Philosopher Graves & Memorials

Alexander Bryan Johnson

1786–1867 (age 81)

Forest Hill Cemetery

Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786-1867) was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery.

Laurens Perseus Hickok

1798–1888 (age 90)

Bethel

Laurens Perseus Hickok was an American philosopher and theologian from Danbury.

Lysander Spooner

1808–1887 (age 79)

Forest Hills Cemetery

Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, legal theorist, and abolitionist.

Charles Sanders Peirce

1839–1914 (age 75)

Milford Cemetery

Charles Sanders Peirce was a Cambridge-based philosopher and logician who lived from 1839 to 1914.

Charles Augustus Strong

1862–1940 (age 78)

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Charles Augustus Strong (1862-1940) was a Haverhill-born philosopher and psychologist.

Ernst Cassirer

1874–1945 (age 71)

Cedar Park Cemetery

Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher and intellectual historian who made significant contributions to philosophy and ...

Hans Reichenbach

1891–1953 (age 62)

Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery

Hans Reichenbach was an influential German philosopher of science from Hamburg who lived from 1891 to 1953.

William Ernest Hocking

1873–1966 (age 93)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

William Ernest Hocking was an American idealist philosopher known for his work in metaphysics and philosophy of religion...

Clarence Irving Lewis

1883–1964 (age 81)

Elmwood Cemetery

Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964) was an American philosopher from Stoneham known for his work in logic and epistemology...

Grace de Laguna

1878–1978 (age 100)

Greensboro Village Cemetery

Grace de Laguna (1878-1978) was an American philosopher and logician who made significant contributions to symbolic logi...

Hannah Arendt

1906–1975 (age 69)

Bard College Cemetery

Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist and philosopher who lived from 1906 to 1975.

Josiah Royce

1855–1916 (age 61)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was an American philosopher celebrated for his work on idealism and the idea of the community...

Felix Adler

1851–1933 (age 82)

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Felix Adler (1851-1933), born in Alzey, was an American philosopher and ethicist who founded the Society for Ethical Cul...

Ralph Barton Perry

1876–1957 (age 81)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was an American philosopher and educator who taught at Harvard and is interred at Mount A...

Simon Rawidowicz

1896–1957 (age 61)

Sharon Memorial Park

Simon Rawidowicz (1896–1957), born in Grajewo, was a Jewish philosopher and writer honored with a gravesite at Sharon ...

John Rawls

1921–2002 (age 81)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

John Rawls (1921–2002) was an American philosopher whose work in political liberalism, especially A Theory of Justice,...

Robert Nozick

1938–2002 (age 64)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was an American philosopher best known for his libertarian counterpoint to Rawls in Anarchy,...

John Edwin Smith

1921–2009 (age 88)

Grove Street Cemetery

John Edwin Smith (1921–2009) was an American philosopher and longtime Columbia University dean noted for his work in p...

David Lewis

1941–2001 (age 60)

Princeton Cemetery

David Lewis (1941-2001) was an Oberlin-born American philosopher renowned for his work on modal realism and analytic met...

Avrum Stroll

1921–2013 (age 92)

Philadelphia

Avrum Stroll (1921–2013) is recorded as originating from Oakland and being buried in Philadelphia.

Stanley Cavell

1926–2018 (age 92)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was an influential American philosopher of ordinary language and a longtime Harvard profess...

Gareth B. Matthews

1929–2011 (age 82)

Wildwood Cemetery

Gareth B. Matthews was a philosopher and educator who wrote extensively on the nature of childhood and philosophical edu...

Gustav Teichmüller

1832–1888 (age 56)

Raadi cemetery

Gustav Teichmüller (1832-1888) was a German philosopher born in Brunswick who taught at the University of Dorpat in Est...

Gáspár Miklós Tamás

1948–2023 (age 75)

Farkasréti Cemetery

Gáspár Miklós Tamás (1948-2023) was a Hungarian philosopher and political theorist born in Cluj-Napoca who became on...

Ernest Radlov

1854–1928 (age 74)

Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

Ernest Radlov (1854-1928) was a Russian philosopher and translator from Saint Petersburg buried at the Smolensky Luthera...

Georgy Aleksandrov

1908–1961 (age 53)

Novodevichy Cemetery

Georgy Aleksandrov (1908-1961) was a Soviet philosopher from Saint Petersburg who served as a prominent ideologist and w...

Abram Deborin

1881–1963 (age 82)

Novodevichy Cemetery

Abram Deborin (1881-1963) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher from Kaunas who played a major role in Soviet philosophical d...

Mikhail Iovchuk

1908–1990 (age 82)

Vvedenskoye Cemetery

Mikhail Iovchuk (1908-1990) was a Soviet philosopher from Belarus who specialized in Marxist-Leninist philosophy and was...

Antoine Destutt de Tracy

1754–1836 (age 82)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

French Enlightenment philosopher and economist who developed the ideology of 'Ideology' and served as a senator under Na...

Auguste Comte

1798–1857 (age 59)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who founded positivism and is considered the father of sociology.

Victor Delbos

1862–1916 (age 54)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Victor Delbos (1862-1916) was a French philosopher from Figeac known for his work on Spinoza and Bergson.

Nikolay Lossky

1870–1965 (age 95)

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery

Nikolay Lossky (1870-1965) was a Russian philosopher who developed intuitivism and lived in exile in France after fleein...

Jean-François Lyotard

1924–1998 (age 74)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was a French philosopher from Versailles known for his work on postmodernism who was ...

Jacqueline Russ

1934–1999 (age 65)

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Jacqueline Russ (1934-1999) was a French philosopher and author born in Algeria, known for her works on philosophy and e...