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Philosophers, social scientists, and institutions — grouped as people and organizations rather than individual bibliographic works.
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Terryl L Givens
Scholar of Mormon thought, scripture, and the theological imagination of Latter-day Saint community life.
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Terryl L Givens
Scholar of Mormon thought, scripture, and the theological imagination of Latter-day Saint community life.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Religious institution whose texts, governance, and community practices shape a distinct moral and interpretive world.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Religious institution whose texts, governance, and community practices shape a distinct moral and interpretive world.
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Theodore M Porter
Historian of quantification, audit culture, and trust in numbers in modern governance.
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Theodore M Porter
Historian of quantification, audit culture, and trust in numbers in modern governance.
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Thomas C Schelling
Economist and strategist of micromotives, coordination games, and how expectations shape collective outcomes.
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Thomas C Schelling
Economist and strategist of micromotives, coordination games, and how expectations shape collective outcomes.
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Thomas Carlyle
Nineteenth-century essayist whose hero-worship lectures framed great-person theories of history.
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Thomas Carlyle
Nineteenth-century essayist whose hero-worship lectures framed great-person theories of history.
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Thomas F O'Dea
Sociologist of Mormonism; authority, cooperation, and sources of internal strain.
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Thomas F O'Dea
Sociologist of Mormonism; authority, cooperation, and sources of internal strain.
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Thomas Luckmann
Sociologists of the social construction of reality—how institutions sediment everyday knowledge into taken-for-granted worlds.
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Thomas Luckmann
Sociologists of the social construction of reality—how institutions sediment everyday knowledge into taken-for-granted worlds.
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Thomas P. Slaughter
Historian of the Whiskey Rebellion as frontier conflict with federal authority.
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Thomas P. Slaughter
Historian of the Whiskey Rebellion as frontier conflict with federal authority.
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Thomas S Kuhn
Historian and philosopher of scientific paradigms, normal science, and revolutionary shifts in what counts as evidence.
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Thomas S Kuhn
Historian and philosopher of scientific paradigms, normal science, and revolutionary shifts in what counts as evidence.
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Tim Reiterman
Journalist and chronicler of the Peoples Temple tragedy—how charismatic authority can override moral alarm.
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Tim Reiterman
Journalist and chronicler of the Peoples Temple tragedy—how charismatic authority can override moral alarm.
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Tim Wu
Legal scholar of attention, media concentration, and how platforms capture the economics of information.
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Tim Wu
Legal scholar of attention, media concentration, and how platforms capture the economics of information.
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Timnit Gebru
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.
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Timnit Gebru
AI ethics researchers documenting bias in large language models and harms of opaque training data.
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Timothy Brook
Historian of the military suppression of Beijing's 1989 democracy movement.
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Timothy Brook
Historian of the military suppression of Beijing's 1989 democracy movement.
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Timothy Garton Ash
Witness-historian of 1989's Central European revolutions and the improvisation of post-authoritarian politics.
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Timothy Garton Ash
Witness-historian of 1989's Central European revolutions and the improvisation of post-authoritarian politics.
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Timothy Lister
Consultants and authors on software risk, estimation, and people problems in technology projects.
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Timothy Lister
Consultants and authors on software risk, estimation, and people problems in technology projects.
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Timothy R. Lister
Authors on software team dynamics, flow, and the human sources of project risk.
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Timothy R. Lister
Authors on software team dynamics, flow, and the human sources of project risk.
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Timur Kuran
Economist of preference falsification—how public silence distorts perceived consensus and enables sudden reversals.
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Timur Kuran
Economist of preference falsification—how public silence distorts perceived consensus and enables sudden reversals.
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Tom DeMarco
Authors on software team dynamics, flow, and the human sources of project risk.
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Tom DeMarco
Authors on software team dynamics, flow, and the human sources of project risk.
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Tom Standage
Technology historian comparing the Victorian telegraph to modern internet social dynamics.
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Tom Standage
Technology historian comparing the Victorian telegraph to modern internet social dynamics.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
South African commission that investigated apartheid-era abuses and published a multi-volume final report.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
South African commission that investigated apartheid-era abuses and published a multi-volume final report.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. federal statistical agency publishing CPI, employment, and labor-market indicators.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. federal statistical agency publishing CPI, employment, and labor-market indicators.
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U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. federal statistical agency publishing housing, demographic, and community survey data.
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U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. federal statistical agency publishing housing, demographic, and community survey data.
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U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. DoD standard defining software development lifecycle requirements for defense systems.
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U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. DoD standard defining software development lifecycle requirements for defense systems.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. environmental regulator whose Clean Diesel notices exposed emissions cheating as compliance theater.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. environmental regulator whose Clean Diesel notices exposed emissions cheating as compliance theater.