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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6201

Jean Hani

#48938

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Jean Hani was a French philosopher and Traditionalist author, and a professor of Greek civilization and literature at the University of Amiens. Life and Works Very little is known about Jean Hani's personal life other than his year of birth. Jean Borella's mention of the author's modesty and his older age "studious retirement" seem to agree with this scarcity of information.

#6202

Edgar Bauer

1820 - 1886 (66 years)

Edgar Bauer was a German political philosopher and a member of the Young Hegelians. He was the younger brother of Bruno Bauer. According to Lawrence S. Stepelevich, Edgar Bauer was the most anarchistic of the Young Hegelians, and "...it is possible to discern, in the early writings of Edgar Bauer, the theoretical justification of political terrorism." German anarchists such as Max Nettlau and Gustav Landauer credited Edgar Bauer with founding the anarchist tradition in Germany. In the mid-1840s, Marx' and Engels' critique of the Bauer brothers marked the beginning of their collaboration and an important stage in the development of Marxist thought.

#6203

Abdul Haq Ansari

Abdul Haq Ansari

#46875

Overall Influence

1931 - 2012 (81 years)

Muhammad Abdul Haq Ansari was an Islamic scholar from India. He was the Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind from 2003 to 2007. He was the member of Central Advisory Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was also the Chancellor of Al Jamia Al Islamia, Shantapuram, Kerala. His book Sufism and Shariah is a synthesis of Sufi and Shariah thought, especially a Tatbiq of Shaikh Ahmed Sir Hindi and Shah Waliullah's thought. It grew out of his in-depth engagement with kalam, tasawwuf and fiqh in Islamic history. His other major contributions are a book on Mishkawah's philosophy and an English translation of Ibn Taymiyyah's fatwas with an introduction.

#6204

Matthew Stewart

#54342

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Matthew Stewart is an American philosopher and author currently living in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He is the author of The 9.9 Percent, Nature's God, The Management Myth, The Courtier and the Heretic, Monturiol's Dream, and The Truth About Everything. He graduated from Princeton University in 1985 with a concentration in political philosophy and was awarded the Sachs Scholarship from Princeton for study at Oxford University, where he earned a D.Phil. in philosophy in 1988. He worked as a management consultant prior to writing full-time.

#6205

Dimitris Vardoulakis

#84115

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Dimitris Vardoulakis is a Greek philosopher and Associate Professor of philosophy in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He works in the tradition of Continental philosophy, and has published on a variety of topics, including the relation between literature and philosophy, power and sovereignty.

#6206

Yvonne Picard

1920 - 1943 (23 years)

Yvonne Picard was a French philosopher and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. She and her brother, the historian Gilbert Charles-Picard, were the children of the archaeologist Charles Picard.

#6207

Arvind Sharma

#46064

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. Sharma's works focus on Hinduism, philosophy of religion. In editing books his works include Our Religions and Women in World Religions, Feminism in World Religions was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book .

#6208

Anton E. Becker

#100317

Overall Influence

#6209

Helen B. Taussig

Helen B. Taussig

1898 - 1986 (88 years)

Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot . This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

#6210

Tiziana Terranova

Tiziana Terranova

#66614

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She lectures on the digital media cultures and politics in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'.

#6211

Klement Jug

1898 - 1924 (26 years)

Klement Jug was a Slovene philosopher, essayist and mountaineer who died while climbing Mount Triglav. Although he did not publish many works during his lifetime, he became one of the most influential thinkers of the younger generations of Slovenian intellectuals in the interwar period.

#6212

Valéry Giroux

#86678

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Valéry Giroux is a Canadian philosopher, lawyer and animal rights activist from Quebec. She is an adjunct professor at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Law, associate director for the Centre de recherche en éthique , a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and an author and speaker on animal ethics issues and veganism, with a notable focus on the topic of antispeciesism through her co-editorship of the antispeciesist journal L'Amorce. Her philosophy argues for the equal moral consideration of all sentient beings, objects to the ethical notion that the utilization of non-human an...

