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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6701

Elizur Wright

1804 - 1885 (81 years)

Elizur Wright III was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described in the United States as "the father of life insurance", or "the father of insurance regulation", as he campaigned that life insurance companies must keep reserves and provide surrender values. Wright served as an insurance commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

#6702

Richard Burthogge

1638 - 1705 (67 years)

Richard Burthogge of Devon, England, was a physician, magistrate and philosopher. Life Richard Burthogge was the son of a Captain of Foot at the garrison of Plymouth, and was baptised in Plympton St Maurice on 30 January 1637 . He attended Exeter Grammar School, was admitted to All Souls College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1654, migrated to Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. "completed by determination" in 1658. He matriculated at the University of Leiden in October 1661. His doctoral thesis was entitled "De lithiasi et calculo" and submitted on 27 February 1662.

#6703

Magdalena Aebi

1898 - 1980 (82 years)

Magdalena Aebi was a Swiss philosopher known for her fundamental criticism of Immanuel Kant. Life Magdalena Aebi was born on 4 February 1898 in Burgdoft into the family of Hans Aebi and Marie A. Nubile. After attending high school in Burgdorf she studied classical philology, art history and archeology in Zurich and Munich, as well as philosophy with Ernst Cassirer in Hamburg. In 1943 she obtained her doctorate with a critical thesis on Immanuel Kant soughting to refute fundamental Kantian arguments related to transcendental logic. In 1947 on the basis of her dissertation Aebi published a book...

#6704

Ibn Kammuna

1215 - 1284 (69 years)

Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna Works Ibn Kammuna's commentary on Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi's Talwihat, the core text of Illuminationist philosophy is deemed as one of the most thorough examination of that branch of thought.

#6705

Stig Wikander

1908 - 1983 (75 years)

Oscar Stig Wikander was a Swedish Indologist, Iranologist and religious scientist. Biography Stig Wikander was born in Norrtälje, Sweden on 27 August 1908, the son of a pharmacist. After graduating from high school in Uppsala at seventeen, Wikander enrolled at Uppsala University, where he received an MA in Latin and Greek summa cum laude at the age of eighteen. His mentor at Uppsala was Henrik Samuel Nyberg. Wikander subsequently went to Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen. In Paris he became a member of the prestigious Société Asiatique. At the University of Copenhagen he studied under Arthur Chri...

#6706

Sallustius

400 - 400 (0 years)

#6707

Tommaso Campailla

Tommaso Campailla

1668 - 1740 (72 years)

Tommaso Campailla was an Italian philosopher, physician, politician and poet. Life Tommaso Campailla was born in Modica, near Syracuse, in 1668. His family belonged to the local nobility. At sixteen he was sent to Catania to study law. He employed his leisure hours in the study of literature, philosophy, science, astronomy, and physics. He studied both neo-Scholastic and Cartesian philosophy, and adopted a mechanical view of the universe.

#6708

Alejandro Vallega

#104849

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Alejandro Arturo Vallega Arredondo is a Chilean-born philosopher, decolonial thinker, writer, painter, and Professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. In his work he develops an aesthetic philosophy, in which he engages the aesthetic or pre-reflexive affective, embodied and memorial dimensions of understanding and living experience. In the recent years he has emphasized this approach to philosophical understanding in seeking to extend the fields of decolonial philosophy, Continental philosophy, and Latin American Philosophy of Liberation. This work happens in thinking between these w...

#6709

Georgina Long

#94619

Overall Influence

Georgina Venetia Long is Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia , and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney.

#6710

Daniel Barbu

#29149

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel-Constantin Barbu is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991–1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a membe...

#6711

Atul Butte

#5944

Overall Influence

Atul J. Butte is a biomedical informatics researcher and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

#6712

Fabian Freyenhagen

#87839

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics. Books Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Fabian Freyenhagen and Gordon Finlayson, Routledge, 2010 The Legacy of John Rawls, edited by Fabian Freyenhagen and Thom Brooks, London: Continuum, 2005

#6713

Anders Ahlbom

#105689

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#6714

Dale N. Gerding

#105695

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#6715

J. E. L. Pepys

#105704

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#6716

Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī

1080 - 1165 (85 years)

Abu'l-Barakāt Hibat Allah ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī was an Islamic philosopher, physician and physicist of Jewish descent from Baghdad, Iraq. Abu'l-Barakāt, an older contemporary of Maimonides, was originally known by his Hebrew birth name Baruch ben Malka and was given the name of Nathanel by his pupil Isaac ben Ezra before his conversion from Judaism to Islam later in his life.

