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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6001

Stephen Pattison

#94915

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Stephen Pattison is a British scholar and former H. G. Wood Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. He is best known for his research on practical theology, ethics, and public service management. He attended Bootham School, York and Selwyn College, Cambridge, before going on to train for ministry in the Anglican Church at Edinburgh Theological College and Edinburgh University, where he gained a PhD in Theology.

#6002

Roberto Cipriani

Roberto Cipriani

#33064

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Roberto Cipriani is an Italian social scientist. He is professor emeritus of sociology at Roma Tre University. "He has written extensively on popular religion, the sacred and secularization", and is known for his unconventional applications of the "concept of 'diffused religion' and then that of 'religion of values' ". He has made analytical contributions to the concept of diffused religion by using grounded theory. "He also underlines what he calls the 'meta-institutional' character of this religion, even if, he says, these characteristics have a religious institutional origin".

#6003

Fiona Jenkins

#111491

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Fiona Jenkins is an Australian philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. She is known for her works on feminist theory, the status of women in philosophy and Nietzschean philosophy. Jenkins was the convenor of the ANU Gender Institute from 2012 to 2015.

#6004

Davy Vancampfort

#127143

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#6005

Walter A. Kukull

#127144

Overall Influence

#6006

Allen D. Elster

#127145

Overall Influence

#6007

Mikołaj Bojańczyk

#30067

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Mikołaj Bojańczyk is a Polish theoretical computer scientist and logician known for settling open problems on tree walking automata jointly with Thomas Colcombet, and for contributions to logic in automata theory. He is a professor at Warsaw University.

#6008

Neil E. Caporaso

#127178

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#6009

Kaave Lajevardi

#123487

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kaave Lajevardi is an Iranian philosopher. He is known for translating classic philosophy books into Persian. Lajevardi was a faculty member of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences . He has published some papers on academic dishonesty in Iranian universities.

#6010

Mahmoud Rafieian‐kopaei

#127197

Overall Influence

#6011

Lewis Lockwood

#39429

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Lewis H. Lockwood is an American musicologist whose main fields are the music of the Italian Renaissance and the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven. Joseph Kerman described him as "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation, and the leading American authority on Beethoven".

#6012

Celestia (tia) S. Higano

#127212

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#6013

Maciej Gołąb

#99453

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Maciej Gołąb is a Polish musicologist. Biography Gołąb was born in Lębork and educated at University of Warsaw, where he received his M.A. in 1976 and PhD in 1981. At University of Warsaw he studied under Józef M. Chomiński and Zofia Lissa and wrote his doctoral thesis on the history of the theory of twelve-tone technique. From 1978 to 2003 he taught at University of Warsaw. 2003 he joined the faculty of University of Wrocław, where he became a full professor and chairman of the Department of Musicology . In 1999, he was visiting scholar-in-residence at Indiana University Bloomington and in ...

#6014

C. Garrison Fathman

#51662

Overall Influence

C. Garrison Fathman is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and Director of the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford University. He was Founder and first-President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies. As Director of the CCIS, Dr. Fathman initiated a multidisciplinary approach to study and treat autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and insulin-dependent diabetes me...

#6015

William Krivit

#127220

Overall Influence

#6016

Lorenzo Cerroni

#127278

Overall Influence

#6017

Morton N. Swartz

#127282

Overall Influence

#6018

J. Robert Cameron

#127286

Overall Influence

#6019

Oliver Sensen

#102131

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Oliver Sensen is a German philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is known for his expertise on Kantian philosophy. Sensen is the vice-president of North American Kant Society.

#6020

Todd J. Albert

#127325

Overall Influence

#6021

Christoph Zielinski

#23116

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Christoph Zielinski is an Austrian physician and cancer researcher. A medical oncologist, Zielinski is Director of the Clinical Division of Oncology and Chairman of the Department of Medicine I and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at the Medical University of Vienna.

#6022

Pim J. De Feyter

#127359

Overall Influence

#6023

D. Bruce Wilson

#127361

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#6024

Roland Berger

#127385

Overall Influence

#6025

Paul Pojman

#109240

Overall Influence

1966 - 2012 (46 years)

Paul Theodore Pojman was a philosopher, activist, and gardener whose interdisciplinary work involved fields such as religion, economics, and ecology. He was a professor of philosophy at Towson University in Maryland from 2002 until his death; he lived in Baltimore city at the Baltimore Free Farm in Hampden.

#6026

Mark A. Socinski

#127410

Overall Influence

#6027

Tia Powell

#66516

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Tia Powell is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist. She is Director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and of the Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics Program, as well as a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York. She holds the Trachtenberg Chair in Bioethics and is Professor of Epidemiology, Division of Bioethics, and Psychiatry. She was director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City from 1992-1998, and executive director of the New York State Task F...

