

Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
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Abbreviations for Reference Sources
| American National Biography, eds. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), plus ANB website supplements. | Amer Nat Bio |
| American Philosophers Before 1950, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 270, eds. Philip Dematteis and Leemon McHenry (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2003). | Amer Phils Before 1950 |
| American Philosophers, 1950-2000, Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 279, eds. Philip Dematteis and Leemon McHenry (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2003). | Amer Phils 1950-2000 |
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Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography and Supplements, 13 vols, eds. James Grant, John Fiske, and James Dearborn (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1888, 1901, 1918). |
Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio |
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Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, eds. Noel Sheehy, Antony Chapman, and Wendy Conroy (London: Routledge, 1997). | Bio Dict Psych |
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Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, by Leonard Zusne (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984). |
Bio Dict Psych by Zusne |
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Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, eds. Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson (London and New York: Routledge, 1996). |
Bio 20thC Phils |
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Blackwell Companion to Analytic Philosophy, eds. A.P. Martinich and David Sosa (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001). |
Blackwell Analytic Phil |
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Blackwell Companion to Pragmatism, eds. John Shook and Joseph Margolis (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005). |
Blackwell Comp Prag |
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Blackwell Companion to the Philosophers, ed. Robert Arrington (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1999). |
Blackwell Comp Phils |
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Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, eds. Armen Marsoobian and John Ryder (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2003). |
Blackwell Amer Phil |
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, ed. John S. Bowman (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996). |
Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia, ed. James H. Marsh (Toronto, Ontario: McClelland & Stewart, 2000). | Canad Encyc |
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A Companion to American Thought, eds. Richard J. Fox and James T. Kloppenberg (Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995). |
Comp Amer Thought |
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Dictionary of American Biography and Supplements, 30 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928–95). |
Dict Amer Bio |
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Dictionary of American Religious Biography, 2nd edn, by Henry Warner Bowden (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1993). |
Dict Amer Religious Bio |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 14 vols., eds. Francess G. Halpenny et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966–98). | Dict Canad Bio |
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A Dictionary of Economics, 4 vols., eds. John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (London and New York: Macmillan, 1987). |
Dict Economics |
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Encyclopedia of American Biography, 2nd edn, eds. John A. Garraty and Jerome L. Sternstein (New York: HarperCollins, 1996). |
Encyc Amer Bio |
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Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 4 vols., ed. Lynn Nadel (London and New York: Nature Publishing Group, 2003). |
Encyc Cog Sci |
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Encyclopedia of Ethics, 3 vols., 2nd edn, eds. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York: Routledge, 2001). |
Encyc Ethics |
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Encyclopedia of Psychology, 8 vols., ed. Alan E. Kazdin (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). |
Encyc Psych |
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Encyclopedia of Religion, 16 vols., ed. Mircea Eliade (New York: Macmillan, 1987). |
Encyc Relig |
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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 26 vols., eds. Neil Smerlser and Paul Baltes (Amsterdam and New York: Elsevier, 2001). |
Encyc Social Behav Sci |
| Memorial Minutes in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association published in Philosophical Review, vols. 21-58 (1902-1949). | Proc of APA in Phil Rev |
| Memorial Minutes in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, vols. 23- (1949- ). | Proc of APA |
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 63 vols. (New York: James T. White & Co., 1891–84). |
Nat Cycl Amer Bio |
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Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). |
Oxford Comp Phil |
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Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vols. 1–10, ed. Richard T. Hull (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999–2001; Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004–). |
Pres Addr of APA [see list of APA presidents] |
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 10 vols., ed. Edward Craig (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), and Encyclopedia website supplements. |
Routledge Encycl Phil |
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Who Was Who in America, 14 vols. (Chicago and New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who’s Who, 1943–2002). |
Who Was Who in Amer |
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Who’s Who in Philosophy, ed. Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1942). |
Who's Who in Phil |
