Richard Dien Winfield (born April 7, 1950) is an American philosopher and distinguished research professor of philosophy at the University of Georgia.
[2][3] In both campaigns, Winfield advocated a federal job guarantee social rights agenda, for which he argues at length in his 2020 book, Democracy Unchained.
In 1973 he completed a Magister Artium in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, writing his master's thesis under Dieter Henrich.
His doctoral thesis was The Social Determination of Production: The Critique of Hegel's System of Needs and Marx' Concept of Capital; his advisers were Louis Dupré and Andrzej Rapaczynski.
From 2013 to 2015, Winfield held the elected position of vice-president and then president of the Metaphysical Society of America.