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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6501

Russell H. Wiesner

#103207

Overall Influence

#6502

David K. Stevenson

#103233

Overall Influence

#6503

Timothy Madigan

#81874

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Timothy J. Madigan is an American philosopher, author and editor, and a noted humanist. He is particularly notable for having been the Editor of Free Inquiry, a leading journal of secular humanist discussion and commentary.

#6504

Kristóf Nyíri

#78560

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Kristóf Nyíri , is a Hungarian philosopher. He is a member of HAS, was a guest at the University of Leipzig in the Winter Semester of 2006-2007 as Leibniz Professor, directed Communications in the 21st Century: The Mobile Information Society from 2001 to 2010, and is a Professor of Philosophy, in the Department of Technical Education, at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has written and edited more than 200 articles, chapters, reports and books .

#6505

Peter Joseph Elvenich

1796 - 1886 (90 years)

Peter Joseph Elvenich was a German Catholic theologian and philosopher born in Embken, a village that today is part of Nideggen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He was a principal supporter and defender of Hermesianism, a theological belief system based on the teachings of Georg Hermes .

#6506

Philip Jay Kadowitz

#103261

Overall Influence

#6507

Fred Gifford

#87304

Overall Influence

Fred Gifford Freddy Giff is a professor and the associate chair of the philosophy department at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 and currently teaches courses on philosophy of technology, ethics and development, ethics and healthcare, and biotechnology.

#6508

Ulrich Laufs

#103272

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#6509

Jürgen Hescheler

#43227

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Jürgen Karl-Josef Hescheler is a German physician and stem cell researcher. He is director to the Institute for Neurophysiology and a university professor at the University of Cologne. Hescheler has studied the biology of embryonic stem cells since the late 80's, and his publications have garnered an average total of over 1,000 citations per year since the late 2010's. He became the first researcher to accomplish an electrophysiological characterization of stem cells and was also among the first scientists in Germany obtaining permission to do research on human embryonic stem cells.. He is th...

#6510

Erik Thorsby

#51404

Overall Influence

1938 - 2021 (83 years)

Erik Stein Thorsby was a Norwegian physician and professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital. He carried out research in immunology, specializing in transplant immunology. Career Thorsby studied medicine at the University of Oslo and graduated in 1963. In 1969, he earned his doctorate in medicine.

#6511

Intisar-ul-Haque

#64239

Overall Influence

1935 - 1996 (61 years)

Intisar-Ul-Haque was a Pakistani philosopher. He served as the chairman of the Department of Philosophy, at University of Peshawar and held the postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellowship, Germany 1974–76, and Senior Fulbright Fellowship 1984-85. He was the first student from Pakistan to do his Ph.D. in analytical philosophy and logic from Edinburgh in 1966.

#6512

Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin

1863 - 1943 (80 years)

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.

#6513

Anoop Misra

#33450

Overall Influence

Anoop Misra is an Indian endocrinologist and a former honorary physician to the Prime Minister of India. He is the chairman of Fortis Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol and heads, National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation . A former Fellow of the World Health Organization at the Royal Free Hospital, UK, Misra is a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.

#6514

N. Scott Adzick

#103320

Overall Influence

#6515

Eicke Latz

#103322

Overall Influence

#6516

Ulrich Schrade

#56922

Overall Influence

1943 - 2009 (66 years)

Ulrich Schrade was a Polish philosopher, educationist and ethicist. Born in Patryki. In the years 1961-1966 he studied economics under Boleslaw Kasprowicz at the Higher School of Economics in Sopot, Poland

#6517

Ole Petter Ottersen

Ole Petter Ottersen

#17879

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ole Petter Ottersen is a Norwegian physician and neuroscientist. He serves as the Rector of Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and took office in August 2017. Ottersen has been professor of medicine at the University of Oslo since 1992 and served as the university's directly elected Rector from 2009 to 2017.

#6518

Gunnar E. Carlsson

#103413

Overall Influence

#6519

Oscar Paul

1836 - 1898 (62 years)

Oscar Paul was a German musicologist and a music writer, critic, and teacher. Biography Oscar Paul was born in Freiwaldau in Silesia . He went to school in Görlitz, and studied under Louis Plaidy, Ernst Richter and Moritz Hauptmann at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He commenced a career as a pianist, but soon found himself unsuited to it.

