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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5351

Allan S. Brett

#119422

Overall Influence

#5352

Antoon Van den Braembussche

#58162

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Antoon A.A. Van den Braembussche is a Flemish Philosopher of Culture, Emeritus Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a poet. He started as a poet, became a professor in the philosophy of history, and later specialized in art philosophy.

#5353

Jackie D. Corbin

#119438

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#5354

Axel Bruns

#75030

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Axel Bruns is a German-Australian media scholar. He is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

#5355

Moira Gatens

#69159

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Moira Gatens is an Australian academic feminist philosopher and current Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She previously held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

#5356

Mark B. Orringer

#119471

Overall Influence

#5357

John C. Cheville

#119472

Overall Influence

#5358

Rexford S. Ahima

#71133

Overall Influence

Rexford Sefah Ahima is a Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes at the Johns Hopkins Medical School; and the Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Ahima's research focuses on central and peripheral actions of adipocyte hormones in energy homeostasis, and glucose and lipid metabolism.

#5359

Thomas Francis Burks

#119497

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#5360

Meredith Minkler

#80549

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Meredith Minkler is an American public health researcher who is emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on community-based participatory research and its use in public policy, criminal justice reform and democratizing access to food.

#5361

Corrado Barbui

#119535

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#5362

Wesley S. Moore

#119540

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#5363

Robert F. Ozols

#119541

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#5364

Sigrid Fry-Revere

Sigrid Fry-Revere

#72182

Overall Influence

Sigrid Fry-Revere is an American medical ethicist and lawyer who has worked on many issues in patient care ethics, but most recently has been working on the rights of living organ donors. Background Fry-Revere worked as an attorney, practicing bioethics, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration law with the law firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. She worked as an adjunct professor of ethics and healthcare law at George Mason University College of Nursing and Health Science and as an associate professor at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics. She formerly served ...

#5365

Ian R. Phillips

#119546

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#5366

Ritesh Agarwal

#119555

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#5367

Ronald Rousseau

Ronald Rousseau

#75574

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ronald Rousseau is a Belgian mathematician and information scientist. He has obtained an international reputation for his research on indicators and citation analysis in the fields of bibliometrics and scientometrics.

#5368

Cindy Farquhar

#115607

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Cynthia Margaret Farquhar is the Postgraduate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland. Within the Cochrane Collaboration, she is the Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility. Farquhar has over 200 published papers, with a focus on women's reproductive and sexual health.

#5369

Magnus Unemo

#119625

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

#5370

Garry M. Gray

#119629

Overall Influence

#5371

Ravinder N. Maini

Ravinder N. Maini

#48971

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Sir Ravinder Nath Maini is an Indian-born British rheumatologist and academic who is an emeritus professor at Imperial College London. He led the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Biography Maini was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, British India, to Sir Amar Maini, a Kenyan-born lawyer and Ugandan politician, and his wife, Sam Saheli Mehra. His younger brother is academic Yoginder Nath Tidu Maini. Ravinder completed his bachelor's degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. In the 1980s, Maini, Marc Feldmann and Fionula Brennan identified TNF alpha as a key cytokine in the process of rheumatoid a...

#5372

Lenn E. Goodman

#93413

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Lenn Evan Goodman is an American Jewish philosopher. His philosophy, particularly his constructive work, draws from classical and medieval sources as well as religious texts. Goodman is also an academic, scholar, and a historian with research interest in metaphysics, ethics, and Jewish philosophy. He is serving as a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

#5373

Denis Eunan O'donnell

#119661

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#5374

G. Garabed Eknoyan

#119667

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#5375

Alan S. Maisel

#119668

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#5376

Bruce George Haffty

#119688

Overall Influence

#5377

Margaret Battin

#57612

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Margaret Pabst Battin, also known as Peggy Battin, is an American philosopher, medical ethicist, author, and a current distinguished professor at the University of Utah. She is a supporter of assisted suicide and has worked extensively on ethical aspects of this issue. In 1993, she was named a Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam for her studies on assisted suicide. Battin is a Hastings Center Fellow. In 2008, Battin's husband became quadriplegic after a bicycle accident, which caused her to refine and augment her thinking about assisted suicide; he died in 2013 after he requested to t...

