Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

* 1862 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1947 )

* 1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist

The American philosopher and educator John Dewey became impressed with the Alexander technique after his headaches, neck pains, blurred vision, and stress symptoms largely improved during the time he used Alexander's advice to change his posture.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

In 1941, Eli Siegel, American philosopher and poet, founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that reality itself is aesthetic, and that " The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce " the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician ".

* Avram Noam Chomsky ( born 1928 ), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at < font color = 0 > MIT, known for early work in < font color = 0 > transformational grammar and < font color = 0 > A. I.

With the work of the latter philosopher, critical theory transcended its theoretic roots in German idealism, and progressed closer to American pragmatism.

The American philosopher Arthur Oncken Lovejoy in his * The Revolt Against Dualism ( 1960 ) develops a critique of the modern new realism, reproposing a form of dualism based on a " fork of human experience.

* 1931 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher

Daniel Clement Dennett ( born March 28, 1942 ) is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

* 1902 – Sidney Hook, American philosopher ( d. 1989 )

At this time, a paper written by the American philosopher Edmund Gettier provoked major widespread discussion.

In one response to Gettier, the American philosopher Richard Kirkham has argued that the only definition of knowledge that could ever be immune to all counterexamples is the infallibilist one.

The American philosopher Robert Nozick has offered the following definition of knowledge:

The American philosopher W. V. O. Quine, in his " Two Dogmas of Empiricism ", famously challenged the distinction, arguing that the two have a blurry boundary.

Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789 ) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician.

* Jesse Prinz – American philosopher who specializes in emotion, moral psychology, aesthetics and consciousness

* 2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician ( b. 1921 )

I should like at this time, Mr. Speaker, to pay warm tribute to Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Charles Merz on the occasion of their retirement from distinguished careers in American journalism.

* Charles Austin ( born 1967 ), American athlete

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )

* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author

* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut

* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet

* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author

* 1950 – Charles Fambrough, American bassist, composer, and producer ( d. 2011 )

* 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter

* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )

An important 19th Century American chef was Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City.