Some of the ones I liked this year (in addition to Carl’s):

Mathew Ridley — collective intelligence
Daniel Dennett — cycles
Marcel Kinsbourne The expanding in-group
Andy Clark — Predictive Coding
Mark Henderson — sciences methods aren’t just for science
Karyn Schultz — The pessimistic meta-induction from the history of science
Bart Kosko — Q.E.D. moments
Sue Blackmore — correlation is not a cause
W. Tecumsem Fitch — an instinct to learn
Fiery Cushman — confabulation
Diane Halpern — A statistically significant difference …

This year there are a lot of Neuroscientists and psychologists on the list.