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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6401

John I. Gallin

#102234

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

#6402

Russell Hittinger

#45116

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Francis Russell Hittinger III is the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. Hittinger's scholarship is focused on the intersection of philosophy, religion, and law, with particular emphasis on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. For the past several years he has worked and published extensively on the history of Catholic social thought since the 18th century.

#6403

Rakesh Aggarwal

#14895

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Rakesh Aggarwal is an Indian gastroenterologist, who is currently the Director of Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research , Puducherry, India. He was previously a Professor of Gastroenterology at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences. Known for his studies on Gastrointestinal diseases, Liver diseases, and Viral Hepatitis, Aggarwal is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies, namely National Academy of Sciences, India, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy, and of the National Academy of Medical Sciences.

#6404

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi

1894 - 1972 (78 years)

Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi , was an Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher, and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years. His parents were Heinrich von Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian diplomat, and Mitsuko Aoyama, the daughter of an oil merchant, antiques-dealer and major landowner in Tokyo. His childhood name in Japan was Eijiro Aoyama. Being a native Austrian-Hungarian citizen, he became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1919 and then took French citizenship from 1939...

#6405

Daniel Richter

#26165

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Daniel Richter is a German artist. He is based in Berlin, and was previously active in Hamburg. He is known for large-scale oil paintings. Life and work Daniel Richter was born in 1962 in Eutin, West Germany. Richter attended Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg from 1991 to 1995. Between 1992 and 1996 he studied with Werner Büttner, one of the protagonists, along with Martin Kippenberger, of the revival of expressive trends in painting during the 1980s, and worked as assistant to Albert Oehlen.

#6406

Marie-Germaine Bousser

#60462

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Marie-Germaine Bousser is a French neuroscientist. She won the Brain Prize in 2019 for her work on CADASIL. Biography Bousser graduated from Paris-Sorbonne University in neuro-psychiatry in 1972 with her thesis devoted to the prevention of cortical artery thrombosis in rabbits by aspirin and PGE1.

#6407

Stephen A. Sahn

#102326

Overall Influence

#6408

Hans Aarsleff

#51498

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Hans Christian Aarsleff is a Danish linguist and academic, who has served as emeritus professor of English at Princeton University since 1997. Aarsleff is a renowned specialist in the history of linguistics, the history of ideas, and the history of philosophy of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

#6409

David A. Drachman

#102342

Overall Influence

#6410

John Emery

#93152

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

John Lewis Emery was a British-born paediatric pathologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. Emery was most notable for being one of the founding fathers of paediatric pathology in the country, and for conducting research into haematology, developmental anatomy, congenital deformities, particularly hydrocephalus, and was probably Britain's leading scientist in the subject of unexplained infant deaths, or cot death.

#6411

Charles Miller Fisher

#102360

Overall Influence

#6412

Atul H. Goel

#102362

Overall Influence

#6413

Itsuo Tsuda

1914 - 1984 (70 years)

Itsuo Tsuda was a Japanese philosopher and a practitioner and teacher of aikido and Seitai. Tsuda was born in Japanese-ruled Korea. When he was 16 years old, he defied his father, who wished for his eldest son to remain home and manage his family's estate. He left his family home and begin wandering, searching for new philosophies that would free his mind.

#6414

Masatsugu Hori

#102372

Overall Influence

#6415

Franz von Lenbach

Franz von Lenbach

1836 - 1904 (68 years)

Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach , was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society, he was often referred to as the "Malerfürst" .

#6416

Frederick Neuhouser

#77581

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Frederick Neuhouser is the Viola Manderfeld Professor of German and a professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a specialist in European philosophy of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially Rousseau, Fichte, and Hegel.

#6417

Lainie Friedman Ross

#74007

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Lainie Friedman Ross is an American physician and bioethicist who works at the University of Chicago. Early life Lainie Friedman Ross is a 1982 graduate of Princeton University where she majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She has a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and she also obtained an M.Phil and a PhD in philosophy from Yale University.

#6418

Carlos Real de Azúa

Carlos Real de Azúa

1916 - 1977 (61 years)

Carlos Real de Azúa was a Uruguayan lawyer, professor, essayist, sociologist and historian. Biography Real de Azúa Real was born into an old Uruguayan family, the first Real de Azúa having arrived at the Río de la Plata in 1794. He was a Catholic and, in his youth, an enthusiastic fascist and anti-liberal, an admirer of the Falange Española , a fan of the right-wing journalist and politician Benito Nardone , and an outspoken critic of Batllism .