#6213

Norman Myers

#100406

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#6214

Georg Perthes

1869 - 1927 (58 years)

Georg Clemens Perthes was a German surgeon and X-ray diagnostic pioneer. Biography Perthes was born in Moers, Kingdom of Prussia. In 1891 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Bonn, and later was a surgeon in Bonn and Leipzig where he worked with Friedrich Trendelenburg . In 1910 he succeeded Paul von Bruns as head of the surgical clinic at Tübingen. In 1900–01 he was a military surgeon at the German colonial seaport of Qingdao .

#6215

Felice Petraglia

#100411

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#6216

Kazimierz Stabrowski

Kazimierz Stabrowski

1869 - 1929 (60 years)

Kazimierz Stabrowski was a Polish painter, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He also founded the first lodges of the Theosophical Society in Poland. Biography Kazimierz Stabrowski came from a Polish landed gentry family. His father Antoni was a military in the Russian Army and his mother Zofia Pilecka came from a rich Polish family.

#6217

Mae Jemison

#1990

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which the Endeavour orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.

#6218

Deborah Modrak

#33373

Overall Influence

Deborah K. W. Modrak is a classicist who focuses on Aristotle and who is professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester. Biography Modrak earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1974.

#6219

Gianni Bonadonna

#100437

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#6220

Jiro Suzuki

#100457

Overall Influence

#6221

François Fédier

François Fédier

#59842

Overall Influence

1935 - 2021 (86 years)

François Fédier was a French philosopher and translator. Biography Fédier was a student of Jean Beaufret in the 1950s and began translating the works of Martin Heidegger in 1958. Some controversies surrounded his translations of Heidegger. He became a teacher at the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine until his retirement in 2001. He notably taught philosophers and .

#6222

Roger C. Bone

#100474

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#6223

Andrew Kenneth Burroughs

Andrew Kenneth Burroughs

#94896

Overall Influence

1953 - 2014 (61 years)

Andrew K. Burroughs was a British physician, researcher and teacher. He is renowned for his wide contribution to the field of Hepatology; he has been termed one of the greatest hepatologists of our times and the true representative of Dame Sheila Sherlock's legacy.

#6224

Michael Oliver

#75742

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

Michael Francis Oliver CBE, FRCP, FRSE was a 20th-century British cardiologist who served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for the period 1985 to 1988. He made major advances in identifying the causes of heart disease.

#6225

Rufus Cole

1872 - 1966 (94 years)

Rufus Cole was an American medical doctor and the first director of the Rockefeller University Hospital. Under his leadership significant advances in treatment of bacterial pneumonia and later against tuberculosis were made. In 1912 Cole and Alphonse Dochez developed a serum against Type 1 pneumococcus and also developed a method for testing whether an infection is caused by this or some other type of the bacterium. The New York Times in its obituary for Cole called him "a pioneer in clinical medicine" and "an authority on lobar pneumonia". The New York Times also wrote in the same obituary t...

#6226

Bernard de Give

#80256

Overall Influence

1913 - 2020 (107 years)

Bernard de Give was a Belgian priest and writer who became a monk of Scourmont Abbey. Biography After his secondary studies at Collège Saint-Servais in Liège, de Give joined the Society of Jesus on 23 September 1931. He earned a degree in philosophy at the Faculté de Philosophie S.J. in Egenhoven, and later a degree in philosophy from Université catholique de Louvain. During his studies, he became fluent in Sanskrit and learned of Eastern religions under the direction of Étienne Lamotte. De Give was ordained on 27 July 1944.

#6227

Andreas Laupacis

#100503

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#6228

James Elliot Cabot

James Elliot Cabot

1821 - 1903 (82 years)

James Elliot Cabot was an American philosopher and author, born in Boston to Samuel Cabot Jr., and Eliza Cabot. Education and career Having received his bachelor's degree from Harvard Law School in 1845, Elliot started a law firm.

