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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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Sidney Dekker
Safety scientist advocating just culture, human factors, and learning from failure without scapegoating.
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Sidney Dekker
Safety scientist advocating just culture, human factors, and learning from failure without scapegoating.
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Sidney Fine
Labor historian of the 1936–37 General Motors sit-down strike and industrial democracy.
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Sidney Fine
Labor historian of the 1936–37 General Motors sit-down strike and industrial democracy.
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Simone Wu
Researcher contributing to model cards and transparency practices in machine learning.
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Simone Wu
Researcher contributing to model cards and transparency practices in machine learning.
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South African History Online
Public history project documenting South Africa's democracy transition and related civic milestones.
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South African History Online
Public history project documenting South Africa's democracy transition and related civic milestones.
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Spencer Ball
AI researcher on holistic evaluation frameworks for large language models.
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Spencer Ball
AI researcher on holistic evaluation frameworks for large language models.
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Stafford Beer
Cybernetician of viable systems, organizational recursion, and managing complexity through feedback design.
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Stafford Beer
Cybernetician of viable systems, organizational recursion, and managing complexity through feedback design.
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Stanley Milgram
Social psychologist whose obedience experiments showed how ordinary people defer to authority even against conscience.
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Stanley Milgram
Social psychologist whose obedience experiments showed how ordinary people defer to authority even against conscience.
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Stanley Schachter
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Stanley Schachter
Social psychologists who studied cognitive dissonance in a doomsday cult when prophecy failed.
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Stefan H Thomke
Scholar of experimentation in innovation—how organizations learn through disciplined trial at scale.
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Stefan H Thomke
Scholar of experimentation in innovation—how organizations learn through disciplined trial at scale.
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Stephen E. Margolis
Economists who challenged path-dependence myths like QWERTY—debating lock-in and market correction.
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Stephen E. Margolis
Economists who challenged path-dependence myths like QWERTY—debating lock-in and market correction.
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Stephen Kotkin
Historian of Soviet power, Stalinism, and how revolutionary regimes build administrative terror and loyalty.
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Stephen Kotkin
Historian of Soviet power, Stalinism, and how revolutionary regimes build administrative terror and loyalty.
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Steve Mellor
Software engineer and methodologist associated with model-driven development, executable models, and Shlaer-Mellor analysis.
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Steve Mellor
Software engineer and methodologist associated with model-driven development, executable models, and Shlaer-Mellor analysis.
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Steve Wyche
NFL.com reporter who first published Kaepernick's explanation for sitting during the anthem.
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Steve Wyche
NFL.com reporter who first published Kaepernick's explanation for sitting during the anthem.
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Steven Englund
Historian of Hollywood politics documenting persecution and accommodation under blacklist pressure.
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Steven Englund
Historian of Hollywood politics documenting persecution and accommodation under blacklist pressure.
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Steven Johnson
Writer on innovation networks, emergent ideas, and how environments cultivate unexpected combinations.
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Steven Johnson
Writer on innovation networks, emergent ideas, and how environments cultivate unexpected combinations.
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Stillman Drake
Galileo translator and interpreter making early scientific writings available for modern argument.
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Stillman Drake
Galileo translator and interpreter making early scientific writings available for modern argument.
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Stuart A. Wright
Sociologist and editor of scholarship on the Branch Davidian conflict and religious violence.
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Stuart A. Wright
Sociologist and editor of scholarship on the Branch Davidian conflict and religious violence.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
U.S. federal agency publishing behavioral health data, treatment guidelines, and population-level mental health surveys.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
U.S. federal agency publishing behavioral health data, treatment guidelines, and population-level mental health surveys.
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Sundar Pichai
Google CEO whose congressional testimony defended platform policies under competition and speech pressure.
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Sundar Pichai
Google CEO whose congressional testimony defended platform policies under competition and speech pressure.
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Susan Leigh Star
Science studies scholars of boundary objects—artifacts that coordinate work across communities with different stakes.
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Susan Leigh Star
Science studies scholars of boundary objects—artifacts that coordinate work across communities with different stakes.
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Susan Raine
Scholar studying NXIVM and how high-control groups promise reinvention while extracting loyalty and secrecy.
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Susan Raine
Scholar studying NXIVM and how high-control groups promise reinvention while extracting loyalty and secrecy.
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Suzanne Staggenborg
Sociologist of social movements, coalition dynamics, and how collective action sustains or fragments over time.
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Suzanne Staggenborg
Sociologist of social movements, coalition dynamics, and how collective action sustains or fragments over time.
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Svend Brinkmann
Psychologist and critic of therapeutic culture, acceleration, and the demand to constantly optimize the self.
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Svend Brinkmann
Psychologist and critic of therapeutic culture, acceleration, and the demand to constantly optimize the self.
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Taylor Branch
Narrative historian of America in the King years across three landmark volumes.
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Taylor Branch
Narrative historian of America in the King years across three landmark volumes.