David Frederick Bowers (20 October 1906, Pittsburg – 17 July 1945, Springfield, Massachusetts) was a philosophy professor, noteworthy as a Guggenheim Fellow. Bowers graduated from Capital University with A.B. in 1929 and from Princeton University with A.M. in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1932. In Princeton University's philosophy department, he was an instructor from 1934 to 1938 and an assistant professor beginning in 1938. He was also an instructor at Harvard University and Radcliffe College in 1938.