public intellectual

A public intellectual is a thinker who engages broad audiences by applying specialized knowledge and critical analysis to contemporary social, political, or cultural issues in accessible, influential ways.

Aliases (9)

• philosopher ×314
• legal scholar ×57
• intellectual ×25
• social critic ×14
• cognitive scientist ×7
• social philosopher ×3
• conservative intellectual ×2
• liberal intellectual ×1
• social thinker ×1

Instances (457)

• Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ("social critic")
• Ismail Serageldin
• Ludwig von Mises ("social philosopher")
• Karl Marx ("philosopher")
• Telford Taylor ("legal scholar")
• Rudolf Carnap ("philosopher")
• G. W. F. Hegel ("philosopher")
• Denis Diderot ("philosopher")
• Maimonides ("philosopher")
• José Martí ("philosopher")
• Georges Sorel ("philosopher")
• Friedrich Nietzsche ("philosopher")
• Willard Van Orman Quine ("philosopher")
• Baron d'Holbach ("philosopher")
• Karl Popper ("philosopher")
• Cesare Beccaria ("philosopher")
• Xenophon ("philosopher")
• Cynicism ("philosopher")
• George Carlin ("social critic")
• Fyodor Dostoevsky ("philosopher")
• Blaise Pascal ("philosopher")
• Robert Bork ("legal scholar")
• A. J. Ayer ("philosopher")
• Émile Zola
• Gilbert Ryle ("philosopher")
• Simon van Leeuwen ("legal scholar")
• David Home ("philosopher")
• Archibald Cox ("legal scholar")
• Mill ("philosopher")
• James Mill ("philosopher")
• Harriet Taylor Mill ("philosopher")
• Johann Gottlieb Fichte ("philosopher")
• Margaret Mead
• Johannes Voet ("legal scholar")
• Arnold Vinnius ("legal scholar")
• St. Thomas Aquinas ("philosopher")
• St. Augustine ("philosopher")
• Christopher Longuet-Higgins ("cognitive scientist")
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Charles Eliot Norton ("social critic")
• Auguste Comte ("philosopher")
• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling ("philosopher")
• Otto Neurath ("philosopher")
• Ernst Mach ("philosopher")
• Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis ("philosopher")
• Thomas Hobbes ("philosopher")
• Henry David Thoreau ("philosopher")
• Heraclitus ("philosopher")
• Jeremy Bentham ("philosopher")
• Arthur Schopenhauer ("philosopher")
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ("philosopher")
• Isaiah Berlin ("philosopher")
• Hermann von Helmholtz ("philosopher")
• Jürgen Habermas ("philosopher")
• John McCarthy ("cognitive scientist")
• Nikolaus Lobkowicz ("philosopher")
• Aristotle ("philosopher")
• John Dewey ("philosopher")
• Marvin Minsky ("cognitive scientist")
• P. F. Strawson ("philosopher")
• Kurt Gödel ("philosopher")
• Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo ("legal scholar")
• Aldous Huxley ("intellectual")
• Christian Wolff ("philosopher")
• Sri Aurobindo ("philosopher")
• Vandana Shiva ("philosopher")
• Sulak Sivaraksa ("intellectual")
• Swami Vivekananda ("philosopher")
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ("legal scholar")
• George Berkeley ("philosopher")
• Ernst Haeckel ("philosopher")
• Immanuel ("philosopher")
• Carlos Rafael Rodríguez ("intellectual")
• Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ("social critic")
• Armando Hart Dávalos ("intellectual")
• Abhinavagupta ("philosopher")
• Martha Nussbaum ("philosopher")
• Baruch Spinoza ("philosopher")
• Abraham Abulafia ("philosopher")
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• T. E. Hulme ("philosopher")
• Moritz Schlick ("philosopher")
• Pico della Mirandola ("philosopher")
• Ibram X. Kendi
• Friedrich Schleiermacher ("philosopher")
• Marsilio Ficino ("philosopher")
• Leonardo da Vinci ("philosopher")
• Rumi ("philosopher")
• John Milton ("intellectual")
• William O. Douglas ("legal scholar")
• Walter Lippmann
• Saadi ("philosopher")
• James Watt Jr. ("intellectual")
• Dante Alighieri ("philosopher")
• Michael Polanyi ("philosopher")
• Omar Khayyam ("philosopher")