#6028

Tzachi Zamir

#106517

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Tzachi Zamir is an Israeli philosopher and literary critic specialising in the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of theatre, and animal ethics. He is Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#6029

Nicola Dalbeth

#119119

Overall Influence

Nicola Dalbeth is a New Zealand academic rheumatologist whose research focuses on understanding the impact and mechanisms of gout. She supports clinical and laboratory research programmes and holds dual appointments as a full professor at the University of Auckland and as a consultant for the Auckland District Health Board.

#6030

Lisa Cartwright

#36911

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Lisa Cartwright is a scholar, author, professor and critic best known for helping to found the field of visual culture studies and for coauthoring Practices of Looking, a widely translated visual studies textbook with Marita Sturken that is regarded as one of the first comprehensive books in the field after John Berger's Ways of Seeing. In Practices of Looking, Cartwright and Sturken examine the complexity of the relationship between viewers and objects in a variety of visual media ranging from film and photography to advertising, painting, and printmaking. They pay especially close attention ...

#6031

William Kinderman

William Kinderman

#77487

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

William Andrew Kinderman is an American author and music scholar who plays the piano. Life Born in Philadelphia, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later the same subjects at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He studied musicology at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. He held a professorship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently is professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Krown Klein Chair of Performance Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.

#6032

Andreas Wilhelm Unterberg

#127530

Overall Influence

#6033

Kausik Kumar Ray

#127532

Overall Influence

#6034

Anthony N. Damato

#127535

Overall Influence

#6035

Victor L. L. Villemagne

#127544

Overall Influence

#6036

Phil Gold

#39840

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Phil Gold is a Canadian physician, scientist, professor and author. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a BSc degree in 1957, a MSc degree in 1961, a MD degree in 1961, and a PhD in 1965 from McGill University. He obtained his Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada fellowship certification in Internal Medicine in November 1966.

#6037

Stefano Bellucci

#127554

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#6038

Rebecca Whisnant

#65951

Overall Influence

Rebecca Suzanne Whisnant is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Dayton. Biography Whisnant gained her degree in philosophy from Oberlin College in 1989. She went on to complete a masters , and a Ph.D. , both in philosophy, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#6039

David Charles Klonoff

#127568

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#6040

Daniel J. Lasker

Daniel J. Lasker

#66691

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Daniel Judah Lasker is an American-born Israeli scholar of Jewish philosophy. As of 2017, he is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish thought at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Biography Born on April 5, 1949, in Flint, Michigan, United States, to Arnold and Miriam Lasker, he grew up in Orange, New Jersey, where his father served as a congregational Rabbi. As a teenager he was active in USY and served as chapter head and on the regional board. He received his B.A., M.A. and PhD from Brandeis University, all in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, he also was a visiting research student at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#6041

Ian T. Magrath

#127589

Overall Influence

#6042

William U. Shipley

#127592

Overall Influence

#6043

Justin Stebbing

#61129

Overall Influence

Justin Stebbing is editor-in-chief of Nature’s cancer journal Oncogene, a visiting Professor of Cancer Medicine and Oncology at Imperial College, London and a Professor of Biomedical Sciences at ARU, Cambridge. In October 2022 he joined the Phoenix Hospital Group in London to provide medical services to patients for the management of cancer, in person and remotely. He specialises in a range of solid malignancies including difficult cases with few conventional options and has published over 700 papers, the majority regarding new therapeutic and translational approaches including use of immuno...

#6044

Leonard Harris

#105914

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Leonard Harris is a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, where he has directed the Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. program and the African American Studies and Research Center. Before Purdue he taught at Morgan State University, a public, historically Black research university in Baltimore, where he created and directed a Philosophy for Children Center as an affiliate of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at Montclair State University. He wrote about his experience introducing philosophy to Washington, D.C. public schools in his book, Children in Chaos: A "Philosophy for Children" Experience .

#6045

Hans F. Stich

#127611

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#6046

Bruce Daniel Minsky

#127622

Overall Influence

#6047

Adriana Albini

#103082

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Adriana Albini is an Italian pathologist and cancer researcher. She developed the concept of angioprevention which can be used to control cancer development. She is a competitive fencer and six of her novels have been published. In 2000 she was the Scientific Director at the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus in Milan.

#6048

Beth Karlan

#98164

Overall Influence

Beth Young Karlan is an American gynecologic oncologist. In 2008, she was named editor-in-chief of the medical journals Gynecologic Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology Reports. In 2012, Karlan was appointed by the White House to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board, and in 2015, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

#6049

Sornchai Looareesuwan

#127694

Overall Influence

#6050

Dwight Harken

#21485

Overall Influence

1910 - 1993 (83 years)

Dwight Emary Harken was an American surgeon. He was an innovator in heart surgery and introduced the concept of the intensive care unit. Life Dwight Harken was born in Osceola, Iowa. He received his Bachelor's and Medical degrees from Harvard. While working at the Bellevue hospital in New York, he was awarded a fellowship to London to continue his studies in medicine.

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