List of Jewish American philosophers
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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, philosophy of science
- Edith Wyschogrod, philosopher
- Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
- Max Black, analytic philosopher [1]
- Joseph Blau, philosopher [1]
- Ned Block, philosopher of mind
- Allan Bloom, political philosopher
- George Boolos, logician
- Martin Bunzl, philosopher of science and the environment
- Judith Butler
- Stanley Cavell, philosopher
- Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
- Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
- Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
- Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
- Paul Edwards (philosopher) [2]
- Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science
- Jamie Feldman, ancient philosopher
- 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
- Adam Goldsmith, philosopher
- Nelson Goodman, 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
- Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
- Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
- Robert Nozick, libertarianism
- Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted)
- Richard Popkin, philosopher [2]
- Hilary Putnam, functionalism
- Ayn Rand, founder of the Objectivist philosophy (a refugee from communist Russia)
- Daniel Rynhold, philosopher of religion
- Michael Sandel, communitarianism
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson, religious philosopher
- 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
- Nathaniel I. Wenger, philosopher [3]
- Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"