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Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book, ed. Ethel M. Kersey (New York: Greenwood, 1989). |
Women Phils |
| NAME | DATES | POSITIONS | DMAP AUTHOR | REFERENCE SOURCES |
| Abbot, Francis Ellingwood | 1836-1903 | Independent philosopher in Massachusetts. | Creighton Peden | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v24, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Abbott, Lyman | 1835-1922 | Minister, author, and editor in New York City. | Roger Ward | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v1, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Abrams, Meyer Howard | 1912- | Prof. English at Cornell (1945-83). | Dean Graham | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Adams, Elie Maynard | 1919-2003 | Prof. Philosophy at North Carolina (1948-90). | Warren Nord | Proc of APA v77 |
| Adams, George Plimpton | 1882-1961 | Prof. Philosophy at UC Berkeley (1908-54). | David Davis | Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v3, Proc of APA v35, Who Was Who in Amer v9, Who's Who in Phil |
| Adams, Henry Brooks | 1838-1918 | Prof. Medieval History at Harvard (1871-77), Independent scholar and author in Washington, D.C. | John Orr | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v11, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Adams, James Luther | 1901-1994 | Minister in Massachusetts (1927-35). Prof. Theology at Meadville Theological School (1937-43), Chicago (1943-56), Harvard Divinity School (1956-68). | Kenneth Olliff | Who Was Who in Amer v11 |
| Addams, Jane | 1860-1935 | Social activist, feminist, and pacifist in Chicago. | Julie Cannon | Amer Nat Bio, Blackwell Amer Phil, Blackwell Comp Prag, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v27, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Adler, Felix | 1851-1933 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1902-33). | Howard Radest | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Encyc Ethics, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v23, Pres Addr of APA v3, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Adler, Mortimer Jerome | 1902-2001 | Prof. Philosophy of Law at Chicago (1930-52, 1963-68). | Jean Van Delinder | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v14, Who's Who in Phil |
| Adorno, Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund | 1903-1969 | Prof. Philosophy at Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany (1931-33, 1949-69), and in New York City (1938-49). | Mark Worrell | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Blackwell Comp Phils, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Oxford Comp Phil, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who's Who in Phil |
| Agassi, Joseph | 1927- | Prof. Philosophy at Boston University (1965-83), Tel-Aviv University in Israel (1971-96), York University in Toronto (1982-97). |
Raphael Sassower |
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| Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe | 1807-1873 | Prof. Zoology and Natural History at Harvard (1847-73). | Nathan Houser and John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio |
| Aiken, Henry David | 1912-1982 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1946-65) and Brandeis (1965-80). | Evan Moreno-Davis | Who Was Who in Amer v8 |
| Albee, Ernest | 1865-1927 | Prof. Philosophy at Cornell (1892-27). | Brendan Sweetman | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Albritton, Rogers Garland | 1923-2002 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1956-72), UC Los Angeles (1972-1991). | David Schrader | Pres Addr of APA v9 |
| Alcott, Amos Bronson | 1799-1888 | Schoolmaster in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts (1820s-1860s), Independent scholar in Concord (1860s-1888). | Scott Bartlett | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio |
| Aldrich, Virgil Charles | 1903-1998 | Prof. Philosophy at Kenyon College (1946-65), North Carolina (1965-72), Utah (1973-94). | Erika Wagner | Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v72, Who's Who in Phil |
| Alexander, Archibald | 1855-1917 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1877-89). | John Shook | |
| Alexander, Hartley Burr | 1873-1939 | Prof. Philosophy at Nebraska (1908-27), Scripps College in California (1927-39). | John Shook and Richard Hull | Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v46, Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v49, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Allaire, Edwin Bonar, Jr. | 1930- | Prof. Philosophy at Iowa (1960-67), Texas (1969- ). | John Shook | |
| Allison, Henry Edward | 1937- | Prof. Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University (1965-68), Florida (1968-73), UC San Diego (1973-96), Boston University (1996-2004), UC Davis (2004- ). | John Shook | Pres Addr of APA v10 |
| Allport, Gordon Willard | 1897-1967 | Prof. Psychology at Harvard (1930-1967). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Encyc Psych, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Who Was Who in Amer v5, Who's Who in Phil |
| Alston, William Payne | 1921- | Prof. Philosophy at Michigan (1949-71), Rutgers (1971-76), Illinois at Urbana (1976-80), Syracuse (1980-2000). | Daniel Howard Snyder | Bio 20thC Phils, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v8 |
| Altizer, Thomas Jonathan Jackson | 1927- |
Prof. Religion at Wabash College (1954-56), Emory (1956-68), SUNY Stony Brook (1968-96). |
Carl Raschke | |
| Ames, Edward Scribner | 1870-1958 | Prof. Religion at Butler College in Indiana (1897-1900), Chicago (1900-35). | Rob Wilson-Black | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Pres Addr of APA v3, Proc of APA v32, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Ames, Van Meter | 1898-1985 | Prof. Philosophy at Cincinnati (1925-66). | Melanie McQuitty | Amer Nat Bio, Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v59, Who Was Who in Amer v9, Who's Who in Phil |
| Anderson, Alan Ross | 1925-1973 | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1955-65), Pittsburgh (1965-73). | Lou Goble | Oxford Comp Phil, Proc of APA v47, Who Was Who in Amer v6 |
| Anderson, Fulton Henry | 1895-1968 | Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1924-63). | John Slater | Proc of APA v42 |
