(April 1, 1917 – March 9, 1997) was an American Jesuit priest, philosopher and Hegel scholar.
He was known for being a major influence in the introduction of Hegel's thought to the United States.
He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division from 1985-1986, and a President of the Hegel Society of America.
Quentin Lauer was also a scholar of Edmund Husserl.
He was a professor of philosophy at Fordham University from 1954 to 1990.
Important works by Lauer which helped disseminate the ideas of Hegel and Husserl in the United States include: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1977), The Triumph of Subjectivity (1958) and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy (1965).