Top 100 Living Intellectuals

(rough draft) List of living intellectuals, sorted by birth date… not by influence. I may or may not agree with the the philosophic or political views of these people… that was not the point of the list.

1. Bernard Lewis ,Scholar, 31-May-1916 Middle East scholar
2. Robert A. Scalapino ,Scholar, 1919 Longtime Asia scholar at Berkeley
3. Mary Midgley ,Philosopher, 13-Sep-1919, /Beast and Man/
4. Fred Sommers ,Philosopher, 1-Jan-1923 /The Logic of Natural Language/
5. Paul Kurtz ,Philosopher, 21-Dec-1925, The pope of unbelievers
6. J. I. Packer ,Religion, 22-Jul-1926 Biblical scholar
7. Hilary Putnam ,Philosopher, 31-Jul-1926 Philosophy of Mind
8. Stanley Cavell, Philosopher, 1-Sep-1926, Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard
9. Noam Chomsky, Linguist, dissident intellectual 7-Dec-1928
10. Robert Faurisson ,Scholar, 25-Jan-1929 French Holocaust denier
11. Jürgen Habermas ,Philosopher, 18-Jun-1929, /The Theory of Communicative Action/
12. Walter Dean Burnham ,Scholar, 1930 /Democracy in the Making/
13. Harold Bloom ,Critic, 11-Jul-1930 Literary critic, Yale professor
14. Ronald Steel ,Scholar, 1931 /Pax Americana/
15. James Q. Wilson ,Scholar, 27-May-1931 /The Moral Sense/
16. Charles Taylor ,Philosopher, 5-Nov-1931 /Sources of the Self/
17. Ronald Dworkin ,Philosopher, 11-Dec-1931 /Taking Rights Seriously/
18. Umberto Eco ,Author, 5-Jan-1932 /Foucault’s Pendulum/, /The Name of the Rose/
19. John Searle ,Philosopher, Dec-1932 Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language
20. Leonard Peikoff ,Philosopher, 1933 Proseletyzer of objectivism
21. Leonard P. Liggio ,Scholar, 5-Jul-1933 Libertarian
22. Stephan Thernstrom ,Scholar, 1934 Neoconservative thinker
23. Sissela Bok ,Scholar, 2-Dec-1934 Ethicist
24. Frederick S. Humphries ,Business, c. 1935 Former President, Florida A&M University
25. Michael Walzer ,Philosopher, 3-Mar-1935 Just and Unjust Wars
26. Ralph Estes ,Scholar, c. 1936 /Tyranny of the Bottom Line/
27. Gianni Vattimo ,Philosopher, 1936 Postmodern philosopher
28. Keith Lehrer ,Philosopher, 10-Jan-1936 /Metamind/
29. Ian Hacking ,Philosopher, 18-Feb-1936, /The Taming of Chance/
30. Leonard Jeffries ,Scholar, 19-Jan-1937 Controversial blackademic
31. Thomas Nagel ,Philosopher, 4-Jul-1937 /What is it like to be a bat?/
32. Mary Frances Berry ,Government, 17-Feb-1938 Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004
33. Stanley Fish ,Scholar, 19-Apr-1938 Deconstructionist literary critic
34. Richard Posner ,Judge, 11-Jan-1939 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
35. Benjamin Barber ,Scholar, 2-Aug-1939 /Jihad vs. McWorld/
36. Henry Flynt ,Musician, 1940, Violin composer turned philosopher
37. Graham T. Allison ,Scholar, 23-Mar-1940, Kennedy School of Government
38. Nan Keohane ,Scholar, 18-Sep-1940 Political scientist
39. Richard Dawkins ,Biologist, 26-Mar-1941, Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
40. Julia Kristeva ,Philosopher, 24-Jun-1941, Psychoanalyst, linguistic philsopher
41. Gayatri Spivak ,Scholar, 24-Feb-1942 Postcolonialist theorist, /Can the Subaltern Speak?/
42. John McDowell ,Philosopher, 7-Mar-1942, /Mind and World/
43. Daniel C. Dennett ,Philosopher, 28-Mar-1942, Leading Darwinist and philosopher
44. Richard A. Epstein ,Scholar, 17-Apr-1943 /Takings/
45. Bruce Ackerman ,Scholar, 19-Aug-1943 /We the People/
46. Stephen P. Cohen ,Scholar, c. 1946 Foreign policy analyst
47. Mark Noll ,Historian, 1946 Christian historian
48. Kathleen Hall Jamieson ,Scholar, 1946 Annenberg Public Policy Center
49. Tyler Burge, Philosopher, 1946, /Foundations of Mind/
50. Jean-Luc Marion ,Philosopher, 3-Jul-1946, Phenomenologist, /God Without Being/
51. Peter Singer ,Philosopher, 6-Jul-1946 /Animal Liberation/
52. Michael Porter ,Scholar, 1947 /Competitive Strategy/
53. Martha Nussbaum ,Philosopher, 6-May-1947 /The Fragility of Goodness/
54. Bernard-Henri Lévy ,Author, 5-Nov-1948 /Who Killed Daniel Pearl?/
55. Slavoj Žižek ,Philosopher, 21-Mar-1949 Lacan theorist, intellectual rockstar
56. Rachel Maines ,Scholar, 8-Jul-1950 /The Technology of Orgasm/
57. Patricia J. Williams ,Scholar, 28-Aug-1951 /The Alchemy of Race and Rights/
58. Douglas W. Kmiec ,Scholar, 24-Sep-1951 Constitutional scholar
59. James K. Galbraith ,Scholar, c. 1952 Economics Professor at UT-Austin
60. David M. Halperin ,Scholar, 2-Apr-1952 /One Hundred Years of Homosexuality/
61. Jonathan D. Moreno ,Scholar, 11-Jun-1952 /Undue Risk/
62. Erwin Chemerinsky ,Scholar, 14-May-1953 Legal Scholar
63. Cynthia P. Schneider ,Scholar, 16-Aug-1953 US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001
64. Norman Finkelstein ,Scholar, 8-Dec-1953 /The Holocaust Industry/
65. Kwame Anthony Appiah , Philosopher, 8-May-1954, /The Ethics of Identity/
66. Steven Pinker ,Linguist, 18-Sep-1954 /The Language Instinct/
67. Cass Sunstein ,Scholar, 21-Sep-1954 /Why Societies Need Dissent/
68. Kathleen Sullivan ,Scholar, 20-Aug-1955 Scholar of constitutional law
69. Charles R. Kesler ,Scholar, c. 1956 Conservative scholar
70. Judith Butler ,Scholar, 24-Feb-1956 /Gender Trouble/
71. Steven Hayward ,Scholar, c. 1958 Conservative environmentalism pundit
72. Michael Eric Dyson ,Scholar, 23-Oct-1958 /Know What I Mean?/
73. Pamela S. Karlan ,Scholar, 1959 Constitutional and legal scholar
74. Ariel Cohen,Scholar, c. 1964 Expert on International Relations
75. Bjørn Lomborg ,Scholar, 6-Jan-1965 /The Skeptical Environmentalist/
76. Kenneth Pollack ,Scholar, 1966 Brookings Institution
77. David Chalmers, Philosopher, 20-Apr-1966, Philosopher of Consciousness
78. Frederick Kagan ,Scholar, c. 1969 Neocon military historian, now at AEI
79. Timothy Levitch ,Actor, 9-Jul-1970 /The Cruise/

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