# List of American philosophers

This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.

## A

* Francis Ellingwood Abbot
* David Abram
* Peter Achinstein
* Marilyn McCord Adams
* Robert Merrihew Adams
* Jane Addams
* Mortimer Adler
* Rogers Albritton
* Amos Bronson Alcott
* Linda Martín Alcoff
* Virgil Aldrich
* Hartley Burr Alexander
* Ismail al-Faruqi
* Diogenes Allen
* Robert F. Almeder
* William Alston
* Alice Ambrose
* Karl Ameriks
* C. Anthony Anderson
* Elizabeth S. Anderson
* Gordon Anderson
* Judith Andre
* Julia Annas
* Ruth Nanda Anshen
* Louise Antony
* Hannah Arendt
* Richard Arneson
* Robert Arp
* Robert Arrington
* Bradley Shavit Artson
* Warren Ashby
* Januarius Jingwa Asongu
* Margaret Atherton
* Robert Audi
* Jody Azzouni

## B

* Babette Babich
* Kent Bach
* Max Baginski
* Archie J. Bahm
* Gordon Park Baker
* Lynne Rudder Baker
* Dan Barker
* William Barratt
* William Warren Bartley, III
* Daniel Barwick
* Jacques Barzun
* Monroe Beardsley
* Tom Beauchamp
* Lewis White Beck
* Lawrence C. Becker
* Hugo Adam Bedau
* Nuel Belnap
* Paul Benacerraf
* Gustav Bergmann
* Michael Bergmann
* Arnold Berleant
* Marshall Berman
* Andrew Bernstein
* Mark Bernstein
* Richard J. Bernstein
* Marcus Berquist
* Steven Best
* Nalini Bhushan
* Cristina Bicchieri
* Max Black
* Brand Blanshard
* Ned Block
* Benjamin Paul Blood
* Allan Bloom
* Albert Blumberg
* George Boas
* Chris Bobonich
* Paul Boghossian
* Peter Boghossian
* David Bohm
* Laurence BonJour
* John Elof Boodin
* George Boolos
* Susan Bordo
* Albert Borgmann
* Oets Kolk Bouwsma
* Francis Bowen
* Borden Parker Bowne
* Richard Boyd
* Robert Brandom
* Richard Brandt
* Giannina Braschi
* David Braybrooke
* Daniel Brock
* Baruch Brody
* Stephen Bronner
* Baker Brownell
* William Lowe Bryan
* Scott Buchanan
* Justus Buchler
* Jay Budziszewski
* Nicholas C. Burbules
* Tyler Burge
* Kenneth Burke
* Edwin Arthur Burtt
* Panayot Butchvarov
* Judith Butler
* Charles Butterworth

## C

* Mary Whiton Calkins
* J. Baird Callicott
* Donald T. Campbell
* Nicholas Capaldi
* Arthur Caplan
* John Caputo
* Claudia Card
* Richard Carrier
* Noël Carroll
* Paul Carus
* Edward S. Casey
* Stanley Cavell
* William H. Chamberlin
* Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier
* James Childress
* Roderick Chisholm
* Noam Chomsky
* Patricia Churchland
* Paul Churchland
* Gordon Haddon Clark
* Kenneth Clatterbaugh
* Roy A. Clouser
* Carl Cohen
* Joshua Cohen
* James F. Conant
* William E. Connolly
* Moncure D. Conway
* Josephus Flavius Cook
* Paul Copan
* James A. Corbett
* Robert S. Corrington
* John Corvino
* William Craig
* William Lane Craig
* Alice Crary
* James Edwin Creighton
* Joseph Cropsey
* Steven Crowell
* Charles Marriot Culver

