Does anybody know any good philosophers presently?

Answer 1

me

Answer 2

Hm. That's going to depend on exactly which flavour one wishes to attribute to this question. Most of my favourite philosophers are both rather dead and rather popular, so I suspect you're not asking after this. If you are, perhaps, looking for well-known and respected philosophers who are still alive, there's a fair list that I'll link to below. If you're just inquiring after people I personally know, then we'll have to get into a discussion about what it means to know someone. I don't get out too much, so the list of philosophers I have physically been in the presence of is pretty small indeed, unless you allow arm-chair philosophers which might include nearly anybody...

Answer 3

There are LOADS of good philosophers presently doing very cutting edge philosophy. I'll limit myself to those that are alive or at least just recently passed.

1) in ethics I've found the works of Bernard Williams to be fascinating.
2) John Searle and Thomas Nagel are two good down to earth common sense philosophers in philosophy of mind. Donald Davidson and Strawson had a lot to say as well, but I don't find them as immediately accessible.
3) Hubert Dreyfus talks a lot about AI and philosophy of mind from a non analytic perspective and is very accessible.
4) Alva Noe and Sean Kelly deal with a host of problems in philosophy of perception
5) others: richard rorty, hillary putnam, daniel dennett. Not quite my cup of tea but others seem to like them.

Answer 4

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm

Preface
This book is about philosophy, without, however, being a philosophy book. I did not even wish to continue the line of traditional philosophy. Indeed, I am convinced that it is impossible for anyone to do so today.

The meaning of philosophy is deeply linked to reconciliation. And reconciliation to the world as it is today is no longer possible. Living unreconciled opens the way for rejection. Yet, rejection can never carry out what it implicitly requests: a thorough transformation of life. Without the element of the general, rejection is doomed to certain failure. Only philosophy has been able to develop that generality. On the other hand, mere philosophical knowledge of how to grasp the whole, dies the moment it is faced with a world to which reconciliation is impossible. Today, then, we can neither reject the way we live, nor reconcile ourselves to it. In this book, I confront the two so that they mutually illuminate each other with the hope that, in their combined light we can see our path into the future. ...

Ute Bublitz (1998)

Beyond Philosophy
Reconciliation and Rejection
Three Essays on Aristotle and Hegel

Answer 5

I'm presuming that you are searching for someone who is still alive. Peter Kreeft is a well respected Catholic philosopher. He is a professor at Boston College. If you are interested by Socrates, Aquinas, CS Lewis, then you will definitely be intrigued by Kreeft. I read his book Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing in high school, very insightful.

-Kerplunk288

Answer 6

I fancy myself a philosopher

Answer 7

the user "Small" in this site... and some other great users in this place... but small comes out from the top of my mind, because he is like the leader in "best answers" right now...

And well everyone in here tries to be a good philosopher.. and maybe some of us are, or maybe not.. haha!

Hope that helps!

CHRIS

Answer 8

I liked M.J. Adler. He wrote in an easy to understand way