| Andrews, Elisha Benjamin | 1844-1917 | President of Denison College in Ohio (1875-79), Prof Homiletics and Pastoral Theology at Newton Theological Institution in Massachusetts (1879-82), Prof Political Economy and History at Brown (1883-88), President of Brown (1889-98), Chancellor of University of Nebraska (1900-08). | James Castagnera | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v8, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Angell, James Rowland | 1869-1949 | Prof. Psychology at Chicago (1894-1921), President of Yale (1921-37). | Alfred Fuchs | Amer Nat Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v40, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Anthony, Susan Brownell | 1820-1906 | Leader of Women's Rights Movement in New York. | Barbara Ryan | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v4, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Anton, John Peter | 1920- | Prof. Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo (1962-69), Emory (1969-82), University of South Florida (1983- ). | Lisa Wilkinson | |
| Arendt, Hannah | 1906-1975 | Journalist and editor in New York City (1941-48), Executive Director for Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (1949-52), Visiting Prof. Politics at various universities (1952-63), Prof. on Committee for Social Thought at Chicago (1963-67), Prof. Philosophy at New School for Social Research (1967-1975). | Jean Van Delinder | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Blackwell Comp Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Ethics, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Oxford Comp Phil, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who Was Who in Amer v6, Women Phils |
| Armour, Leslie | 1931- | Prof. Philosophy at University of Waterloo, Canada (1962-71), Cleveland State University (1971-77), University of Ottawa, Canada (1977-96), Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa (1996- ). | Elizabeth Trott | |
| Armstrong, Andrew Campbell | 1860-1935 | Prof. Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-1930). | David Hildebrand | Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v45, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Arnheim, Rudolf | 1904-2007 | Prof. Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and New School for Social Research (1943-68). Prof. Psychology of Art at Harvard (1968-74). | Ian Versteg | Bio Dict Psych, Cam Dict Amer Bio |
| Arrow, Kenneth Joseph | 1921- | Prof. Economics at Stanford (1949-68, 1979-1991), Harvard (1968-79). | John Tilley | Cam Dict Amer Bio, Oxford Comp Phil |
| Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss | 1813-1883 | Prof. Philosophy at Princeton (1854-83). | Roger Ward | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v12 |
| Aubrey, Edwin Ewart | 1896-1956 |
Prof. Christian Theology and Ethics at Chicago (1929-44). President of Crozer Theological Seminary (1944-49). Prof. Religion at Pennsylvania (1949-56). |
Robert Wilson-Black | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v42, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Audi, Robert Nemir | 1941- | Prof. Philosophy at Texas (1967-72), Nebraska (1973-2003), Notre Dame (2003- ). | Peter Tramel | Pres Addr of APA v9 |
| Aune, Bruce Arthur | 1933- | Prof. Philosophy at Oberlin College in Ohio (1961-63), Pittsburgh (1963-66), University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1966-2001). | David Schrader | |
| Axinn, Sidney | 1923- | Prof. Philosophy at Temple (1955-93). | John Shook | |
| Axtelle, George Edward | 1893-1974 | Prof. Education at Northwestern (1935-42), New York University (1945-59), Southern Illinois University (1959-66). | Mike Taylor | Who Was Who in Amer v6 |
| Ayres, Clarence Edwin | 1891-1972 | Prof. Philosophy at Chicago (1917-20), Prof. Economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts (1920-23), Texas (1930-68). | J. Ron Stanfield and Jacqueline Stanfield | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Economics |
| Babbitt, Irving | 1865-1933 | Prof. Romance Languages at Harvard (1894-1912), Prof. French Literature at Harvard (1912-33). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v23, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Babbitt, Milton Byron | 1916- | Prof. Music at Princeton (1938-1942, 1948-81). | Michael Szekely | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Bahm, Archie John | 1907-1996 | Prof. Philosophy at Texas Tech University (1934-46), University of Denver (1946-48), University of New Mexico (1948-73). | Irving Anellis | Who Was Who in Amer v11, Who's Who in Phil |
| Baier, Annette Claire | 1929- | Prof. Philosophy at Aberdeen, Auckland, Sydney, Carnegie-Mellon, and Pittsburgh (1973-95). | Jocelyn Hoy | Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v10 |
| Baier, Kurt Erich Maria | 1917- | Prof. Philosophy at Melbourne, Canberra, and Pittsburgh (1962-95). | Anthony Serafini | Encyc Ethics, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v8 |
| Bakewell, Charles Montague | 1867-1957 | Prof. Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College (1898-1900), UC Berkeley (1900-1904), Yale (1904-33). | James A. Good | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v45, Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA v32, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Balanchine, George Melitonovitch | 1904-1983 | Choreographer at School of American Ballet (founded 1934), New York City Ballet (1948-82). | Lester Tome | Amer Nat Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v8 |
| Balch, Emily Greene | 1867-1961 | Prof. Economics and Social Science at Wellesley College (1896-1919), Leader of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom (1919-1961). | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v4 |
| Baldwin, James Mark | 1861-1934 | Prof. Psychology at Toronto (1889-93), Princeton (1893-1903), Prof. Philosophy and Psychology at Johns Hopkins (1903-09). | Robert Wozniak | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Bio 20thC Phils, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v25, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Ballard, Edward Goodwin | 1910-1989 | Prof. Philosophy at Tulane (1946-1980). | Kathleen Haney | Proc of APA v63, Who Was Who in Amer v10 |
| Balz, Albert George Adam | 1887-1957 | Prof. Philosophy at Virginia (1910-57). | Cornelis de Waal | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v46, Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v31, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Baraka, Amiri Imamu (LeRoi Jones) | 1934- | Poet, music critic, and social critic in New York City and New Jersey. | Mary Ellen Poole | Comp Amer Thought |
