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
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)
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
Daniel Wikler '67
John E. Peterman (transferred to University of Wisconsin)
Adina Schwartz '71
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
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
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.