#6717

Zhou Yu

175 - 210 (35 years)

Zhou Yu , courtesy name Gongjin , was a Chinese military general and strategist serving under the warlord Sun Ce in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. After Sun Ce died in the year 200, he continued serving under Sun Quan, Sun Ce's younger brother and successor. Zhou Yu is primarily known for his leading role in defeating the numerically superior forces of the northern warlord Cao Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs in late 208, and again at the Battle of Jiangling in 209. Zhou Yu's victories served as the bedrock of Sun Quan's regime, which in 222 became Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms.

#6718

Jafar Shahidi

#9883

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Jafar Shahidi known as Seyed Jafar Shahidi was a distinguished scholar of the Persian language and literature, and a renowned historian of Islam. Born in Boroujerd, Lorestan Province, Iran, Shahidi dedicated his life to Persian studies, acting as the director of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute and International Center for Persian Studies , serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the University of Tehran , and mastering the fields of jurisprudence and Islamic history. As a member of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the University of Tehran, Shahidi speci...

#6719

Domenico Vandelli

Domenico Vandelli

1735 - 1816 (81 years)

Domenico Agostino Vandelli was an Italian naturalist, who did most of his scientific work in Portugal. He studied at the University of Padua, from which he received a doctorate in Natural Philosophy and Medicine in 1756. While active as naturalist in Italy he began a correspondence with the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné, which continued for several years. In 1763 he was invited by Catherine the Great of Russia to join the faculty of the University of St. Petersburg, but he declined.

#6720

Johann Heinrich Loewe

1808 - 1892 (84 years)

Johann Heinrich Loewe was an Austrian philosopher born in Prague. Dr. and k.k. Professor of philosophie, Wife Magdalena Babitsch, born in Vienna 1814, dead 17.9.1880 in Gross-Gmain. 3 daughters, From 1839 to 1851 he was a professor of philosophy in Salzburg, and in 1851 was appointed professor of theoretical and moral philosophy at the University of Prague. He was a prominent supporter of philosopher Anton Günther, and author of a biography on minister Johann Emanuel Veith . Other noted works by Loewe include:Über den Begriff der Logik, , 1849Das spekulative System des René Descartes, , 1854Die Philosophie Fichtes.

#6721

Tiny Jaarsma

#105752

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#6722

E. Stasnley Crawford

#105760

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#6723

Eugenio Picano

#105777

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#6724

Peter Openshaw

#53101

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Peter John Morland Openshaw, is a British clinician and scientist specialising in lung immunology, particularly defence against viral infections. He trained in lung diseases and undertook a PhD in immunology before establishing a laboratory at St Mary's Hospital Medical School . He created the academic department of Respiratory Medicine and the Centre for Respiratory Infection at Imperial College and was elected President of the British Society for Immunology in 2014.

#6725

Åke Senning

#105795

Overall Influence

#6726

Masaharu Taniguchi

1893 - 1985 (92 years)

Masaharu Taniguchi was a Japanese New Thought leader, founder of Seicho-no-Ie. He began studying English literature at the Waseda University, Tokyo. In parallel, he also studied the works of Fenwicke Holmes, and subsequently translated Holmes' book, The Law of Mind in Action into Japanese. In 1929, after much study and contemplation, he reported having received a divine revelation followed by the healing of his daughter. This led in 1930 to the creation of a magazine, Seicho-no-Ie . The movement grew during the 1930s, although was suppressed during World War II. In 1952, he co-authored a book...

#6727

Donald Henderson

Donald Henderson

#7920

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Donald Ainslie Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launched international childhood vaccination programs. From 1977 to 1990, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Later, he played a leading role in instigating national programs for public health preparedness and response following biological attacks and national disasters. At the time of his death, he was Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Pro...

