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This is a list of Jewish American academics. (Note that scientists are listed on a separate page.)
This page is part of the List of Jewish Americans series.
Philosophers
- Mortimer Adler, philsopher
- Paul Benacerraf, philosopher
- Max Black, analytic philosopher
- Ned Block, philosopher of mind
- George Boolos, logician
- Stanley Cavell, philosopher
- Morris Raphael Cohen, philosopher
- Arthur Danto, philosophy of aesthetics
- Hubert Dreyfus, critic of cognitivism
- Ronald Dworkin, legal philosopher
- Herbert Feigl, philosopher of science
- Solomon Feferman, logician
- Stanley Fish, literary theorist
- Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind
- Philipp Frank, logical positivist
- Nelson Goodman, new riddle of induction
- Sidney Hook, philosopher
- Hans Jonas, philosopher
- Saul Kripke, logician
- Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science
- Ruth Barcan Marcus, logician
- Ernest Nagel, philosopher of science
- Thomas Nagel, philosophy of mind
- Robert Nozick, libertarianism
- Martha Nussbaum, ethics (converted)
- Hilary Putnam, functionalism
- Ayn Rand, objectivism
- Michael Sandel, communitarianism
- Leo Strauss, political philosopher
- Judith Jarvis Thomson, moral philosopher
Social & Political Scientists
- Theodor Adorno, sociologist & philosopher (half Jewish)
- Hannah Arendt, political theorist
- Howard Becker, sociologist
- Daniel Bell, sociologist
- Reinhard Bendix, sociologist
- Sanford Berman, radical librarian
- Peter Blau, sociologist
- Franz Boas, cultural anthropologist
- Kate Bornstein, gender theorist
- Judith Butler, queer theorist
- Lewis A. Coser, sociologist
- Amitai Etzioni, sociologist
- Norman Finkelstein, political theorist
- Mark Granovetter, sociologist
- Marvin Harris, anthropologist
- Lenore Jacobson, experimental sociologist
- Irving Kristol, neoconservative
- Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
- Robert Lowie, anthropologist
- Herbert Marcuse, sociologist, New Left figurehead
- Robert King Merton, sociologist
- Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
- Paul Radin, anthropologist
- David Riesman, sociologist
- Robert Rosenthal, experimental sociologist
- Marshall Sahlins, anthropologist
- David Schneider, cultural anthropologist
- Alfred Schütz, sociologist & philosopher
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, queer theorist
- Louis Wirth, sociologist
- Eric Wolf, anthropologist
- Milford H. Wolpoff, physical anthropologist
Linguists
- Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
- Noam Chomsky, linguist & activist
- Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
- Joseph Greenberg, language classification
- Morris Halle, linguist
- Zellig Harris, structural linguist
- Ray Jackendoff, linguist
- Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
- William Labov, sociolinguist
- George Lakoff, sociolinguist
- Fred Lukoff, linguist
- Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
- Morris Swadesh, linguist
- Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
- Michael Thomas, language teacher
- Max & Uriel Weinreich, linguists
Psychologists
- Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist
- Aaron Beck, cognitive behavior theory
- Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist
- Jerome Bruner, cognitive learning theorist
- Paul Ekman, facial expressions
- Erik Erikson, developmental psychologist
- Leon Festinger, Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
- Erich Fromm, psychologist & humanistic philosopher
- Daniel Kahneman, prospect theory, Nobel Prize (2002)
- Irving Janis, social psychologist
- Jerome Kagan, child psychologist
- Lawrence Kohlberg, developmental psychologist
- Elizabeth Loftus, memory psychologist
- Abraham Maslow, humanistic psychologist
- Stanley Milgram, small world and Milgram experiments
- Walter Mischel, experimental psychologist
- Hugo Munsterberg, industrial psychologist
- Ulric Neisser, cognitive psychologist (half Jewish)
- Anatol Rapoport, mathematical psychologist
- Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapy
- Steven Pinker, psychologist & writer
- Theodor Reik, psychoanalyst
- David Rosenhan, Rosenhan experiment
- Julian Rotter, social psychologist
- Stanley Schachter, social psychologist
- Martin Seligman, Positive psychologist
- Herbert Simon, cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize (1978)
- Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
- David Wechsler, intelligence testing
- George Weinberg, coiner of the word "homophobia"
- Joseph Wolpe, psychiatrist
Economists
- George Akerlof, economist, Nobel Prize (2001)
- Kenneth Arrow, Arrow's impossibility theorem, Clark Medal (1957), Nobel Prize (1972)
- Gary Becker, economist, Clark Medal (1967), Nobel Prize (1992)
- Martin S. Feldstein, economist, Clark Medal (1977)
- Franklin M. Fisher, economist, Clark Medal (1973)
- Robert Fogel, new economic history, Nobel Prize (1993)
- Milton Friedman, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Nobel Prize (1976)
- Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Zvi Griliches, econometrist, Clark Medal (1965)
- Sanford J. Grossman, economics of information, Clark Medal (1987)
- John Harsanyi, game theorist, Nobel Prize (1994)
- Jerry A. Hausman, econometrist, Clark Medal (1985)
- Robert Heilbroner, leftist economist
- Hendrik S. Houthakker, economist, Clark Medal (1963)
- Israel Kirzner, Austrian School economist
- Lawrence Klein, econometric models, Clark Medal (1959), Nobel Prize (1980)
- David M. Kreps, economist, Clark Medal (1989)
- Paul Krugman, economist & journalist, Clark Medal (1991)
- Simon Kuznets, econometrics, Nobel Prize (1971)
- Wassily Leontief, Input-Output method, Nobel Prize (1973) (half Jewish)
- Steven Levitt, economist, Clark Medal (2003)
- Harry Markowitz, economist, Nobel Prize (1990)
- Robert Merton, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997) (half Jewish)
- Merton Miller, economist, Nobel Prize (1990)
- Ludwig von Mises, Austrian School economist
- Franco Modigliani, economist, Nobel Prize (1985)
- Oskar Morgenstern, game theorist
- Marc Leon Nerlove, economist, Clark Medal (1969)
- Matthew Rabin, economist, Clark Medal (2001)
- Murray Rothbard, Austrian School economist
- Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy
- Paul Samuelson, economic analysis, Clark Medal (1947), Nobel Prize (1970)
- Andrei Shleifer, economist, Clark Medal (1999)
- Myron Scholes, Black-Scholes equation, Nobel Prize (1997)
- Robert Solow, economic growth, Clark Medal (1961), Nobel Prize (1987)
- Joseph Stiglitz, economist & author, Clark Medal (1979), Nobel Prize (2001)
- Lawrence Summers, economist, Clark Medal (1993)
- Jacob Viner, economist
Historians
- Herbert Aptheker, Marxist historian
- Bernard Bailyn, historian
- Daniel Boorstin, historian
- Alan Brinkley, historian (half Jewish)
- Norman Cantor, medieval historian
- Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization
- Eric Foner, historian
- Peter Gay, historian
- Oscar Handlin, historian
- Raul Hilberg, holocaust historian
- Richard Hofstadter, historian (half Jewish)
- Gerda Lerner, feminist historian
- Bernard Lewis, historian of Islam
- Deborah Lipstadt, holocaust historian
- Erwin Panofsky, art historian
- Meyer Schapiro, art historian
- Barbara Tuchman, historian
- Howard Zinn, leftist historian
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