Ricardo Forster (born 26 September 1957) is an Argentine philosopher, historian of ideas and political critic. He is professor and researcher at Universidad de Buenos Aires and University of Maryland. He is also member of the editorial board of magazine. Along with Horacio Verbitsky, and others created Espacio Carta Abierta ("Open Letter Spot"), a propagandistic group in defense of the Kirchner government, in 2008, after an attempt to raise taxes on agricultural exports led to large street protests.