• Leslie Stephen ("philosopher")
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("philosopher")
• Socrates ("philosopher")
• Pierre Bourdieu ("philosopher")
• Guarino Guarini ("philosopher")
• Antonin Scalia ("legal scholar")
• Trellech ("philosopher")
• John Stuart Mill ("philosopher")
• Immanuel Kant ("philosopher")
• David Hume ("philosopher")
• Henry Oldenburg ("philosopher")
• Yosef Karo ("legal scholar")
• Augustine of Hippo ("philosopher")
• Reidar Lie ("philosopher")
• Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ("philosopher")
• Arne Næss ("philosopher")
• Nils Lie ("legal scholar")
• G. E. Moore ("philosopher")
• Stephen G. Breyer ("legal scholar")
• Richard Price ("philosopher")
• al‑Ghazali ("philosopher")
• William F. Buckley Jr. ("conservative intellectual")
• Hans Reichenbach ("philosopher")
• Herbert Feigl ("philosopher")
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ("philosopher")
• Christopher Hitchens
• Hannah Arendt ("philosopher")
• Wilhelm Wundt ("philosopher")
• Edward Said
• Thomas Carlyle ("social critic")
• Jean d’Alembert ("philosopher")
• William James ("philosopher")
• Sutan Sjahrir ("intellectual")
• Walter Benjamin ("philosopher")
• Søren Kierkegaard ("philosopher")
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ("philosopher")
• Norbert Wiener ("philosopher")
• Theodor W. Adorno ("philosopher")
• Grete Hermann ("philosopher")
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson ("philosopher")
• Francis Hutcheson ("philosopher")
• Amartya Sen ("philosopher")
• Tribonian ("legal scholar")
• Angela Davis ("philosopher")
• Ernst Cassirer ("philosopher")
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg ("legal scholar")
• John W. Draper ("philosopher")
• Patricia Spence ("philosopher")
• Wilhelm Dilthey ("philosopher")
• Michel Foucault ("philosopher")
• Dorotheus ("legal scholar")
• Manuel de Salas ("intellectual")
• Philipp Frank ("philosopher")
• Archibald MacLeish
• Nick Bostrom ("philosopher")
• Noam Chomsky ("philosopher")
• Herbert George Wells ("social critic")
• Joseph Karo ("legal scholar")
• Theophilus ("legal scholar")
• Caroline ("intellectual")
• Edward Levi ("legal scholar")
• Martin Heidegger ("philosopher")
• Lucretius ("philosopher")
• Marquise du Châtelet ("philosopher")
• Mary ("philosopher")
• Jenny Martinez ("legal scholar")
• Plotinus ("philosopher")
• Julian Huxley
• Cicero ("philosopher")
• Justice Louis D. Brandeis ("legal scholar")
• Sophie Wertheim ("philosopher")
• Pierre Bayle ("philosopher")
• Charles Taylor ("philosopher")
• Alvin Plantinga ("philosopher")
• Jean Vanier ("philosopher")
• Jonathan Sacks ("philosopher")
• Nassau William Senior ("legal scholar")
• Allama Muhammad Iqbal ("philosopher")
• Pierre-Joseph ("philosopher")
• Amy Coney Barrett ("legal scholar")
• Karl Menger ("philosopher")
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz ("intellectual")
• Michael Shermer
• Douglas Hofstadter ("cognitive scientist")
• Anselm of Canterbury ("philosopher")
• Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ("philosopher")
• Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples ("philosopher")
• Mordecai Kaplan ("philosopher")
• Novalis ("philosopher")
• Larry Sanger ("philosopher")
• Jonathan Edwards ("philosopher")
• R. H. Tawney ("social critic")
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese ("legal scholar")
• Ralph Waldo Emerson ("philosopher")
• Deborah E. Lipstadt
• Debendranath Tagore ("philosopher")
• Ludwig Feuerbach ("philosopher")
• Katharina Pistor ("legal scholar")
• Jeffrey Gordon ("legal scholar")
• Francis Bacon ("philosopher")
• Harold Hongju Koh ("legal scholar")
• William Whewell ("philosopher")
• Vinoba Bhave ("philosopher")
• Albert the Great ("philosopher")
• François Denis Tronchet ("legal scholar")
• Russell Kirk ("conservative intellectual")
• Suzanne Goldberg ("legal scholar")
• U. R. Ananthamurthy
