List of living philosophers and academics of philosophy

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Living philosophers and academics of philosophy (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:

(For philosophers who have recently passed away, see the companion list: List of philosophers born in the twentieth century.)

Note: This list has a minimal criteria for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Peter Achinstein, Johns Hopkins University, philosophy of science
Marilyn McCord Adams^O12, Christ Church, Oxford, philosophy of religion
Robert Adams^O12, Mansfield College, Oxford, philosophy of religion
Sediq Afghan, International Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, Kabul, area of research unknown
Giorgio Agamben, University of Verona, political philosophy
Hans Albert, Affiliation unknown, critical rationalism
Robert Alexy, University of Kiel, philosophy of law
Diogenes Allen, Princeton Theological Seminary (Emeritus), philosophy of religion
Henry Allison, University of California, Davis, Kant/18th-19th century philosophy
William Alston^C^O12, Syracuse University (Emeritus), epistemology/philosophy of religion
C. Anthony Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara, logic
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, feminism/philosophy of social science
Pamela Anderson, Regent's Park College, Oxford, philosophy of religion/feminism/continental philosophy
Karl-Otto Apel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (Emeritus), ethics/philosophy of language
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University, social philosophy
Mohammed Arkun, Sorbonne University, philosophy of religions, and Islamic Ethics
David Malet Armstrong^C^O12^R, University of Sydney (Emeritus), philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Frank Arntzenius, Rutgers University, philosophy of science/metaphysics
Kenneth Arrow^O12, Stanford University, decision theory/social philosophy
Elspeth Attwooll, Independent scholar, philosophy of law
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, ethics/epistemology/philosophy of action
Anita Avramides, St Hilda's College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language

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Kent Bach, San Francisco State University, philosophy of language
Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, political philosophy
Annette Baier^O1, University of Pittsburgh (Emerita), Hume/ethics/philosophy of mind
Kurt Baier^O1, University of Pittsburgh (Emeritus), ethics
Mark Baker, Rutgers University, philosophy of language
Tom Baldwin, University of York, 20th-century philosophy/philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Étienne Balibar, University of California, Irvine, political philosophy
Stephen Barker, Johns Hopkins University (Emeritus), logic
Jonathan Barnes^O12, University of Paris I, ancient philosophy
Brian Barry^O12, Columbia University/London School of Economics (Emeritus), ethics/political philosophy
Jacques Barzun, Columbia University, history of ideas
Timothy Bayne, St Catherine's College, Oxford, philosophy of science/ethics/philosophy of religion
Tom L. Beauchamp, Georgetown University, bioethics/business ethics
William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego, philosophy of science
Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University, philosophy of religion/ethics/philosophy of law
Hamdija Begovic, Affiliation unknown, political philosophy/social philosophy
Charles Beitz, Princeton University, political philosophy
Nuel Belnap^O12, University of Pittsburgh, logic
Paul Benacerraf, Princeton University, philosophy of mathematics
Jonathan Bennett^O12, Syracuse University, early modern philosophy
Karen Bennett, Princeton University, metaphysics/philosophy of mind
Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University, deconstructionism
Frithjof Bergmann, University of Michigan (Emeritus), continental philosophy
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis, continental philosophy/race
Richard Bett, Johns Hopkins University, ancient philosophy/ethics
Jean-Yves Béziau, University of Neuchâtel, logic
Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University, postcolonial theory
Roy Bhaskar, Affiliation unknown, Critical Realism
Mubabinge Bilolo, Institut Africain d'Études Prospectives, Kinshasa, history of african philosophy/ancient egyptian philosophy/ethics/philosophy of history
Harry Binswanger, Ayn Rand Institute, philosophy of mind/philosophy of science
Simon Blackburn^O12, University of Cambridge, epistemology/metaphysics/ethics
Stephen Blamey, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, logic/philosophy of language/philosophy of mathematics
David Blitz, Central Connecticut State University, philosophy of science
Ned Block^O12, New York University, philosophy of mind
Paul Boghossian, New York University, epistemology
Hilary Bok, Johns Hopkins University, bioethics/free will
Sissela Bok, Harvard University, ethics
Martha Bolton, Rutgers University, early modern philosophy
Robert Bolton, Rutgers University, ancient philosophy/philosophy of language/metaphysics
Laurence BonJour, University of Washington, epistemology
Nick Bostrom, St Cross College, Oxford, ethics/probability theory/transhumanism
Myles Brand, Indiana University, action theory
Robert Brandom^O2, University of Pittsburgh, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Michael Bratman, Stanford University, ethics/philosophy of action
Stephen E. Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County, philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison, political philosophy
Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University, political philosophy
John Broome, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, ethics/practical reasoning
Harvey R. Brown, Wolfson College, Oxford, philosophy of physics
Lesley Brown, Somerville College, Oxford, ancient philosophy
Bryn Browne, University of Wales, Lampeter, ethics
Anthony Brueckner, University of California, Santa Barbara, metaphysics/epistemology
Malcolm Budd^O1, University College London, aesthetics
Mario Bunge, McGill University, philosophy of science/metaphysics
Martin Bunzl, Rutgers University, philosophy of science
Tyler Burge^O12, University of California, Los Angeles, philosophy of mind/epistemology
John Burgess, Princeton University, logic
Arthur Burks, University of Michigan (Emeritus), philosophy of science/computer science
John Burnheim, University of Sydney, political philosophy
Myles Frederic Burnyeat^O12, All Souls College, Oxford, ancient philosophy
Panayot Butchvarov, University of Iowa, metaphysics/epistemology
Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley/European Graduate School, poststructuralism/feminism
Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland, College Park, political philosophy
Krister Bykvist, Jesus College, Oxford, ethics/decision theory

