laura J. Snyder
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Scott Soames
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Alan Soble
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Robert C. Solomon
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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Pitirim Sorokin
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David Sosa
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Ernest Sosa
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Lysander Spooner
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Elmer Sprague
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Robert Stalnaker
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Stephen Stich
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Leo Strauss
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David Strong
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Barry Stroud
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Peter Suber
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William Graham Sumner
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Frederick Suppe
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Patrick Suppes
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William W. Tait
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Kenneth Allen Taylor
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Larry Temkin
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Henry David Thoreau
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Paul Tillich
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Samuel Martin Thompson
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Samuel Todes
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Michael Tooley
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Peter Unger
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Jack Russell Weinstein
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Morris Weitz
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Cornel West
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Gregory Wheeler
Gregory Wheeler (born 1968) is an American logician, philosopher, and computer scientist, who specializes in formal epistemology. Much of his work has focused on imprecise probability. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Computer Scie ...
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Morton White
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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 applicat ...
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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 t ...
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Dan Wikler
Daniel I. Wikler (born 1946) is an American public health educator, philosopher, and medical ethicist. He is currently the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health in the Department of Glob ...
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Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American philosopher and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a philosophy which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.
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John Daniel Wild
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Dallas Willard
Dallas Albert Willard (September 4, 1935 – May 8, 2013) was an American philosopher also known for his writings on Christian spiritual formation. Much of his work in philosophy was related to phenomenology, particularly the work of Edmund H ...
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William Mackintire Salter
William Mackintire Salter (January 30, 1853 – July 18, 1931) was the author of several books on philosophy and a critical and enduring major classic on Nietzsche. He was also a special lecturer for the Department of Philosophy in the Universit ...
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Michael Williams
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Bruce Wilshire
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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, Wilson ...
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William J. Winslade
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Susan Wolf
Susan Rose Wolf (born 1952) is an American moral philosopher and philosopher of action who is currently the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught previously at Johns Hopkins Universi ...
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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 (against ...
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Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theolog ...
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Paul Woodruff
Paul Woodruff (born 1943) is a classicist, professor of philosophy, and dean at The University of Texas at Austin, where he once chaired the department of philosophy and has more recently held the Hayden Head Regents Chair as director of Plan II H ...
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Chauncey Wright
Chauncey Wright (September 10, 1830 – September 12, 1875) was an American philosopher and mathematician, who was an influential early defender of Darwinism and an important influence on American pragmatists such as Charles Sanders Peirce and Wil ...
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Stephen Yablo
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Keith Yandell
Keith Edward Yandell (, Davenport, Iowa – , Madison, Wisconsin) was a philosopher of religion who became notable by his teaching and his writings.
Teaching
Yandell began teaching in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, ...
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Igor Yefimov
Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov (Russian: И́горь Ма́ркович Ефи́мов; August 8, 1937 – August 12, 2020) was an American philosopher, historian, writer and publisher of Russian origin. Some of his works were published und ...
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Arthur M. Young
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Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young (2 January 1949 – 1 August 2006) was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago an ...
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Naomi Zack
Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York (CUNY), having formerly been a professor at the University of Albany and the University of Oregon. She has written thirteen books and three textbooks, and she ...
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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (born 1946) is an American philosopher. She is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. She wri ...
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John Zerzan
John Edward Zerzan ( ; born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gathe ...
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Paul Ziff
(Robert) Paul Ziff (22 October 1920 in New York City – 9 January 2003 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was an American artist and philosopher specializing in semantics and aesthetics.
Life and Career
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Dean Zimmerman Dean Zimmerman may refer to:
* Dean Zimmerman (philosopher)
Dean W. Zimmerman is an American professor of philosophy at Rutgers University specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of religion.
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Zimmerman received his bach ...
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Michael E. Zimmerman
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American philosophy
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevert ...
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List of Jewish American philosophers
This is an incomplete list of notable American Jews, Jewish American philosophers. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews, Lists of Jewish Americans. For a list of Jewish philosophers, see .
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List of African American philosophers
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List of philosophers
This is a list of lists of philosophers, organized by subarea, nationality, religion, and time period.
Lists of philosophers by subfield
* List of aestheticians
* List of critical theorists
* List of environmental philosophers
* List of epistemo ...
References
American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
Philosophers
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...