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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6251

Jacek Jassem

#129653

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

#6252

Lucien B. Guze

#129655

Overall Influence

#6253

Mitchell H. Katz

#129662

Overall Influence

#6254

Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier

Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier

#78332

Overall Influence

1918 - 2017 (99 years)

The Rev. Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier was an American scholar in the field of religious studies. He served as Professor of Religion at Trinity College, Connecticut, and as a deacon in the Episcopal Church. He is known for his work on Christianity, analyzing idolatry and distinctions between mystical and biblical thought, his efforts on developing and advancing religious studies, and for founding the Religion Department at Trinity College in 1955.

#6255

Nikola Biller-Andorno

#120463

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nikola Biller-Andorno is a German bioethicist. She is Professor and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Biller-Andorno studied medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as well as philosophy and social sciences at the University of Hagen, Germany . Multiple scholarships and awards allowed her to pursue her research interests at prestigious institutions such as the Hastings Center , Yale University and the Harvard Medical School . After completing her habilitation thesis in ethics and theory of medicine at the University of Göttingen...

#6256

Jeffrey A. Cadeddu

#129689

Overall Influence

#6257

Jürgen Ludwig

#129695

Overall Influence

#6258

Dennis M. Bier

#129714

Overall Influence

#6259

Robert L. Vessella

#129718

Overall Influence

#6260

Ellen R. Wald

#129719

Overall Influence

#6261

Geoffrey Hunter

#95192

Overall Influence

1925 - 2000 (75 years)

Geoffrey Basil Bailey Hunter was a British professor, philosopher, and logician. Hunter was Professor Emeritus of the University College of Wales, Bangor, where he was professor from 1978 until he retired in 1992. He also taught at Queen's University Kingston, Ontario and was a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds , and reader in Logic at the University of St Andrews . Geoffrey was probably most known for his work titled Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First-Order Logic, published in 1971.

#6262

Stephan Von Haehling

#129781

Overall Influence

#6263

Roger D. Cone

#90402

Overall Influence

Roger D. Cone is the Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute and the Vice Provost for the Biosciences Initiative at the University of Michigan; a member of the editorial board for the journal Cell Metabolism; and a member of the National Academies of Sciences and Medicine. He is a noted researcher in the biological underpinnings of obesity, anorexia, cachexia and other eating and metabolic disorders.

#6264

Nuel D. Jr Belnap

#129796

Overall Influence

#6265

Joseph Mercola

#3438

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Joseph Michael Mercola is an American alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and Internet business personality. He markets largely unproven dietary supplements and medical devices. On his website, Mercola and colleagues advocate unproven and pseudoscientific alternative health notions including homeopathy and opposition to vaccination. These positions have received persistent criticism. Mercola is a member of several alternative medicine organizations as well as the political advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which promotes scientifically discredited views about medicine and disease.

#6266

Stanley S. Siegelman

#129816

Overall Influence

#6267

Richard Ν. Fine,

#129823

Overall Influence

#6268

David Juurlink

#106934

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

David Juurlink is a Canadian pharmacologist and internist. He is head of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, as well as a medical toxicologist at the Ontario Poison Centre and a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is known for researching adverse effects caused by drug interactions, with some of this research funded by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He has been very critical of his fellow physicians' regular prescribing of dangerous opioids like Tramadol and fentanyl.

#6269

Mehdi Tavassoli

#129875

Overall Influence

#6270

Kenneth J. Leveno

#129909

Overall Influence

#6271

Emanuele Zucca

#129914

Overall Influence

#6272

Jeffrey S. Ginsberg

#129922

Overall Influence

#6273

Julia R. Greer

#88970

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Julia Rosolovsky Greer is a materials scientist and is the Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology . As of 2019, Greer is also the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech.

#6274

Viking Olov Björk

#129969

Overall Influence

#6275

Darrel Parthipan Francis

#130006

Overall Influence

#6276

Hamid Naficy

#22103

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Hamid Naficy is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program.

#6277

Jack R. Radford

#130032

Overall Influence

#6278

Dorothy B. Porter

Dorothy B. Porter

#44388

Overall Influence

1905 - 1995 (90 years)

Dorothy Louise Porter Wesley was a librarian, bibliographer and curator, who built the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University into a world-class research collection. She was the first African American to receive a library science degree from Columbia University. Porter published numerous bibliographies on African American history. When she realized that the Dewey Decimal System had only two classification numbers for African Americans, one for slavery and one for colonization, she created a new classification system that ordered books by genre and author.

#6279

Richard L. Anderson

#130040

Overall Influence

#6280

Bertrand Stern

#20821

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Bertrand Stern is a German author and philosopher living in Siegburg. He describes himself as a freischaffender Philosoph . He focuses on issues critical to civilization with regard to human dignity, in particular the outbreak from the school ideology and aspects of free education, as well as questions about medicine and health, money and work, and transport and mobility.

#6281

Cirilo Rozman

#130046

Overall Influence

#6282

John Timothy Greenamyre

#130053

Overall Influence

#6283

Peter J. Roughley

#130055

Overall Influence

#6284

Johan Degenaar

#59257

Overall Influence

1926 - 2015 (89 years)

Johannes Jacobus Degenaar OIS was a South African philosopher, and Emertitus Professor at the Stellenbosch University, who is considered "one of the most respected and influential philosophers in South Africa."

#6285

Charalabos H. Pothoulakis

#130076

Overall Influence

#6286

John C. Mcgiff

#130095

Overall Influence

#6287

Martin I. Resnick

#130096

Overall Influence

#6288

Ben Carson

#21275

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent Black conservatives in America.

#6289

Dean Rickles

#69502

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney and a Director of the Sydney Centre for Time. Life Dean Rickles was born in Hull, Yorkshire. He briefly trained as a concert pianist at the London College of Music, before switching to philosophy. He received an MA from the University of Sheffield and PhD from the University of Leeds . During a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary in 2005, he worked on the application of complex systems theory to population health. He took up a lectureship at the University of Sydney in ...

#6290

Seigou Kitano

#130124

Overall Influence

#6291

Viola Cordova

#112405

Overall Influence

1937 - 2002 (65 years)

Viola Cordova , a philosopher, artist, and author, member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, was one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in philosophy. Early life Viola Cordova grew up in Taos, New Mexico; her father was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, and her mother was Hispanic. She earned her bachelor's degree from Idaho State University, and her MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of New Mexico.

#6292

Rainer Landgraf

#130139

Overall Influence

#6293

Aram V. Chobanian

#130167

Overall Influence

#6294

David P. Wright

#35505

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Pearson Wright is an American theologian and the professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at Brandeis University. He is a scholar in the field of the Hebrew Bible, especially the composition of the Pentateuch and inner-biblical exegesis, as well as Near Eastern and biblical ritual and law in comparative perspective.

#6295

Mahinda Deegalle

#68439

Overall Influence

Mahinda Deegalle is a scholar and writer who teaches at Bath Spa University. In 2000, he held the Numata Professorship in Buddhist Studies at McGill University. He writes both in Sinhala and English.

#6296

Roy Taylor

#128100

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Roy Taylor is a physician, diabetologist, and author who is currently the Director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre. His Scopus h-index is 54 . Taylor has worked on identifying the cause of type 2 diabetes and in furthering retinal screening for diabetic eye disease in the United Kingdom.

#6297

Anthony A. Romeo

#130220

Overall Influence

#6298

William Hamilton

#60673

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

William Hughes Hamilton III was a prominent theologian and proponent of the Death of God movement. Hamilton died in 2012 at age 87 in Portland, Oregon. Education and career Hamilton was born March 9, 1924, to William Hughes Hamilton II and Helen Hamilton . in Evanston, Illinois. In 1943 Hamilton graduated from Oberlin College. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, then earned a master's degree from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1949. In 1952 Hamilton received a doctorate in theology from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

#6299

Thomas J. Mathiesen

#49506

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Thomas James Mathiesen is an American musicologist, whose research focuses on Ancient music and the music theory of ancient and early periods. A leading scholar of the music of Ancient Greece, Mathiesen has written four monographs and numerous articles on the topic.

#6300

Adrian Covic

#55961

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Adrian Covic is a Romanian physician and specialist in nephrology. A native of Iași, his father Mircea is a geneticist, while his mother Maria is a nephrologist. He attended the local Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he later joined the faculty. In 1999, he became head of the dialysis and kidney transplant section at the C. I. Parhon hospital, advancing to director in 2003. In 2005, he became president of the Romanian Society of Nephrology. He left as hospital director in 2012, becoming head of a nephrology clinic.

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