• Bronson Alcott ("philosopher")
• S. L. Bhyrappa ("philosopher")
• Bob Black ("social critic")
• Adam Smith ("philosopher")
• Mary Wollstonecraft ("philosopher")
• Cavendish ("philosopher")
• Michael S. Barr ("legal scholar")
• Orestes Brownson ("social critic")
• Saul ("philosopher")
• Jane Addams
• Erwin N. Griswold ("legal scholar")
• Paul Kurtz ("philosopher")
• Francisco de Vitoria ("philosopher")
• Samuel Pufendorf ("legal scholar")
• Francisco Suárez ("philosopher")
• Jamal Greene ("legal scholar")
• Michel de Montaigne ("philosopher")
• Henry James Sr. ("philosopher")
• Alice James ("intellectual")
• Cornel West ("philosopher")
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ("philosopher")
• Johann Georg Hamann ("philosopher")
• Naomi Klein
• Confucius ("philosopher")
• Herbert Spencer ("philosopher")
• Herbert Marcuse ("philosopher")
• Claudio Treves ("intellectual")
• Hugo de Groot ("philosopher")
• Michael Dummett ("philosopher")
• Plato ("philosopher")
• Elizabeth Anscombe ("philosopher")
• Benedikt Carpzov the Younger ("legal scholar")
• Duns Scotus ("philosopher")
• Benjamin Franklin ("philosopher")
• Mario Laserna Pinzón ("philosopher")
• Esposito ("philosopher")
• Salvador de Madariaga ("liberal intellectual")
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ("philosopher")
• Moses Mendelssohn ("philosopher")
• Warnock ("philosopher")
• Friedrich ("philosopher")
• Alain Locke ("philosopher")
• Nicolas Berdyaev ("philosopher")
• Gilles Deleuze ("philosopher")
• Bruno Latour ("philosopher")
• Marquis de Condorcet ("philosopher")
• Christian Thomasius ("philosopher")
• Johann Heinrich Lambert ("philosopher")
• J. L. Austin ("philosopher")
• Gottfried ("philosopher")
• John Venn ("philosopher")
• Guru Gobind Singh ("philosopher")
• Adam Ferguson ("philosopher")
• Saul Kripke ("philosopher")
• Johann Christoph Gottsched ("philosopher")
• André Schiffrin ("intellectual")
• Giacomo Leopardi ("philosopher")
• Charles Dickens ("social critic")
• Herman Dooyeweerd ("philosopher")
• John M. Harlan II ("legal scholar")
• John Ruskin ("social thinker")
• Karol ("philosopher")
• Cass Sunstein ("legal scholar")
• Chen Duxiu ("philosopher")
• Donald Davidson ("philosopher")
• Foundations of Intellectual Property ("legal scholar")
• Thomas Reid ("philosopher")
• Judge Richard Posner ("legal scholar")
• Charles Hartshorne ("philosopher")
• David J. Barron ("legal scholar")
• Dugald Stewart ("philosopher")
• Henry Home, Lord Kames ("philosopher")
• Jack Goldsmith ("legal scholar")
• Antonio Nariño ("intellectual")
• René Descartes ("philosopher")
• von Mises ("social philosopher")
• Taylor ("philosopher")
• Abraham Joshua Heschel ("philosopher")
• Albert Camus ("philosopher")
• Baader ("philosopher")
• Albert Schweitzer ("philosopher")
• Horace M. Kallen ("philosopher")
• George Henry Lewes ("philosopher")
• Jean-Paul Sartre ("philosopher")
• Robert Nozick ("philosopher")
• Bronstein ("philosopher")
• Gore Vidal
• Bertrand Russell ("philosopher")
• Friedrich Schiller ("philosopher")
• Wilhelm von Humboldt ("philosopher")
• Jan Smuts ("philosopher")
• Lawrence Lessig ("legal scholar")
• Umberto Eco ("philosopher")
• Carl Hempel ("philosopher")
• John Kenneth Galbraith
• Hilary Putnam ("philosopher")
• Natalia Sedova ("intellectual")
• Rabindranath Tagore ("philosopher")
• Douglas Kellner ("philosopher")
• Henry Black ("legal scholar")
• Nelson Goodman ("philosopher")
• Alexandre Kojève ("philosopher")
• Dwijendranath Tagore ("philosopher")
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Charles Malik ("philosopher")
• John Humphrey ("legal scholar")
• Ramin Jahanbegloo ("philosopher")
• Imre Lakatos ("philosopher")
• David Deutsch ("philosopher")
• Alfred North Whitehead ("philosopher")
• John Locke ("philosopher")
• Paul Feyerabend ("philosopher")
• Helvétius ("philosopher")
• Stephen Yablo ("philosopher")
