So who is the greatest american philosopher ever

i asked /his this question

figured i would ask you guys?

C.S Peirce

William James
>or Melville

Sellars or Rorty although no one will agree with the latter. James and Peirce are also good options though

Thoreau.

/thread

walt whitman. any other answer is objectively wrong

Donald Trump

this

though i have to admit that he and any other american philosopher just can´t compete with the germans

Peirce is responsible for the only original philosophical system to come out of america

if were talking about analytics than sellars or quine are good

lol

I don't know much about Peirce, what were his main accomplishments, anyone?

Joseph smith

Jordan Peterson

W.E.B Dubois

OP said American not Dindu/African spawn.

>tfw the greatest American philosopher was actually British

even then Dubois wasn't really a philosopher

Sam Harris

lol

No one has mentioned Emerson yet?

Him and Thoreau are the only American philosophers worth a damn.

tfw you realize there is none
How in which has the gods blessed the Americans with no worthwhile philosophers
There seems to be a string through here of which this occurs
In which the number defaults to 0 in the nonpositive sense
but for what true reason?

John Rawls?

David Lewis.

Too many to think of a definitive answer.

those 2 and the 3 pragmatists

what are david lewis big contributions?

Counterfactuals/On the Plurality of Worlds

Lewis and Kripke are by far the most significant American philosophers as the field of philosophy stands today.

Americans are not thoughtful people.

Anglos in general have difficulty seeing beyond the pragmatic

our politics is the ultimate proof of this.

our greatest political philisopher is edmund burke which says it all frankly.

For all the wrong reasons.

Q U I N E

Lol. Someone sucks at math and therefore can't logic.