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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5301

Aldo R. Castañeda

#118797

Overall Influence

#5302

M. Maria Glymour

#109760

Overall Influence

Medellena Maria Lee Glymour is an American epidemiologist. Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational attainment and work environment, influence cognitive function, memory loss, stroke and other health outcomes in old age."

#5303

E. Richard Moxon

#118818

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#5304

Robert E. Steiner

#118831

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#5305

Eugenia Elaine Calle

#118852

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#5306

Jorge O. Galante

#118854

Overall Influence

#5307

George Michalopoulos

#27668

Overall Influence

George K. Michalopoulos is a Greek-American pathologist and academic. He served as Maud L. Menten Professor of Experimental Pathology and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC from 1991 to 2023.

#5308

Beverley Pearson Murphy

#94334

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Beverley E. Pearson Murphy, MD, was a Canadian endocrinologist and professor emeritus at McGill University. Born in Toronto, she earned a B.A. in science from the University of Toronto in 1952, followed by an M.D. in 1956. She earned a masters’ degree in Experimental Medicine at McGill University in 1960, completing her residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and was awarded a PhD in Investigative Medicine from McGill in 1964.

#5309

José Angel Obeso

#118892

Overall Influence

#5310

Míchael Landthaler

#118905

Overall Influence

#5311

Shekhar Saxena

#118917

Overall Influence

#5312

David Oswald Thomas

#67335

Overall Influence

1924 - 2005 (81 years)

David Oswald Thomas was a Welsh philosopher, best known as an interpreter of the work of Richard Price. Thomas was born in Rhuthun, Denbighshire, the son of the Clerk to the Department of Education for the county. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School, after which he worked as a bank clerk. In 1943, after two years in the bank, he joined the RAF. He served until 1946. Stationed for most of the time in the Middle East, he served one and a half years in Iraq. At the end of his service he took advantage of a scheme for demobilizing into university and studied philosophy at the University College of Wales, Bangor.

#5313

Philip R. Taylor

#118943

Overall Influence

#5314

H. Julian G. Bloom

#118967

Overall Influence

#5315

Kenneth Dickstein

#119024

Overall Influence

#5316

Solomiia Pavlychko

#33115

Overall Influence

1958 - 1999 (41 years)

Solomiia Dmytrivna Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, feminist, and translator. She is considered as one of the pioneering scholars to introduce gender studies and feminist analysis to Ukraine.

#5317

Kenneth Turan

#20531

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Kenneth Turan is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He was a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1991 until 2020 and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies".

#5318

Sten H. Vermund

#93825

Overall Influence

Sten H. Vermund is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and former Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, and also serves as a Professor in Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a pediatrician and infectious disease epidemiologist focused on diseases of low and middle-income countries.

#5319

David F. Penson

#119090

Overall Influence

#5320

Yukihiko Kitamura

#119098

Overall Influence

#5321

Paul L. Kimmel

#119108

Overall Influence

#5322

Sherman Morton Weissman

#119132

Overall Influence

#5323

Grant Wacker

#35698

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Grant Albert Wacker is an American historian of Christianity in the United States. Education Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard University . Career Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018. A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the auth...

#5324

Thomas A. Gennarelli

#119143

Overall Influence

#5325

Valérie Vilgrain

#119150

Overall Influence

#5326

Glenn Dranoff

#119151

Overall Influence

#5327

James L. Madara

#119167

Overall Influence

#5328

Mihaela Miroiu

#72580

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Mihaela Miroiu is a Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher, the most prominent activist for women's rights and a very well known activist for Roma rights, more generally, for minorities rights. She is currently Professor of Political science at the Faculty of Political Science, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.

#5329

Richard F. Edlich

#83700

Overall Influence

1939 - 2013 (74 years)

Richard F. Edlich was a Professor Emeritus of Plastic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. His basic clinical and research interests focused on improving the safety and outcome of wound care in emergency medicine and surgery.

#5330

Lucien Braun

#69133

Overall Influence

1923 - 2020 (97 years)

Lucien Braun was a French philosophy historian who specialized in Paracelsus. Biography Braun wrote his version of Histoire de l'histoire de la philosophie. At the end of his introduction, he wrote:"We believe that we have thus opened up the field of research for which we had no model; because when we undertook this study, in 1961, the subject was new. It is already less so today, because works towards a history of the history of philosophy are announced, in Germany by L. Geldsetzer and W. Ehrhardt, in France by M. Gueroult. This means that we are, in fact, participating in a concern that goe...