| Barbour, Ian Graeme | 1923- | Prof. Religion and Science at Carleton College (1956-86). | Joseph Bracken | |
| Barnes, Albert Coombs | 1872-1951 | Director of Barnes Foundation (founded 1922). | Shelley Cordulack | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio |
| Barnes, Hazel Estella | 1915-2008 | Prof. Philosophy at Toledo (1948-52), Colorado (1953-86). | Martin Woessner | Women Phils |
| Barrett, William | 1913-1992 | Editor of Partisan Review, Prof. Philosophy at New York University (1950-79). | Martin Woessner | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Proc of APA v66 |
| Bartley, William Warren, III | 1934-1990 | Prof. Philosophy at UC San Diego (1964-67), Pittsburgh (1967-73), California State University at Haywood (1970-89). | John Shook | |
| Barwise, Kenneth Jon | 1941-2000 | Prof. Mathematics at Wisconsin (1970-79), Stanford (1979-90), Prof. Philosophy, Computer Science, and Mathematics at Indiana (1990-2000). | Thomas Drucker | |
| Bascom, John | 1827-1911 | Prof. Rhetoric and Oratory at Williams College in Massachusetts (1852-54, 1855-74), President and Prof. Philosophy at Wisconsin (1874-87), Prof. Sociology and Political Science at Williams College (1888-1903). | David Davis | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v8, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Bateson, Gregory | 1904-1980 | Ethnologist and cyberneticist in California. | Paul Ryan | Amer Nat Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio |
| Bawden, Henry Heath | 1871-1950 | Prof. Philosophy at Vassar College (1901-07), Cincinnati (1907-08). | John Shook | |
| Baylis, Charles Augustus | 1902-1975 | Prof. Philosophy at Brown (1927-49), Maryland (1949-52), Duke (1952-70). | Irving Anellis and John Shook | Proc of APA v49, Who Was Who in Amer v7, Who's Who in Phil |
| Beardsley, Monroe Curtis | 1915-1985 | Prof. Philosophy at Swarthmore (1947-69), Temple (1969-81). | Ron Moore | Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v8, Proc of APA v59 |
| Beattie, Francis Robert | 1848-1906 | Prof. Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky (1893-1906). | John Shook | Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v21, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Beaven, James | 1801-1875 | Prof. Divinity and Philosophy at King’s College in Toronto (1843-1851), Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1851-71). | John Shook | Canad Encyc, Dict Canad Bio |
| Beck, Lewis White | 1914-1997 | Prof. Philosophy at Delaware (1941-48), Rochester (1949-79). | Guy Stroh | Pres Addr of APA v8, Proc of APA v71, Who's Who in Phil |
| Becker, Carl Lotus | 1873-1945 | Prof. History at Kansas (1902-1916), Cornell (1917-41). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v33, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Bedau, Hugo Adam | 1926- | Prof. Philosophy at Tufts (1966-99). | James Castagnera | |
| Beecher, Catherine Esther | 1800-1878 | Schoolmaster and writer in Connecticut, Ohio, Wisconsin, and New York. | Mary Ellen Waithe | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought |
| Beecher, Henry Ward | 1813-1887 | Liberal Congregational Minister in New York City (1847-87). | Barry Hankins | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v3 |
| Bell, Daniel | 1919- | Prof. Sociology at Columbia (1959-80), Harvard (1980-90). | Philip Walsh | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought |
| Bellah, Robert Neelly | 1927- | Prof. Sociology at Harvard (1957-67), UC Berkeley (1967-97). | Richard Wood | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Bellamy, Edward | 1850-1898 | Socialist author in Massachusetts. | Jean Van Delinder | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v1 |
| Belnap, Nuel Dinsmore, Jr. | 1930- | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1960-63), Pittsburgh (1963- ). | Greg Restall | |
| Benacerraf, Paul Joseph Salomon | 1931- | Prof. Philosophy at Princeton (1960- ). | Reinaldo Elugardo | |
| Benedict, Ruth Fulton | 1887-1948 | Prof. Anthropology at Columbia (1931-48). | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Encyc Relig, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v36, Who Was Who in Amer v2, Who's Who in Phil |
| Benjamin, Abram Cornelius | 1897-1968 | Prof. Philosophy at Illinois (1923-32), Chicago (1932-45), Missouri (1945-66). | Irving Anellis | Pres Addr of APA v5, Proc of APA v42, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bennett, John Coleman | 1902-1995 | Prof. Christian Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary (1940s-63). President at Union (1963-70). | Glenn Bucher | Amer Nat Bio |
| Bennett, Jonathan Francis | 1930- | Lecturer in Philosophy at Cambridge (1956-68), Simon Fraser University (1968-70), University of British Columbia (1970-79), Syracuse University (1979-97). | Samuel Levey | Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v9 |
| Bentley, Arthur Fisher | 1870-1957 | Independent social scientist in Chicago and Indiana. | Irving Anellis and John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v3 |
| Berenson, Bernard | 1865-1959 | Writer and critic in Italy (1907-59). | Shelley Cordulack | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v48, Who Was Who in Amer v3 |
| Berger, Peter Ludwig | 1929- | Prof. Sociology at Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (1956-58), Prof. Social Ethics at Hartford Theological Seminary (1958-63), Prof. Sociology at New School for Social Research, Rutgers, Boston College. Prof. Sociology and Theology at Boston University (1981-2002). | Robert Fuller | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Bergmann, Gustav | 1906-1987 | Prof. Philosophy at Iowa (1940-74). | Irving Anellis | Amer Nat Bio, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v7, Proc of APA v61 |
| Berkson, Isaac Baer | 1881-1975 | Prof. Philosophy of Education at City University of New York (1938-61). | Gerald Sorin | Amer Nat Bio |
| Berleant, Arnold | 1932- | Prof. Philosophy at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University (1962-92). | Larry Shiner | |
| Bernstein, Richard Jacob | 1932- | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1959-65), Haverford (1966-89), New School for Social Research (1989- ). | Brendan Hogan | Comp Amer Thought, Pres Addr of APA v9 |