#6520

John Rennie

#14485

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

John Rennie is an American science writer who was the seventh editor in chief of Scientific American magazine. After leaving Scientific American in 2009, he began writing for Public Library of Science Blogs. Rennie has also been involved with several television programs and podcasts as well as multiple writing projects, including his latest position as a deputy editor on the staff of Quanta Magazine.

#6521

Benjamin G. Neel

#103454

Overall Influence

#6522

Jesse Mann

#71971

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Jesse Aloysius Mann , a native of Washington, D.C., was an American educator of philosophy. Education Mann graduated from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. He earned a Ph.D. at the Catholic University of America in 1958.

#6523

Raymond Lund

#95444

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Raymond Douglas Lund is a British anatomist. He was a professor of ophthalmology at the John Moran Eye Center, . He was previously professor of anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He was also a professor at the University of Washington, The Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Pittsburgh.

#6524

William W. O’neill

#103481

Overall Influence

#6525

Chaim Navon

#73846

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Chaim Navon is an Israeli rabbi, philosopher, writer, and publicist. Biography Chaim Navon was born in Ramat Gan and grew up in Elkana. From 1992 to 2004, Navon studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He received his Semicha from Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. In 2004, he graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a degree in Jewish philosophy. Navon lives in Modi'in, where he led a local congregation.

#6526

Francesco Acri

1834 - 1913 (79 years)

Francesco Acri was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. Biography After graduating with a degree in jurisprudence at Naples in 1857 and studying Aristotle and Kant at Berlin under Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, he became a teacher of the history of philosophy, first at the University of Palermo and then, from 1871 at the University of Bologna, where he remained until 1911.

#6527

Robert Bruce Ware

#23120

Overall Influence

Robert Bruce Ware is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Ware earned an AB in political science from UC Berkeley, an MA in philosophy from UC San Diego, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University. From 1996 to 2013, Ware conducted field research in North Caucasus and has published extensively on politics, ethnography, and religion of the region in scholarly journals and in the popular media. He has been cited as a leading specialist on Dagestan. His recent research has focused upon the philosophy of mathematics and physics.

#6528

Christopher K. Zarins

#103516

Overall Influence

#6529

Leslie Harcold Blumgart

#103517

Overall Influence

#6530

J. Douglas Miller

#6531

David W. Kennedy

#6532

Michael Detlefsen

#87932

Overall Influence

1948 - 2019 (71 years)

Michael Detlefsen was an American philosopher who was a McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of special interest were logic, history of mathematics, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology.

#6533

Yokoyama Taikan

Yokoyama Taikan

1868 - 1958 (90 years)

Yokoyama Taikan was the art-name of a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga. Early life Sakai Hidemaro was born in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture, as the eldest son of Sakai Sutehiko, a samurai serving the Mito clan. His earliest name was Hidezō, and later Hidematsu. With his family, he moved to Tokyo in 1878. He studied at the Tōkyō Furitsu Daiichi Chūgakkō , and was interested in the English language and in Western-style oil painting. This led him to study pencil drawing with a painter, Watanabe Fumisaburō.

#6534

Stein Kaasa

#103591

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#6535

Avindra Nath

#48722

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Avindra "Avi" Nath , is a physician-scientist who specializes in neuroimmunology. Nath is a senior investigator, and intramural clinical director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. At NINDS, Nath also leads the Section of Infections of the Nervous System and plans to institute a translational research center. He previously served in several research and administrative positions at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

#6536

Gerhold K. Becker

Gerhold K. Becker

#90486

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Gerhold K. Becker is a German philosopher. Biographical sketch Gerhold K. Becker grew up in Bad Salzschlirf, Hesse, the eldest son of the violinist Josef Becker and his wife Agnes née Goldbach. After graduating from the humanistic high school at Fulda, he studied philosophy and theology at universities in Frankfurt/Main, Heidelberg, and Munich, with, among others, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Dieter Henrich, Hermann Krings, Robert Spaemann, Michael Theunissen, Ernst Tugendhat and Heinrich Fries, Alois Grillmeier, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Karl Rahner, Trutz Rendtorff and Eugen Biser, under whose direction he completed a summa cum laude dissertation on the thinking of Ernst Troeltsch.

