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Parent topics
- American culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
Subtopics
- American transcendentalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pragmatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Philosophers
- Donald Davidson [r]: (1917—2003) American philosopher of language and mind. [e]
- Daniel Dennett [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Dewey [r]: (1859-1952) U.S. philosopher and educational theorist known as one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism and as the leading exponent of Progressive educational theories. [e]
- Edmund Gettier [r]: (1927–) American philosopher, Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, best known for his 1963 paper "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" which described the Gettier problem in epistemology. [e]
- Alvin Goldman [r]: (1938–) American philosopher, working mostly in epistemology, and famous for defending reliabilism and advancing social epistemology as a new subfield. [e]
- William James [r]: (1842–1910) American psychologist and philosopher, best known for his advocacy of pragmatism and his study of religious experience. [e]
- Saul Kripke [r]: (1940–) American philosopher, best known for Naming and Necessity. [e]
- Robert Nozick [r]: (1938–2002) American political philosopher, known for Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which espoused libertarianism, minarchism and capitalism. [e]
- Willard van Orman Quine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Rawls [r]: (1921–2002) American liberal political philosopher and professor at Harvard University. [e]