Ok all you Americans, why are there no good American philosophers who in the same league as all those German/French philosophers?

Ok so they might have had a few hundred years start in terms of culture/sophistication/being civilised and sure, you've still some way to go in that regard but you should have least produced one by now..
Post a pic of a famous (not modern though, I should have mentioned not modern) and you will get

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and if you tell me his name too (because it's probably going to be a guy) you will get a upvote/generally positive seeming emoticon thingy).

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Dan193 · 31-35, M

I guess they were doers, not thinkers

LeeInTheNorthWoods · 70-79, F

@Dan193 Doesn't it seems like many people look at American philosophers as social or political theorists because their works/tenets have direct application to politics and education? I'm thinking of the Founding Fathers and guys like Emerson, Dewey, and William James. They may not spend too much energy discussing the nature of existence, but they are serious philosophers, nonetheless.

Dan193 · 31-35, M

@LeeInTheNorthWoods yeah, I was thinking of them too actually. They were actually practical, not just empty words.