| Berry, Wendell Erdman | 1934- | Prof. English at Kentucky (1964-77, 1987-93). | John Shook | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Bertalanffy, Karl Ludwig Von | 1901-1972 | Prof. Zoology at University of Vienna (1939-48), Prof. Biology at McGill University in Montreal (1949-52), Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1954-58), Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas (1958-61), Prof. Theoretical Biology at University of Alberta (1961-69), State University of New York at Buffalo (1969-72). | John Shook | Dict Economics, Who Was Who in Amer v6 |
| Bertocci, Peter Anthony | 1910-1989 | Prof. Psychology and Philosophy at Bates College (1935-44), Prof. Philosophy at Boston University (1944-75). | Mark Davies | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils 1950-2000, Proc of APA v63, Who's Who in Phil |
| Birkhoff, Garrett | 1911-1996 | Prof. Mathematics at Harvard (1936-81). | Irving Anellis | |
| Bixby, James Thompson | 1843-1921 | Unitarian Minister, Prof. Religious Philosophy at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania (1878-81), Minister in New York City (1887-1903). | John Shook | Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v11, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Bixler, Julius Seelye | 1894-1985 | Prof. Religion at Smith College in Massachusetts (1924-33), Harvard Divinity School (1933-42). President of Colby College in Maine (1942-60). | Jon Taylor | Amer Nat Bio, Proc of APA v59, Who Was Who in Amer v8, Who's Who in Phil |
| Black, Max | 1909-1988 | Prof. Philosophy at University of Illinois (1940-46), Cornell (1946-1977). | David Schrader | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v64, Who Was Who in Amer v9, Who's Who in Phil |
| Black Elk | 1863-1950 | Lakota medicine man in South Dakota. | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Relig |
| Blackstone, William Thomas | 1931-1977 | Prof. Philosophy at Georgia (1961-77). | Charles Frantz | Proc of APA v51 |
| Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown | 1825-1921 | Unitarian Minister and feminist in New York and New Jersey. | Cicily Vahadji | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v29, Who Was Who in Amer v1, Women Phils |
| Blanshard, Brand | 1892-1987 | Prof. Philosophy at Michigan (1921-25), Swarthmore College (1925-45), Yale (1945-61). | F. Michael Walsh | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils 1950-2000, Bio 20thC Phils, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v5, Proc of APA v64, Who Was Who in Amer v9, Who's Who in Phil |
| Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna | 1831-1891 | Co-founder of Theosophical movement in Europe, India, and United States. | K. Paul Johnson | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Encyc Relig, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v15 |
| Blau, Joseph Leon | 1909-1986 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1944-63), Prof. Religion at Columbia (1963-77). | John Howie | Amer Nat Bio |
| Bledsoe, Albert Taylor | 1809-1877 | Methodist Minister, Prof. Mathematics and Astronomy at Mississippi (1848-54), Prof. Mathematics at Virginia (1854-61). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v8 |
| Blewett, George John | 1873-1912 | Prof. Theology at Wesley College in Winnipeg (1901-06), Prof. Ethics and Apologetics at Toronto (1906-12). | John Shook | Canad Encyc, Dict Canad Bio |
| Blood, Benjamin Paul | 1832-1919 | Independent writer in upstate New York. | John Shook | Dict Amer Bio |
| Bloom, Allan David | 1930-1992 | Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Chicago (1955-62), Prof. Political Science at Yale (1962-63), Prof. Government at Cornell (1963-70), Prof. Political Science (1970-79), Prof. Political Philosophy at Chicago (1979-92). | Robert Slater | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Bloomfield, Leonard | 1887-1949 | Prof. Comparative Philology and German at Illinois (1914-1921), Prof. German and Linguistics at Ohio State University (1921-27), Prof. German Philology at Chicago (1927-40), Prof. Linguistics at Yale (1940-49). | Daniel Blair | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Cog Sci, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Who Was Who in Amer v2, Who's Who in Phil |
| Blow, Susan Elizabeth | 1843-1916 | Schoolteacher and writer in St. Louis and New York. | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio |
| Blumer, Herbert George | 1900-1987 | Prof. Sociology at Chicago (1928-52), UC Berkeley (1952-67). | Jack Weller | Amer Nat Bio |
| Boas, Franz | 1858-1942 | Prof. Anthropology at Columbia (1899-1942). | Jason Jackson | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Encyc Relig, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v12, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Boas, George | 1891-1980 | Prof. Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University (1921-57). | John Shook | Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v53, Who Was Who in Amer v7, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bode, Boyd Henry | 1873-1953 | Prof. Philosophy at Wisconsin (1900-10), Illinois (1910-21), Prof. Education at Ohio State (1921-44). | Joseph Chambliss | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA v26, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bohm, David Joseph | 1917-1992 | Prof. Physics at Princeton (1946-50), University of São Paulo in Brazil (1951-55), University of London (1961-87). | Jeffrey Barrett | Bio 20thC Phils |
| Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (Zitkala Sa) | 1876-1938 | Sioux author and activist in Utah and Washington, D.C. | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Boodin, John Elof | 1869-1950 | Prof. Philosophy at Kansas (1904-12), Carleton College in Minnesota (1913-27), UC Los Angeles (1929-39). | Randy Auxier | Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA v24, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Boolos, George Stephen | 1940-1996 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1966-69), MIT (1969-96). | David Hunter | Who Was Who in Amer v11 |
| Boring, Edwin Garrigues | 1886-1968 | Prof. Psychology at Clark University (1919-21), Harvard (1921-57). | Andrew Winston | Amer Nat Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Who Was Who v5 |
