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21st-century American philosophers

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The list 21st-century American philosophers includes William S. Tribell, Robert Reich, Angela Davis, Cornel West and Christopher Hitchens. The list consists of 1,161 members.

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  • 1.

    William S. Tribell
    American poet (born 1977)
    William S. Tribell
    Overview: William Stephen Tribell (born August 15, 1977) is an American poet. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies, magazines and journals and online under the pseudonyms Walton S. Tissot, and Wilbur ...
    Date of birth: 15 August 1977
    Age: 47
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Works banned in China 51T
    Film producers from Kentucky 16T
    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
  • 2.

    Robert Reich
    US academic, former Secretary of Labor
    Robert Reich
    Overview: Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American economic advisor, professor, author, and political commentator. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill ...
    Date of birth: 24 June 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Economist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 4' 10" (147 cm)
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    American philosophers of social science 62T
    American philosophers of culture 61T
    Substack writers 110T
  • 3.

    Angela Davis
    American academic and political activist (born 1944)
    Angela Davis
    Overview: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist ...
    Date of birth: 26 January 1944
    Age: 81
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
    Partner: Gina Dent (Dating)
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    American anti-poverty advocates 79T
    Time 100 250T
    American Marxist writers 49T
  • 4.

    George Soros
    Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
    George Soros
    Overview: George Soros HonFBA (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having ...
    Date of birth: 12 August 1930
    Age: 94
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Tamiko Bolton (Married)
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    American drug policy reform activists 46T
    Jewish American atheists 146T
    People named in the Paradise Papers 169T
  • 5.

    bell hooks
    American author and activist (1952–2021)
    bell hooks
    Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...
    Date of birth: 25 September 1952
    Date of death: 15 December 2021
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Sociologist
    Gender: Female
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    American socialist feminists 110T
    21st-century pseudonymous writers 421T
    20th-century pseudonymous writers 906T
  • 6.

    Cornel West
    American philosopher and political activist (born 1953)
    Cornel West
    Overview: Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    American anti-capitalists 93T
    Baptist philosophers 3T
    African-American theologians 20T
  • 7.

    Christopher Hitchens
    British author and journalist (1949–2011)
    Christopher Hitchens
    Overview: Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, journalist, and social critic. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or ...
    Date of birth: 13 April 1949
    Date of death: 15 December 2011
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    New Atheism 31T
    Jewish American atheism activists 8T
    Deaths from pneumonia in Texas 44T
  • 8.

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    American author (1922–2007)
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    Overview: Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels ...
    Date of birth: 11 November 1922
    Date of death: 11 April 2007
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    American critics of Christianity 72T
    21st-century American male artists 897T
    20th-century American male artists 3,686T
  • 9.

    Noam Chomsky
    American linguist and activist (born 1928)
    Noam Chomsky
    Overview: Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics" ...
    Date of birth: 7 December 1928
    Age: 96
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Valeria Wasserma (Married)
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    Philosophers of linguistics 3T
    American dissidents 15T
    Jewish linguists 13T
  • 10.

    Daniel C. Dennett
    American philosopher (born 1942)
    Daniel C. Dennett
    Overview: Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the ph ...
    Date of birth: 28 March 1942
    Date of death: 19 April 2024
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    2024 deaths 2,736T
    American critics of Christianity 73T
    New Atheism 31T
  • 11.

    Thom Hartmann
    American political commentator (born 1951)
    Thom Hartmann
    Overview: Thomas Carl Hartmann (born May 7, 1951) is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator. Hartmann has been hosting a nationally syn ...
    Date of birth: 7 May 1951
    Age: 73
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    People from Rumney, New Hampshire 6T
    Vegetarians 377T
    American democratic socialists 62T
  • 12.

    Martha Nussbaum
    American philosopher and academic (born 1947)
    Martha Nussbaum
    Overview: Martha Craven Nussbaum (, born 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed ...
    Date of birth: 6 May 1947
    Age: 77
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Female
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    Converts to Reform Judaism 10T
    Moral psychologists 46T
    Women classical scholars 252T
  • 13.

    Judith Butler
    American philosopher and gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
    Judith Butler
    Overview: Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer, and l ...
    Date of birth: 24 February 1956
    Age: 69
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Wendy Brown (political scientist) (Long-Term)
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    American non-binary writers 81T
    21st-century American LGBT people 1,993T
    20th-century American LGBT people 1,499T
  • 14.

    Christina Hoff Sommers
    American author and philosopher (born 1950)
    Christina Hoff Sommers
    Overview: Christina Marie Hoff Sommers (born September 28, 1950) is an American author and philosopher. Specializing in ethics, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Sommers is known for ...
    Date of birth: 28 September 1950
    Age: 74
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    Feminist critics of feminism 7T
    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
  • 15.

    Ted Kaczynski
    American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
    Ted Kaczynski
    Overview: Theodore John Kaczynski ( kə-CHIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1942
    Date of death: 10 June 2023
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Criminal
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    Serial bombers 30T
    Violence and postal systems 1T
    2023 deaths 3,805T
  • 16.

    Sam Harris
    American neuroscientist, author, and podcaster
    Sam Harris
    Overview: Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, and podcast host. His work touches on a wide range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free ...
    Date of birth: 9 April 1967
    Age: 57
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Giving What We Can members 25T
    Conversationalists 14T
    Philosophers of war 30T
  • 17.

    Howard Zinn
    Author and historian
    Howard Zinn
    Overview: Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a ...
    Date of birth: 24 August 1922
    Date of death: 27 January 2010
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 39T
    American anti-capitalists 93T
    Philosophers of war 30T
  • 18.

    Timothy 'Speed' Levitch
    American actor
    Timothy 'Speed' Levitch
    Overview: Timothy "Speed" Levitch (born July 9, 1970) is an American actor, tour guide, poet, speaker, philosopher, author and voice actor. The name "Speed" was given to him by a childhood friend in high school ...
    Date of birth: 9 July 1970
    Age: 54
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century American Jews 3,194T
    21st-century American poets 1,673T
    Jewish American male actors 1,098T
  • 19.

    John Searle
    American philosopher
    John Searle
    Overview: John Rogers Searle (born July 31, 1932) is an American philosopher. He was Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language and Professor of the Graduate School at ...
    Date of birth: 31 July 1932
    Age: 92
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    American philosophers of mathematics 48T
    American metaphysicians 90T
    American philosophers of social science 62T
  • 20.

    John Maus
    American musician
    John Maus
    Overview: John Maus (born February 23, 1980) is an American musician, composer, singer, and songwriter known for his baritone singing style and his use of vintage synthesizer sounds and Medieval church modes, a ...
    Date of birth: 23 February 1980
    Age: 45
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    American post-punk musicians 51T
    European Graduate School alumni 5T
    Minimal wave musicians 15T
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