Drew M. Dalton is an American philosopher and a professor of English at Indiana University.

In ethics, Dalton argues that the pursuit of an absolute good inevitably leads to evil.

"[5] In metaphysics, Dalton argues for the idea of a "naturalized" or "material" absolute deducible from the conclusions of contemporary scientific research, specifically work in contemporary thermodynamic astrophysics and biophysics on the function and nature of entropic decay over and within existence.

"[6] In aesthetics, Dalton extends the conclusions of philosophical pessimism to champion an "aesthetics of escape," which justifies the indulgence in any artistic object that might effectively distract us from what he calls the "horror of reality," a conclusion he draws from his metaphysics.

[7] Dalton draws extensively from phenomenology, psychoanalysis, speculative materialism, philosophical pessimism, and German idealism.