| Borowitz, Eugene Bernard | 1924- | Prof. Education and Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City (1962- ). | S. Daniel Breslauer | |
| Bourne, Randolph Silliman | 1886-1918 | Independent philosopher and social critic in New York City. | Stephen Barnes | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Bousma, Oets Kolk | 1898-1978 | Prof. Philosophy at Nebraska (1928-66), Texas (1966-74). | Kelley Dean Jolley | Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v6, Proc of APA v52, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bowen, Francis | 1811-1890 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1853-89). | Cornelis de Waal | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v11 |
| Bowman, Archibald Allan | 1883-1936 | Lecturer in Philosophy at Glasgow University in Scotland (1906-12), Prof. Philosophy at Princeton (1912-26), Prof. Philosophy at Glasgow (1926-36). | Robert Calder | Proc of APA in Phil Rev v46 |
| Bowne, Borden Parker | 1847-1910 | Prof. Philosophy at Boston University (1877-1910). | Randy Auxier | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils Before 1950, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v11, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Brackett, Anna Callendar | 1836-1911 | Teacher in St. Louis and New York. | Dorothy Rogers | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v11, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Bradwell, Myra Colby | 1831-1894 | Newspaper publisher and lawyer in Chicago. | Robin Effron | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v2 |
| Brameld, Theodore Burghard Hurt | 1904-1987 | Prof. Philosophy at Long Island University (1931-35), Adelphi College (1935-39), Prof. Educational Philosophy at Minnesota (1939-47), New York University (1947-58), Boston University (1958-69). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Proc of APA v61, Who's Who in Phil |
| Brandeis, Louis Dembitz | 1856-1941 | Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39). | Philippa Strum | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v36, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Brandt, Richard Booker | 1910-1997 | Prof. Philosophy at Swarthmore College (1937-64), Michigan (1964-81). | Elinor Mason | Bio 20thC Phils, Encyc Ethics, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v7, Proc of APA v71, Who Was Who in Amer v12, Who's Who in Phil |
| Braybrooke, David | 1924- | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1956-63), Prof. Philosophy and Politics at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (1963-88), Prof. Philosophy and Government at Texas (1990- ). | Guy Stroh | Bio 20thC Phils |
| Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston | 1866-1948 | Dean of Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (1907-29), Prof. Public Welfare Administration at Chicago (1930-42). | Catherine Coghlan | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Economics, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v37, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Brett, George Sidney | 1879-1944 | Prof. Philosophy and Psychology at Toronto (1909-44). | John Slater | Bio Dict Psych by Zusne, Bio 20thC Phils, Canad Encyc, Encyc Psych, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v55, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bridgman, Percy Williams | 1882-1961 | Prof. Physics at Harvard (1910-54). | Randy Dipert | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v48, Oxford Comp Phil, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who Was Who in Amer v4, Who's Who in Phil |
| Briggs, Charles Augustus | 1841-1913 | Prof. Languages and Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1874-90), Prof. Theology at Union (1890-1913). | Marvin Shaw | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v7, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Brightman, Edgar Sheffield | 1884-1953 | Prof. Philosophy at Boston University (1919-53). | Mark Davies | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils Before 1950, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v41, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v4, Proc of APA v27, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Brodbeck, May Selznick | 1917-1983 | Prof. Philosophy at Minnesota (1947-74), Iowa (1974-83). | Laird Addis | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v8, Proc of APA v57, Who Was Who in Amer v8, Women Phils |
| Brogan, Albert Perley | 1889-1983 | Prof. Philosophy at Texas (1914-63). | John Shook | Proc of APA v57, Pres Addr of APA v4, Who Was Who in Amer v8, Who’s Who in Phil |
| Brokmeyer, Henry Conrad | 1828-1906 | Independent scholar and politician in Missouri (1850s-1906). | Michael DeArmey | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v4 |
| Bromberger, Sylvain | 1924- | Prof. Philosophy at Chicago (1961-66), MIT (1967-93). | Leonard Clapp | |
| Brotherston, Bruce Wallace | 1877-1947 | Prof. Philosophy at St. Lawrence University (1923-30), Tufts (1930-44). | Cornelis de Waal | Proc of APA in Phil Rev v58, Who's Who in Phil |
| Brown, Harold Chapman | 1879-1943 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1905-13), Stanford (1913-43). | Irving Anellis and John Shook | Pres Addr of APA v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Brown, William Adams | 1865-1943 | Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1892-1936). | Jennifer Jesse | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v2, Who's Who in Phil |
| Brownell, Baker | 1887-1965 | Prof. Contemporary Thought at Northwestern (1925-47), Prof. Philosophy (1947-53). | James Poteet | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v51, Who Was Who in Amer v1, Who's Who in Phil |
| Browning, Grayson Douglas | 1929- | Prof. Philosophy at University of Miami (1958-69), Texas (1969-99). | Gregory Pappas | |
| Brownson, Orestes Augustus | 1803-1876 | Independent theologian, philosopher, and author. | Gregory Butler | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v7, Oxford Comp Phil |
| Brumbaugh, Robert Sherrick | 1918-1992 | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1951-88). | John Shook | |
| Brunswik, Egon | 1903-1955 | Prof. Psychology at Vienna (1934-37), UC Berkeley (1937-55). | Elke Kurz-Milcke | Bio Dict Psych by Zusne, Encyc Psych |