#6537

Bernhard Zondek

Bernhard Zondek

1891 - 1966 (75 years)

Bernhard Zondek was a German-born Israeli gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928. Biography Bernhard Zondek was born in Wronke, Germany, now Wronki, Poland. He studied medicine in Berlin, graduating in 1919. He worked under Karl Franz at the university women's clinic in Berlin Charité, where he specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. His older brother, Hermann Zondek, was a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and a pioneer of modern endocrinology.

#6538

Jordi Graupera

#50316

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Jordi Graupera i Garcia-Milà is a Catalan philosopher. He works on self-determination and international relations. He works as a philosophy professor at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, teaching on globalization, cultural traditions, and creative thinking. He also works teaching history of social thought at the Open University of Catalonia.

#6539

Muhamed Filipović

#28530

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Muhamed Filipović was a Bosnian academic, writer, essayist, theorist and philosopher. As a young man he took part in the communist takeover of power and Yugoslav Partisans in 1945. He worked as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo.

#6540

Max Wentscher

1862 - 1942 (80 years)

Max Wentscher was a German philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn. Life Max Wentscher was born in Grudziądz in 1866. The son of a merchant, he attended the Academic School of the Johanneum in Hamburg, where he graduated in 1881. From 1881 to 1887 he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Halle-Wittenberg, and Leipzig. In 1893 he received his doctorate in Halle-Wittenberg with the thesis Lotze's concept of God and its metaphysical justification. In 1897 he habilitated in Bonn. Until 1904 he was a private lecturer and titular professor in Bonn.

#6541

Djillali Annane

#103644

Overall Influence

#6542

William R. Hiatt

#102860

Overall Influence

1950 - 2020 (70 years)

William R. Hiatt was an American cardiologist. William H. Hiatt was born in Albion, Indiana, on 19 December 1919, educated at Manchester College and the Loyola University School of Dentistry, and moved to Colorado to pursue a career in endodontics and periodontics. He died of cancer on 31 May 1993. Hiatt married Luana Read, with whom he had three children, including William R. Hiatt, who was born on 1 June 1950. William R. Hiatt graduated from Denver Country Day School in 1968, and studied English at Knox College, where he first met his wife Susan Wessels Hiatt. After completing his undergraduate degree in 1972, Hiatt enrolled at the University of Colorado School of Medicine until 1976.

#6543

Ronald Swerdloff

#103658

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

#6544

John Wallace Eaton

#103663

Overall Influence

#6545

Yuan Weishi

#36332

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Yuan Weishi is a Chinese historian and philosopher. Biography Yuan was born in Xingning, Guangdong. He was admitted to Zhongshan University Department of Economics in 1950, and then went to a master program in political economy at Fudan University. He worked as a faculty member at Zhongshan University Department of Philosophy.

#6546

Václav Černý

1905 - 1987 (82 years)

Václav Černý was a Czechoslovak literary scholar, writer and philosopher. He was an enthusiast of Spanish literature and philosophy and translated into Czech a number of literary and philosophical works by Spanish writers as Ortega y Gasset, Unamuno and Cervantes.

#6547

Philip Bohlman

#67543

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Philip Vilas Bohlman is an American ethnomusicologist. Life and career He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater . At Chicago, Bohlman is on the resource faculty of the Germanic Studies Department, the Mary Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Divinity School, and the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. Bohlman has held guest...

#6548

Stephen L. Esquith

#94257

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Stephen L. Esquith is a philosophy professor and the Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in political philosophy at Princeton University in 1979 and has taught courses at Michigan State University since 1980. Much of his current work deals with ethical issues in development.

#6549

Joseph Moncada

#92178

Overall Influence

Joseph Moncada was a Dominican theologian, the first Professor of Philosophy at the University of Malta and Rector of the same university. Life Moncada was born in Modica, Italy, and joined the Dominican Order. He was regent of studies at the Dominican college in Sicily. In Malta, he was close to the Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller, who engaged him in various offices.

#6550

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann

#80786

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann was a German philosopher. He was known for his expertise on Heidegger's thought, having worked with him at the University of Freiburg from 1972 to 1976. Herrmann taught there as professor from 1979 to 1999.

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