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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
638 thinkers
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638 thinkers
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Jorge E. Hirsch
Physicist who proposed the h-index as a citation-based measure of research output.
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Jorge E. Hirsch
Physicist who proposed the h-index as a citation-based measure of research output.
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Joseph A Page
Scholar of Brazilian and Latin American political development.
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Joseph A Page
Scholar of Brazilian and Latin American political development.
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Joseph Henrich
Anthropologist and evolutionary theorist of cultural evolution, collective brains, and how societies scale cooperation differently.
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Joseph Henrich
Anthropologist and evolutionary theorist of cultural evolution, collective brains, and how societies scale cooperation differently.
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Joseph J. Ellis
Historian of Washington's character, temperament, and the making of presidential authority.
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Joseph J. Ellis
Historian of Washington's character, temperament, and the making of presidential authority.
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Joseph LeDoux
Neuroscientist of fear, memory, and the circuits that turn threat signals into conscious experience.
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Joseph LeDoux
Neuroscientist of fear, memory, and the circuits that turn threat signals into conscious experience.
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Judith Butler
Philosopher of gender performativity, precarity, and how norms shape livable lives.
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Judith Butler
Philosopher of gender performativity, precarity, and how norms shape livable lives.
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Judith M. Brown
Historian of Gandhi's political rise and the tensions between moral hope and power-building.
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Judith M. Brown
Historian of Gandhi's political rise and the tensions between moral hope and power-building.
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Judith Shklar
Political theorist of liberalism of fear, cruelty, and putting avoidance of atrocity first.
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Judith Shklar
Political theorist of liberalism of fear, cruelty, and putting avoidance of atrocity first.
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Jürgen Habermas
Philosopher of communicative action, public sphere, and legitimacy through discursive justification.
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Jürgen Habermas
Philosopher of communicative action, public sphere, and legitimacy through discursive justification.
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Justin Yifu Lin
Economist analyzing China's household responsibility system and agricultural reform incentives.
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Justin Yifu Lin
Economist analyzing China's household responsibility system and agricultural reform incentives.
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K. E Løgstrup
Danish philosopher and theologian of sovereign expressions of life, trust, and indirect communication.
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K. E Løgstrup
Danish philosopher and theologian of sovereign expressions of life, trust, and indirect communication.
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Karen M. Douglas
Social psychologist studying conspiracy theories, rumor, and motivated belief in online and offline communities.
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Karen M. Douglas
Social psychologist studying conspiracy theories, rumor, and motivated belief in online and offline communities.
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Karina Dikert
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Karina Dikert
Software engineering researchers on large-scale agile adoption and coordination across sites.
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Karl E Weick
Organizational theorist of sensemaking—how people enact and retrospectively rationalize meaning under ambiguity.
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Karl E Weick
Organizational theorist of sensemaking—how people enact and retrospectively rationalize meaning under ambiguity.
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Karl Jaspers
Philosopher of Axial Age, existential communication, and limits of totalizing ideologies.
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Karl Jaspers
Philosopher of Axial Age, existential communication, and limits of totalizing ideologies.
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Karl Polanyi
Economic historian of the Great Transformation—how markets get embedded in social relations and what happens when they are not.
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Karl Polanyi
Economic historian of the Great Transformation—how markets get embedded in social relations and what happens when they are not.
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Karl R Popper
Philosopher of falsification, open society, and critique of historicist certainty.
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Karl R Popper
Philosopher of falsification, open society, and critique of historicist certainty.
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Kate Connolly
Guardian correspondent covering Merkel's COVID messaging and the contested legacy of her Russia policy.
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Kate Connolly
Guardian correspondent covering Merkel's COVID messaging and the contested legacy of her Russia policy.
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Kate Crawford
Scholar of AI politics, Atlas of AI, and material supply chains behind machine intelligence.
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Kate Crawford
Scholar of AI politics, Atlas of AI, and material supply chains behind machine intelligence.
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Kate Xiao Zhou
Political scientist of Chinese farmers' quiet power in reshaping reform from below.
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Kate Xiao Zhou
Political scientist of Chinese farmers' quiet power in reshaping reform from below.
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Kathleen Thelen
Political scientist of gradual institutional change, skill formation, and varieties of capitalism.
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Kathleen Thelen
Political scientist of gradual institutional change, skill formation, and varieties of capitalism.
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Kati Marton
Journalist and biographer of Angela Merkel and chronicler of political leadership under pressure.
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Kati Marton
Journalist and biographer of Angela Merkel and chronicler of political leadership under pressure.
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Kelly D. Brownell
Public-health scholar comparing tobacco industry playbooks to later food and product campaigns that harm at scale.
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Kelly D. Brownell
Public-health scholar comparing tobacco industry playbooks to later food and product campaigns that harm at scale.
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Kelly Lowe
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.
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Kelly Lowe
Leadership scholars of followership theory and how followers shape organizational authority.