American metaphysicians

The list American metaphysicians includes Philip K. Dick, Noam Chomsky, John Searle, Robert Anton Wilson and William James. The list consists of 92 members.

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Philip K. Dick

American science fiction writer

Overview: Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. He wrote 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1928

Date of death: 2 March 1982

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of literature 95T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Novelists from Illinois 359T
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Noam Chomsky

American linguist and activist (born 1928)

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
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John Searle

American philosopher

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 philosophers of social science 62T

American philosophers of technology 78T
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Robert Anton Wilson

American writer

Overview: Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized by Discordianism as an Episkopos, Pope ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1932

Date of death: 11 January 2007

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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American anti-capitalists 93T

20th-century memoirists 804T

People from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 62T
5.

William James

American philosopher

Overview: William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading ...

Date of birth: 11 January 1842

Date of death: 26 August 1910

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Mysticism scholars 26T

Philosophers of war 30T

19th-century psychologists 19T
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Brian Leftow

American philosopher

Overview: Brian Leftow (born 1956) is an American philosopher specializing in philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics. He is the William P. Alston Professor for the Philosophy of Religion at ...

Date of birth: 1956

Age: 68

Occupation: Philosopher

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Nolloth Professors of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion 7T

Metaphysicians 417T

Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford 144T
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Paul Benacerraf

American philosopher

Overview: Paul Joseph Salomon Benacerraf (born 26 March 1931) is a French-born American philosopher working in the field of the philosophy of mathematics who has been teaching at Princeton University since he joined ...

Date of birth: 1931

Age: 93

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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French expatriates in Venezuela 2T

Jewish American mathematicians 42T

21st-century American philosophers 490T
8.

David Kellogg Lewis

American philosopher

Overview: David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 – October 14, 2001) was an American philosopher who is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA ...

Date of birth: 28 September 1941

Date of death: 14 October 2001

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Philosopher's Annual Prize winners 8T

Philosophers of logic 129T

Kidney transplant recipients 90T
9.

William Lane Craig

American philosopher

Overview: William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian, apologist, and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University and Research ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Arminian theologians 139T

21st-century American theologians 30T

20th-century American theologians 55T
10.

Alvin Plantinga

American Christian philosopher

Overview: Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification) ...

Date of birth: 15 November 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Presidents of the Society of Christian Philosophers 13T

Presidents of the American Philosophical Association 35T

Philosophers from Michigan 12T
11.

W. V. Quine

American philosopher

Overview: Willard Van Orman Quine (known to intimates as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1908

Date of death: 25 December 2000

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of logic 129T

Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 515T

Philosophers from Ohio 14T
12.

Saul Kripke

American philosopher

Overview: Saul Aaron Kripke (November 13, 1940;– September 15, 2022) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. He was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1940

Date of death: 15 September 2022

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Omaha Central High School alumni 48T

Philosophers of logic 129T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
13.

Robert Nozick

American philosopher

Overview: Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philos ...

Date of birth: 16 November 1938

Date of death: 23 January 2002

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Presidents of the American Philosophical Association 35T

Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

Philosophers of economics 73T
14.

Richard Rorty

American philosopher

Overview: Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.

Date of birth: 4 October 1931

Date of death: 8 June 2007

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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Philosophers of literature 95T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T
15.

Hilary Putnam

philosopher

Overview: Hilary Whitehall Putnam (July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century ...

Date of birth: 31 July 1926

Date of death: 13 March 2016

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of logic 129T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Mathematicians from Illinois 77T
16.

Amie Thomasson

Philosopher

Overview: Amie Lynn Thomasson (born July 4, 1968) is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Thomasson specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the ...

Date of birth: 4 July 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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Philosophers from Florida 10T

21st-century American philosophers 490T

20th-century American philosophers 713T
17.

Anthony Weston

American logician

Overview: Anthony Weston is an American writer, teacher, and philosopher, author of widely used primers in critical thinking and ethical practice and of a variety of unconventional books and essays on philosophical ...

Date of birth: 25 February 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of logic 129T

People from Spring Green, Wisconsin 23T

21st-century American male writers 3,233T
18.

Kendall Walton

American philosopher

Overview: Kendall Lewis Walton (born 1939) is an American philosopher, the Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. His work mainly ...

Date of birth: 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philosopher

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21st-century American philosophers 490T

20th-century American philosophers 713T

Metaphysicians 417T
19.

Gary Legenhausen

American philosopher

Overview: Gary Carl (Muhammad) Legenhausen (born May 3, 1953, New York City) is an American philosopher who teaches at the Imam Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute, which is directed by Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ...

Date of birth: 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Philosophy 5T

20th-century American philosophers 713T

Converts to Shia Islam from Catholicism 2T
20.

Peter Railton

American philosopher

Overview: Peter Albert Railton (born May 23, 1950) is an American philosopher who is Gregory S. Kavka Distinguished University Professor and John Stephenson Perrin Professor of Philosophy at the University of M ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T