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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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Anna C. Merritt
Psychologist of moral self-licensing—how prior good acts can free later harmful ones.
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Anna C. Merritt
Psychologist of moral self-licensing—how prior good acts can free later harmful ones.
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Anna Tavis
Management researcher on performance management revolutions and continuous evaluation at work.
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Anna Tavis
Management researcher on performance management revolutions and continuous evaluation at work.
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Annette C Baier
Philosopher of trust, moral sentiment, and relational ethics beyond contract and suspicion.
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Annette C Baier
Philosopher of trust, moral sentiment, and relational ethics beyond contract and suspicion.
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Annibale Fantoli
Historian of Galileo's conflict with the Church, attentive to cosmology, obedience, and institutional fear.
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Annibale Fantoli
Historian of Galileo's conflict with the Church, attentive to cosmology, obedience, and institutional fear.
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Anselm Strauss
Sociologists of ecologies of knowledge—how information infrastructures connect actors across institutional silos.
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Anselm Strauss
Sociologists of ecologies of knowledge—how information infrastructures connect actors across institutional silos.
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Anthony Giddens
Sociologist of structuration, modernity, and how agency and structure co-produce social life.
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Anthony Giddens
Sociologist of structuration, modernity, and how agency and structure co-produce social life.
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Anthony Pagden
Intellectual historian of early European debates over Indigenous humanity and natural law.
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Anthony Pagden
Intellectual historian of early European debates over Indigenous humanity and natural law.
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Anthony Sampson
Journalist-biographer of Mandela who balances authorized access with political context.
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Anthony Sampson
Journalist-biographer of Mandela who balances authorized access with political context.
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Anupama Rao
Historian of caste and modern India, attentive to how Dalit politics renegotiate modernity's promises of equality.
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Anupama Rao
Historian of caste and modern India, attentive to how Dalit politics renegotiate modernity's promises of equality.
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Anya Chen
AI researcher contributing to holistic language-model evaluation and empirical safety assessment.
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Anya Chen
AI researcher contributing to holistic language-model evaluation and empirical safety assessment.
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Arie van Bennekum
Agile transformation consultant and Integrated Agile representative among the manifesto authors.
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Arie van Bennekum
Agile transformation consultant and Integrated Agile representative among the manifesto authors.
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Arie W Kruglanski
Social psychologist of motivated cognition, need for closure, and how certainty-seeking shapes belief under uncertainty.
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Arie W Kruglanski
Social psychologist of motivated cognition, need for closure, and how certainty-seeking shapes belief under uncertainty.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
Sociologist of emotion labor, feeling rules, and how service work commercializes human expression.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
Sociologist of emotion labor, feeling rules, and how service work commercializes human expression.
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Arthur Lupia
Political scientist of civic information and whether limited citizens can still learn what they need.
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Arthur Lupia
Political scientist of civic information and whether limited citizens can still learn what they need.
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Ashley Parker
Washington Post journalist and co-author on Donald Trump and the erosion of shared factual reference in American politics.
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Ashley Parker
Washington Post journalist and co-author on Donald Trump and the erosion of shared factual reference in American politics.
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Ashwin Desai
Historian reassessing Gandhi's South African years against empire, race hierarchy, and caste comforts.
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Ashwin Desai
Historian reassessing Gandhi's South African years against empire, race hierarchy, and caste comforts.
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Associated Press
Global wire service whose event reporting supplies contemporaneous public facts for leadership and spectacle arguments.
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Associated Press
Global wire service whose event reporting supplies contemporaneous public facts for leadership and spectacle arguments.
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Atul Gawande
Surgeon-writer on checklists, systems improvement, and reducing harm through disciplined routine.
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Atul Gawande
Surgeon-writer on checklists, systems improvement, and reducing harm through disciplined routine.
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Austen Henry Layard
Nineteenth-century excavator of Nineveh and Babylon whose finds entered Western biblical imagination.
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Austen Henry Layard
Nineteenth-century excavator of Nineveh and Babylon whose finds entered Western biblical imagination.
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B. R. Ambedkar
Jurist and Dalit leader who challenged Gandhi's and Congress's terms for untouchability and political recognition.
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B. R. Ambedkar
Jurist and Dalit leader who challenged Gandhi's and Congress's terms for untouchability and political recognition.
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B. R. Nanda
Biographer of Gandhi attentive to the making of a moral and political life across India and South Africa.
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B. R. Nanda
Biographer of Gandhi attentive to the making of a moral and political life across India and South Africa.
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Barbara Mellers
Psychologist studying judgment, forecasting accuracy, and the cultivation of superforecasters.
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Barbara Mellers
Psychologist studying judgment, forecasting accuracy, and the cultivation of superforecasters.
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Barbara Ransby
Historian of Ella Baker and radical democratic organizing in the Black freedom movement.
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Barbara Ransby
Historian of Ella Baker and radical democratic organizing in the Black freedom movement.
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Barbara W Tuchman
Historian of folly, misgovernment, and how capable leaders persist in policies against evidence.
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Barbara W Tuchman
Historian of folly, misgovernment, and how capable leaders persist in policies against evidence.