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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6601

Howard Mark Chertkow

#133254

Overall Influence

#6602

Kenneth B. Mccredie

#133281

Overall Influence

#6603

Michael D. Lockshin

#96403

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Michael D. Lockshin is an American professor and medical researcher. He is known for his work as a researcher of autoimmune diseases, with focus on antiphospholipid syndrome and lupus. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and the Director Emeritus of the Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease at Hospital for Special Surgery. He retired from HSS on January 31st, 2023.

#6604

Olivier Chosidow

#133341

Overall Influence

#6605

Estiphan Panoussi

#64912

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Estiphan Panoussi is an Iranian philologist, philosopher, orientalist, and international scholar of Iranian Assyrian origin. He is professor emeritus of the University of Gothenburg and native speaker of Senaya, a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic language.

#6606

Beatrice Bruteau

#90750

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Beatrice Bruteau was an American contemplative, philosopher and author. Early life and education Beatrice Bruteau was born on July 25, 1930, in Evanston, Illinois. According to her obituary, her parents were Frederick and Ruth Folgerstrum Bruteau, and she was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. She was one of the first women to study philosophy at the graduate level at Fordham University, where she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1954.

#6607

Pedro Cerezo Galán

#106630

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Pedro Cerezo Galán is a Spanish philosopher and university professor. His specialty is contemporary Western philosophy, including modern Spanish thinkers such as José Ortega y Gasset, Xavier Zubiri and Antonio Machado.

#6608

Christopher Shields

#133230

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Christopher Shields is an American philosopher and George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Books Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Commentary, Oxford University Press 2016Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge 2011Aristotle, Routledge 2007Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, Routledge 2003The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, with Robert Pasnau, Westview Press 2003Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy, ed., Blackwell Publishers 2002Order in Multiplicity: ...

#6609

Edward Iii Ellis

#133377

Overall Influence

#6610

Keith A. Hruska

#133389

Overall Influence

#6611

Guido Valesini

#133393

Overall Influence

#6612

Kazuhisa Takahashi

#133398

Overall Influence

#6613

Robert F. Jr. Lemanske

#133409

Overall Influence

#6614

Gerald Jr Mcgwin

#133411

Overall Influence

#6615

Vernon K. Sondak

#133415

Overall Influence

#6616

Eugenio Bulygin

#41327

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Eugenio Bulygin, born Yevgeny Viktorovich Bulygin was a Russian Argentine jurist and legal philosopher. During a career that spanned over 60 years covering the second half of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, Bulygin established himself as one of the main representatives of legal positivism in the Latin world.

#6617

Jeffrey Ern Saffitz

#133447

Overall Influence

#6618

Jean-Pierre Voyer

#50617

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Jean-Pierre Voyer was a post-situationist French philosopher. His main thesis was the non-existence of economy, and he claimed to be inspired by Hegel and Marx, although he was very critical of the latter. He criticized utilitarianism and has been published in the Revue de Mauss, a French anti-utilitarian journal.

#6619

Gilberto de Nucci

#49749

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Gilberto De Nucci is a noted Brazilian physician, scientist and university professor in the field of pharmacology. Education He was born in Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. His father was a well-known physician in the city. De Nucci studied medicine at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, in Ribeirão Preto , where he also did his initial scientific studies in the Department of Pharmacology. Soon after graduation he moved to London, England. He worked from 1982 to 1985 with Dr. John R. Vane, 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, at the Wellcome Research Laboratories, in London, England.

#6620

Cressida Heyes

#96057

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Cressida J. Heyes is a British and naturalized Canadian philosopher, currently employed as the Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and formerly as the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality. Educated at Oxford University and McGill University , Heyes has also taught at Michigan State University. Her latest book, Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge is the winner of the David Easton prize from the Foundations of Political Thought committee of the American Political Science Association, and a finalist for the 2020 Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy.

#6621

Irene Ghobrial

#124900

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Irene Ghobrial is an American-Egyptian physician who is a professor at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, where her research investigates the progression of multiple myeloma. She is interested in why certain patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and smoldering multiple myeloma develop B cell malignancies. She leads the Stand Up to Cancer multiple myeloma dream team.

