American philosophy
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Vinony's link graph records 1,370 inbound references to American philosophy, and connects out to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Age of Enlightenment and Voltaire.
It is catalogued under topics including American literature, American philosophy and Cultural history of the United States.
Vinony links it to 30 Wikipedia language editions.
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- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation". The philosophy of the Founding Fathers of the United States is largely seen as an extension of the European Enlightenment. A small number of philosophies are known as American in origin, namely pragmatism and transcendentalism, with their most prominent proponents being the philosophers William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson respectively.
17th century
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