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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5601

Kevin Hewison

#51025

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Kevin Hewison is an Australian social and political scientist, formerly the Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Carolina Asia Center. He is now Weldon E. Thornton Distinguished Emeritus Professor at UNC.

#5602

Karola Stotz

#84045

Overall Influence

1963 - 2019 (56 years)

Karola Stotz was a German scholar of philosophy of biology, cognitive science, and philosophy of science. With Paul E. Griffiths, she pioneered the use of experimental philosophy methods in the field of philosophy of science.

#5603

Arie Belldegrun

#24232

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Arie S. Belldegrun , FACS, is an Israeli-American urologic oncologist, billionaire businessman and investor. Early life and education Belldegrun was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He received his medical degree from the Hadassah Medical Center at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1974, and conducted his post-graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1979. He completed his urologic surgery residency at Harvard Medical School in 1985, and his Surgical Oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in 1988. He is certified by the American Board of Urology, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons.

#5604

Julie McElrath

#54118

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

M. Juliana “Julie” McElrath is a senior vice president and director of the vaccine and infection disease division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the principal investigator of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network Laboratory Center in Seattle, Washington. She is also a professor at the University of Washington.

#5605

Frederick F. Becker

#122604

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

#5606

Allen C. Enders

#122613

Overall Influence

#5607

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin

#122625

Overall Influence

#5608

Matthias Endres

#122632

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#5609

Tom Gilb

#13434

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Tom Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metrics, software inspection, and evolutionary processes. Biography Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in Pasadena, California, United States. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1956 and to Norway in 1958. He took his first job with IBM in 1958 and became a freelance consultant in 1960.

#5610

Neil J. Douglas

#122726

Overall Influence

#5611

Elliott S. Fisher

#56991

Overall Influence

Elliott S. Fisher is a health policy researcher and advocate for improving health system performance in the United States. He helped develop the concept of accountable care organizations and championed their adoption by Medicare. The development of the Affordable Care Act was influenced by his research on disparities in healthcare spending and utilization across the United States. He has strongly supported a rapid transition from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance models in the U.S. healthcare industry. He is a tenured faculty member at Dartmouth College, where he teaches in the Masters in...

#5612

Ursula Günther

#21783

Overall Influence

1927 - 2006 (79 years)

Ursula Günther was a German musicologist specializing in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries and the music of Giuseppe Verdi. She coined the term , to categorize the rhythmically complex music that followed .

#5613

Jonathan Golledge

#122761

Overall Influence

#5614

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf

#92540

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf is a Catalan philosopher, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He directs the Aporia Research Group, whose field of study is contemporary philosophy and, specifically, the relationship between philosophy and psychiatry.

#5615

Michael Zimmer

#22433

Overall Influence

Michael Zimmer is a privacy and data ethics scholar. He currently is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University and Director of the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society. Previously, he was on the faculty at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and director of the Center for Information Policy Research. Zimmer is on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum, and was on the executive committee of the Association of Internet Researchers from 2009-2016. He was the Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Pro...

#5616

Andrew Barker

#66427

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Andrew Dennison Barker, was a British classicist and academic, specialising in ancient Greek music and the intersection between musical theory and philosophy. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham from 1998 to 2008, and had previously taught at the University of Warwick, University of Cambridge, and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

#5617

Gordon B. Jr. Cutler

#122849

Overall Influence

#5618

Iyad Rahwan

#57566

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Iyad Rahwan , is a Syrian-Australian scientist. He is the director of the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Between 2015 and 2020, he was an associate professor of Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. Rahwan's work lies at the intersection of the computer and social sciences, where he has investigated topics in computational social science, collective intelligence, large-scale cooperation, and the social aspects of artificial intelligence.

#5619

Masamichi Muramatsu

#122873

Overall Influence

#5620

Michael Rectenwald

#38877

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Michael D. Rectenwald is an American scholar and former professor. Although he has written about 19th-century British secularism, he may be most known as a critic of the contemporary social justice movement.

#5621

Alan H. B. Wu

#122910

Overall Influence

#5622

Arnold Zuboff

#109052

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Arnold Stuart Zuboff is an American philosopher who has worked on topics such as personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of probability. He is the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem and a view analogous to open individualism—the position that there is one subject of experience, who is everyone—which he calls "universalism".

#5623

José Medina

#85581

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

José Medina is Walter Hill Scott professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the British Wittgenstein Society, the North American Wittgenstein Society, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy , the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and the Tennessee Philosophical Association.