#6622

Mandy Eberhart

#133495

Overall Influence

#6623

Sergio L. Pecorelli

#133516

Overall Influence

#6624

Aaron Polliack

#133537

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

#6625

Björn Wiman

#133538

Overall Influence

#6626

Elizabeth Nabel

Elizabeth Nabel

#26864

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Nabel is an American cardiologist and Executive Vice President of Strategy at ModeX Therapeutics and OPKO Health. Prior to this role, she served as President of Brigham Health and its Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

#6627

Robert E. Condon

#133573

Overall Influence

#6628

Kenneth A. Foon

#133589

Overall Influence

#6629

Michael J. Loux

#108807

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Michael J. Loux is an American philosopher and George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his works on metaphysics. Books Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 4th. ed. Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 3rd. ed. Nature, Norm, and Psyche: Explorations in Aristotelian Psychology Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, co-editor Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings Primary Ousia The Possible and the Actual The Synoptic Vision, Substance and Attribute Ockham's Theory of Terms: Part I of the Summa Logica Universals and Particulars

#6630

Oliva Blanchette

#93580

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Oliva Blanchette was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He was a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America . Blanchette won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 2007 for Philosophy of Being . He is also known for having translated works of Maurice Blondel into English.

#6631

Alain Duhamel

#133610

Overall Influence

#6632

Glenda Gray

#116499

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Glenda Elisabeth Gray MB BCh, FC Paeds, DSc , is a South African physician, scientist and activist specializing in the care of children and in HIV medicine. In 2012, she was awarded South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe . She became the first female president of the South African Medical Research Council in 2014, was recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People" by Time in 2017 and was listed amongst "Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes Africa in 2020. Her research expertise involves developing microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV vaccines.

#6633

Georg von Dadelsen

#33586

Overall Influence

1918 - 2007 (89 years)

Georg von Dadelsen was a German musicologist, who taught at the University of Hamburg and the University of Tübingen. He focused on Johann Sebastian Bach, his family and his environment, and the chronology of his works. As director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute in Göttingen, he influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second complete edition of Bach's works.

#6634

Stephen Malawista

#43100

Overall Influence

1934 - 2013 (79 years)

Stephen Evan Malawista was an American medical researcher and Professor of medicine within the rheumatology department of Yale University. Malawista is credited as the co-discover of Lyme disease and led the research team which identified the disease.

#6635

María José Frápolli

María José Frápolli

#118358

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

María José Frápolli Sanz is a Spanish philosopher. As of 2022, she is professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Granada. Her work is focused on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic.

#6636

Jason Walter Brown

#51225

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Jason W. Brown is an American neurologist and writer of works in neuropsychology and philosophy of mind. He has been a reviewer and recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is or has been on the editorial boards of leading journals in his field. He has written 14 books, edited 4 others, and more than 200 articles.

#6637

Ren� J. Duquesnoy

#133676

Overall Influence

#6638

John Hilton Edwards

#133687

Overall Influence

#6639

Bradley C. Leibovich

#133688

Overall Influence

#6640

Naoyuki Kamatani

#133692

Overall Influence

#6641

E. Rudolph Froesch

#133700

Overall Influence

#6642

Daniel Wan-yui Chan

#133705

Overall Influence

#6643

William M. Bourne

#133707

Overall Influence

#6644

Eugene A. Stead

Eugene A. Stead

#29511

Overall Influence

1908 - 2005 (97 years)

Eugene Anson Stead Jr. is best known as a physician, medical educator, and researcher. He served on the faculties at Harvard, Emory , and Duke universities. His research in the 1940s paved the way for cardiac catheterization in medicine today. He is the founder of the physician assistant profession.

#6645

Tatyana Kasatkina

#49680

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina is a Russian philosopher, philologist, culture expert, religious scholar and writer. She is an expert in the field of theory of culture, theory of literature, philosophy, religious studies, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She is Doctor of Philology , Head Researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Head of the Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture” at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, president of the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS.

#6646

Luc Langlois

#118172

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Luc Langlois is a Canadian philosopher, writer, and translator. He is a professor of philosophy at Laval University. He served as the francophone editor of the journal Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.

#6647

Dennis Leroy Stevens

#133740

Overall Influence

#6648

Kenneth A. Bauer

#133757

Overall Influence

#6649

Paul F. Schellhammer

#133761

Overall Influence

#6650

Michel Malherbe

#106446

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Michel Malherbe is a French translator and philosopher. A specialist of Anglo-Saxon empiricism, he has translated Bacon, Locke and Hume. He is director of the series "Analyse et philosophie" and "Bibliothèque des philosophies" by Vrin.

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