James Marsh (1794–1842) was an American philosopher and president of the University of Vermont from 1826-1833.
Marsh was educated at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1817 from the college-in-exile in opposition to Dartmouth University, the state university that was set up in an attempt to destroy the Dartmouth College. He worked as a congregationalist minister and built a philosophy based on the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. As president of the University of Vermont Marsh instituted a program of a unified study where all seniors took a course in philosophy that sought to create a centralized model of knowledge.