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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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Dave Studeman
Baseball writer who chronicled the spread of Moneyball-style analysis into mainstream evaluation.
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Dave Studeman
Baseball writer who chronicled the spread of Moneyball-style analysis into mainstream evaluation.
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Dave Thomas
Programmer, educator, and Pragmatic Programmer co-author known for advocacy of craftsmanship, automation, and developer autonomy.
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Dave Thomas
Programmer, educator, and Pragmatic Programmer co-author known for advocacy of craftsmanship, automation, and developer autonomy.
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David Edgerton
Historian of technology-in-use, shock of the old, and how innovation narratives misread sedimented tools.
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David Edgerton
Historian of technology-in-use, shock of the old, and how innovation narratives misread sedimented tools.
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David Farley
Engineering writers on continuous delivery, deployment pipelines, and reducing release risk.
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David Farley
Engineering writers on continuous delivery, deployment pipelines, and reducing release risk.
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David Graeber
Anthropologist and critic of bureaucracy, debt, and the moral economies embedded in institutions.
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David Graeber
Anthropologist and critic of bureaucracy, debt, and the moral economies embedded in institutions.
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David J Flook
Scholar contributing to Latter-day Saint historical and community studies.
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David J Flook
Scholar contributing to Latter-day Saint historical and community studies.
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David J. Garrow
Historian of King, the SCLC, and the FBI's surveillance campaign against the movement.
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David J. Garrow
Historian of King, the SCLC, and the FBI's surveillance campaign against the movement.
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David N. Keightley
Historian of Shang China using oracle bones as sources for early kingship and divination.
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David N. Keightley
Historian of Shang China using oracle bones as sources for early kingship and divination.
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David P Chandler
Historian of Cambodia, Cold War intervention, and bureaucratic radicalism under the Khmer Rouge.
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David P Chandler
Historian of Cambodia, Cold War intervention, and bureaucratic radicalism under the Khmer Rouge.
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David S Landes
Economic historian of culture, clocks, and the wealth and poverty of nations.
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David S Landes
Economic historian of culture, clocks, and the wealth and poverty of nations.
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David Ussishkin
Biblical archaeologist whose Lachish excavations test text against stratigraphy.
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David Ussishkin
Biblical archaeologist whose Lachish excavations test text against stratigraphy.
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David Wachsmuth
Urban geographer studying Airbnb, short-term rentals, and how platform economies reshape housing markets and neighborhood rent structures.
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David Wachsmuth
Urban geographer studying Airbnb, short-term rentals, and how platform economies reshape housing markets and neighborhood rent structures.
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Deepa Seetharaman
Technology reporter covering platform governance decisions that traded safety against engagement growth.
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Deepa Seetharaman
Technology reporter covering platform governance decisions that traded safety against engagement growth.
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Deepak Kumar
Security researcher studying vulnerabilities in code produced with AI development assistants.
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Deepak Kumar
Security researcher studying vulnerabilities in code produced with AI development assistants.
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Dennis Dalton
Political theorist of Gandhi's nonviolent power as practiced strategy rather than soft idealism.
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Dennis Dalton
Political theorist of Gandhi's nonviolent power as practiced strategy rather than soft idealism.
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Dennis E. Smith
Scholar of early Christian meals and symposium culture as sites of status negotiation and community formation.
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Dennis E. Smith
Scholar of early Christian meals and symposium culture as sites of status negotiation and community formation.
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Dennis F Thompson
Political theorist of democratic accountability, institutional ethics, and responsibility in public life.
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Dennis F Thompson
Political theorist of democratic accountability, institutional ethics, and responsibility in public life.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican bishop and TRC chair who framed forgiveness as public work after political violence.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican bishop and TRC chair who framed forgiveness as public work after political violence.
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Diane McWhorter
Journalist-historian of Birmingham's civil rights battles and the local conflicts that made national confrontation possible.
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Diane McWhorter
Journalist-historian of Birmingham's civil rights battles and the local conflicts that made national confrontation possible.
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Diane Vaughan
Sociologist of the Challenger disaster and normalization of deviance—how risky practices become routine.
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Diane Vaughan
Sociologist of the Challenger disaster and normalization of deviance—how risky practices become routine.
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Dietrich Dörner
Psychologist of complex simulation, Systems Thinking, and how people mismanage coupled systems.
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Dietrich Dörner
Psychologist of complex simulation, Systems Thinking, and how people mismanage coupled systems.
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Donald A Schön
Organizational theorists of double-loop learning and reflective practice in professional work.
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Donald A Schön
Organizational theorists of double-loop learning and reflective practice in professional work.
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Donald L. Shaw
Communication scholars of agenda-setting—media telling people what to think about, not what to think.
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Donald L. Shaw
Communication scholars of agenda-setting—media telling people what to think about, not what to think.
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Donald M Berwick
Physician-leader in quality improvement and patient safety—learning health systems and healthcare redesign.
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Donald M Berwick
Physician-leader in quality improvement and patient safety—learning health systems and healthcare redesign.