| Bryant, William McKendree | 1843-1919 | Schoolteacher and independent scholar in St. Louis (1873-1912). | Michael DeArmey | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v5, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Buchanan, James McGill | 1919- | Prof. Economics at Virginia (1956-69), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969-83), George Mason University (1983- ). | Chris Coyne and Peter Boettke | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio |
| Buchler, Justus | 1914-1991 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1942-71), SUNY Stony Brook (1971-81). | Kathleen Wallace | Amer Phils 1950-2000, Bio 20thC Phils, Blackwell Amer Phil, Oxford Comp Phil, Proc of APA v65, Who Was Who in Amer v10, Who's Who in Phil |
| Buckham, John Wright | 1864-1945 | Prof. Theology at Pacific School of Religion (1903-37). | Gary Dorrien | Amer Nat Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v2, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bugbee, Henry Greenwood, Jr. | 1915-1999 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1948-54), Montana (1957-77). | Edward Mooney | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v35, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Bunge, Mario Augusto | 1919- | Prof. Philosophy at Universidad de Buenos Aires (1957-62), McGill University in Montréal (1966- ). | John Shook | |
| Burgess, John William | 1844-1931 | Prof. History, Political Science, and International Law at Columbia (1876-1912). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v23, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Burke, Kenneth Duva | 1897-1993 | Literary and music critic in New York City (1920s-1943), Lecturer in Literary Criticism at Bennington College in Vermont (1943-61). | Charles Edgely | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Who Was Who in Amer v11 |
| Burks, Arthur Walter | 1915-2008 | Prof. Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science at Michigan (1946-86). | Alice Burks | Pres Addr of APA v8, Who's Who in Phil |
| Burtt, Edwin Arthur | 1892-1989 | Prof. Philosophy at Chicago (1923-31), Cornell (1932-60). | James Marcum | Bio 20thC Phils, Pres Addr of APA v7, Proc of APA v64, Who Was Who in Amer v9, Who's Who in Phil |
| Bush, Wendell Ter | 1866-1941 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1905-38). | Cornelis de Waal | Proc of APA in Phil Rev v51 & 55, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Bushnell, Horace | 1802-1876 | Congregational Minister in Connecticut (1833-76). | Roger Ward | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Encyc Relig, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v8 |
| Bussey, Gertrude Carman | 1888-1961 | Prof. Philosophy at Goucher College in Maryland (1915-53). | John Shook | Nat Cycl Amer Bio v49, Who Was Who in Amer v4, Women Phils |
| Butchvarov, Panayot Krustev | 1933- | Prof. Philosophy at Syracuse (1959-68), Iowa (1968- ). | Denny Bradshaw | Pres Addr of APA v10 |
| Butler, Nicholas Murray | 1862-1947 | Prof. Philosophy, Ethics, and Pedagogy at Columbia (1889-90), Dean of Faculty of Philosophy (1890-1902), President of Columbia (1902-45). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v34, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v57, Who Was Who in Amer v2, Who's Who in Phil |
| Cabot, Ella Lyman | 1866-1934 | Teacher and writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Therese Dykeman | Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Cabot, James Elliot | 1821-1903 | Independent scholar and editor in Boston. | David Hodge | |
| Cage, John Milton, Jr. | 1912-1992 | Composer in New York City (1942-92). | Mary Ellen Poole | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v10 |
| Cailliet, Émile | 1894-1981 | Prof. French Literature and Civilization at Pennsylvania (1927-31, 1941-46), Scripps College and Claremont Graduate School in California (1931-41), Prof. French Literature and Philosophy at Wesleyan University (1946-59), Prof. Christian Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary (1960-81). | James Poteet | Who's Who in Phil |
| Caldwell, William | 1863-1942 | Prof. Philosophy at Northwestern (1895-1903), McGill (1903-33). | John Shook | Who Was Who in Amer v3 |
| Calkins, Mary Whiton | 1863-1930 | Prof. Psychology at Wellesley College (1890-1929). | Dana Noelle | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils Before 1950, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v13, Pres Addr of APA v2, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v40, Who Was Who in Amer v1, Women Phils |
| Calvert, George Henry | 1803-1889 | Independent scholar in Newport, Rhode Island (1843-89). | Joshua Shaw | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v5 |
| Campbell, Donald Thomas | 1916-1996 | Prof. Psychology at Northwestern (1953-79), Syracuse (1979-82), Lehigh University in Pennsylvania (1982-94). | John Shook | Bio Dict Psych, Encyc Psych, Encyc Social Behav Sci, Who Was Who in Amer v11 |
| Campbell, Joseph | 1904-1987 | Prof. Literature at Sarah Lawrence College (1933-72). | Jonathan Young | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v9 |
| Capek, Milic | 1909-1997 | Prof. Philosophy at Carleton College in Minnesota (1948-62), Boston University (1962-74). | David Sipfle | Proc of APA v71 |
| Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan | 1870-1938 | Judge on N.Y. Court of Appeals (1917-32), Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1932-38). | Bin Liang | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v27, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Carnap, Rudolf | 1891-1970 | Prof. Philosophy at University of Vienna (1926-31), German University in Prague (1931-35), Chicago (1936-52), UC Los Angeles (1954-61). | Andre Carus | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils Before 1950, Bio 20thC Phils, Blackwell Analytic Phil, Blackwell Comp Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Proc of APA v44, Who Was Who in Amer v5, Who's Who in Phil |
| Carr, Harvey A | 1873-1954 | Prof. Psychology at Chicago (1908-38). | John Shook | Bio Dict Psych by Zusne, Encyc Psych, Who Was Who in Amer v3 |
| Carr, Herbert Wildon | 1857-1931 | Prof. Philosophy at University of London (1918-31), University of Southern California (1925-31). | John Shook | Pres Addr of APA v3, Proc of APA in Phil Rev v41, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Carson, Rachel Louise | 1907-1964 | Biologist at U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (1937-52). | Charles Frantz | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v51, Who Was Who in Amer v4 |
