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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5451

Kevin T. Mcvary

#120560

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#5452

Anne Schuchat

#120572

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#5453

Jan Lötvall

#76609

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jan Lötvall is a Swedish clinical allergist and scientist working on translational research primarily in the field of asthma. He is the former director of the Krefting Research Centre at the University of Gothenburg.

#5454

James D. Luketich

#120616

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#5455

Allīnūs

#99305

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Allīnūs or Alīnūs was an Alexandrian philosopher and commentator on Aristotle from the sixth or seventh century AD. He wrote in Greek, but is known only from Arabic sources, including some translated excerpts of his works.

#5456

Kimford J. Meador

#120619

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#5457

Robert A. Guyton

#120621

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#5458

Peter Angermann

#35118

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Then, in autumn 1968, he was drawn to the class run by Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Constantly showered with his teacher's praise, he nevertheless – or perhaps precisely for that reason – became co-founder of the legendary YIUP group, which from 1969 on attracted attention inside the academy, and above all in the Beuys class, through provocative actions that were directed even against Beuys himself.

#5459

Edgar G. Engleman

#98747

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Edgar G. Engleman is an American pathologist and physician-scientist who researches cancer immunology. He is a professor of pathology and of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of Vivo Capital, a Healthcare Investment firm.

#5460

Preeti N. Malani

#100895

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Preeti N. Malani is the Chief Health Officer in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Michigan and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association . Her research focus is on infectious disease control and prevention in older adults.

#5461

Zakir Mammadov

#93361

Overall Influence

1936 - 2003 (67 years)

Zakir Jabbar Bey oglu Mammadov was a correspondent member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and Doctor in Philosophy. Mammadov specialized in Eastern philosophy, and focused mostly on the history of Azerbaijani philosophy. He had refuted the thesis ‘no professional philosopher lived in Azerbaijan in Middle Ages except for Bahmanyar’.

#5462

Henry Harris

#120732

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#5463

Anna Camaiti Hostert

Anna Camaiti Hostert

#64748

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Anna Camaiti Hostert is an Italian American philosopher and a scholar of Visual Studies. She lives and works between Italy and the United States. Biography She obtained her degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa defending a dissertation with the philosopher Nicola Badaloni. Then she received a PhD in Literature and Film from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University of Chicago, at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Rome La Sapienza . She was Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Florence campus of the New York University Tisch School of Cinema.

#5464

Leon Speroff

#120747

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#5465

Daniel Weinstock

#90440

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Daniel Marc Weinstock is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He holds a DPhil in philosophy , an MA in political philosophy, and a BA in French literature and political philosophy . Daniel Weinstock studied with Charles Taylor , and with John Rawls.

#5466

Samuel C. Silverstein

#120763

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#5467

Frank Muir

#5883

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, as well as the What-a-Mess books...

#5468

Roman Krznaric

#39969

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Roman Krznaric is an Australian-born social philosopher, whose books focus on the power of ideas to create change and have been published in over 25 languages. His latest book is the international bestseller The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. He is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford and the founder of the world's first Empathy Museum. He is also a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation and member of the Club of Rome. He was named by The Observer as one of Britain's leading popula...

#5469

Jeffrey M. Liebmann

#120779

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#5470

Leon Birnbaum

#37416

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Leon Birnbaum was a Romanian mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Chernovtsy on June 18, 1918 to a family with an intellectual tradition. He studied at the Orthodox High School, then at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1941 the war reached Chernovtsy and he was deported to Magilev-Podolsk in Transnistria until 1944.

#5471

Ferenc Andras Jolesz

#120805

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#5472

Eliza T. Dresang

#43735

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Eliza Timberlake Dresang was an American professor of Library Science who studied fundamental changes in children's literature because of digital format. Dresang was the Beverly Cleary Professor in Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington Information School. She died on April 21, 2014, in Seattle.

