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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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638 thinkers
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Guy Deutscher
Linguist and writer on how language shapes thought, color, and the habits of attention cultures train into perception.
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Guy Deutscher
Linguist and writer on how language shapes thought, color, and the habits of attention cultures train into perception.
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H. C. Darby
Historical geographer of Domesday England and the Norman survey's territorial vision.
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H. C. Darby
Historical geographer of Domesday England and the Norman survey's territorial vision.
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H. P Grice
Philosopher of language whose cooperative maxims underpin pragmatic inference and conversational implicature.
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H. P Grice
Philosopher of language whose cooperative maxims underpin pragmatic inference and conversational implicature.
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Hal Daumé III
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Hal Daumé III
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Hanna Wallach
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Hanna Wallach
AI ethics researchers documenting dataset documentation practices and harms of opaque training data governance.
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Hannah Arendt
Political theorist whose work helps frame authority, judgment, responsibility, violence, and public action.
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Hannah Arendt
Political theorist whose work helps frame authority, judgment, responsibility, violence, and public action.
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Hans J. Nissen
Near Eastern archaeologist reconstructing archaic administration and early writing from clay accounts.
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Hans J. Nissen
Near Eastern archaeologist reconstructing archaic administration and early writing from clay accounts.
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Hartmut Rosa
Sociologist of social acceleration, resonance, and alienation in late-modern temporal experience.
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Hartmut Rosa
Sociologist of social acceleration, resonance, and alienation in late-modern temporal experience.
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Helena Barke
Software researchers studying developer experience, flow interruption, and productivity measurement limits.
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Helena Barke
Software researchers studying developer experience, flow interruption, and productivity measurement limits.
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Henri Tajfel
Social psychologists who developed social identity theory and self-categorization—ingroup favoritism and boundary formation.
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Henri Tajfel
Social psychologists who developed social identity theory and self-categorization—ingroup favoritism and boundary formation.
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Henry Petroski
Engineer-historian of design failure, success through error, and how artifacts teach by breaking.
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Henry Petroski
Engineer-historian of design failure, success through error, and how artifacts teach by breaking.
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Henry W. Riecken
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Henry W. Riecken
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Herbert A Simon
Nobel laureate in economics; bounded rationality, satisficing, and administrative behavior in organizations.
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Herbert A Simon
Nobel laureate in economics; bounded rationality, satisficing, and administrative behavior in organizations.
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Herbert H Clark
Psycholinguist of common ground, coordination in dialogue, and how speakers manage shared understanding.
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Herbert H Clark
Psycholinguist of common ground, coordination in dialogue, and how speakers manage shared understanding.
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Hew Strachan
Military historian of the First World War's strategic and social transformation.
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Hew Strachan
Military historian of the First World War's strategic and social transformation.
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Hilary Putnam
Philosopher of meaning, realism, and the collapse of fact-value dichotomies in pragmatic inquiry.
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Hilary Putnam
Philosopher of meaning, realism, and the collapse of fact-value dichotomies in pragmatic inquiry.
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Howard Schneider
Reuters Fed reporter covering Powell's soft-landing language and forecast caveats.
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Howard Schneider
Reuters Fed reporter covering Powell's soft-landing language and forecast caveats.
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Ian Hacking
Philosopher of historical ontology, looping effects, and how classifications make up people.
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Ian Hacking
Philosopher of historical ontology, looping effects, and how classifications make up people.
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Ian Hodder
Archaeologist of Çatalhöyük and theorist of human-thing entanglement over deep time.
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Ian Hodder
Archaeologist of Çatalhöyük and theorist of human-thing entanglement over deep time.
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Ian Kershaw
Historian of Nazi Germany, Hitler, and how ordinary institutions enabled radical evil.
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Ian Kershaw
Historian of Nazi Germany, Hitler, and how ordinary institutions enabled radical evil.
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Ian R. Bartky
Historian of standard time's adoption and the coordination of clocks across distance.
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Ian R. Bartky
Historian of standard time's adoption and the coordination of clocks across distance.
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Indiana University Athletics
University athletic department whose records and statements frame Bob Knight's competitive legacy and later rupture.
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Indiana University Athletics
University athletic department whose records and statements frame Bob Knight's competitive legacy and later rupture.
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Indra Nooyi
Former PepsiCo CEO whose memoir reframes corporate leadership through work, family, and stakeholder pressure.
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Indra Nooyi
Former PepsiCo CEO whose memoir reframes corporate leadership through work, family, and stakeholder pressure.
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Inioluwa Deborah Raji
AI accountability researcher on auditing, model documentation, and algorithmic harms in deployed systems.
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Inioluwa Deborah Raji
AI accountability researcher on auditing, model documentation, and algorithmic harms in deployed systems.