James Hayden Tufts (1862– August 5, 1942),[1] an influential American philosopher, was a professor of the then newly founded Chicago University.
Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago.
The work Ethics in 1908 (with a second edition appearing in 1932) was a collaboration of Tufts and John Dewey.
Tufts believed in a conception of mutual influences which he saw as opposed in both Marxism and idealism.
Tufts was a longstanding chairman of the Department of Philosophy and at one time was the acting president of Chicago University.