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John Campbell^O2, University of California, Berkeley, philosophy of mind
Herman Cappelen, Somerville College, Oxford, philosophy of language/metaphysics/epistemology
John D. Caputo, Syracuse University, deconstructionism/philosophy of religion
Nancy Cartwright^O12, London School of Economics, philosophy of science
Quassim Cassam, University of Cambridge, epistemology
Victor Caston, University of Michigan, ancient philosophy/metaphysics
Stanley Cavell^C^O12^R, Harvard University, epistemology
David Chalmers^O2, Australian National University, philosophy of mind
Timothy Chambers, Brown University (Graduate student), metaphysics
Rafe Champion, Independent scholar, social philosophy
Ruth Chang, Rutgers University, ethics/philosophy of action
David Charles, Oriel College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/epistemology/ancient philosophy
Albert Chernenko, Tomsk State University, social and legal philosophy
William Child, University College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/epistemology/Wittgenstein
Noam Chomsky^C^O12^R, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Andrea Christofidou, Pembroke College, Oxford, metaphysics/philosophy of mind
Patricia Churchland^C, University of California, San Diego, philosophy of mind/philosophy of science
Paul Churchland^C^O12, University of California, San Diego, philosophy of mind/philosophy of science
Hélène Cixous^R, University of Paris VIII, feminism/deconstructionism
Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh, philosophy of mind
Stephen R. L. Clark, University of Liverpool, ethics/philosophy of religion
David Cockburn, University of Wales, Lampeter, philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Alan Code, University of California, Berkeley/Rutgers University, ancient philosophy/metaphysics
G.A. Cohen^O12, All Souls College, Oxford, political philosophy
Robin Collins, Messiah College, philosophy of religion
André Comte-Sponville, University of Paris I, philosophy of religion/philosophy of education
Marcel Conche, University of Paris I, ancient philosophy
John M. Cooper, Princeton University, ancient philosophy
William Lane Craig, Biola University, philosophy of religion
Roger Crisp, St Anne’s College, Oxford, ancient philosophy/ethics/political philosophy
Paolo Crivelli, New College, Oxford, ancient philosophy
Edwin Curley, University of Michigan, early modern philosophy/philosophy of religion
Jean Curthoys, Sydney University, feminism

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Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, transaesthetics
Newton da Costa, University of São Paulo, logic
Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading/University of Texas at Austin, epistemology/ethics
Arthur Danto^C^O12, Columbia University, aesthetics
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, ethics
Anne Aimola Davies, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, Cognitive Science
Brian Davies, Fordham University, philosophy of religion
Martin Davies, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, philosophy of science/philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology, ethics/philosophy of law
Jane M. Day, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, ancient philosophy/ethics/philosophy of religion
Alison Denham, St Anne’s College, Oxford, aesthetics/ethics/German philosophy
Daniel Dennett^C^O12^R, Tufts University, philosophy of science/philosophy of mind
Vincent Descombes, Institut Jean Nicod, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Sousa Dias, Escola de Artes Soares dos Reis, Porto, Deleuze
Daniel Dombrowski, Seattle University, ethics
Keith Donnellan, University of California, Los Angeles (Emeritus), philosophy of language
Elliot N. Dorff, University of Judaism, ethics/bioethics
Fred Dretske^C^O12, Duke University, epistemology/philosophy of mind
Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley, phenomenology/artificial intelligence
Michael Dummett^C^O12^R, All Souls College, Oxford (Emeritus), philosophy of mathematics/philosophy of language/logic
Ronald Dworkin^C^O12^R, University College London/New York University, philosophy of law

