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

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 )

* 1946 – Lee Bollinger, American lawyer and educator

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1908 – Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1889 – Zerna Sharp, American author and educator ( d. 1981 )

* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator ( d. 1999 )

* 1920 – Gene Leis, American guitarist, educator, bandleader, composer, and producer ( d. 1993 )

* 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer and educator ( Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam )

* 1933 – Easley Blackwood, Jr., American educator, pianist, and composer

* 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and educator, civil rights advocate, ( b. 1877 )

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

* Bonnie Ethel Cone ( 1907 – 2003 ), an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

* Elsie Chomsky, American educator

* 1932 – Leslie Adams, American composer and music educator

* Antioch College-the result of American educator Horace Mann's dream to establish a college comparable to Harvard but with some notable differences.

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

* 1941 – Donna Shalala, American educator

* 1989 – Alia Sabur, American college educator

* 1870 – Louis Coerne, American composer and music educator ( d. 1922 )

* 1951 – Roseanna Vitro, American jazz singer and educator

George Hoyt Whipple ( August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.