Leon Kass

Leon Kass

male
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, St. John's College, U.S., St. John's College, American, President's Council on Bioethics, The Beginning of Wisdom Reading Genesis…CommitteeonSocialThought
Leon Kass is an American bioethicist, best known as a leader in the effort to stop human embryonic stem cell and cloning research as former chair...
Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear

male
University of Chicago, Yale University alumni, philosopher, American, CommitteeonSocialThought, John U. Nef
Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University...
David Grene

David Grene

male, deceased (2002)
The Prodigals, Of Farming and Classics, Classical scholar, Irish, Greek-English translator, Translator…CommitteeonSocialThought
David Grene (1913-2002) was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on...

Edward Shils

male, deceased (1995)
University of Chicago, London School of Economics, World War II, Sociologist, university of leiden, Academic of the London School of Economics…Social philosophy, CommitteeonSocialThought, National Council on the Humanities
Edward Shils (1911-1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and...
Robert B. Pippin

Robert B. Pippin

male, 61 years old
University of Chicago, philosopher, American, CommitteeonSocialThought
Robert B. Pippin (b. 1948) is an American philosopher. He is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social...
Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston

female
University of Chicago, Historian of science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, CommitteeonSocialThought, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150 - 1750
Lorraine Daston (a.k.a. "Raine") is the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin. A member of...

David E. Wellbery

male
Literary theorist, University of Chicago, University of Chicago faculty, Literary critic, CommitteeonSocialThought, German studies
David E. Wellbery , who joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2001 as the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University...
Marshall Hodgson

Marshall Hodgson

male, deceased (1968)
University of Chicago, quaker, historian, 13th century, 12th century, world history…CommitteeonSocialThought
Marshall G.S. Hodgson (1922 - 1968), was an Islamic scholar and a world historian at the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the...