John Herman Randall Jr. (February 14, 1899 – December 1, 1980) was an American philosopher and educator.
He obtained an A.M. the following year and a PhD in 1922, with a dissertation titled "The Problem of Group Responsibility to Society".
He was influenced by a close group of friends, including James Gutmann, Horace Fries, Herbert Schneider and Irwin Edman.
Cross, Wendell T. Bush, stockbroker Albert Redpath and historian Frank Tannenbaum.
[citation needed] Randall was hired as a philosophy lecturer by Columbia in 1920 and he stayed at the university for the remainder of his career.