Well known academics and thinkers

ghulkhan · Jul 31, 2007

A friend of mine and I are trying to build a list of well known academics for a project... This can be living professors that are known for something, book writers, thinkers etc..

Some people on our list include:

Syed Hossain Nasr
Steven Levitt
Malcolm Gladwell
John Nash
Paul Ekman
Daniel Goleman
Alan Dershowitz
Cornel West
John Esposito
Dan Gilbert

...among others to give you an idea

if you can suggest people that would be awesome
they can be academics of pretty much anything

dusty · Jul 31, 2007

Unless you have some other guideline than 'great thinkers', this list will be huge.

LabelKing · Jul 31, 2007

Julia Kristeva
Michel Foucualt
Octave Mirbeau
Noel Chomsky
Umberto Eco
Clement Greenberg

etc.

ghulkhan · Jul 31, 2007

yes it will be

basically pretty well known poeple who are living today and possibly teaching at a university

ghulkhan · Jul 31, 2007

Also I dont know if this makes sense..but people who would be "approachable" someway. Thats why I said possibly teaching at a university.

Some people I myself mentioned fit the bill quite well with the approachability such as Esposito, Nasr, Gilbert, and Levitt

Pennglock · Jul 31, 2007

Some academics:

Harold Bloom
Jeremy Seigel
Albert Ellis
Edward Witten
Alexander Grothendieck

Thomas · Jul 31, 2007

You might like Christopher Hitchens.

ghulkhan · Jul 31, 2007

Originally Posted by Thomas

You might like Christopher Hitchens.

I like him a lot. Thanks!

Thanks to everyone and if you could add more that would be awesome

BankerBoi · Jul 31, 2007

Larry Lessig
Larry Summers
Richard Feynman

The list could be very long.
Maybe try merging&purging with a few speakers bureau's rosters.
http://www.executivespeakers.com/cgi...xec/search.cgi

A list from a great conference with great people (plus Chris Bangle) is at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers .

Kai · Jul 31, 2007

Don't forget Ward Churchill

odoreater · Jul 31, 2007

In the legal world I like Paul Butler. I'd also add Michael Ignatieff.

Arethusa · Jul 31, 2007

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Julia Kristeva Michel Foucualt Octave Mirbeau Noel Chomsky Umberto Eco Clement Greenberg etc.
Noam. I'd add Norman Finkelstein and Rashid Khalidi to that list. Wole Soyinka's kind of awesome, but he's not exactly teaching. This list is really pretty useless without at least the most superficial attempt at narrowing to subject matter, though.

Originally Posted by Kai

Don't forget Ward Churchill
Have you ever actually read anything he's written?

Tyto · Jul 31, 2007

If we're limited to the living, I'd add Richard Posner, William Gibson, Richard Dawkins (though he's getting tiresome), Gary Kasparov.

aybojs · Jul 31, 2007

Originally Posted by ghulkhan

Malcolm Gladwell

I don't see how a two-hit wonder of a pop journalist who only has an undergrad degree fits in a list of great contemporary academics. Seriously, Tipping Point was just a canned and dumbed down restatement of every well-known experiment discussed on a Psych 101 synopsis, not the product of any significant or intensive research or a conduit for any really enlightening new theories.

Arethusa · Jul 31, 2007

Pft. Dawkins < Stephen Jay Gould from beyond the grave.

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