So who is the greatest american philosopher ever

C.S Peirce

William James
>or Melville

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>>9718216
Sellars or Rorty although no one will agree with the latter. James and Peirce are also good options though

Thoreau.

>>9718229
/thread

>>9718216
walt whitman. any other answer is objectively wrong

Donald Trump

>>9718229
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

>>9718428
lol

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

>>9718216
Joseph smith

Jordan Peterson

W.E.B Dubois

>>9719270
OP said American not Dindu/African spawn.

>tfw the greatest American philosopher was actually British

>>9719304
even then Dubois wasn't really a philosopher

Sam Harris

>>9720334
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.

>>9721048
those 2 and the 3 pragmatists

>>9722389
what are david lewis big contributions?

>>9723027
Counterfactuals/On the Plurality of Worlds

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

>>9721069
Americans are not thoughtful people.

>>9723103
Anglos in general have difficulty seeing beyond the pragmatic

>>9723123

our politics is the ultimate proof of this.

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

>>9723083
For all the wrong reasons.

>>9718216
Q U I N E

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>>9723158
Lol. Someone sucks at math and therefore can't logic.