[edit] E

Antony Eagle, Exeter College, Oxford, philosophy of science/metaphysics/epistemology
John Earman^O2, University of Pittsburgh, philosophy of physics
Umberto Eco^C, University of Bologna, semiotics/aesthetics
Dorothy Edgington, Magdalen College, Oxford, metaphysics/logic
Andy Egan, University of Michigan, philosophy of mind/metaphysics/decision theory
Frances Egan, Rutgers University, philosophy of mind/philosophy of psychology
Adam Elga, Princeton University, philosophy of science/epistemology
Jon Elster^O12, Collège de France, decision theory/philosophy of social science
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Rice University, history and philosophy of medicine
John Etchemendy, Stanford University, logic/philosophy of language
Matt Evans, New York University, ancient philosophy/ethics
Stanley Eveling, University of Edinburgh, existentialism
Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, DePaul University, postcolonial African philosophy

[edit] F

Delia Graff Fara, Princeton University, philosophy of language
Michael Graff Fara, Princeton University, metaphysics/philosophy of language/philosophical logic
Solomon Feferman, Stanford University, mathematical logic
Hartry Field^O12, New York University, logic/philosophy of mathematics
Arthur Fine, University of Washington, philosophy of science
Kit Fine^O2, New York University, philosophy of language/metaphysics
John Finnis^O12, University College, Oxford/University of Notre Dame, philosophy of law
Owen Flanagan, Duke University, philosophy of mind/philosophy of psychology
Richard E. Flathman, Johns Hopkins University, political philosophy
Antony Flew, York University, social philosophy/philosophy of religion
Luciano Floridi, St Cross College, Oxford, philosophy of computing and information/information ethics/scepticism
Jerry Fodor^C^O12^R, Rutgers University, philosophy of mind/philosophy of psychology
Robert J. Fogelin^O12, Dartmouth College (Emeritus), history of philosophy/epistemology
Richard Foley, New York University, epistemology
Dagfinn Føllesdal^O12, Stanford University, philosophy of language/phenomenology
Philippa Foot^C^O12, University of California, Los Angeles (Emerita), ethics/philosophy of action
Eckart Förster, Johns Hopkins University, German idealism/history of philosophy
Harry Gordon Frankfurt^O12, Princeton University (Emeritus), ethics/philosophy of action
Robert L. Frazier, Christ Church, Oxford, ethics/political philosophy/philosophy of science
Michael Frede^O12, Keble College, Oxford, ancient philosophy/history of philosophy
Robert Freidin, Princeton University, philosophy of language
Elizabeth Fricker, Magdalen College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language/epistemology

[edit] G

Raimond Gaita, Australian Catholic University and Kings College, London, ethics
Daniel Garber, Princeton University, philosophy of science/early modern philosophy
Martin Gardner, Independent scholar, skepticism/logic
Don Garrett, New York University, early modern philosophy
David Gauthier^O12, University of Pittsburgh (Emeritus), political philosophy/social philosophy
Peter Geach^C^O12, University of Leeds (Emeritus), philosophy of language/philosophy of religion
Alexander George, Amherst College, philosophy of language/philosophy of mathematics
Robert P. George, Princeton University, philosophy of law
Bernard Gert, Dartmouth College, ethics
Edmund Gettier^O12, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Emeritus), epistemology
Raymond Geuss, University of Cambridge, political philosophy/history of Continental philosophy
Allan Gibbard^O12, University of Michigan, ethics
Margaret Gilbert, University of California, Irvine, social philosophy/ethics
Thony Gillies, University of Michigan, epistemology/philosophy of language/decision theory
Neil Gillman, Jewish Theological Seminary, Jewish philosophy
Rene Girard, Stanford University (Emeritus), philosophical anthropology
Ernst von Glasersfeld, University of Georgia, constructivist epistemology
Jonathan Glover^O12, King's College London, ethics
Clark Glymour, Carnegie Mellon University, philosophy of science/philosophy of psychology
Peter Goldie, University of Manchester, ethics/aesthetics
Alvin Ira Goldman^C^O12, Rutgers University, epistemology/philosophy of mind
Jacob Golomb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, continental philosophy
Richard Grathoff, Bielefeld University, phenomenology
John Gray, London School of Economics, political philosophy
A. C. Grayling, Birkbeck, University of London/St. Anne's College, Oxford, history of philosophy/epistemology
Celia Green, Independent scholar, philosophy of psychology
James Griffin^O12, Keble College, Oxford, ethics
Paul J. Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago, philosophy of religion
Germain Grisez^O1, Mount Saint Mary's College, Catholic moral philosophy
Reinhardt Grossman^O12, Indiana University (Emeritus), epistemology/metaphysics/phenomenology
Adolf Grünbaum^O12, University of Pittsburgh, philosophy of science
Samuel Guttenplan, Birkbeck, University of London, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language/logic
Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania, Kant/modern philosophy/aesthetics
Kwame Gyekye, University of Ghana, African philosophy

