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.

* 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 )

Arthur Robinson traveled with the baseball clubs as staff correspondent for the American.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger has been a distinguished publisher of this distinguished newspaper and it is fitting that we take due notice of his major contribution to American journalism on the occasion of his retirement.

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.

* 2006 – Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Love ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1926 – Arthur Rock, American investor

* 1950 – Arthur Bremer, American attempted murderer

* 1905 – Arthur Lake, American actor ( d. 1987 )

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger ( Twayne, 1969 ) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature and grotesquerie, the place of Li ' l Abner in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.

* Berger, Arthur Asa, Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire ( 1969 ) Twayne Publishers, ( 1994 ) Univ.

Arthur H. Robinson, an American cartographer influential in thematic cartography, stated that a map not properly designed " will be a cartographic failure.

* 1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer ( d. 1935 )

Although Arthur Tree was himself from a wealthy American family, he now had to adjust to reduced circumstances without Ethel's support.

* 1740 – Arthur Lee, American diplomat ( d. 1792 )

* Arthur M. Free ( 1879 – 1953 ), American politician

The Universal horror that comes closest to noir, both in story and sensibility, however, is The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), directed by Englishman James Whale and photographed by American Arthur Edeson.

* 1920 – Arthur Franz, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1926 – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher ( d. 2012 )

* 1932 – Arthur Lyman, American jazz musician ( d. 2002 )

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

Its existence was predicted in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly ( 1861 – 1939 ) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside ( 1850 – 1925 ).

* 1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player ( d. 1993 )