Raziel Abelson was an American academic. He served as Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at New York University and was a proponent of the Ordinary Language School of Philosophy.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Rabbi Alter Abelson and Anna Goldina Schwartz.
He received a M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1950 with the thesis "Bertrand Russell's theory of truth", and a Ph.D. in 1960 from New York University with a thesis "An analysis of the concept of definition, and critique of three traditional philosophical views concerning its role in knowledge."