[edit] H

Susan Haack, University of Miami, philosophy of language/epistemology
Jürgen Habermas^C^O12^R^S*, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Emeritus), critical theory
Peter Hacker, St John's College, Oxford (Emeritus), philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Ian Hacking^O12, Collège de France, philosophy of science/philosophy of language
Volker Halbach, New College, Oxford, logic/philosophy of language/epistemology/philosophy of mathematics
Hans Halvorson, Princeton University, philosophy of physics/logic/philosophy of science
Werner Hamacher, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, deconstructionism
David Walter Hamlyn^O12, Birkbeck, University of London (Emeritus), epistemology/philosophy of mind
Alastair Hannay^O12, University of Oslo, Kierkegaard/philosophy of mind
Edward Harcourt, Keble College, Oxford, ethics/philosophy of language/Wittgenstein
John Hare, Yale Divinity School, ethics
Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University, ethics/metaphysics
Gilbert Harman^O12, Princeton University, ethics/epistemology/philosophy of mind
Stephan Hartmann, London School of Economics, philosophy of science/epistemology
Anandi Hattiangadi, St Hilda’s College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/metaphysics/philosophy of science
John Haugeland, University of Chicago, philosophy of mind
John Hawthorne, Rutgers University/Magdalen College, Oxford, metaphysics/epistemology/philosophy of mind
Futa Helu, `Atenisi Institute, Tonga, cultural philosophy/philosophy of education
Ronald William Hepburn^O1, University of Edinburgh, aesthetics
Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan, continental philosophy/social philosophy/aesthetics
Mary Hesse, Cambridge University (Emerita), philosophy of science
Francis Heylighen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, systems theory
John Hick^O1, University of Birmingham, philosophy of religion
Alice von Hildebrand, Hunter College, (Emerita), philosophy of religion
Alison Hills, St John's College, Oxford, ethics
Jaakko Hintikka^C^O12, Boston University, logic/epistemology
Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary, University of London, logic/model theory
Kinch Hoekstra, Balliol College, Oxford, history of political and moral philosophy/Plato/Hobbes
Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University, philosophy of mind
Desmond Hogan, Princeton University, early modern philosophy/metaphysics
Ted Honderich^O2, University College London, metaphysics/political philosophy
Jennifer Hornsby^O12, Birkbeck, University of London, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Paul Horwich^O12, New York University, logic/metaphysics
Paulin J. Hountondji, National University of Benin, African philosophy
Edward M. Hundert, Case Western Reserve University, medical ethics
Rosalind Hursthouse, University of Auckland, ethics
Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, philosophy of law
Edward Hussey, All Souls College, Oxford, ancient philosophy
John Hyman, Queen’s College, Oxford, philosophy of mind/aesthetics/Wittgenstein

[edit] I

Michael Ignatieff, University of Toronto, political philosophy
Don Ihde, State University of New York at Stony Brook, hermeneutics/phenomenology
Michael Inwood, Trinity College, Oxford, ancient philosophy/Hegel/19th century philosophy/Heidegger
Luce Irigaray^C^O12^R, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, feminism/philosophy of language
Terence Irwin^O12, Cornell University/Keble College, Oxford, ancient philosophy/ethics/Kant
Daniel Isaacson, Wolfson College, Oxford, philosophy of mathematics/logic

[edit] J

Frank Jackson^O12, Australian National University, philosophy of mind
Fredric Jameson, Duke University, literary criticism/postmodernism
Dale Jamieson, New York University, ethics/environmental philosophy
Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton, aesthetics
Thomas Johansen, Brasenose College, Oxford, ancient philosophy/philosophy of mind
Mark Johnston, Princeton University, ethics/philosophy of mind/metaphysics
James Joyce, University of Michigan, decision theory/epistemology/philosophy of science
Lindsay Judson, Christ Church, Oxford, ancient philosophy
A.J. Julius, University of California, Los Angeles/New York University, ethics/political philosophy