#6229

Johann Christoph Schwab

Johann Christoph Schwab

1743 - 1821 (78 years)

Johann Christoph Schwab was a Württemberg philosopher. Life Johann Christoph Schwab was born in Ilsfeld, a small country town in the hills north of Stuttgart. His father was an accountant employed in the public service.

#6230

Brian Brock

#60889

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Brian Brock is an American theologian. He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. Early life and education Brock was born and raised in Baytown, Texas, where he was educated at Robert E. Lee High School. Before training as a theologian, he worked as an investigative reporter and editorialist from 1997 to 1999 for the Baytown Sun.

#6231

Józef Gołuchowski

Józef Gołuchowski

1797 - 1858 (61 years)

Józef Wojciech Gołuchowski was a Polish philosopher. Gołuchowski, a professor at Vilnius University, was co-creator of the Polish Romanticist "national philosophy." He preached the concept of the nation as a creation of God, with a peculiar "national spirit," that realized the ideal of a hierarchical society in which each individual is a necessary fragment of the whole. He opposed 18th-century materialist philosophy from an irrationalist position. In the theory of knowledge, he preached the primacy of feeling and intuition over reason.

#6232

Richard L. Guerrant

#92261

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Richard L. Guerrant is an American physician, medical school professor, and medical researcher, specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. Biography Guerrant received his bachelor's degree from Davidson College and his M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Harvard Medical Service at Boston City Hospital, where Maxwell Finland was his supervising attending physician and mentor.

#6233

John Caffey

1895 - 1978 (83 years)

John Patrick Caffey was an American pediatrician and radiologist who is often referred to as one of the founders of pediatric radiology. He was the first to describe shaken baby syndrome, infantile cortical hyperostosis, and Kenny-Caffey syndrome.

#6234

Matteo Liberatore

1810 - 1892 (82 years)

Matteo Liberatore, SJ was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and writer. He helped popularize the Jesuit periodical Civiltà Cattolica in close collaboration with the papacy in the last half of the 19th century.

#6235

Franco Bolelli

#78549

Overall Influence

1950 - 2020 (70 years)

Franco Bolelli was an Italian philosopher. His philosophical influences included Nietzsche and Taoism. Biography He was born and lived in Milan. A philosopher and essayist, he was the author of numerous books, including "Con gli occhi della tigre" , "Per tutti i per sempre" , "+Donna +Uomo" , and "Tutta la verità sull'Amore" , all three written with Manuela Mantegazza. He also wrote "Si fa così" , "Giocate!" , and "Viva Tutto!" together with Lorenzo Cherubini, also known as Jovanotti . He designed and staged dozens of events and festivals, including "Il Festival dell'Amore" , "Frontier...

#6236

J. W. N. Sullivan

1886 - 1937 (51 years)

John William Navin Sullivan was an English popular science writer and literary journalist, and the author of a study of Beethoven. He wrote some of the earliest non-technical accounts of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and was known personally to many important writers in London in the 1920s, including Aldous Huxley, John Middleton Murry, Wyndham Lewis, Aleister Crowley and T. S. Eliot.

#6237

Julio Ugarte y Ugarte

1890 - 1949 (59 years)

Julio Ugarte y Ugarte was a Peruvian writer and founder of the Society of Transcendental Philosophy in Brazil. Personal life Julio Ugarte y Ugarte was born in Lima, the son of Luis Ugarte and Fidelia Rosa Ugarte.

#6238

Henry Calderwood

1830 - 1897 (67 years)

Rev Henry Calderwood FRSE LLD was a Scottish minister and philosopher. Life He was born in Peebles on 10 May 1830, the son of William Calderwood, a corn merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Mitchell. He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution and then the High School in Edinburgh, and later attended University of Edinburgh. He studied for the ministry of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and in 1856 was ordained pastor of the Greyfriars church, Glasgow. He also examined in mental philosophy for the University of Glasgow from 1861 to 1864, and from 1866 conducted the moral philosophy c...

