William James

William James

male, deceased (1910)
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational...
John Dewey

John Dewey

male, deceased (1952)
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have...
Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

male, deceased (2007) (Stanford, California, United States)
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature...
Richard Posner

Richard Posner

male, 70 years old
Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939, in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit....
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam

male, 83 years old
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (born July 31 1926) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in Western philosophy since the 1960s,...
George Herbert Mead

George Herbert Mead

male, deceased (1931)
George Herbert Mead was an American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was...
Charles Peirce

Charles Peirce

male, deceased (1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced "purse"), (September 10, 1839 - April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in...
Sidney Hook

Sidney Hook

male, deceased (1989)
Sidney Hook (December 20 1902-July 12 1989) was a prominent New York intellectual and philosopher who championed pragmatism.
Isaac Levi

Isaac Levi

male
Isaac Levi is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Levi came onto the philosophic scene with his groundbreaking first...
Richard Shusterman

Richard Shusterman

male
Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of...