[edit] K

Shelly Kagan^O2, Yale University, ethics
Peter Kail, St Peter’s College, Oxford, history of philosophy/philosophy of mind
Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin, philosophy of action/philosophy of mind
David Kaplan^O12, University of California, Los Angeles, philosophy of language/logic
David Kelley, The Objectivist Center, social philosophy/epistemology
Thomas Kelly, Princeton University, epistemology
Anthony Kenny^O12, Balliol College, Oxford (Emeritus), philosophy of religion/philosophy of mind
Mahmoud Khatami, University of Tehran, Continental philosophy
Jaegwon Kim^C^O12, Brown University, philosophy of mind/epistemology
Peter J. King, Pembroke College, Oxford, history of philosophy/metaphysics
Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto, political philosophy/social philosophy
Robert Kirk, University of Nottingham (Emeritus), metaphysics/philosophy of language
Richard Kirkham, Affiliation unknown, epistemology/logic
János Kis, Central European University/New York University, political philosophy/ethics
Philip Kitcher^O2, Columbia University, philosophy of science
Peter Kivy, Rutgers University, aesthetics/early modern philosophy
Martha Klein, Pembroke College, Oxford, philosophy of action/ethics
Peter D. Klein, Rutgers University, epistemology
Brian Klug, St Benet's Hall, Oxford, philosophy of race/antisemitism
Boris Kment, University of Michigan, metaphysics/philosophy of language
Simon Kochen, Princeton University, philosophy of physics/number theory
Hans Köchler, University of Innsbruck, continental philosophy/political philosophy
John Kok, Dordt College, Reformational philosophy
Leszek Kolakowski, All Souls College, Oxford, political philosophy
Hilary Kornblith, University of Massachusetts Amherst, epistemology/philosophy of mind
Christine Korsgaard^O2, Harvard University, ethics/philosophy of action
Georg Kreisel^O12, Stanford University (Emeritus), logic
Saul Kripke^C^O12^R, CUNY Graduate Center/Princeton University (Emeritus), logic/philosophy of language
Julia Kristeva^C^O12^R, Affiliation unknown, poststructuralism/feminism
Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Princeton University, information theory
Igal Kvart, Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Rutgers University, philosophy of science/epistemology
Will Kymlicka, Queen's University, political philosophy/social philosophy

[edit] L

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe^R, Marc Bloch University, Continental philosophy
Michèle Le Dœuff^O12^R, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, feminism/imagery
Dave Leal, Brasenose College, Oxford, ethics/philosophical theology/philosophy of language
Brian Leftow, Oriel College, Oxford, philosophy of religion/metaphysics/medieval philosophy
Keith Lehrer^O12, University of Arizona/University of Miami, epistemology/metaphysics
Brian Leiter, University of Texas at Austin, philosophy of law/Continental philosophy
Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind/logic
Claude Lévi-Strauss^O12^R, Collège de France (Emeritus), structuralism
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Independent scholar, social philosophy
Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus), phenomenology
Brian Loar, Rutgers University, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language/metaphysics
Paul Lodge, Mansfield College, Oxford, early modern philosophy
Louis Loeb, University of Michigan, history of modern philosophy
Béatrice Longuenesse, New York University, continental philosophy/Hegel/Kant
Barry Loewer, Rutgers University, philosophy of science/philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton University, ancient philosophy/moral psychology/epistemology
Eric Lormand, University of Michigan, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Tobias Louw, Fort Hare University, RSA, hermeneutics/ethics/political philosophy
Sabina Lovibond, Worcester College, Oxford, ethics/ancient philosophy/feminism
John R. Lucas^O1, Merton College, Oxford (Emeritus), philosophy of mind/philosophy of science
Peter Ludlow, University of Michigan, philosophy of language/metaphysics/epistemology
William G. Lycan^O12, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
David Lyons, Boston University, philosophy of law/ethics/political philosophy

