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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6451

Graeme Milbourne Clark

#102727

Overall Influence

#6452

Dwight C. Mcgoon

#102745

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#6453

Oron Shagrir

#60959

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Professor Oron Shagrir is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist. Oron Shagrir is Schulman Chair of Philosophy and professor of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.

#6454

Stanley Kauffmann

#4495

Overall Influence

1916 - 2013 (97 years)

Stanley Kauffmann was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater. Career Kauffmann started with The New Republic in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next 55 years, publishing his last review in 2013. He had one brief break in his New Republic tenure, when he served as the drama critic for the New York Times for eight months in 1966.

#6455

Adriaen Brouwer

Adriaen Brouwer

1605 - 1638 (33 years)

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression. In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters.

#6456

Jack H. Mendelson

#102765

Overall Influence

#6457

William B. Schwartz

#102768

Overall Influence

#6458

Fabio Parazzini

#102772

Overall Influence

#6459

Patricia D'Amore

#68426

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Patricia Ann D'Amore is a professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology, and Professor of Pathology. Early life and career D'Amore grew up in Everett, Massachusetts and graduated from Matignon High School in Cambridge. After a 1973 BA at Regis College , she received a PhD in biology at Boston University in 1977 under the direction David Shepro.

#6460

Anne Greenough

#97916

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Anne Greenough is a British neonatologist and is most notable for research into clinical and academic neonatology through work relating to the origins, markers and management of chronic lung disease following preterm birth. Greenough is Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology at King's College London.

#6461

Marina Frolova-Walker

#74897

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is a Russian-born British musicologist and music historian, who specialises in German Romanticism, Russian and Soviet music, and nationalism in music. She is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Music at Clare College, Cambridge. In June 2019 it was announced that she would be the 36th Professor of Music at Gresham College. She has authored several books and a number of academic articles.

#6462

Stefan Hans Hohnloser

#102815

Overall Influence

#6463

Dario Salas Sommer

#64523

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Darío Salas Sommer was a Chilean philosopher, scientist and humanist. He is known especially for his exploration of moral aspects of human life and personal development, described in his notable books ‘Morals of the XXI Century’ and ‘Cosmic Currency, the Greatest Wealth’

#6464

Anders Hamsten

#102850

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#6465

Ákos Pauler

1876 - 1933 (57 years)

Ákos Pauler was a Hungarian philosopher. He defended metaphysics against logical positivism. As part of this defense, he accounted for a method of determining truths alongside the deductive and inductive methods, one which he called reductive. According to Pauler, the reductive method, unlike induction and deduction, does not determine what entities there are but rather can determine the conditions of possibility of valid thought itself. He also associates the reductive method with Plato's dialectic, even suggesting that reduction can ultimately lead to knowledge of the Form of the Good.

#6466

Norman Lockyer

1836 - 1920 (84 years)

Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen, he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature.

#6467

Dan Krewski

#98299

Overall Influence

Daniel Krewski is an Academic who is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, where his focus is health risk assessment in the Institute of Population Health.

#6468

John Leofric Stocks

1882 - 1937 (55 years)

John Leofric Stocks DSO was a British philosopher and was briefly Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 1937. Biography Stocks was born the sixth of twelve children to John Edward Stocks, the vicar of Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

#6469

William Gerald G. Austen

#102909

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#6470

Max S. Wicha

#102912

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#6471

Norbert Bolz

#45549

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Norbert Bolz is a German media theorist. He served as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin until his retirement in 2018. Bolz developed a media theory, the "", that is influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Marshall McLuhan.

#6472

Manlio Sgalambro

Manlio Sgalambro

#30453

Overall Influence

1924 - 2014 (90 years)

Manlio Sgalambro was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini. Biography Philosophical production Sgalambro did not have certificates or degrees as business cards: how he became a writer of philosophy – whose books are translated into French, German and Spanish – is a mystery that he was not able to explain.

#6473

Bernard Philip Kelly

1907 - 1958 (51 years)

Bernard Philip Kelly was an English Catholic layman who worked in a bank, raised a large family, and regularly penned, over 25 years, philosophical essays and book reviews for the Dominican journal Blackfriars. His friendship with foremost British Thomists and leading distributists of his day, and with the Indian scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy—along with his love for the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins—permitted his short life to become the matrix of a rich body of writings.

