During the 1800s, the university attracted thinkers as diverse as philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and political scientist Karl Marx.
It's no accident that Kant is the only career academic chosen and 20th-century giants are absent; Miller is suspicious of the locking up of the discipline within universities, preferring thinkers out in the world.
To explore the urban smellscape, I organised a series of smellwalks with perfumers, landscape architects, university students, design thinkers and members of the general public.
"Students are taught the science-practitioner model and our aim is to produce graduates who are critical thinkers," the university said in a statement.
He insists that the university still welcomes free thinkers: "We select students who we believe are going to be critical, thoughtful, think about their studies and their futures.
Already, more than one hundred thinkers, scientists, university professors, and artists have signed the project's Belief Statement.
For Newman, the ideal university is a community of thinkers, engaging in intellectual pursuits not for any external purpose, but as an end in itself.
In a spasm of empty-minded righteousness lethally mixed with self-important faculty pique, you are taking down the first independent thinker to lead the university in years.
Gregory was also deeply influenced by recent thinkers at his own university, both negatively and positively.
Academics don't have to work at a university By my definition, academics are professional thinkers and communicators.
Many elements in The Seed Collectors are recognisable from her previous novels: a university setting, the mysteries of consciousness, French thinkers, alarmingly rough sex between refreshingly dislikable characters.
