Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940 – July 12, 2004) was an Italian-American philosopher, critical theorist, intellectual historian, and most notably the founder and long-time editor of the journal TELOS.
He was born in L'Aquila in Italy to a family that emigrated to Rochester, New York in the mid-1950s.
In 1968 he and others started the journal TELOS, which he edited until his death in 2004.
He completed a doctorate in philosophy at SUNY in 1970.