#6474

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

#32684

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona.

#6475

Daya Krishna

#87912

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Daya Krishna was an Indian philosopher. He was Pro Vice Chancellor of Rajasthan University and editor of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research for over three decades. He has published works in the fields of Indian philosophy, Western philosophy and aesthetics. His doctoral thesis published as The Nature of Philosophy is said to have been acclaimed by the British philosopher, Gilbert Ryle, as an outstanding work. His work explores the possibility of looking at Indian traditions through resources drawn from Indian concepts and categories. He has attempted to bring about "a dia...

#6476

Antonio Pigliaru

1922 - 1969 (47 years)

Antonio Pigliaru was a Sardinian jurist and philosopher. He was the most important Sardinian intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, and one of the most vivid contemporary Italian thinkers. He engaged with manifold themes, but he devoted special attention to the interpretation of the socio-economic problems of interior areas of Sardinia, which he discussed according to his own ethical and political views.

#6477

Michel Kazatchkine

Michel Kazatchkine

#20651

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Michel Kazatchkine is a French physician, diplomat and advocate who is best known for his work in international AIDS treatment issues. From February 2007 to March 2012 he was director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. On July 20, 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as his United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

#6478

Harry Bakwin

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Harry Bakwin was a New York pediatrician, and also a Professor of Pediatrics at New York University. Biography Born in 1894 to a Jewish family, Bakwin graduated with a M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1917. In 1925, Bakwin married Ruth Morris Bakwin who was an heir to some of the fortunes made by the Chicago meat-packing industry as the daughter of Edward Morris, son of the founder of Morris & Company; and Helen Swift Morris, the daughter of Gustavus Swift, founder of Swift & Company. Her sister was psychiatrist Muriel Gardiner who was married to the Austri...

#6479

Samuel Klein

#100355

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Samuel Klein is a doctor and nutritional specialist known for his research into weight loss and the causes of obesity. He is currently the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His brother, Morton Klein is the president of ZOA.

#6480

Stephen Shalet

#95320

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Stephen Michael Shalet is an English endocrinologist, and a former professor at the University of Manchester. Early life He was born in Bedford, where his mother had been evacuated from London. His father was a GP in the East End of London, and serving as an army doctor. At the age of nine he moved to Stoke Newington. He attended Westminster City Grammar School. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, since 1990 the Royal London Hospital, qualifying in 1969.

#6481

Yehoshua Yakhot

#93031

Overall Influence

1919 - 2003 (84 years)

Yehoshua Yakhot was a professor of philosophy in the Soviet Union. In 1975 he was forced to emigrate to Israel. Works What is dialectical materialism?The basic principles of dialectical and historical materialismMaterialist view on realityPhilosophy of the new worldThe Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR

#6482

Joseph Leon Blau

1909 - 1986 (77 years)

Joseph Leon Blau was an American scholar of Jewish history and philosophy. Biography Blau was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Columbia University, where he studied under Salo Wittmayer Baron. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1931, his master's in 1933, and his Ph.D. in 1944, all from Columbia. Blau taught at Columbia from 1944 to 1977 and was chair of its Department of Religion from 1968 to 1977.

#6483

Camillo Baldi

1547 - 1637 (90 years)

Camillo Baldi , also known as Camillus Baldus and Camillo Baldo, was an Italian philosopher. Life He was born into a family of minor Bolognese nobility. In 1572 he graduated in Philosophy and Medicine . His father Pietro Maria Baldi was a lecturer at the University of Bologna and Camillo followed in his footsteps teaching there for sixty years. He started teaching in 1576, teaching Aristotelian logic until 1579 when he was promoted to a junior lectureship in philosophy which he held till 1586. From 1586 to 1590 he held the post of 'Protologicus'. This was a position that seems to have been created specifically for Baldi and little is known about what it involved.

