Philosophers from Oberlin College

• George Herbert Mead, 1863

• Willard Van Orman Quine '30, Litt.D. '55

• Maylon Hepp '34, A.M. '36

• Charles M. Sherover '43

• Robert Turnbull, B.D. '43

• William Kennick '45

• Richard Cartwright '45

• Edward H. Madden '46, A.M. '47

• Richard C. Taylor, A.M. '47

• Charles E. Caton '50

• Kendal Cox '51

• Robert H. Hartman '53

• Thomas E. Patton '53

• Frederick Ferre (transferred to BU in 1951)

• Ruth Garrett Millikan '55

• David Sanford (transferred to Wayne State in 1957)

• Lawrence Sklar '58

• David K. Lewis (took classes at Oberlin while in high school)

• Richard Hall '59

• Ronald Giere '60

• Douglas Hosler '62

• Vaughn McKim '63

• Edward F. Mooney '62

• Gene C. Sager '62

• Heffrey Sicha '62

• Peter Woodruff '62

• Dolph E. Ulrich '63

• J. Michael Dunn '63

• Louis F. Goble '64

• Thomas R. Foster '65

• Henry R. Frankel '66

• Richard David Palmer, Jr. '66

• Karen Gervais '66

• Stephen E. Braude '67

• Daniel Wikler '67

• Christopher Boorse '67

• William P. Harman '68

• John E. Peterman (transferred to University of Wisconsin)

• Thomas G. Ricketts '71

• Adina Schwartz '71

• Joseph Rouse '73

• Anita Avramides '74

• Dan Lloyd '75

• Jay Garfield '75

• Dale Jacquette '75

• Marcia Baron '76

• Donald Baxter '76

• John F. Horty '77

• Terry Godlove '77

• Hugh Benson '78

• Geoff Sayre-McCord '79

• Phil Clark '80

• Alisa Carse '81

• Gary Ebbs '81

• Andrew Cross '81

• Ned Markosian '83

• David B. Rehm '83

• George Rainbolt '84

• Ruth Sample '86

• Clark Wolf '86

• Michelle-Kristi V. Switzer '87

• Carol J. Moeller '88

• David Kim '92

• Karen Bennett '93

• Daniel J. Selcer '93

• James Harold '93

• Brad Skow '98

I am not the culmination of a tradition that started with Quine and passed through David Lewis. Note to recent Oberlin graduates: when you get your PhD in philosophy, please send me email.

Many thanks to Dan Merrill for helping to compile this list.