## D

* Norman Daniels
* Arthur Danto
* Donald Davidson
* Michael Davis
* Michael Peter Davis
* Alfred de Grazia
* David DeGrazia
* Grace de Laguna
* Theodore de Laguna
* John Deely
* Daniel Dennett
* Christian de Quincey
* Keith DeRose
* Jan Deutsch
* John Dewey
* Cora Diamond
* Donna Dickenson
* Keith Donnellan
* Elliot N. Dorff
* Bradley Dowden
* Paul Draper
* Theodore Drange
* Burton Dreben
* Gary Drescher
* Fred Dretske
* Hubert Dreyfus
* Raymond Duncan
* Barrows Dunham
* Will Durant
* Ronald Dworkin

## E

* William A. Earle
* John Earman
* Frank Ebersole
* James M. Edie
* Paul Edwards
* Jonathan Edwards
* Albert Einstein
* Loren Eiseley
* Catherine Elgin
* Marc H. Ellis
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Mylan Engel
* H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
* E. E. Ericksen
* Stephen L. Esquith
* David Estlund
* Rod L. Evans
* Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

## F

* Marvin Farber
* James E. Faulconer
* Joel Feinberg
* Fred Feldman
* Ernest Fenollosa
* Edward Feser
* Hartry Field
* Arthur Fine
* Kit Fine
* John Martin Fischer
* John Fiske
* Leonard M. Fleck
* Ralph Tyler Flewelling
* Jerry Fodor
* William Fontaine
* Charles Frankel
* William Frankena
* Harry Frankfurt
* Betty Friedan
* Erich Fromm
* Marilyn Frye
* Francis Fukuyama
* Christopher Fynsk

## G

* Shaun Gallagher
* David Gauthier
* Norman Geisler
* Michael Gelven
* Tamar Gendler
* Eugene Gendlin
* Alexander George
* Robert P. George
* Emanuel Vogel Gerhart
* Brie Gertler
* Edmund Gettier
* Raymond Geuss
* Alan Gewirth
* Allan Gibbard
* Kahlil Gibran
* Fred Gifford
* Neil Gillman
* René Girard
* Sue Golding
* Alvin Goldman
* Emma Goldman
* Rebecca Goldstein
* Nelson Goodman
* Allan Gotthelf
* Jorge J. E. Gracia
* Kersey Graves
* Maxine Greene
* Marjorie Grene
* David Ray Griffin
* Robert Grudin
* Paul Guyer

## H

* Garry L. Hagberg
* Everett W. Hall
* Manly Palmer Hall
* Philip Hallie
* Jean Elizabeth Hampton
* Norwood Russell Hanson
* Sandra Harding
* John E. Hare
* Gilbert Harman
* Errol Harris
* Leonard Harris
* Sam Harris
* William Torrey Harris
* Sally Haslanger
* Robert S. Hartman
* Charles Hartshorne
* Donald West Harward
* William Hasker
* John Haugeland
* Spencer Heath
* John Heil
* Laurens Perseus Hickok
* Stephen Hicks
* Kathleen Higgins
* Marian Hillar
* William Hirstein
* William Ernest Hocking
* Eric Hoffer
* Douglas Hofstadter
* Arthur F. Holmes
* Gerald Holton
* Sidney Hook
* bell hooks
* John Hospers
* Vernon Howard
* George Holmes Howison
* Elbert Hubbard
* Michael Huemer
* Colin Hughes
* David Hull
* Hans-Hermann Hoppe

## I

* Peter van Inwagen

## J

* William James
* Fredric Jameson
* Martin Jay
* Nancy S. Jecker
* Thomas Jefferson
* Alexander Bryan Johnson
* David Alan Johnson
* Mark Johnson
* Rufus Jones
* Edward Jones-Imhotep

## K

* John Kaag
* Shelly Kagan
* Horace Kallen
* Frances Kamm
* Robert Kane
* Abraham Kaplan
* David Kaplan
* Mordecai Kaplan
* Jerrold Katz
* Peter Kaufmann
* Walter Kaufmann
* R.P. Kaushik
* Sam Keen
* David Kelley
* Cassius Jackson Keyser
* Jaegwon Kim
* Stanton Davis Kirkham
* Patricia Kitcher
* Jacob Klein
* Peter D. Klein
* Joshua Knobe
* Ned Kock
* David Koepsell
* David Kolb
* Robert Koons
* Hilary Kornblith
* Christine Korsgaard
* Matthew Kramer
* Michael Krausz
* Peter Kreeft
* Saul Kripke
* J Krishnamurti
* Mark Kuczewski
* Thomas Samuel Kuhn
* Paul Kurtz

