List of Philosophers for term papers:
These are among those living I consider Philosophers even though some may have different "titles". If you have a favorite that is not among these you can always ask to have them included.Links included on some are just to help insure you research the right person. When you decide who you would like to do email me your choice.
In no special order:
Charles Murray
Roger Scruton
Thomas Metzinger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Metzinger
Owen Flanagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Flanagan
Joseph Margolis http://www.cla.temple.edu/philosophy/faculty/joseph-margolis/
Peter Sloterdijk http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113387/peter-sloterdijks-philosophy-gives-reasons-living
Jurgen Habermas http://www.egs.edu/library/juergen-habermas/biography/
Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/
Charles Taylor http://www.thenation.com/article/162667/sentimentality-or-honesty-charles-taylor#
Alister McGrath http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/
Daniel Dennett http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/index.html
Martha Nussbaum http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum/
Hilary Putnam http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/putnam.html
Slavoj Zizek http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/biography/
Alain Badiou http://www.egs.edu/faculty/alain-badiou/biography/
Peter Singer https://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/
David Chalmers http://consc.net/chalmers/
Judith Butler http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/
Fredric Jameson http://literature.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=812&subpage=profile
A.C. Grayling http://www.acgrayling.com/
Anthony Kenny http://www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node/1239
Philip Kitcher http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/philip-kitcher
Frances Fukuyama http://fukuyama.stanford.edu/
Steven Pinker http://stevenpinker.com/
Mary Warnock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Warnock,_Baroness_Warnock
Cornel West http://www.cornelwest.com/
Douglas Hofstadter http://www.soic.indiana.edu/people/profiles/hofstadter-douglas.shtml
Susan Haack
Tariq Ramadan
Reza Aslan
Bernard-Henri Levy
Patricia Churchland
Paul Churchland
Richard Dawkins
Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
Alvin Carl Plantinga
Hans Kung
Alasdair MacIntyre
No longer living but still relatively recent philosophers
Umberto Eco
Peter Berger
Michel Foucault
Edward Said
Vine Deloria Jr.
C. S. Lewis
Richard Rorty
John Rawls
Robert Nozick
Ronald Dworkin
Hans-Georg Gadamer