#5378

Alan Chait

#119712

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#5379

Arthur W. Nienhuis

#119728

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#5380

Steven Weinstein

#97954

Overall Influence

Steven Weinstein is a philosopher at the University of Waterloo, noted particularly for his work on quantum gravity, time, and the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Biography Weinstein studied as an undergraduate student at Princeton University, from where he graduated with honors with an A.B. in philosophy in 1982 after completing a 54-page-long senior thesis titled "Quarks and Qualia." After several years of writing, recording, and performing music, he returned to academic work, obtaining his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1998, supervised by Arthur Fine. He is prese...

#5381

Jay S. Kaufman

#117573

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jay Scott Kaufman is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health at McGill University, where he was a Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities . He also served as the President of the Society for Epidemiological Research.

#5382

John E. Jr. Mayer

#119738

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#5383

Nicholas R. Anthonisen

#119743

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#5384

Thomas C. Spelsberg

#119769

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#5385

Meindert Danhof

#119795

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#5386

Douglas R. Galasko

#119821

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#5387

Peter-anton Miescher

#119834

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#5388

Mitsuhiro Osame

#119845

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#5389

Philippe Lécrivain

#88000

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Philippe Lécrivain was a French Jesuit priest and historian. Biography Lécrivain was born in Le Blanc on 1 August 1941. He was ordained in the Diocese of Rennes in 1968, and joined the Society of Jesus in 1978 in Lyon.

#5390

Yoshihiro Nitta

#119880

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

is a Japanese university professor and philosopher. He is reputed as one of the greatest people to have influenced the Japanese philosophy. Career He studied from 1949 to 1957 at the Tohoku University in the field of philosophy. He also received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to study at the University of Cologne.

#5391

Richard Paul Spencer

#119887

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#5392

Eduardo D. Rodriguez

#40043

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Eduardo De Jesus Rodriguez MD, DDS is a Cuban American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and reconstructive transplant surgeon, who is known for his contribution to the field of facial transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation. Rodriguez practiced in Baltimore until 2013 when he was appointed the Helen L. Kimmel Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Chair of the Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Health, where he serves as the director of the Face Transplant Program. Most recently, he led the team that performed the first simultaneous f...

#5393

Gary J. Bennett

#119929

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#5394

Michael Peter Davis

#40212

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Michael Peter Davis is an American philosopher and educator. He is a professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. Early life and education Davis earned his A.B. in Philosophy and Government at Cornell University, where he studied with Allan Bloom. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, where he wrote a dissertation on Plato under the direction of Richard Kennington.

#5395

Cynthia Freeland

#109639

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Cynthia A. Freeland is an American philosopher of art. She has published three monographs, over two dozen articles, and edited several books. She is Emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. She was the president of the American Society of Aesthetics until 2017. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003 for a research project on Fakes and Forgeries. Her book But is it Art? has been translated into fourteen languages and was republished as part of the Oxford Very Short Introductions series. She talked about her book Portraits&Persons with Nigel Warburton on the Philosophy Bites podcast.

#5396

Kenneth Μ. Moser

#119946

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#5397

Sirpa Jalkanen

#117402

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Sirpa Jalkanen is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of biomedical and clinical medicine, at the University of Turku in Finland. Career Jalkanen was born in Jyväskylä, Finland. She is one of the world’s leading researchers in the area of lymphocyte migration in the human immune defence system. Jalkanen is an Academy Professor in the Academy of Finland. She has served as Academy Professor on two previous occasions, in 1996–2001 and 2002–2006. During her term as Academy Professor, the focus of Professor Jalkanen’s research is on the mechanisms controlling the movement of cells in and out of lymph nodes.

#5398

Johannes Weigelt

#119969

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#5399

Richard P. Bunge

#119977

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#5400

Robert Alan Figlin

#119987

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