#6419

Gerard F. Gilmore

Gerard F. Gilmore

#29738

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Gerard Francis Gilmore FRS FRAS FInstP is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Philosophy, in the Institute of Astronomy, at the University of Cambridge. His research has centred on studying stars in the Galaxy to understand its structure and evolutionary history.

#6420

Henri‐géry Hers

#102415

Overall Influence

#6421

Christian de Quincey

#61871

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Christian de Quincey is an American philosopher and author who teaches consciousness, spirituality and cosmology at universities and colleges in the United States and Europe. He is also an international speaker on consciousness.

#6422

Christoph von Blumröder

#35858

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Christoph von Blumröder is a German musicologist. Career Born in Northeim, Blumröder studied musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, philosophy and history of the .

#6423

Rodger A. Warnke

#102427

Overall Influence

#6424

Gregorio Bermann

Gregorio Bermann

1894 - 1972 (78 years)

Gregorio Bermann was an Argentine psychiatrist, philosopher, activist, author, and humanist. Born in Buenos Aires to Polish Jewish immigrants, he was the youngest of ten siblings, eight of which had been Born in Poland. He was a leader in the student movement Argentine University Federation in Cordoba during the first half of the 20th century.

#6425

Vergilius Ferm

1896 - 1974 (78 years)

Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm was the Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster. Selected published works American theology "Theology and Religious Experience" in Nature of Religious Experience: Essays in Honor of Douglas Clyde Macintosh In Transition encyclopedia of religion Can We Believe? in the twentieth century Religions: A Symposium history of philosophical systems religions Protestant dictionary Protestant credo dictionary of pastoral psychology history of Protestantism Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions of Protestantism an expansive Christian theology schools of...

#6426

Adrian Bardon

#83937

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Adrian Bardon is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest College. He is known for his works on philosophy of time. Books The Truth About Denial: Bias and Self-Deception in Science, Politics, and Religion A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time

#6427

Sam Parnia

#5970

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sam Parnia is a British associate professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center where he is also director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the United Kingdom, he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

#6428

Philip H. Rhinelander

1908 - 1987 (79 years)

Philip H. Rhinelander , was an American philosopher, professor, and former dean of the Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences. Biography Rhinelander was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 1, 1908. He was educated at Harvard, where he obtained the A.B. summa cum laude in Classics and Philosophy in 1929, studying with the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Rhinelander then entered the Harvard Law School, attaining the LLB in 1932. The same year, he married his wife of 55 years, Virginia, after which he practiced law for eight years, doing appellate trial work at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.

#6429

Henk A. M. J. ten Have

Henk A. M. J. ten Have

#72546

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Henk Antonius Maria Johannes ten Have is Professor emeritus at the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. where he has been Director since 2010. Previously, he served in UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology . His recent works are: Global Bioethics—An Introduction , Vulnerability—Challenging Bioethics , Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics , and Wounded Planet .

#6430

Augusto Ponzio

#66890

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Augusto Ponzio is an Italian semiologist and philosopher. Since 1980 is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at Bari University, Italy and since 2015 is Professor Emeritus at the same university.

#6431

Michael Davis

#28744

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michael Davis is an American philosopher specializing in professional ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Senior Fellow at its Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions.

#6432

John Keep

1781 - 1870 (89 years)

Rev. John Keep was a trustee of Oberlin College from 1834 to 1870. Keep and William Dawes toured England in 1839 and 1840 gathering funds for Oberlin College in Ohio. They both attended the 1840 anti-slavery convention in London.

#6433

Marian Hillar

#58050

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Marian Hillar is an American philosopher, theologian, linguist, and scientist. He is a recognized authority on Michael Servetus and together with classicist and political theorist, C. A. Hoffman, translated the major works of Michael Servetus from Latin into English for the first time. He identified the radical search for truth and the right for freedom of conscience as Servetus' main legacies, rather than his theology and scientific discovery. He studied the influence of Servetus in the world and the development and ideas of the Socinian movement in the 16th and 17th centuries, precursors of the Enlightenment and modern era.

