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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5051

Mark H. Bernstein

#106878

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Mark H. Bernstein is an American philosopher and Joyce & Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University. He is known for his research on animal ethics. Biography Bernstein received a B.A. in January 1969 in Mathematics from Queens College, City University of New York, a M.A. in June 1975 in Philosophy from California State University, Northridge and a Ph D. in June 1982 in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#5052

Robert L. Barrack†

#116183

Overall Influence

#5053

James Andrew Eastham

#116184

Overall Influence

#5054

Leon MacLaren

#46816

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Leon MacLaren, born Leonardo da Vinci MacLaren , was a British philosopher and the founder of the School of Economic Science . MacLaren was inspired by Henry George, Socrates, Dr Francis Roles, Pyotr Ouspensky, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and finally the philosophy of Advaita Vedānta through the Shankaracharyas of Jyoti Math.

#5055

Richard Moran

#72573

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Moran is an American philosopher. He is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where he specializes in philosophy of mind, moral psychology and philosophy of art. Education and career Moran received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1977 and a PhD from Cornell University in 1989, the latter under the supervision of Sydney Shoemaker. He joined the faculty at Princeton University as an assistant professor that same year. He accepted a tenured offer to teach in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in Fall 1995.

#5056

Rodger P. Mcever

#116270

Overall Influence

#5057

Harry Brod

#17283

Overall Influence

1951 - 2017 (66 years)

Harry Brod was a professor of sociology at University of Northern Iowa. Education He held a PhD in Philosophy, 1981, from the University of California, San Diego. Men's studies Brod was one of the first academics to specialize in men's studies. Brod became interested in the men's movement in the mid-1960s, as he thought about society's expectations of individuals based on their gender.

#5058

Tavia Gordon

#116296

Overall Influence

#5059

Dr. David Heber

#116299

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#5060

Joseph G. Fortner

#116325

Overall Influence

#5061

Gian‐franco Bottazzo

#116328

Overall Influence

#5062

V. Kofi Agawu

#64639

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Victor Kofi Agawu is a Ghanaian musicologist and music theorist. He often publishes as V. Kofi Agawu and specializes in musical semiotics and ethnomusicology. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

#5063

Miriam Rothschild

Miriam Rothschild

#18134

Overall Influence

1908 - 2005 (97 years)

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany. Early life Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of England of Jewish bankers and Rózsika Edle Rothschild , a Hungarian sportswoman, of Austrian-Jewish descent. Her brother was Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and one of her sisters Pannonica Rothschild would later be a bebop jazz enthusiast and patroness of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

#5064

Sherine E. Gabriel

#116378

Overall Influence

#5065

Helen Heslop

#103274

Overall Influence

Helen Elisabeth Heslop is a physician-scientist from New Zealand whose clinical interests are in hematopoietic stem cell transplants. Heslop’s research focuses on immunotherapy to treat viral infections, post transplant and hematologic malignancies. She is a professor in the Department of Medicine and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital. She is also the Dan L. Duncan Chair and the associate director of clinical research at the Dan L. Duncan Cance...

#5066

Ludwig Emil Feinendegen

#116422

Overall Influence

#5067

Theodore Schatzki

#57017

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Theodore Schatzki is a professor of philosophy and geography at the University of Kentucky, professor of sociology at Lancaster University. He has written extensively on practice theory. His work has developed an alternative theory of practice, influenced by Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, that people do what makes sense for them to do.

#5068

Robert R. Redfield

Robert R. Redfield

#5371

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Robert Ray Redfield Jr. is an American virologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2018 to 2021.

#5069

David M. Rasmussen

#82125

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

David M. Rasmussen is an American philosopher and professor at Boston College. He is the founder and editor in chief of Philosophy and Social Criticism and is a noted political and social philosopher.

#5070

Elward David Crawford

#116436

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#5071

Leonard J. Cerullo

#35884

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Leonard J. Cerullo is a board-certified neurosurgeon and founder/medical director. Early life and education Cerullo was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in June 1944. He was the middle child of the large family of Leornard Frank Cerullo, an electrical contractor, and Marion , a nurse; his parents met at Hazleton General Hospital.

#5072

Allen D. Seftel

#116437

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#5073

Noushafarin Ansari

Noushafarin Ansari

#43564

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Noushafarin Ansari is an Iranian librarian, educator, and manager. Life Her parents were diplomats; therefore she was exposed to many languages and cultures in Asia and Europe. In 1958-1960 she studied librarianship in Geneva, a discipline she continued at McGill University and at the University of Toronto. She worked as a librarian at the Delhi Public Library, and Tehran University Central library, and was Library Director at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at Tehran University. In 1962 she married Mehdi Mohaghegh, a renowned Iranian university professor and scholar.

#5074

Roland Eils

#116441

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#5075

Bernard Scatton

#116443

Overall Influence

#5076

Michael Allen Fox

#89869

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Michael Allen Fox is an American/Canadian/Australian philosopher who was based at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1966 until his retirement in 2005. He is the author of a number of books, including The Case for Animal Experimentation: An Evolutionary and Ethical Perspective —the arguments and conclusion of which he later rejected—Deep Vegetarianism , The Accessible Hegel , The Remarkable Existentialists , Understanding Peace and Home: A Very Short Introduction .

#5077

Luis Horacio Toledo-pereyra

#116461

Overall Influence

#5078

Teruo Hideshima

#116464

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#5079

Warren Shibles

#74858

Overall Influence

Warren A. Shibles was an American philosopher, historian and professor. His B.A. is from the University of Connecticut and his M.A. from the University of Colorado. He was head of the department of philosophy of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is the author of numerous articles in history and philosophy and of many books, including children's books in philosophy and ethics. A number of his books have been translated into German, Finnish and Spanish languages.