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Alasdair MacIntyre^C^O12^R, University of Notre Dame, ethics/history of philosophy
Penelope Maddy, University of California, Irvine, philosophy of mathematics
Mostafa Malekian, Affiliation unknown, social philosophy
Bill Mander, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, metaphysics/philosophy of religion
Jon Mandle, University at Albany, The State University of New York, political philosophy/ethics
Ruth Barcan Marcus^C^O12, Yale University/University of California, Irvine, logic
Charles B. Martin^O12, University of Calgary (Emeritus), philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Donald A. Martin, University of California, Los Angeles, philosophy of mathematics
Michael Martin, Boston University (Emeritus), philosophy of religion
Robert J. Matthews, Rutgers University, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Humberto Maturana, University of Chile, epistemology/philosophy of mind
Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University, philosophy of physics/philosophy of science/metaphysics
George I. Mavrodes, University of Michigan (Emeritus), philosophy of religion
T.J. Mawson, St Peter's College, Oxford, philosophy of religion/metaethics.
John McDowell^O12, University of Pittsburgh, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Howard McGary, Rutgers University, social philosophy/ethics
Colin McGinn^O12, Rutgers University/University of Miami, philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Brian P. McLaughlin, Rutgers University, philosophy of mind/metaphysics/epistemology
David McLellan, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Marxism
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University, ethics/political philosophy
John McMurtry, University of Guelph, ethics/political philosophy
Tony McWalter, Independent scholar, Kant/political philosophy
Alfred Mele, Florida State University, philosophy of action
D. Hugh Mellor^O12, University of Cambridge (Emeritus), metaphysics
Winfried Menninghaus, Free University of Berlin, aesthetics/literary theory
Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, philosophy of mind/ethics
Mary Midgley, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Emerita), ethics/philosophy of science
Alan Millar, University of Stirling, philosophy of mind/epistemology
Peter Millican, Hertford College, Oxford, Hume/logic/ethics
Ruth Millikan^O12, University of Connecticut (Emerita), philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Phillip Mitsis, New York University, ancient philosophy
A.W. Moore, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, philosophy of mathematics/logic/metaphysics/ethics/philosophy of religion
Max More, Extropy Institute, transhumanism
J. P. Moreland, Biola University/Discovery Institute, philosophy of religion
Benjamin Morison, Exeter College, Oxford/Princeton University, ancient philosophy/logic
Katherine Morris, Mansfield College, Oxford, phenomenology/Descartes/Sartre/Merleau-Ponty/Wittgenstein
Adam Morton, University of Alberta, ethics/philosophy of mind
Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford, Wittgenstein/Heidegger/Kierkegaard/political philosophy
Donald Munro, University of Michigan (Emeritus), Chinese philosophy
Liam Murphy, New York University, philosophy of law/political philosophy

[edit] N

Arne Næss^O1^R, University of Oslo (Emeritus), environmental philosophy
Thomas Nagel^C^O12^R, New York University, philosophy of mind/moral psychology
Jean-Luc Nancy^R, University of Strasbourg, social philosophy
Jan Narveson, University of Waterloo, political philosophy
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University, perennial philosophy
Stephen Neale, Rutgers University, philosophy of language/logic
Antonio Negri, Collège International de Philosophie/University of Paris I, political philosophy
Oskar Negt, University of Hanover, critical theory
Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, literary theory/aesthetics
Ted Nelson, Oxford Internet Institute, philosophy of computers
Kai Nielsen, Concordia University, ethics
Nel Noddings, Columbia University/Stanford University, philosophy of education/ethics
Ernst Nolte, Free University of Berlin, political philosophy
Calvin Normore, University of California, Los Angeles/Princeton University, medieval philosophy/early modern philosophy/history of logic
Christopher Norris, Cardiff University, literary theory
Martha Nussbaum^C^O12, University of Chicago, political philosophy/ethics

[edit] O

Anthony O'Hear, University of Bradford/University of Buckingham, philosophy of science
Onora O'Neill^O12, Newnham College, Cambridge, ethics/political philosophy
John Oberdiek, Rutgers University, philosophy of law

[edit] P

David Papineau^O12, King's College London, epistemology/philosophy of science
Derek Parfit^C^O12, All Souls College, Oxford/Rutgers University/New York University, metaphysics/ethics
Alan Patten, Princeton University, political philosophy
Dennis Patterson, Rutgers University, philosophy of law
Marijan Leopold Pavčnik, University of Ljubljana, legal philosopher, philosophy of law
Ali Paya, Tehran University, philosophy of science
Christopher Peacocke^O12, Columbia University, epistemology/philosophy of mind
David Pearce, independent scholar, transhumanism
David Pears^O12, Christ Church, Oxford (Emeritus), Wittgenstein
Leonard Peikoff, Ayn Rand Institute, objectivism
Jean-Jacques Pelletier, Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon
Keith Pepperell, Columbus State Community College/Columbus College of Art and Design
Richard Stanley Peters^O1, University of London (Emeritus), philosophy of education
Philip Pettit, Princeton University, political philosophy/ethics
Herman Philipse, Utrecht University
Giovanni Piana, University of Milan, Italy, phenomenology
Robert Pirsig, independent scholar, metaphysics of quality
Alvin Plantinga^C^O12, University of Notre Dame, philosophy of religion/epistemology
Thomas Pogge, Australian National University/Columbia University, political philosophy/social philosophy
Leonardo Polo, University of Navarra, metaphysics/epistemology
Dag Prawitz, Stockholm University, philosophy of logic/philosophy of mathematics
Robert Priddy, University of Oslo (Emeritus), social philosophy
Graham Priest, University of Melbourne, logic
Ian Proops, University of Michigan, metaphysics/Kant
James Pryor, New York University, epistemology/philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Hilary Putnam^C^O12^R, Harvard University, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language/epistemology
Andrew Pyle, University of Bristol, philosophy of science/early modern philosophy

