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886 thinkers · 459 Iranian · 427 foreign

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Eric Boot

Eric Boot is a philosopher and researcher in the field of applied ethics and law, best known for his research on moral obligations, whistleblowing, and human rights. He has authored valuable articles and books offering philosophical-legal analyses of the boundary between organizational loyalty and the moral responsibilities of citizens.

Philosophy of Ethics and Law1 article

Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel is a contemporary American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He is known for his innovative research at the intersection of philosophy of mind, epistemology, and empirical psychology, particularly his critique of the reliability of introspection and moral intuitions. His works often challenge the unspoken assumptions of analytic philosophy with a lucid, informal tone and bold thought experiments.

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Psychology, Epistemology1 article

Erik Wielenberg

Erik Wielenberg is a contemporary philosopher and professor of philosophy at DePauw University. He is known for his extensive research in the field of moral philosophy, particularly his defense of theistic and non-theistic moral realism and his examination of the relationship between ethics and religion.

Philosophy of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion1 article

Erin Marie Saltman

Erin Marie Saltman is a prominent American researcher and analyst in the field of countering extremism, terrorism, and online radicalization. She has served as the former Director of Counter-Extremism Policy at Meta (Facebook) and as Director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT).

Extremism, International Security, and Human Rights1 article

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer and one of the most influential directors in cinema history. His works are known for their visual precision, technical innovation, and engagement with themes such as violence, power, war, anthropology, and the crisis of meaning in modern humanity.

Filmmaking, directing, and screenwriting1928–1999

Stuart M. Keeley

Stuart M. Keeley is a psychologist, professor emeritus, and researcher in the field of thought assessment. Along with M. Neil Browne, he has made a significant contribution to teaching analytical skills and critical inquiry by co-authoring the reference book "A Guide to Critical Thinking."

Psychology and Critical Thinking1 article

Stephen P. Robbins

Stephen P. Robbins is a professor emeritus of management at San Diego State University and a well-known author of academic textbooks in management and organizational behavior. His works, especially the book "Organizational Behavior," have been taught at many universities and translated into numerous languages.

Management and Organizational Behaviorb. 1943

Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz is an Australian author who gained international fame with his novel *A Fraction of the Whole*. His works are known for their black comedy, labyrinthine narratives, extreme characters, and questions about family, failure, death, and the meaning of life.

Fiction and Black Comedy

Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist and Harvard University professor known for his research on language, the mind, and human nature. He is a prominent advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind, and has gained wide recognition through books such as The Language Instinct and The Blank Slate. Pinker is also known as a public intellectual for his works on the decline of violence and human progress.

Cognitive and evolutionary psychologyb. 19543 articles

Stephen T. Asma

Stephen T. Asma is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. He works in the areas of philosophy of mind, imagination, emotion, religion, science, and culture, and is a co-founder of the "Mind, Science, and Culture" research group at the same university. His work is known for connecting philosophy with cognitive science, evolutionary biology, art, religion, and popular culture.

Philosophy of Mind and Imagination1 article

Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks

Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher and professor of philosophy, best known for his book *Explaining Postmodernism*. In his writings, he defends the Enlightenment tradition, rationalism, individualism, and liberalism, and critiques postmodernism, socialism, and anti-rationalist currents in contemporary philosophy.

Political Philosophy and Critique of Postmodernism1 article

Stephen Walt

Stephen Walt is an American scholar and theorist of international relations and a professor at Harvard University. He is especially known for developing the “balance of threat” theory and for his research on alliances, international security, and U.S. foreign policy. He co-authored the book *The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy* with John Mearsheimer.

International relations and realist theoryb. 1955

Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek, born March 21, 1949, in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian philosopher, social theorist, and cultural critic. His works lie at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, critique of ideology, and popular culture, and have been translated into numerous languages.

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theoryb. 19492 articles

Osho

Osho, whose original name was Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain, was an Indian mystic, speaker, and writer who gained worldwide recognition in the second half of the twentieth century for his spiritual teachings and criticism of religious and social traditions. He founded a spiritual movement emphasizing meditation, individual awareness, and liberation from established mental patterns.

New spirituality and philosophy of life1931–1990

Plato

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the principal founders of the Western philosophical tradition. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he founded the Platonic Academy.

Philosophy427–347 BCE7 articles

Muhammad Iqbal

Mohammad Iqbal Lahori (1877–1938) was a Muslim poet, philosopher, and politician of the Indian subcontinent, known in Pakistan as the "National Poet." He composed a large part of his works in Persian and holds a special place in Iran due to his devotion to Rumi and his Islamic thought.

Philosophy and Literature1877–19385 articles

Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle, born in 1948 in Germany, is a contemporary author and spiritual teacher who gained worldwide fame with his books *The Power of Now* and *A New Earth*. He emphasizes self-awareness, living in the present moment, and liberation from the restless mind.

Spirituality and Self-Helpb. 19481 article

Aleksandr Dugin

Alexander Dugin, born in 1962 in Moscow, is a political philosopher, geopolitical theorist, and one of the well-known figures of Russian Neo-Eurasianism. Through works such as *Foundations of Geopolitics* and *The Fourth Political Theory*, he has critiqued modern liberalism, Western-centric globalization, and the unipolar order.

Political Philosophy and Geopolitics1 article

Alexander Treiger

Alexander Treiger is a scholar of religious studies and a professor at Dalhousie University in Canada. His principal research areas include medieval Arabic philosophy, classical Sufism, Arabic Christian literature, and the transmission of philosophical and theological ideas from the Greek world to Islamic traditions.

Islamic Studies, Islamic Philosophy, and Arabic Christianity

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was an 18th-century German philosopher and the founder of aesthetics as an independent discipline within philosophy. By defining aesthetics as the "science of sensory cognition," he distinguished this field from logic and metaphysics, exerting a significant influence on Kant and subsequent philosophy.

Aesthetics1 article

Alexander Miller

Alexander Miller is a contemporary Scottish philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. He is known in academic circles of analytic philosophy for his outstanding research in metaethics, philosophy of language, and his seminal work, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics.

Metaethics, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Mind1 article

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville was a nineteenth-century French historian, political thinker, and statesman who became one of the most influential analysts of democracy, liberty, and modern society, especially through his book Democracy in America. He examined the relationship between social equality, political freedom, civic institutions, and the dangers of the tyranny of the majority.

Political philosophy, political sociology, history of ideas1805–1859

Elizabeth Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe was a British philosopher and one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Through her works in ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind, especially her essay “Modern Moral Philosophy,” she played an important role in reviving virtue ethics and reexamining Aristotelian thought in contemporary philosophy.

Ethics and philosophy of mind1919–2001

Elliott Sober

Elliott Sober is an American philosopher of science best known for his work in philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, statistical reasoning, and scientific explanation. He is an important figure in contemporary analytic philosophy, and his writings occupy a prominent place at the intersection of philosophy, biology, and scientific methodology.

Philosophy of science and biologyb. 1948

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