## L

* George Trumbull Ladd
* Grace de Laguna
* Corliss Lamont
* Mark Lance
* Charles Lane
* William Lane Craig
* Susanne Langer
* Charles Larmore
* Jonathan Lear
* Keith Lehrer
* Brian Leiter
* James G. Lennox
* Isaac Levi
* Michael Levin
* Clarence Irving Lewis
* David Kellogg Lewis
* Mark Lilla
* Hilde Lindemann
* Alphonso Lingis
* Leonard Linsky
* Matthew Lipman
* Alfred Henry Lloyd
* Elisabeth Lloyd
* Alain LeRoy Locke
* Loren Lomasky
* Max Freedom Long
* Helen Longino
* William Lycan
* Helen Lynd

## M

* Dwight Macdonald
* Tibor R. Machan
* Alasdair MacIntyre
* Louis H. Mackey
* Ruth Macklin
* James Madison
* Robert Magliola
* Norman Malcolm
* David Manley
* Jesse Mann
* Ruth Barcan Marcus
* Joseph Margolis
* Don Marquis
* Erwin Marquit
* Bill Martin
* Donald A. Martin
* Everett Dean Martin
* Michael Martin
* Richard Milton Martin
* Benson Mates
* Gareth Matthews
* George I. Mavrodes
* Todd May
* Ernst W. Mayr
* Thomas A. McCarthy
* Ron McClamrock
* John H. McClendon
* Janet McCracken
* Evander Bradley McGilvary
* Leemon McHenry
* Terence McKenna
* Richard McKeon
* Jeff McMahan
* William McNeill
* George Herbert Mead
* Jack Meiland
* Alfred Mele
* Stephen Menn
* Franklin Merrell-Wolff
* Trenton Merricks
* Leonard B. Meyer
* Stephen C. Meyer
* Sidney Edward Mezes
* John William Miller
* Mitchell Miller
* Richard W. Miller
* Elijah Millgram
* Ruth Millikan
* Philip Mirowski
* Carl Mitcham
* Oscar Howard Mitchell (October 4, 1851 - March 29, 1889)
* Sandra Mitchell
* Ann M. Mongoven
* Richard Montague
* William Pepperell Montague
* Ernest Addison Moody
* Addison Webster Moore
* Charles A. Moore
* Paul Elmer More
* J. P. Moreland
* John Henry Morgan
* Sidney Morgenbesser
* Charles W. Morris
* Christopher W. Morris
* Thomas V. Morris
* Paul Moser
* Athanasios Moulakis
* V. Y. Mudimbe

## N

* Ernest Nagel
* Thomas Nagel
* Debra Nails
* Louis Narens
* Jacob Needleman
* John Neihardt
* Jamie Lindemann Nelson
* Michael P. Nelson
* Jay Newman
* Shaun Nichols
* Jeffrey Nielsen
* Richard Thomas Nolan
* Calvin Normore
* David L. Norton
* Michael Novak
* Claude Nowell
* Robert Nozick
* Martha Nussbaum

## O

* James Otteson

## P

* Thomas Paine
* George Herbert Palmer
* Thomas Pangle
* George Pappas
* Leonard Peikoff
* Charles Sanders Peirce
* Gregory Pence
* Stephen Pepper
* Ralph Barton Perry
* Robert B. Pippin
* Robert M. Pirsig
* Walter B. Pitkin
* Alvin Plantinga
* Richard Popkin
* Richard Posner
* Robert M. Price
* Harry Prosch
* Hilary Putnam
* Ruth Anna Putnam