[edit] Q

Anthony Quinton^O12, Trinity College, Oxford, ethics/metaphysics/history of philosophy

[edit] R

Stuart Rachels, University of Alabama, ethics
Janet Radcliffe Richards^O12, University College London, feminism/bioethics
Peter Railton, University of Michigan, ethics
Jacques Rancière, University of Paris VIII, political philosophy
Joseph Raz^O2, Balliol College, philosophy of law
Nicholas Rescher^O12, University of Pittsburgh, epistemology/metaphysics
Donald Regan, University of Michigan, ethics/political philosophy
John Richardson, New York University, 19-20th century continental philosophy/ancient philosophy
R.R. Rockingham Gill, University of Wales, Lampeter, logic/philosophy of language
Avital Ronell, New York University/European Graduate School, feminism/deconstructionism
Richard Rorty^C^O12^R^S, Stanford University, pragmatism/social philosophy
Gideon Rosen, Princeton University, metaphysics/epistemology/moral philosophy
Alexander Rosenberg, Duke University, philosophy of science/philosophy of economics
William Ruddick, New York University, philosophy of science and medicine/professional and applied ethics
Michael Ruse, Florida State University, philosophy of science
Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University/University of Maryland, philosophy of physics

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Kenneth Safir, Rutgers University, philosophy of language
Mark Sainsbury^O12, University of Texas at Austin, logic/philosophy of language
Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara, philosophy of language
Michael Sandel^O1, Harvard University, political philosophy
Kirk Sanders, Rutgers University, ancient philosophy
David H. Sanford, Duke University, metaphysics
Crispin Sartwell, Dickinson College, social philosophy/epistemology
John Ralston Saul, Independent Scholar, social philosophy
Fernando Savater, Complutense University of Madrid, ethics
Thomas Scanlon^O2, Harvard University, ethics
Richard Schacht^O12, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nietzsche/Hegel
Stephen Schiffer^O2, New York University, philosophy of language/philosophy of mind
Hubert Schleichert, University of Konstanz (Emeritus), political philosophy/non-European philosophy
J.B. Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University (Emeritus), ethics
Roger Scruton^O1, Institute of Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA/Princeton University, aesthetics
John Searle^C^O12^R, University of California, Berkeley, philosophy of mind/philosophy of language
Amartya Sen^O12, Harvard University, ethics/political philosophy
Michel Serres, Stanford University, philosophy of science
Neven Sesardic, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), philosophy of science
Scott Shapiro, University of Michigan, political philosophy/philosophy of law/philosophy of action
Stewart Shapiro, Ohio State University/University of St Andrews, philosophy of mathematics/logic
Tamsin Shaw, Princeton University, political philosophy
Dariush Shayegan, Independent Scholar, comparative philosophy
Abner Shimony, Boston University (Emeritus), philosophy of science
Sydney Shoemaker^O12, Cornell University (Emeritus), philosophy of mind/metaphysics
Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University, aesthetics
Theodore Sider, Rutgers University, metaphysics/philosophy of language
Peter Singer^O12, Princeton University/University of Melbourne, ethics
Lawrence Sklar, University of Michigan, philosophy of physics/philosophy of science/epistemology
John Skorupski, University of St Andrews, ethics/Mill
Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine, philosophy of science
Michael Slote, University of Miami, ethics
Peter Sloterdijk, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, posthumanism
J. J. C. Smart^C^O12^R, Monash University (Emeritus), metaphysics/philosophy of mind/ethics
Holly M. Smith, Rutgers University, ethics
Huston Smith, University of California, Berkeley, philosophy of religion
Michael Smith, Princeton University, ethics
Raymond Smullyan, Indiana University, logic
Joseph D. Sneed, Colorado School of Mines, philosophy of science
Scott Soames, University of Southern California, philosophy of language
Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin, philosophy of science
Alan Soble, Affiliation unknown, philosophy of sex
Richard Ruston Kharsedji Sorabji^O12, King's College London/City University of New York, ancient philosophy
Abdolkarim Soroush, Affiliation unknown, philosophy of science
David Sosa, University of Texas at Austin, philosophy of mind
Ernest Sosa^O12, Brown University/Rutgers University, epistemology
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, postcolonialism
Timothy L.S. Sprigge^O12, University of Edinburgh, philosophy of mind/ethics
Chandra Sripada, University of Michigan, philosophy of biology/cognitive science/ethics
Robert Stalnaker^O12, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, philosophy of language/logic
Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, philosophy of language/epistemology
Stephen Stich^O12, Rutgers University, philosophy of mind
Bernard Stiegler, Collège international de philosophie, philosophy of technology
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University, ethics
Galen Strawson, Reading University/CUNY Graduate Center, philosophy of mind/philosophy of action
Sharon Street, New York University, ethics
Michael Strevens, New York University, philosophy of science
Gisela Striker, Harvard University, ancient philosophy
Barry Stroud^O12, University of California, Berkeley, epistemology
Patrick Suppes, Stanford University (Emeritus), philosophy of science
Eric Swanson, University of Michigan, philosophy of language/metaphysics/epistemology
Richard Swinburne^C^O12, Oriel College, Oxford (Emeritus), philosophy of religion
David Sztybel, Affiliation unknown, ethics

