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
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
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
Jonathan Epstein, philosopher
Hans Jonas, philosopher
Walter Kaufmann, philosopher
Saul Kripke, logician
Thomas 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)
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
Nathaniel I. Wenger, philosopher ^[3]
Harry Austryn Wolfson, philosopher