#5080

Karl Lennert

#57137

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Karl Lennert, M.D. was a German physician and pathologist. Early life and education Lennert was born in Fürth, which is now contiguous with Nuremberg, in Bavaria. After graduating from high school there, Karl attended medical school from 1939 to 1945 at the Friedrich-Alexander Universitat of Erlangen . After World War II, Lennert remained in Erlangen until 1950 as a resident physician in the Institute of Pathology. After another year of postgraduate study at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, he joined the department of pathology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main.

#5081

Mark Kuczewski

#85215

Overall Influence

Mark Kuczewski is an American philosopher and bioethicist who has been a key contributor to the New Professionalism movement in medicine and medical education. In general, interest in professionalism has been widespread in medicine probably owing to the increasing regulatory and economic pressures on the practice of medicine. Many physicians have sought to identify the focal meaning of what it is to be a doctor in an effort to revitalize the profession. Kuczewski has been among a group that includes Richard and Sylvia Creuss, John Coulehan, and Matthew Wynia who see medical professionalism as including a commitment to social justice.

#5082

Preston Covey

#106153

Overall Influence

1942 - 2006 (64 years)

Preston K. Covey, Jr. was the head of the philosophy department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, during the later part of the twentieth century. Covey, who earned his Ph.D. jointly through the philosophy department and the humanities graduate programs at Stanford University, founded the Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics .

#5083

Lina M. Obeid

#76043

Overall Influence

1955 - 2019 (64 years)

Lina M. Obeid was an American physician and cancer researcher. Early life Lina Marie Obeid was born in New York and raised in Lebanon, the daughter of Dr. Sami Obeid, a renowned Lebanese surgeon, and Rosette Z. Obeid, a Palestinian writer and cookbook author. Obeid earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Rutgers University. She earned her medical degree at the American University of Beirut in 1983.

#5084

Edward A. Gaensler

#116529

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#5085

Nancy Andrews

#38980

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Nancy C. Andrews NAS is an American biologist and physician noted for her research on iron homeostasis. Andrews was formerly Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. Biography Andrews grew up in Syracuse, New York. She earned a B.S. and M.S. from Yale University. She carried out her M.S. research with Joan Steitz at Yale University, studying molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and continued her graduate work with David Baltimore, earning an M.D.-Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School and M.I.T. . She completed her postdoctoral work with Stuart Orkin at Children's Hospital Boston.

#5086

Kenneth Prager

#54552

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Kenneth Prager is an American physician. He is Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Director of Clinical Ethics and Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee at Columbia University Medical Center.

#5087

Philipp Rosemann

Philipp Rosemann

#61830

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Philipp W. Rosemann is a German philosopher and Cottrill-Rolfes Chair at University of Kentucky. Previously he was Professor of Philosophy at Maynooth University. He is the co-editor of Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations. Prior to his tenure at Maynooth, he taught at the University of Dallas for twenty years.

#5088

Gene G. Hunder

#116561

Overall Influence

#5089

Howard Bauchner

Howard Bauchner

#79253

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Howard C. Bauchner, vice chairman of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association from July 1, 2011 until June 30, 2021. During his time with JAMA he created the JAMA Network family of specialty journals, launched four new journals , created many new article types, established a relationship with the United States Preventive Services Task Force, and expanded the journal's digital presence through website redesign, search engine optimization of journal websites, and expanded social media and multimedia activity.

#5090

Kaadsiddheshwar

Kaadsiddheshwar

#79334

Overall Influence

1905 - 2001 (96 years)

Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj was a guru in the Navnath tradition of Hindu philosophy. He was a disciple of Shri Samarth Siddharameshwar Maharaj, disciple of Shri Samarth Bhausaheb Maharaj, disciple of Shri Gurulingajangam Maharaj , disciple of the 22nd Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj.

#5091

Williams C. Hutton

#116577

Overall Influence

#5092

Edward Lawrence Kaplan

#116580

Overall Influence

#5093

Augustine M. K. Choi

#116610

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#5094

Geoffrey C. Farrell

#116612

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#5095

Heinz Wiendl

#87146

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and professor at the University Hospital Muenster. He is known for his works in the field of nervous system inflammation and multiple sclerosis. Biography Wiendl studied psychology and medicine from 1989 to 1996 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Duke University, North Carolina, and Bale University, Switzerland. He obtained his MD in 1996. In the following years, he was a scholar of the German Research Council at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology , worked as a clinical and research fellow at the Department of Neurology Tuebingen, received board certification and completed his habilitation .

#5096

Niall Patrick Quinn

#116626

Overall Influence

#5097

Anne Ferguson

#105405

Overall Influence

1941 - 1998 (57 years)

Anne Ferguson was a Scottish physician, clinical researcher and expert in inflammatory bowel disease. She was considered one of the most distinguished gastroenterologists in Britain. Early life and education Anne Glen was born in Glasgow in 1941. Her parents were Monica and John Glen. She was educated at Notre Dame High School and the University of Glasgow, graduating with a first class honours BSc in physiology in 1961, followed in 1964 with a MB ChB with honours. She won the Brunton Medal for the most distinguished graduate in medicine at the University.

#5098

Kristian Helin

#116662

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#5099

Jonathan Rhoads

#44727

Overall Influence

1907 - 2002 (95 years)

Jonathan Evans Rhoads was an American surgeon, responsible for the development of total parenteral nutrition . Early life and education Rhoads was born to a Quaker family with roots in Pennsylvania dating to 1682. His father, Edward, was a physician in Philadelphia, who had interned under Sir William Osler at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania . He attended Germantown Friends School, Westtown School, Haverford College and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, all Quaker affiliated. An accomplished athlete, he was a track and field star at Haverford, undefeated as a pole-vaulter in int...

#5100

Éric Vicaut

#116700

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