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Javad Tabatabaei, Tehran University, political philosophy
James Tappenden, University of Michigan, philosophy of language/philosophy of mathematics/logic
Charles Taylor^C^O12^R, McGill University (Emeritus), epistemology/continental philosophy
Larry S. Temkin, Rutgers University, ethics/social philosophy/political philosophy
Neil Tennant, Ohio State University, metaphysics/epistemology/logic
Rich Thomason, University of Michigan, logic/philosophy of language/artificial intelligence
Judith Jarvis Thomson^C^O12, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Emerita), ethics
Tzvetan Todorov^R, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, literary theory
Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder, metaphysics/epistemology
Stephen Toulmin, University of Southern California, ethics/philosophy of science/practical reasoning
Peter Tudvad, University of Copenhagen, Kierkegaard
Ernst Tugendhat^O12, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Emeritus), epistemology/metaphysics
Raimo Tuomela, University of Helsinki, philosophy of science/philosophy of action
Michael Tye, University of Texas at Austin, philosophy of mind/philosophy of science

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Peter Unger, New York University, epistemology/ethics
Alasdair Urquhart, University of Toronto, logic

[edit] V

Bas C. van Fraassen^O12, Princeton University, philosophy of science
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame, metaphysics/philosophy of religion
Philippe Van Parijs, Université catholique de Louvain/Harvard University, political philosophy
Gianni Vattimo^R, University of Turin, Continental philosophy/philosophy of religion
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Marxism
J. David Velleman, New York University, ethics/moral psychology
Paul Virilio, Ecole Speciale d' Architecture (retired), aesthetics/dromology/technology

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David Walford, University of Wales, Lampeter, German philosophy
Doug Walton, University of Winnipeg, logic
Kendall Walton^O2, University of Michigan, aesthetics
Michael Walzer^O12, Institute for Advanced Study, political philosophy/ethics
Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, University of Dar es Salaam, political philosophy
Mary Warnock^O12, Girton College, Cambridge (Emerita), ethics/philosophy of mind
Brian Weatherson, Cornell University, epistemology/philosophy of language
Ota Weinberger^R, Charles University in Prague, legal philosophy/social philosophy
Cornel West, Princeton University, social philosophy/political philosophy
David Wiggins^O12, New College, Oxford (Emeritus), ethics/metaphysics
Christian Wildberg, Princeton University, ancient philosophy
Dallas Willard, University of Southern California, epistemology/Husserl
Edwin Williams, Princeton University, philosophy of language
Timothy Williamson^O2, New College, Oxford, epistemology/logic
Bruce W. Wilshire, Rutgers University, aesthetics/American philosophy/phenomenology/existentialism
Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida, African philosophy
Susan Wolf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ethics/philosophy of action
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University (Emeritus), philosophy of religion/epistemology
Paul Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin, Ancient Greek philosophy
Robert Woolfolk, Rutgers University, philosophical psychology
Crispin Wright^O12, University of St. Andrews/New York University, philosophy of mathematics/logic

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[edit] Y

[edit] Z

Philip Zhai, Zhongshan University, metaphysics/metaethics
Zhou Guoping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, traditional Eastern philosophy
Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University, metaphysics/philosophy of religion
Slavoj Žižek, European Graduate School/University of Ljubljana, postmodernism

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[edit] Notes

Note C: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8

Note O: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy.

1: Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0

2: Oxford University Press; 2005. ISBN 0-19-926479-1

Note R: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in the Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 2000. ISBN 0-415-22364-4

Note S: - This person is featured in the peer-reviewed online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Subjects with an asterisk have an article solicited about them, but not yet published at the encyclopedia (as of 2-22-2006).