• Christopher Columbus Langdell ("legal scholar")
• Plutarch ("philosopher")
• Graham Priest ("philosopher")
• Telford ("legal scholar")
• Lewis Clive ("intellectual")
• Jenny von Westphalen ("intellectual")
• Diotima of Mantinea ("philosopher")
• Franco Antonicelli ("intellectual")
• Epimenides of Crete ("philosopher")
• Fourier ("philosopher")
• Elizabeth Warren ("legal scholar")
• Sari Nusseibeh ("philosopher")
• Carlin ("social critic")
• Nishi Amane ("philosopher")
• Justus Lipsius ("philosopher")
• Raymond Aron ("philosopher")
• Gottlieb ("philosopher")
• Johann Friedrich Herbart ("philosopher")
• Mead ("philosopher")
• Pyotr ("philosopher")
• Roger Scruton ("philosopher")
• Stephen Toulmin ("philosopher")
• Alexander Herzen ("philosopher")
• John Gray ("philosopher")
• C. K. Ogden ("philosopher")
• Bernard Williams ("philosopher")
• Sorel ("philosopher")
• Giambattista Vico ("philosopher")
• Felix Adler ("philosopher")
• Daniel Dennett ("philosopher")
• Michael Walzer ("philosopher")
• Henri Bergson ("philosopher")
• Antonio Gramsci ("philosopher")
• Immanuel Hermann Fichte ("philosopher")
• Benedetto Croce ("philosopher")
• Al-Farabi ("philosopher")
• F. P. Ramsey ("philosopher")
• Avicenna ("philosopher")
• Elif Şafak
• Halide Edib Adıvar ("intellectual")
• Roscoe Pound ("legal scholar")
• Henry Sidgwick ("philosopher")
• Martin D. Ginsburg ("legal scholar")
• Jacek Majchrowski ("legal scholar")
• Johann Gottfried Herder ("philosopher")
• Singer ("philosopher")
• Georgi Plekhanov ("philosopher")
• Peter Singer ("philosopher")
• Northwater Bridge, Angus, Scotland ("philosopher")
• György Lukács ("philosopher")
• Voet ("legal scholar")
• Margrethe Nørlund Bohr ("intellectual")
• Ryle ("philosopher")
• Averroes ("philosopher")
• Jacques Maritain ("philosopher")
• John Ralston Saul ("philosopher")
• George Croom Robertson ("philosopher")
• Clarence Irving Lewis ("philosopher")
• Schelling ("philosopher")
• Tevfik Fikret ("intellectual")
• Hugo Grotius ("philosopher")
• Étienne Gilson ("philosopher")
• Mach ("philosopher")
• Hellman ("philosopher")
• Ernesto Melo Antunes ("intellectual")
• Al-Kindi ("philosopher")
• Neurath ("philosopher")
• Grigol Robakidze ("intellectual")
• Emil Cioran ("philosopher")
• Slavoj Žižek ("philosopher")
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ("philosopher")
• Charles Alan Wright ("legal scholar")
• Jane C. Ginsburg ("legal scholar")
• Karl Jaspers ("philosopher")
• Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk ("philosopher")
• Nicolas Malebranche ("philosopher")
• Richard Dawkins
• Gottlob Frege ("philosopher")
• Vico ("philosopher")
• David Lewis ("philosopher")
• Martin Buber ("philosopher")
• Antoine Arnauld ("philosopher")
• Al-Razi (Rhazes) ("philosopher")
• Gian-Carlo Rota ("philosopher")
• Pope John Paul II ("philosopher")
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau ("philosopher")
• George Herbert Mead ("philosopher")
• Al-Biruni ("philosopher")
• Thomas Nagel ("philosopher")
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty ("philosopher")
• Dionysius Gothofredus (Denis Godefroy) ("legal scholar")
• Peng Chun Chang ("philosopher")
• Nancy Fraser ("philosopher")
• Olaf Stapledon ("philosopher")
• Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) ("philosopher")
• Jennifer L. Mnookin ("legal scholar")
• Charles Sanders Peirce ("philosopher")
• Richard Rorty ("philosopher")
• Mortimer Adler ("philosopher")
• Paulo Freire ("philosopher")
• Friedrich Engels ("philosopher")
• 3rd Earl Russell ("philosopher")
• Ludwig Wittgenstein ("philosopher")
• Marquis de Sade ("philosopher")
• Montesquieu ("philosopher")
• Tim Wu ("legal scholar")
• Minsky ("cognitive scientist")
• Jean Jaurès ("intellectual")
• Boethius ("philosopher")
• Axel Honneth ("philosopher")
• Ibn Khaldun ("philosopher")
• Ibn al-Nafis ("philosopher")
• Chirlitz-Turas, Moravia ("philosopher")
• Norman Malcolm ("philosopher")