List of Jewish American philosophers
This is a list of famous Jewish American philosophers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Mortimer Adler, philosopher (converted to Episcopalianism in 1984 and then to Catholicism in 2000)
- Peter Achinstein, philosopher of science
- Edith Wyschogrod, philosopher
- Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
- Max Black, analytic philosopher [1]
- Joseph Blau, philosopher
- Ned Block, philosopher of mind
- Allan Bloom, political philosopher
- George Boolos, logician
- Judith Butler
- Stanley Cavell, philosopher
- Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and activist
- Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
- Norman Daniels, political philosopher
- Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
- Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
- Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- Marvin Farber, philosopher, phenomenology
- Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science
- Solomon Feferman, logician
- Stanley Fish, literary theorist
- Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind
- Philipp Frank, logical positivist
- Tamar Szabo Gendler, philosopher of mind
- Eugene Gendlin, philosopher of the implicit
- Bernard Gert, ethicist
- Alvin Goldman, epistemology, Goldman's Barn Example
- Nelson Goodman, philosopher, metaphysical relativism, new riddle of induction
- Sidney Hook, philosopher
- Jonathan Epstein, philosopher
- Hans Jonas, philosopher
- Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
- Saul Kripke, logician
- Thomas S. Kuhn, philosopher of science
- Abraham Low, critic of psychoanalysis
- Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician
- Joseph Margolis, philosopher, pragmatism
- Sidney Morgenbesser, philosopher
- Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
- Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
- Robert Nozick, libertarianism
- Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted)
- Richard Popkin, philosopher [2]
- Hilary Putnam, philosopher, functionalism
- Ayn Rand, founder of the Objectivist philosophy (a refugee from communist Russia)
- Murray Rothbard, political philosopher
- Daniel Rynhold, philosopher of religion
- Michael Sandel, communitarianism
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, religious philosopher
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
- Susanna Siegel, philosopher of mind
- Joseph Soloveitchik, religious philosopher
- Leo Strauss, political philosopher
- Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral philosopher
- Michael Walzer, philosopher
- Jack Russell Weinstein, philosopher
- Dan Wikler, ethicist
- Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher
- Stephen Yablo, philosopher
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
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