#5331

Justine Sergent

#66779

Overall Influence

1950 - 1994 (44 years)

Justine Saade-Sergent was a researcher in the cognitive neuroscience field. From 1979 to 1982, she was an associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University.

#5332

Stuart D. B. Picken

#35574

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Stuart Donald Blair Picken was a Scottish philosopher, academic and cleric. He was a noted expert on comparative ethics and Japanese thought. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the government of Japan in recognition of his work.

#5333

Kenneth John O’byrne

#119234

Overall Influence

#5334

Karen Leigh King

#13858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Karen Leigh King is a historian of religion working in the field of Early Christianity, who is currently the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, in the oldest endowed chair in the United States .

#5335

L. Gordon Graham

#90137

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Gordon Graham is Chair of the Edinburgh Sacred Arts Foundation, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary in the USA, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's premier academy of science and letters.

#5336

Suzanne Craft

#119278

Overall Influence

#5337

Joël Ménard

#119279

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

#5338

Lawrence Howard Schwartz

#119292

Overall Influence

#5339

Ahmad Ali Heydari

Ahmad Ali Heydari

#117722

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Ahmad Ali Heydari is an Iranian philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Allameh Tabataba'i University known for his works on ethics and his research on the reception of Western philosophy by Iranian thinkers. He received his PhD in philosophy from University of Bonn in 2003. Heydari is a member of board of directors of Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy .

#5340

Paul C. Taylor

#102184

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Paul Christopher Taylor is an American philosopher, author, and W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Previously he taught philosophy and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. He writes on race theory, aesthetics, pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and Africana philosophy.

#5341

Daniel Hutto

#78242

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Daniel D. Hutto is an American philosopher and professor of philosophical psychology jointly at the University of Wollongong and University of Hertfordshire. He is known for his research on enactivism, affect, folk psychology and Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy. He is also known for designing and heading the degree of western civilisation at the University of Wollongong. This degree has led to controversy due to being funded by the Ramsay Centre, of which former prime ministers Toby Abbott and John Howard are board members.

#5342

Karl‐erik Hagbarth

#119327

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#5343

David L. Reich

#12436

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

David L. Reich is an American academic anesthesiologist, who has been President & Chief Operating Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital, and President of Mount Sinai Queens , since October 2013. Reich is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and from 2004 to 2014 he served as the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology. In 2011, he received the Physician of the Year Award from Mount Sinai's nurses and nursing leadership. In 2011–12, he served as President of The Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Board. In 2014, he received the Jacobi Medallion from ...

#5344

Seamus Carey

#46054

Overall Influence

Seamus Carey, Ph.D., an American philosopher and academic, is the 9th President of Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. He previously served as the 26th President of Transylvania University, the first university in the state of Kentucky, from 2014 to 2019. While at Transylvania he was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa in 2015.

#5345

William Patrick Cooney

#119379

Overall Influence

#5346

Ciaran Patrick Kelly

#119383

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#5347

Ernst E. Van Der Wall

#119409

Overall Influence

#5348

Thomas Khurana

#92136

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Thomas Khurana is a German philosopher. Since 2020, he has held the position of Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. He is also currently the director of the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy.

#5349

Werner Leinfellner

Werner Leinfellner

#99398

Overall Influence

1921 - 2010 (89 years)

Werner Leinfellner was professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and at the Vienna University of Technology. After recovering from life-threatening wounds during World War II, he studied chemistry and physics at the Universities of Vienna and Graz, eventually turning to the study of the philosophy of science, and receiving his Ph.D. in 1959. He moved to the United States in 1967, in part, because of problems faced by empirically oriented philosophers in obtaining academic positions in Austria and Germany. He is notable for his contributions to philosophy of science, as a ...

#5350

Pierre Soulages

Pierre Soulages

#3808

Overall Influence

1919 - 2022 (103 years)

Pierre Jean Louis Germain Soulages was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. In 2014, President François Hollande of France described him as "the world's greatest living artist." His works are held by leading museums of the world, and there is a museum dedicated to his art in his hometown of Rodez.

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