#6239

Zera Yacob

1599 - 1692 (93 years)

Zera Yacob was an Ethiopian philosopher from the city of Aksum in the 17th century. His 1667 treatise, developed around 1630 and known in the original Ge'ez language as the Hatata , has been compared to René Descartes' Discours de la méthode .

#6240

Charles Edward Garman

Charles Edward Garman

1850 - 1907 (57 years)

Charles Edward Garman was a professor of philosophy at Amherst College. He taught pupils such as Calvin Coolidge and Robert S. Woodworth. He is credited with influencing Woodworth towards a career in psychology.

#6241

Athenodoros Cordylion

50 BC - 1 BC (49 years)

Athenodoros Cordylion was a Stoic philosopher, born in Tarsus. He was the keeper of the library at Pergamon, where he was known to cut out passages from books on Stoic philosophy if he disagreed with them:

#6242

Dardanus of Athens

160 BC - 85 BC (75 years)

Dardanus was a Stoic philosopher, who lived c. 160 – c. 85 BC. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus. Cicero mentions him as being one of the leaders of the Stoic school at Athens together with Mnesarchus at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away from scepticism . After the death of Panaetius , the Stoic school at Athens seems to have fragmented, and Dardanus was probably one of several leading Stoics teaching in this era.

#6243

Nestor of Tarsus

#87631

Overall Influence

Nestor of Tarsus was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Stoic school of thought. He was from Tarsus in Cilikia. Nestor was active at a Stoic school in Athens. Otherwise, little is known about his life. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius contained his biography in Book VII, but that portion of a book has disappeared; only the mention of his name in the table of contents remains. Nestor was a contemporary of Panaetius, either his disciple or a fellow student. He is sometimes mixed with another Nestor of Tarsos, who is said to have been a teacher of Tiberius, bu...

#6244

Basilides

#87627

Overall Influence

Basilides , was a Stoic philosopher who denied the existence of incorporeal entities. Nothing is known about the life of Basilides. From a table of contents in one of the medieval manuscripts, we know that he was listed in the missing part of Book VII of Diogenes Laërtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. His position in the table of contents indicates that he lived around the time of Antipater of Tarsus in the 2nd century BC.

#6245

Mnasagoras

#87630

Overall Influence

Mnasagoras was an ancient Greek stoic philosopher. He was probably from Alexandria Troas. Almost nothing is known about the life of Mnasagoras. He was either the disciple of Antipater of Tarsos or Diogenes of Babylon . The book VII of Diogenes Laërtius' work Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers has contained his biography, but the section containing it has been lost; only a reference to it in the table of contents remains.

#6246

Sosigenes

#87628

Overall Influence

Sosigenes was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Stoic school. He was a student of Antipater of Tarsus. There is not much known about Sosigenes and his thought. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius in Book VII contained his biography, but that portion of the book has disappeared; only the mention of the name in the table of contents remains. According to Alexander of Aphrodisias, Sosigenes was influenced by Aristotle and modified stoic doctrines accordingly.

#6247

Boethus of Sidon

200 BC - Present (2226 years)

Boethus was a Stoic philosopher from Sidon, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon. Philosophy He is said to have denied, contrary to the standard Stoic view, that the cosmos is an animate being, and he suggested that it was not the whole world which was divine, but only the ether or sphere of the fixed stars. He argued that the world was eternal, in particular, he rejected the Stoic conflagration because god or the World-Soul would be inactive during it, whereas it exercises Divine Providence in the actual world.

#6248

Heraclides of Tarsus

#87629

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Heraclides of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher native to Tarsus, Mersin. He was a friend of Antipater of Tarsus, the sixth scholarch of the Stoa. As a pupil of Antipater, he studied with Archedemus of Tarsus and Aristocreon, the nephew of Chrysippus.

#6249

George D Dangas

#100737

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#6250

M. D. Robert J. Ginsberg

#100749

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