#6484

J. Carl Barrett

#103049

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#6485

Ralph C. S. Walker

Ralph C. S. Walker

#76657

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Ralph Charles Sutherland Walker is a philosopher at Magdalen College, Oxford and an expert on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Professional life Walker received his secondary education at Aberdeen Grammar School, Selwyn House School and Trinity College School. He was then educated at McGill and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, before entering academia as a fellow at Merton College in 1968. He moved to Magdalen in 1972, where he has worked since. From 1984–85, he served as the Junior Proctor, with disciplinary oversight for the University. From 1993–2003 he was a deleg...

#6486

Lee McIntyre

#37635

Overall Influence

Lee Cameron McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He has published books and articles on the philosophy of the social sciences, as well as attempts to undermine science and the appropriate response to these attempts to scientists.

#6487

Danah boyd

#30934

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

danah boyd is a technology and social media scholar. She is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University.

#6488

Alfred J. Freddoso

#92461

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alfred J. Freddoso is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and John and Jean Oesterle Professor Emeritus of Thomistic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the father of David Freddoso.

#6489

Alexis Shotwell

#86662

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Alexis Shotwell is a Canadian philosopher, currently employed as Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she is cross-appointed with the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy. Educated at University of California, Santa Cruz , Dalhousie University and McGill University , Shotwell has also taught at Laurentian University.

#6490

Claus Pias

#74982

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Claus Pias is a German media theorist and media historian. He is a professor for history and epistemology of media at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University in Lueneburg., Germany.

#6491

Scheffer C. G. Tseng

#103103

Overall Influence

#6492

Ronald Hoffman

#103119

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#6493

Philip John Barter

#103128

Overall Influence

#6494

Nancy S. Jecker

#44870

Overall Influence

Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker is a bioethicist, philosopher, and author. She is Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, with Adjunct Professorships at the university's Department of Philosophy, School of Law, and Department of Global Health. She also holds visiting professorships at the University of Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Bioethics

#6495

Michael Bérubé

#16187

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches American literature, disability studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal and conservative politics, and debates in higher education. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State; from 1997 to 2001 he was the founding director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. He was the 2012 president of the Modern Language Association, and served as vice president from 2010–2011.

#6496

Rachel Bespaloff

1895 - 1949 (54 years)

Rachel Bespaloff was a Ukrainian-French philosopher. Life Rachel Bespaloff came from a Jewish family: her father was the Zionist writer and activist Daniel Pasmanik. A disciple of Lev Shestov, Bespaloff took an increasingly critical distance from Shestov throughout the 1930s. She was one of the first French readers of Heidegger, and wrote on Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, André Malraux, and Julien Green. In 1942 she left France for the United States, working for the French section of the Office of War Information before teaching French at Mount Holyoke College. She committed suicide in 1949.

#6497

Frederick Lowy

#56977

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Frederick Hans Lowy, is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. Life and career Born in Großpetersdorf, Austria in 1933, Lowy moved to Montreal at age 13. After graduating from Baron Byng High School, Lowy studied medicine at McGill University, graduating in 1959. While at McGill University, he assisted Donald Ewan Cameron on Human subject research as part of Cameron's Project MKULTRA research for "KUBARK" manuals. As an undergraduate, he was managing editor of the McGill Daily student newspaper. He was a psychiatric consultant at the Ro...

#6498

Eugenio Colorni

1909 - 1944 (35 years)

Eugenio Colorni was an Italian philosopher and anti-fascist activist. Life Born in Milan, Colorni taught philosophy at the University of Trieste, and was active in the anti-fascist Giustizia e Libertà movement. He married Ursula Hirschmann, and was an important influence on her brother Albert O. Hirschman, who dedicated his book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to Colorni's memory. Colorni was one of the promoters of the Ventotene Manifesto and an early instigator of the European Federalist Movement. In the mid 1930s, he was closely associated with Lelio Basso and others. In October 1938 he and Dino Philipson were arrested for their anti-fascist political activity and their Jewish background.

#6499

Russell Viner

#83540

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Russell Mardon Viner, FMedSci is an Australian-British paediatrician and policy researcher who is Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Education and Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He is an expert on child and adolescent health in the UK and internationally. He was a member of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021. He remains clinically active, seeing young people with diabetes each week at UCL Hospitals.

#6500

Theodore Woodward

#17119

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Theodore Englar Woodward was an American medical researcher in the field of medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In 1948, he received a Nobel Prize nomination for his role in finding cures for typhus and typhoid fever.

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