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
 * 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
 * Guy Finley
 * 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
 * Kenneth Allen 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