This is a list of famous Jewish American philosophers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Albert William Levi, philosopher
- 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
- 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
- Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
- Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
- Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- 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
- Sidney Morgenbesser, Philosopher
- Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
- Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
- Robert Nozick, libertarianism
- Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted)
- Richard Popkin, philosopher
- 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
- Dan Wikler, ethicist
- Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher
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“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
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—Bill Clinton (b. 1946)
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)