#6434

Kathrin Koslicki

#50552

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kathrin Koslicki is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her primary research areas are metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of language. Since 2018 Koslicki is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

#6435

J. Thomas Grayston

#102530

Overall Influence

#6436

Alain F. Carpentier

#102537

Overall Influence

#6437

Gunnar Aspelin

1898 - 1977 (79 years)

Gunnar Aspelin , was a Swedish professor of philosophy at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Prof. Aspelin was the son of the artist Karl Aspelin and his wife Ellen Bergh. Prof. Aspelin married in 1923 with Dagmar Scherstén, daughter of the physician Frithiof Scherstén and Ida Schröder. Prof. Aspelin was the father of Herbert Aspelin, the researcher in comparative literature Kurt Aspelin, the lawspeaker Erland Aspelin, the teacher Marianne Aspelin and the artist Gert Aspelin.

#6438

Simin Liu

#57954

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Simin Liu is an American physician researcher. He holds leadership positions internationally in the research of nutrition, genetics, epidemiology, and environmental and biological influences of complex diseases related to cardiometabolic health in diverse population. His research team has uncovered new mechanisms and risk-factors as well as developed research frameworks for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Liu's laboratory conducts research mainly in the United States, though the group has had research collaborations, teaching, and service activities in six of the Seven Continents.

#6439

Jean-Claude Tardif

#96414

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jean-Claude Tardif is the Director of the Research Center at the Montreal Heart Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal. He received his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Montreal and specialized in cardiology and research in Montreal and Boston until 1994. Dr. Tardif holds the Canada Research Chair in personalized medicine and the University of Montreal endowed research chair in atherosclerosis. He is also the Scientific Director of the Montreal Health Innovations Coordinating Center .

#6440

Vivette Denise D'agati

#102562

Overall Influence

#6441

Ronald J. Racine

#102565

Overall Influence

#6442

George Erik Rupp

#20905

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

George Erik Rupp is an American educator and theologian, who served successively as president of Rice University, Columbia University, and the International Rescue Committee. Biography Rupp was born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of German immigrant parents, and was raised in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey. He studied in Germany before graduating from Princeton University with an A.B. in English in 1964 after completing a senior thesis titled "A Theatre of Ideas: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century German and English Drama." He then received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and, after studying for a year in Sri Lanka, a Ph.D.

#6443

Eileen White

#88840

Overall Influence

Eileen White is an American professor and scientist who currently serves as deputy director, chief scientific officer, and associate director for basic science at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She is also the distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University. White was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

#6444

Isaak Benrubi

1876 - 1943 (67 years)

Isaak Benrubi was a philosopher from the Ottoman city of Thessaloniki, he opposed the conventional character of the act of knowing in "subject" and "object" to the reality that is interested in both subject and object: "I can't exist without the universe, neither can the universe exist without me". He decided to attend the CIC's meeting in Geneva only after learning that both Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson would also be attending.

#6445

Berthold Hoeckner

#63221

Overall Influence

Berthold Hoeckner is a German musicologist who serves as the J. W. Van Gorkom Professor and Department Chair of Music at the University of Notre Dame. He was educated at the Musikhochschule Cologne, University of Cologne, and King's College London before earning his doctorate from Cornell University in 1994. Hoeckner grew up in Olpe, Germany.

#6446

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Alberto Santos-Dumont

1873 - 1932 (59 years)

Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, he dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. He designed, built, and flew the first powered airships and won the in 1901, when he flew around the Eiffel Tower in his airship No. 6, becoming one of the most famous people in the world in the early 20th century.

#6447

Keith Reemtsma

#36954

Overall Influence

1925 - 2000 (75 years)

Keith Reemtsma was an American transplant surgeon, best known for the cross-species kidney transplantation operation from chimpanzee to human in 1964. With only the early immunosuppressants and no long-term dialysis, the female recipient survived nine months, long enough to return to work.

#6448

Martin Davies

#83362

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Martin Davies is a British philosopher who is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he taught from 2006 until 2017. He works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

#6449

Gorampa

1429 - 1489 (60 years)

Gorampa Sonam Senge was an important philosopher in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the author of a vast collection of commentaries on sutra and tantra whose work was influential throughout Tibetan Buddhism. Gorampa is particularly known for his writings on madhyamaka philosophy, especially his critique of the madhyamaka views of Tsongkhapa and Dolpopa. Gorampa defended the mainly anti-realist interpretation of madhyamaka held by the Sakya school .

#6450

Steven Mark Southwick

#102701

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