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This is a list of famous Jewish American Philosophers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. Image File history File links Star_of_David. ... This page is a list of Jews. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ...

• Mortimer Adler, philosopher
• Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
• Max Black, analytic philosopher ^[1]
• Joseph Blau, philosopher ^[1]
• Ned Block, philosopher of mind
• George Boolos, logician
• 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
• 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
• Nelson Goodman, new riddle of induction
• Sidney Hook, philosopher
• Hans Jonas, philosopher
• Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
• Saul Kripke, logician
• Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
• 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)
• 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
• Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher

Mortimer Adler around 1963 Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American aristotelian philosopher and author. ... Paul Benacerraf is an American philosopher of mathematics who has been teaching at Princeton University since he joined the faculty in 1960. ... Max Black (February 24, 1909, Baku, Russian Empire - August 27, 1988, Ithaca, New York) was a distinguished Anglo-American philosopher, who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. ... Joseph Leon Blau (born May 6, 1909, Brooklyn, New York; died December 28, 1986, Bronx, New York) was an American scholar of Jewish history and philosophy. ... Ned Block (born 1942) is a philosopher of mind who has made important contributions to matters of consciousness and cognitive science. ... George Stephen Boolos (September 4, 1940, New York City - May 27, 1996) was a philosopher and a mathematical logician. ... Image:J Butler. ... Stanley Cavell (born September 1, 1926) of Brookline, Massachusetts is an American philosopher. ... Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25, 1880 - January 28, 1947) was a Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. ... Arthur Coleman Danto (b. ... Hubert Dreyfus (born 1929) is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Ronald Dworkin (born 1931) is an American legal philosopher, and currently professor of Jurisprudence at University College London and the New York University School of Law. ... Paul Edwards (September 2, 1923-December 9, 2004) was an American moral philosopher. ... Herbert Feigl (December 14, 1902 - June 1, 1988) was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle. ... Solomon Feferman is a mathematician and philosopher at Stanford University. ... Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. ... Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is a philosopher at Rutgers University, New Jersey. ... Philipp Frank was an influential philosopher during the first half of the 20th century. ... Eugene T. Gendlin is an American philosopher who has developed ways of thinking about and working with the implicit. ... Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Maryland – 25 November 1998) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, and aesthetics. ... Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902–July 12, 1989) was a prominent New York intellectual and philosopher who championed pragmatism. ... German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. ... Walter Arnold Kaufmann (July 1, 1921 - September 4, 1980) was a 20th-century Jewish German philosopher, scholar, and poet. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the philosophy of science. ... Ruth Barcan Marcus (born 1921) is the philosopher and logician after whom the Barcan formula is named. ... Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901, Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire -- September 22, 1985, New York City) was among the most important philosophers of science of his time. ... Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937, in Belgrade, Serbia) is University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and member of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. ... Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. ... Martha Nussbaum Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. ... Richard H. Popkin is easily one of the most influential historians of philosophy of the later half of the twentieth century. ... Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31, 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. ... It has been suggested that The Ayn Rand Collective be merged into this article or section. ... Michael Sandel (1943-) is a contemporary political philosopher. ... Rabbi M.M. Schneerson For the third Rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch dynasty see Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (with an h) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (April 18, 1902 – June 12, 1994), referred to by his followers as The Rebbe, was a prominent Charedi (traditional Orthodox) Jewish rabbi who was the seventh... Rav Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (Hebrew: ) () was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. ... Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical philosophy. ... Judith Jarvis Thomson (born 1929) is an American moral philosopher and metaphysician. ... Michael Walzer lecturing at the U.S. Naval Academy Michael Walzer (3 March 1935 - ) is a political theorist and writer on society, politics, and ethics currently working as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. ... Harry Austryn Wolfson (November 2, 1887–September 19, 1974) was a scholar, philosopher, historian, and the first chairman of a Judaic Studies Department in the United States. ...

Footnotes

1. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed.
2. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. "Philosophy"