#5473

Dr Daniel T. Lackland

#120811

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#5474

Martha Bridge Denckla

#120833

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#5475

Bernardo Nadal‐ginard

#120882

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#5476

Lothar Prof Dr Kanz

#120891

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#5477

Nancy E. Kemeny

#120910

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#5478

Oliver Franks, Baron Franks

#31657

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks, , was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the postwar world'. Franks was involved in Britain's recovery after the Second World War. Knighted in 1946, he was the British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1948 to 1952, during which time he strengthened the relationship between the two countries. He was given a life peerage on 10 May 1962.

#5479

Paul Bakker

#113031

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Paul Bakker is a professor in medieval and renaissance philosophy at Radboud University. Academic research Bakkers' research is mainly focused on medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Physics and De Anima and the complex relations between philosophical and theological arguments presented therein. He has also published within the discipline of the philosophy of mind on topics such as 'the relation between body, soul, and mind, theories of the soul's faculties, and views of sense perception'.

#5480

Joseph George Verbalis

#120952

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#5481

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn

#120971

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#5482

Joseph P. Ornato

#120992

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#5483

Ola Landgren

#121029

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#5484

Stefanie N. Vogel

#93571

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Stefanie Nucci Vogel is an American physician-scientist, microbiologist, and immunologist. She is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Life Vogel was born October 16, 1951, in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Regina High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, in 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Vogel was a part-time research assistant in the University of Maryland, College Park computer science center and the department of chemistry under James McDonald Stewart. She completed a B.S. with honors in the department of microbiology at the University of Maryland, College Park in January 1972.

#5485

Robert Eyre Johnson

#121036

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#5486

Fred D. Lublin

#57635

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Fred D. Lublin is an American neurologist and an authority on the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Along with colleagues at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, his work redefined the clinical course definitions of MS.

#5487

Ester Cerin

#121044

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#5488

Judd W. Moul

#121062

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#5489

Myron H. Weinberger

#121064

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#5490

Peter Menzies

#105150

Overall Influence

1953 - 2015 (62 years)

Peter Charles Menzies was an Australian philosopher and past president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, who held teaching positions at Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and Australian National University. He specialized in metaphysics, especially the philosophy of causation. He became a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2007.

#5491

Bjørn Thomassen

#66069

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Bjørn Thomassen is an anthropologist and social scientist. He is associate professor at Roskilde University in the Department of Society and Globalisation. From 2003-2012 he worked at The American University of Rome, where he was chair of the department of International Relations.

#5492

Thomas H. Hostetter

#121092

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#5493

Timothy J. Eberlein

#121106

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#5494

Norman Grassie

#121111

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#5495

Joel Morganroth

#121144

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#5496

Robert M. Blizzard

#121196

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#5497

J. Evan Sadler

#81715

Overall Influence

1951 - 2018 (67 years)

Jasper Evan Sadler III was an American hematologist. Sadler was born in Huntington, West Virginia, on 9 November 1951 to pathologist Jasper Evan Sadler Jr. and his wife Clara Rose Thompson Sadler. The younger Sadler studied chemistry at Princeton University and completed a medical degree at Duke University School of Medicine. Sadler completed his residency at Duke and a fellowship at the University of Washington and subsequently joined Washington University School of Medicine faculty in 1984. Between 1982 and 2008, Sadler was a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. In 2014, Sadler was appointed Ira M.

#5498

Steven E. Shoelson

#121199

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#5499

Rafael García Bárcena

#44095

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Rafael García Bárcena was a Cuban philosopher who later took a leading role in the Cuban Revolution against President Fulgencio Batista. A Professor of Philosophy, he founded the National Revolutionary Movement . Consisting largely of middle-class members, it contrasted with Fidel Castro's predominantly working class support base, the 26th of July Movement. In March 1953, the MNR had planned to attack and seize control of the barracks at Camp Colombia, but police had been alerted to the plot, with the conspirators being rounded up and tortured. In all, fourteen people were sentenced to impris...

#5500

Richard J. Bernstein

#121226

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