Category
page 1Philosophers from Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher (1803–1882)
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

Amos Bronson Alcott
American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Seyla Benhabib
Turkish-American philosopher and political scientist (born 1950)

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
American educator, naturalist, writer (1822-1907)
Judith Sargent Murray
American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)
Roderick Chisholm
American philosopher and logician (1916–1999)
Mary Ann Glendon
American diplomat
Monroe Beardsley
American philosopher
Jason Brennan
American philosopher and business professor
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
American philosopher and theologian (1836-1903)
Borden Parker Bowne
American philosopher (1847–1910)
Louise Antony
American philosopher
Frederick C. Beiser
American philosopher
Ruth Nanda Anshen
American philosopher, author and editor
Daniel Berlyne
American psychologist and philosopher (1924-1976)
Michael J. Shapiro
American political scientist
Jody Azzouni
American philosopher, educator, poet, writer