#5624

Sergio Jaramillo Caro

#41377

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Sergio Jaramillo Caro is a Colombian politician. He recently was the High Commissioner of Peace under President Juan Manuel Santos leading with Humberto de la Calle the Colombian Peace process between Colombia and the FARC guerrillas between 2012 and 2016. He was previously in government as vice minister of defence and also held the position of national security advisor between 2010 and 2012.

#5625

Holger K. Eltzschig

#122926

Overall Influence

#5626

Nicholas Southwood

#25583

Overall Influence

Nicholas Southwood is an Australian philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory. Southwood is known for his research on contractualism and social philosophy.

#5627

Harvey R. Colten.

#122962

Overall Influence

#5628

Frans M. J. Debruyne

#122974

Overall Influence

#5629

Jecko V. Thachil

#123027

Overall Influence

#5630

Brett Eugene Quincy Bouma

#123044

Overall Influence

#5631

Joseph J Eron

#123052

Overall Influence

#5632

Norman Uphoff

#39754

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Norman Uphoff is an American social scientist now involved with agroecology serving as a Professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University. He is the acting director of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and former director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development 1990–2005.

#5633

Arlen Dale Hanssen

#123070

Overall Influence

#5634

Thomas Matthijs Van Gulik

#123088

Overall Influence

#5635

Sander Kersten

#123091

Overall Influence

#5636

Murray Smith

#42737

Overall Influence

Murray Smith is a film theorist and philosopher of art based at the University of Kent, where he is Professor of Philosophy, Art, and Film and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre. He is the author of three books and numerous articles on film and aesthetics, and the co-editor of three collections of essays. He was President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image from 2014 to 2017, and has served on the editorial boards of Screen, Cinema Journal, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Projections and Series. He has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship , and a Laurance S Rockefeller Fellowship at Princeton University’s Centre for Human Values .

#5637

Roger Stupp

#123110

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#5638

Diana. B. Petitti

#123160

Overall Influence

#5639

Moshe Mazor

#123164

Overall Influence

#5640

Bernard Lievegoed

Bernard Lievegoed

#22130

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Bernardus Cornelis Johannes Lievegoed was a Dutch medical doctor, psychiatrist and author. He is most famous for establishing a theory of organizational development. He founded the N.P.I., or Netherlands Pedagogical Institute, which works with organizations and individuals to help these realize their economic, social and cultural goals. He also founded the Vrije Hogeschool in Driebergen.

#5641

Benjamin. J. Scherlag

#123182

Overall Influence

#5642

Kenneth Wain

#86746

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Kenneth Wain is a major Maltese philosopher and educator. His areas of specialisation in philosophy are chiefly education, ethics, political philosophy. Life Beginnings Wain was born at Sliema, Malta, in 1943. He then pursued his higher studies in philosophy and in education at the University of London, England. He later studied philosophy in Malta.

#5643

Gila Hanna

#43458

Overall Influence

Gila Hanna is a Canadian mathematics educator and philosopher of mathematics whose research interests include the nature and educational role of mathematical proofs, and gender in mathematics education. She is professor emerita in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto, affiliated with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the former director of mathematics education at the Fields Institute, and the founder of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.

#5644

Philip R. Greipp

#123219

Overall Influence

#5645

Frank Milton Schabel

#123251

Overall Influence

#5646

Joseph A. Bellanti

#123262

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

#5647

Kiyoshi Kurokawa

#123274

Overall Influence

#5648

Lloyd P. Aiello

#123305

Overall Influence

#5649

Benjamin F. Ward

#101374

Overall Influence

1954 - 2013 (59 years)

Benjamin F. Ward, Jr. was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Duke University Department of Philosophy and was the Associate Dean for Faculty Program at Duke. He was an accomplished pianist who began playing at the age of six. He died in 2013 in Durham, NC, after battling a long illness.

#5650

Keith G. Harding

#120124

Overall Influence

Keith G. Harding CBE FRCGP FRCP FRCS FLSW is a British physician. Harding graduated from Birmingham University with an MBChB degree in Medicine in 1976. Harding is the Director of TIME Institute and Head of the Wound Healing Research Unit in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. He is Clinical Lead for Wound Healing in the Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust. In September 2013 Harding was appointed Dean of Clinical Innovation at Cardiff University. From 2002 to 2005 he was Head of the Department of Surgery at Cardiff University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Wound Journal.

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