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Judith Butler (born 1956)
philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, women's rights activist, journalist, art theorist, gender theorist, social scientist
- Yale University
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
philosopher, anthropologist, physicist, librarian, pedagogue, mathematician, philosopher of law
- University of Königsberg, Collegium Fridericianum
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
political scientist, mathematician, philosopher, economist, politician, historian, translator, in-home tutor, philosopher of law
- University of Oxford, University of Oxford
John W. Dower (born 1938)
historian, political scientist
- Amherst College, Harvard University
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University
Julius H. Schoeps (born 1942)
historian of religion, historian, political scientist
Gérard Chaliand (born 1934)
political scientist, orientalist, professor, geostrategist, poet
- Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris Descartes University
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital