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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6251

Marcello Ferrada de Noli

#9527

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Marcello Ferrada de Noli is a Swedish professor emeritus of epidemiology, and medicine doktor in psychiatry . He was research fellow and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and was later head of the research group of International and Cross-Cultural Injury Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute until 2009. Ferrada de Noli is known for his investigations on suicidal behaviour associated with severe trauma. He is the founder of the NGO Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, SWEDHR. He is also a writer, and painting artist.

#6252

Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola

1917 - 1978 (61 years)

Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola Gómez was a Spanish scholar and a Carlist politician. He is considered one of top intellectuals of the Francoist era, though not necessarily of Francoism. As theorist of law he represented the school known as iusnaturalismo, as historian of political ideas he focused mostly on Hispanidad, and as theorist of politics he pursued a Traditionalist approach. As a Carlist he remained an ideologue rather than a political protagonist.

#6253

Jakob Johann von Uexküll

Jakob Johann von Uexküll

1864 - 1944 (80 years)

Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behaviour studies and was an influence on the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of Umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok and philosopher Martin Heidegger. His works established biosemiotics as a field of research.

#6254

Hope Rugo

#58214

Overall Influence

Hope S. Rugo is professor of medicine and the director of the breast oncology clinical trials program at the University of California at San Francisco, and an investigator of SPORE in the Bay Area.

#6255

Peter H. Bennett

#100816

Overall Influence

#6256

Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragonés

#6224

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Among his peers and fans, Aragonés is widely regarded as "the world's fastest cartoonist". The Comics Journal has described Aragonés as "one of the most prolific and brilliant cartoonists of his generation". Mad editor Al Feldstein said, "He could have drawn the whole magazine if we'd let him."

#6257

Matteo Motterlini

#59533

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Matteo Motterlini is an Italian philosopher of science, behavioral and neuroeconomist. He teaches at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan, Italy. Academic career and publications Former Adviser for Social and Behavioral Sciences for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy

#6258

Matthew Kieran

#90543

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Matthew Kieran is a British philosopher and was Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds. He is known for his works on aesthetics. Books Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressAesthetics and the Sciences of Mind. Oxford University PressKnowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology. Philosophical Studies Series. SpringerMedia and Values: Intimate Transgressions in a Changing Moral and Cultural Landscape. IntellectContemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy.

#6259

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

#13429

Overall Influence

1939 - 2022 (83 years)

Peter Bogdanovich was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started his career as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire before becoming a prominent filmmaker as part of the New Hollywood movement. He received accolades including a BAFTA Award and Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

#6260

Stuart J. Youngner

#87907

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Stuart J. Youngner is Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received his BA from Swarthmore. and his MD from Case, where he also did an internship in pediatrics and a residency in psychiatry. Youngner subsequently studied bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in the areas of definitions of death, ethics of organ transplantation and procurement, clinical ethics consultation, and ...

#6261

Nelson B. Schiller

#100860

Overall Influence

#6262

Roald Bahr

#100862

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#6263

Ira F. Stone

#33448

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Rabbi Ira F. Stone is a leading figure in the contemporary renewal of the Musar movement, a Jewish ethical movement. Career Stone was ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1979, and proceeded to serve congregations in Seattle and Philadelphia while also teaching at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He served as rabbi of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia from 1988 until his retirement in 2015. Stone became the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Mussar in 2017.

#6264

John Nevil Insall

#100923

Overall Influence

#6265

Richard Huxtable

#53464

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Richard Huxtable is the Director and Professor in Medical Ethics and Law at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, at the University of Bristol. He is known principally for his work on legal and ethical issues in end-of-life decision-making and euthanasia, surgery and paediatrics and is the author of a number of books on these themes; Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life: To Treat or Not to Treat? , Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law: From Conflict to Compromise and The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook . He has also produced numerous chapters, and articles for both academic journals an...

#6266

Jean-Claude Michéa

Jean-Claude Michéa

#53003

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jean-Claude Michéa, born in 1950, is a retired philosophy professor and French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell. Libertarian socialist, he is known for his committed positions against the dominant currents of the left which, according to him, has lost all spirits of anti-capitalist struggle to make way for the “religion of progress”. Advocating several moral values near the socialism of George Orwell, Jean-Claude Michéa excoriates the leftist intelligentsia that has, in his view, gotten away from the proletarian and popular world.

#6267

Alexander S. Nadas

#100945

Overall Influence

#6268

Niralamba Swami

Niralamba Swami

1877 - 1930 (53 years)

Jatindra Nath Banerjee was one of two great Indian nationalists and freedom fighters – along with Aurobindo Ghosh – who dramatically rose to prominence between 1871 and 1910. Biography Niralamba Swami was born as Jatindra Nath Banerjee on 19 November 1877 at Channa village in Burdwan district. His father, Kalicharan Banerjee, worked as a government official at Bangaon of Jessore district of Bengal.His early education was completed at the village school. Then he passed FA from Burdwan Raj College, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta with high marks. He was admitted to B.A.

#6269

Sardar Fazlul Karim

#34631

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Sardar Fazlul Karim was a Bangladeshi academic, philosopher and essayist. Early life and family Sardar Fazlul Karim was born on 1 May 1925, to a lower middle class family in the village of Atipara located in the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency . His father, Khabiruddin Sardar, was a farmer, and his mother, Safura Begum, was a housewife. He had one brother and three sisters, and they grew up in the village.

#6270

Aeschines of Sphettus

Aeschines of Sphettus

430 BC - 360 BC (70 years)

Aeschines of Sphettus or Aeschines Socraticus , son of Lysanias, of the deme Sphettus of Athens, was a philosopher who in his youth was a follower of Socrates. Historians call him Aeschines Socraticus—"the Socratic Aeschines"—to distinguish him from the more historically influential Athenian orator also named Aeschines. His name is sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines.

#6271

Herbert Lepor

#100985

Overall Influence

#6272

Ernst Knobil

#57217

Overall Influence

1926 - 2000 (74 years)

Ernst Knobil was a scientist known for his pioneering research in endocrinology. His discoveries were important for the field of reproductive endocrinology, the development of hormonal contraceptives, and treatments for infertility.

#6273

W. R. Boyce Gibson

1869 - 1935 (66 years)

William Ralph Boyce Gibson was a British-Australian philosopher. He was an advocate of personal idealism. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of Reverend William Gibson, a Methodist minister and his wife Helen Wilhelmina, daughter of William Binnington Boyce.

#6274

Dean Komel

#61546

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Dean Komel is a Slovenian philosopher. He was born in the small village of Bilje in the Goriška region of Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After finishing the Nova Gorica Grammar School, he studied philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. After further studies under Bernhard Waldenfels and Klaus Held in Germany, he obtained his PhD in 1995 on the theme of a hermeneutic critique of the anthropological orientation in contemporary philosophy. He is the professor of contemporary philosophy and the philosophy of culture at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana.

#6275

Olof Johnell*

#101020

Overall Influence

#6276

Tia DeNora

#36252

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Tia DeNora is Professor of Sociology of Music and Director of Research, in the Department of Sociology/Philosophy at the University of Exeter. Biography DeNora's undergraduate studies were in musicology and sociology. She completed her PhD in Sociology in 1989 at the University of California, San Diego. From then until 1992, she worked at University of Wales, Cardiff, where DeNora was a University of Wales Fellow from 1989-1991. DeNora moved to Exeter in 1992. DeNora was Chair of the European Sociological Association Network on Sociology of the Arts from 1999–2001 and is a Vice President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of the Arts.

#6277

Theofilus Johannes Visser

#101033

Overall Influence

#6278

Melvin J. Glimcher

#45604

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Melvin Jacob Glimcher was an American pioneer in the development of artificial limbs. He helped develop the “Boston Arm,” the electronically-operated design of which was incorporated in many later prostheses.

#6279

Alan R. White

#83709

Overall Influence

1922 - 1992 (70 years)

Alan Richard White was an analytic philosopher who worked mainly in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and, latterly, legal philosophy. Peter Hacker notes that he was "the most skillful developer of Rylean ... ideas in philosophical psychology" and that "if anyone surpassed Austin in subtlety and refinement in the discrimination of grammatical differences, it was White." Richard Swinburne remarks that "during the heyday of 'ordinary language philosophy' no tongue practised it better."

#6280

Ari Berman

#44241

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ari Berman is an American-Israeli Modern Orthodox / Religious Zionist rabbi and academic administrator who serves as the fifth President of Yeshiva University. Early life and education Berman was raised in Queens in New York City, and graduated from the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in 1987. He studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yeshiva College, graduating magna cum laude in 1991, rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and an M.A. in Medieval Jewish Philosophy from Bernard Revel Graduate School.

#6281

Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino

1853 - 1911 (58 years)

Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.

#6282

Ben Katchor

#9966

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ben Katchor is an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for the comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The Forward, The New Yorker, Metropolis, and weekly newspapers in the United States. A Guggenheim Fellowship and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, Katchor was described by author Michael Chabon as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."

#6283

Romanas Plečkaitis

#75338

Overall Influence

1933 - 2009 (76 years)

Romanas Plečkaitis was a Lithuanian philosopher, logic, philosophy, history researcher, Doctor habil, Professor. Romanas Plečkaitis translated the main Immanuel Kant works into Lithuanian language, wrote the history of Lithuanian philosophy and logic issues, published over 300 publications in various academic, has developed 27 PhDs.

#6284

Mario Maj

#101094

Overall Influence

#6285

Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

1835 - 1897 (62 years)

Hans Ludwig David Paul, Graf Yorck von Wartenburg was a German lawyer, writer, and philosopher. Life Graf Yorck was descended from the Prussian general Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg. His father Hans David Ludwig and his mother Bertha von Brause were both related to Prussian military families. They lived in Klein Öls Castle, now part of the Oława district in Poland. His nephew was the jurist Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, who opposed Hitler.

#6286

Andrew Janiak

#83416

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Andrew Janiak is a professor of philosophy at Duke University, where he directs the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science. He received an M.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Indiana University. His dissertation was directed by Michael Friedman. . He received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. Janiak writes on the philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, and the history of modern philosophy, especially on the philosophical works of Isaac Newton.

#6287

Diana Tietjens Meyers

#70530

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Diana Meyers is a philosopher working in the philosophy of action and in the philosophy of feminism. Meyers is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Biography Diana Meyers holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree and PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She mostly works "in three main areas of philosophy: philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory".

#6288

Guillaume Lamy

1644 - 1683 (39 years)

Guillaume Lamy was a French physician best known for his sympathies with Epicurean philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as La Mettrie. He engaged in a lively dispute with Pierre Cressé over anatomical treatises, notably concerning the seat of the human soul.

#6289

Didier Trono

#57855

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Didier Trono is a Swiss virologist and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . He is known for his research on virus-host interactions and the development of lentiviral vectors for gene therapy.

#6290

Mark Wainberg

#27572

Overall Influence

1945 - 2017 (72 years)

Mark Arnold Wainberg, was a Canadian HIV/AIDS researcher and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre at the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His laboratory primarily studies HIV reverse transcriptase, the molecular basis for drug resistance, and gene therapy. He received a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1966, a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972, and did his post-doctoral research at Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University.

#6291

Gene Strandness

#31397

Overall Influence

1928 - 2002 (74 years)

Donald Eugene Strandness was an American physician, university professor, and research scientist. Dr. Strandness, known as Gene, was influential in the development of Doppler ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in vascular medicine, and did research that established much of the clinical grading criteria in the field of vascular ultrasound.

#6292

Stevo Julius

#101158

Overall Influence

#6293

Roger Trigg

#95618

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Roger Hugh Trigg is a British philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is known for his works on philosophy of religion. Trigg has been President of the Mind Association, Founding President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the first President of the British Philosophical Association.

#6294

Carsten Bokemeyer

#101170

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#6295

Mohammad Arab-Salehi

#38290

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Mohammad Arab-Salehi is an Iranian philosopher and associate professor of religion at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is also the head of Hikmat and Religious Studies Faculty of the Institute. Arab-Salehi is known for his works on hermeneutics and historicism and is a recipient of the Iranian Book of the Season Award for his book Historicism and Religion .

#6296

Kunio Okuda

#101190

Overall Influence

#6297

Steven Zeisel

#62560

Overall Influence

Steven H. Zeisel is a Kenan Distinguished University Professor in Nutrition and Pediatrics; former chairman, Department of Nutrition; Director Nutrition Research Institute, Director UNC Human Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Director UNC Center for Excellence in Children's Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

#6298

Roy Walford

#5276

Overall Influence

1924 - 2004 (80 years)

Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a professor of pathology at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, a leading advocate of calorie restriction for life extension and health improvement, and a crew member of Biosphere 2.

#6299

José van Dijck

#12125

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Johanna Francisca Theodora Maria "José" van Dijck is a new media author and a distinguished university professor in media and digital society at Utrecht University since 2017. From 2001 to 2016 she was a professor of Comparative Media Studies where she was the former chair of the Department of Media Studies and former dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of ten authored and edited books including Mediated Memory in the Digital Age; The Culture of Connectivity.; and The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World. Her work has been trans...

#6300

Glyn Elwyn

#73807

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Glyn Elwyn is a professor and physician-researcher at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, USA, where he directs the Patient Engagement Research Program. He also leads The Preference Laboratory, an international interdisciplinary team at The Dartmouth Institute, examining the implementation of shared decision making into clinical settings, using tools and measures such as collaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making, and Observer OPTION, a process measure for shared decision making for use on recorded data.

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