11 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Greek-American philosopher at Princeton who wrote Nietzsche: Life as Literature — arguing that Nietzsche's philosophy is best understood as the project of creating oneself as a literary character — and whose work on Plato, aesthetics, and the beauty of friendship has made him one of the most elegant philosophical writers in the analytic tradition.
British-American scholar at Princeton — the most influential Western historian of the Islamic world — author of The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, What Went Wrong — whose writings on Islam and the West influenced the neoconservative Middle East policy agenda.
Israeli-American psychologist — Nobel Prize in Economics 2002 — author of Thinking, Fast and Slow — co-creator with Amos Tversky of prospect theory — the most influential psychologist in the history of economics.
Lebanese-American physicist at Princeton who is a rocket propulsion specialist and also a pioneer of 3D audio recording technology (BACCH) — his dual career combining physics with audio perception research.
American scholar of religion at Princeton who wrote The Gnostic Gospels — the most widely read popular account of the Nag Hammadi texts — and Beyond Belief, examining the Gospel of Thomas — making Gnostic Christianity available to general audiences.
American philosopher at Princeton who works on ethics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language — known for his arguments for moral relativism and for his work on the relationship between moral philosophy and empirical psychology.
Austrian-American logician and mathematician — author of the Incompleteness Theorems (1931) — who proved that any consistent formal system capable of expressing arithmetic contains true statements that cannot be proved within the system — the most significant result in the foundations of mathematics.
Italian-American political philosopher at Princeton who is a leading interpreter of Machiavelli — and whose Machiavelli and the Republican Idea argues that Machiavelli is best understood as a civic republican rather than an amoralist — and who has written on republicanism and patriotism.
Romanian-American mathematician at Princeton — one of the world's leading experts on partial differential equations and mathematical relativity — who has written on academic freedom and the politicization of mathematics.
German-American philosopher at Princeton who translated Nietzsche's complete works into English and wrote the definitive English-language Nietzsche biography — rescuing Nietzsche from Nazi appropriation by demonstrating that the Will to Power manuscript was assembled by his anti-Semitic sister Elisabeth.
28th President of the United States (1913–21) — President of Princeton — who led the US into WWI, proposed the Fourteen Points, created the League of Nations (which the US Senate rejected), enacted the Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission, and re-segregated the federal government.