| Cartwright, Richard Lee | 1925- | Prof. Philosophy at Wayne State (1961-67), MIT (1967-94). | Robert Stainton | |
| Carus, Paul | 1852-1919 | Independent philosopher and editor in La Salle, Illinois (1887-1919). | Harold Henderson and A.W. Carus | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v14, Proc of APA v26, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Case, Shirley Jackson | 1872-1947 | Prof. New Testament and Church History at Chicago (1908-38). Prof. Religion and Dean at Florida Southern College (1940-47). | Jennifer Jesse | Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v36, Who Was Who in Amer v2 |
| Castañeda, Hector-Neri | 1924-1991 | Prof. Philosophy at Wayne State (1957-69), Indiana (1969-91). | William Rappaport | Pres Addr of APA v8, Proc of APA v65, Who Was Who in Amer v10 |
| Cattell, James McKeen | 1860-1944 | Prof. Psychology at Pennsylvania (1889-91), Columbia (1891-1917). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Bio Dict Psych, Bio Dict Psych by Zusne, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Psych, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v13 |
| Cavell, Stanley Louis | 1926- | Prof. Philosophy at UC Berkeley (1956-62), Harvard (1963-97). | Terry Brino-Dean | Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v10, Routledge Encycl Phil |
| Chan, Wing-tsit | 1901-1994 | Prof. Philosophy at Lingnan University in Chinese (1929-36), Hawaii (1936-42), Dartmouth (1942-66), Chatham College in Pennsylvania (1966-82), Visiting Prof. Chinese Thought at Columbia (1966-1980s). | Irene Bloom | Who's Who in Phil |
| Chappell, Vere Claiborn | 1930- | Prof. Philosophy at Chicago (1957-70), University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1970- ). | David Schrader | |
| Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale | 1824-1904 | Teacher, writer, and social activist in Massachusetts. | Therese Dykeman | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v9, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Chief Joseph (Hin-mut-too-uah-lat-kekht) | c.1840-1904 | Chief of the Nez Perce (1871-1904). | William Guthrie | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio |
| Child, Lydia Maria Francis | 1802-1880 | Abolitionist and writer in Massachusetts. | Terrance McMullan | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v2 |
| Childs, John Lawrence | 1889-1985 | Prof. Education at Columbia Teachers College (1939-1954). | Lawrence Dennis | Who Was Who in Amer v8, Who's Who in Phil |
| Chisholm, Roderick Milton | 1916-1999 | Prof. Philosophy at Brown (1947-87). | Richard Feldman | Bio 20thC Phils, Blackwell Analytic Phil, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v7, Proc of APA v72, Routledge Encycl Phil |
| Cho, Kah Kyung | 1927- | Prof. Philosophy at SUNY Buffalo (1970- ). | Nam-In Lee | |
| Chomsky, Avram Noam | 1928- | Prof. Linguistics at MIT (1955- ). | Zoltan Szabo | Bio 20thC Phil, Blackwell Analytic Phil, Blackwell Comp Phils, Comp Amer Thought, Encyc Amer Bio, Oxford Comp Phil, Routledge Encycl Phil |
| Church, Alonzo | 1903-1995 | Prof. Mathematics at Princeton (1929-67), Prof. Philosophy and Mathematics at UC Los Angeles (1967-90). | Thomas Drucker | Amer Nat Bio, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Oxford Comp Phil, Pres Addr of APA v8, Routledge Encycl Phil, Who Was Who in Amer v12, Who's Who in Phil |
| Churchland, Paul Montgomery | 1942- | Prof. Philosophy at Manitoba (1969-84), UC San Diego (1984- ). | Tim Schroeder | Bio 20thC Phils, Oxford Comp Phil |
| Churchman, Charles West | 1913-2004 | Prof. Philosophy at Pennsylvania (1937-48), Wayne State University (1948-51), Prof. Engineering Administration at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland (1951-57), Prof. Business Administration at UC Berkeley (1957-81). | Irving Anellis | Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Who's Who in Phil |
| Clark, Gordon Haddon | 1902-1985 | Prof. Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois (1937-43), Butler University in Indiana (1945-73). | Mark Cox | Who's Who in Phil |
| Clark, John Bates | 1847-1938 | Prof. Economics at Carlton College in Minnesota (1877-81), Smith College in Massachusetts (1881-95), Columbia University (1895-1923). | Robert Prasch | Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Economics, Encyc Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v13, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Clark, Romane Lewis | 1925- | Prof. Philosophy at Duke (1953-70), Indiana (1970-90). | J. Christopher Maloney | |
| Clarke, William Newton | 1841-1912 | Baptist Minister, Prof. Christian Theology at Colgate Seminary in New York (1890-1912). | Henry Bowden | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v22, Who Was Who in Amer v1 |
| Clarke, William Norris | 1915- | Prof. Philosophy at Fordham (1955-85). | Joseph Koterski | |
| Cobb, John Boswell, Jr. | 1925- | Prof. Religion at Young Harris College (1950-53), Prof. Theology at Emory (1953-58), Claremont School of Theology and Graduate School (1958-90). | Paul Custodio Bube | |
| Coe, George Albert | 1862-1951 | Prof. Philosophy at Northwestern (1891-1909), Prof. Theology and Religious Education at Union Theological Seminary (1909-22), Prof. Religious Education at Columbia University Teachers College (1922-27). | John Shook | Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Who Was Who in Amer v3 |
| Coffin, Henry Sloane | 1877-1954 | Presbyterian Minister in New York City (1905-26), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1904-26), President of Union Theological Seminary (1926-45). | Mark Elliot | Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v55, Who Was Who in Amer v3, Who's Who in Phil |
| Cohen, Isodor Bernard | 1914-2003 | Instructor in Physics at Harvard (1942-47), Prof. History of Science at Harvard (1947-84). | Joseph Dauben | |
| Cohen, Morris Raphael | 1880-1947 | Prof. Philosophy at City College of New York (1912-38), Chicago (1938-42). | C. J. Delaney | Amer Nat Bio, Amer Phils Before 1950, Bio 20thC Phils, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Comp Amer Thought, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio v40, Pres Addr of APA v3, Proc of APA in Phil Re |