Umberto Eco: someone who not only has made a significant contribution to philosophical thought, particularly in the field of semiotics, but who has also written some of the greatest and most critically acclaimed literature of any living author, in which he brings semiotics to the masses. For me, he has the perfect combination of philosophical and aesthetic brilliance that defines intellect.
For me, I pick Eco just slightly ahead of Chomsky. I've got a lot of respect for Dawkins contribution to evolutionary theory and his work with memetics, but his anti-religious crusade smacks of intellectual arrogance, and he's just not as good of a writer as Eco or Chomsky. Hawking, like Dawkins, just isn't that great a writer, and while I would probably count him as the greatest living thinker, he doesn't have the philosophical and aesthetic considerations that I think are part of intellect.
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