American philosophy

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American philosophy is a diverse tradition of philosophical thought in the United States, shaped by movements such as pragmatism, transcendentalism, and analytic philosophy, and concerned with issues of democracy, individualism, and social reform.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf philosophical tradition
associatedWithPhilosopher Alain Locke
Angela Davis
C. I. Lewis
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles W. Morris
Cornel West
Donald Davidson
George Santayana
Henry David Thoreau
Hilary Putnam
Jane Addams
John Dewey
John Rawls
John Searle
Josiah Royce
Judith Butler
Martha Nussbaum
Nelson Goodman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Rorty
Robert Nozick
Saul Kripke
Sidney Hook
Stanley Cavell
Susan Haack
Thomas Nagel
W. V. O. Quine
Wilfrid Sellars
William James
countryOfOrigin United States
developedSignificantlyInCentury 19th century
20th century
emergedInCentury 18th century
hasCharacteristic diverse
hasInstitutionalCenter Columbia University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Chicago
Yale University
hasKeyConcept American exceptionalism
civil disobedience
communitarianism
fallibilism
instrumentalism
liberalism
meliorism
pluralism
pragmatic naturalism
pragmatic theory of truth
public philosophy
republicanism
social justice
influencedByMovement African-American philosophy
American idealism
American realism
Latin American philosophy
Native American philosophy
analytic philosophy
feminist philosophy
personalism
pragmatic naturalism
pragmatism
process philosophy
transcendentalism
language English
mainInterest democracy
education
epistemology
ethics
individualism
metaphysics
philosophy of education
philosophy of language
philosophy of mind
political philosophy
religion
science
social philosophy
social reform
relatedTo American intellectual history
American literature
American political thought
American religious history

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Spiritual Laws hasInfluenced American philosophy
Scepticism and Animal Faith hasInfluenced American philosophy
Realms of Being influenced American philosophy
Roger T. Ames region North American philosophy
linked to: American philosophy
Ways of the Spirit philosophicalTradition American philosophy
Morris Weitz areaOfInfluence Anglo-American philosophy
linked to: American philosophy