## Q

* Willard Van Orman Quine

## R

* James Rachels
* John Herman Randall, Jr.
* Ayn Rand
* Robert Bruce Raup
* Jerome Ravetz
* Heidi Ravven
* John Rawls
* Frederick Rauscher
* George Lansing Raymond
* Michael C. Rea
* 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
* Holmes Rolston III
* Avital Ronell
* Richard Rorty
* Stanley Rosen
* Alexander Rosenberg
* Jay Rosenberg
* Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
* David M. Rosenthal
* Stephen David Ross
* Gian-Carlo Rota
* Murray Rothbard
* William L. Rowe
* Josiah Royce
* Dagobert David Runes
* Michael Ruse
* David Rynin
* Ravi Zacharias

## S

* William S. Sahakian
* Paul Saka
* John Sallis
* Nathan Salmon
* Michael Sandel
* Ellis Sandoz
* David H. Sanford
* Larry Sanger
* George Santayana
* Crispin Sartwell
* Jennifer Saul
* Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
* Kenneth M. Sayre
* T.M. Scanlon
* Diana Schaub
* Tommie Shelby
* Naomi Scheman
* Theodore Schick
* Tad Schmaltz
* David Schmidtz
* J. B. Schneewind
* Herbert Schneider
* Harold M. Schulweis
* Alfred Schütz
* Lisa H. Schwartzman
* David Schweickart
* John Searle
* Roy Wood Sellars
* Wilfrid Sellars
* Jeremy J. Shapiro
* Michael J. Shapiro
* Scott J. Shapiro
* Stewart Shapiro
* William Shaw
* George Sher
* Warren Shibles
* Sydney Shoemaker
* Richard Shusterman
* Hugh J. Silverman
* Edgar A. Singer, Jr.
* 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
* Laura J. Snyder
* Scott Soames
* Alan Soble
* Robert C. Solomon
* Joseph B. Soloveitchik
* Tamler Sommers
* Frederick Sontag
* Pitirim Sorokin
* David Sosa
* Ernest Sosa
* Lysander Spooner
* Elmer Sprague
* Robert Stalnaker
* Lawrence Stepelevich
* Charles Stevenson
* Stephen Stich
* Leo Strauss
* David Strong
* Barry Stroud
* Peter Suber
* William Graham Sumner
* Frederick Suppe
* Patrick Suppes

## T

* William W. Tait
* Nassim Nicholas Taleb
* Richard Tarnas
* Alfred I. Tauber
* Ken Taylor
* Mark C. Taylor
* Paul Taylor
* Richard Taylor
* Neil Tennant
* Larry Temkin
* Eugene Thacker
* Irving Thalberg, Jr.
* Laurence Thomas
* Paul B. Thompson
* Iain Thomson
* Judith Jarvis Thomson
* Henry David Thoreau
* Paul Tillich
* Samuel Martin Thompson
* Samuel Todes
* Michael Tooley
* Benjamin Tucker
* Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

## U

* Robert Ulanowicz
* Peter Unger
* Wilbur Marshall Urban

## V

* William F. Vallicella
* Paul van Buren
* Bas van Fraassen
* Peter van Inwagen
* Achille Varzi
* Henry Babcock Veatch
* J. David Velleman
* Eric Voegelin
* Alice von Hildebrand

## W

* James D. Wallace
* Kendall Walton
* Mary Anne Warren
* Carl Watner
* Alan Watts
* Brian Weatherson
* David Weinberger
* Jack Russell Weinstein
* Paul Weiss
* Morris Weitz
* Cornel West
* Anthony Weston
* Jonathan Westphal
* Gregory Wheeler
* Morton White
* Alfred North Whitehead
* Walt Whitman
* Dan Wikler
* Ken Wilber
* John Daniel Wild
* Dallas Willard
* William Mackintire Salter
* Michael Williams
* Bruce Wilshire
* Robert Anton Wilson
* William J. Winslade
* Susan Wolf
* Robert Paul Wolff
* Nicholas Wolterstorff
* Paul Woodruff
* Chauncey Wright

## Y

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

## Z

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