#6728

Izchak Miller

#62157

Overall Influence

1935 - 1994 (59 years)

Izchak Miller was a philosopher and author, known, among other things, for his scholarly writings on Edmund Husserl and his contributions to Husserlian phenomenology. Miller was a coordinator of the Cognitive Science Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1986, and was an assistant professor in the Philosophy department from 1982 to 1988. He later joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 1993, and also taught at Stanford University, UCLA, Brandeis University, and the MIT, where he held his first professorship from 1973 to 1977. In addition, he was employed at the Xer...

#6729

Salvatore Pizzo

#102284

Overall Influence

Salvatore Vincent Pizzo is an American scientist, currently Distinguished Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#6730

Carmen Puliafito

Carmen Puliafito

#7255

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Carmen Anthony Puliafito is an American ophthalmologist and former academic administrator. From 2007 until March 2016, he was dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Puliafito had engaged in parties with young recreational drug users and prostitutes, including at the Keck School's offices, and that Puliafito had smoked methamphetamine at these events.

#6731

Gerald A. Larue

#27134

Overall Influence

1916 - 2014 (98 years)

Gerald Alexander Larue was an American scholar of religion and professor emeritus of gerontology, a former ordained minister who became an agnostic, archaeologist, debunker of biblical stories and accounts of miracles, and humanist.

#6732

Taede A. Smedes

#62374

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Taede Anne Smedes is a Dutch philosopher of religion specializing in the relationship between religion and science. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Groningen in 2004 for a thesis on Avoiding Balaam's Mistake: Exploring Divine Action in an Age of Scientism.

#6733

Anton Ambschel

1746 - 1821 (75 years)

Anton Ambschel was a Slovenian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer. Anton Ambschel besides Jakob Štelin, Martin Kuralt and Franz Samuel Karpe presents a group of Slovene Enlightenment philosophers from the 17. and the 18. century. He was writing in Latin and later German.

#6734

Allan S. Detsky

#46670

Overall Influence

Allan Steven Detsky is a Canadian physician and health policy expert. He is the ex-Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Division of Clinical Investigation and Human Physiology, Toronto General Research Institute.

#6735

Kris V. Kowdley

#105867

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#6736

James Howard Shaw

#105894

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#6737

Rikard Holmdahl

#94875

Overall Influence

Rikard Holmdahl is a Swedish physician and immunologist. He was appointed as a full professor and the head of Medical Inflammation Research unit at Lund University in 1993. In 2008, Rikard and his whole research group were recruited to Karolinska Institute. His team was the first to discover and positionally clone a single nucleotide polymorphism at the Ncf1 gene causing susceptibility to autoimmune diseases in rat models. Rikard was an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine between 2016 and 2021, and was ranked 2nd among the top immunology scientists in Sweden in 20...

#6738

Eli Friedman

#27344

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Eli A. Friedman is an American nephrologist. Education Friedman attended New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn College, and the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center where he received an M.D. degree in 1957. In 1957, Friedman married Mildred Barrett-Lennard with whom he fathered three daughters: Amy Louise, Rebecca Alica, and Sara Jo. He served as Intern, Nephrology Fellow, and Senior Medical Resident at Harvard Medical School's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1957 to 1961. After two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the United States Public Health Service's Communic...

#6739

Patrick Stokes

#104186

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Patrick Stokes is an Australian philosopher, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Deakin University and a former Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a winner of Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize and is known for his research on Kierkegaard's philosophy.

#6740

Zachary Braiterman

#59230

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Zachary Braiterman is an American philosopher, best known for writing on the topics of Holocaust theology, Jewish thought, aesthetics, and Jewish art. He is also a professor of religion at Syracuse University.

#6741

Michael Steinberg

#19517

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program booklets, beginning in 1979." He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote articles for music journals and magazine, notes for CDs, and published a number of books on music, both collected published annotations and new writings.

#6742

Hope A. Olson

#40462

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Hope A. Olson is Professor Emerita at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She was previously a professor at the University of Alberta. From 2000 to 2004 Olson was the editor-in-chief for Knowledge Organization and she currently serves on its editorial board. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Library Metadata. Olson has authored or co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has published three books: Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs, 2nd ed., co-authored by John J. Boll ; Information Sources in Women'...

#6743

Gasper Grima

1680 - 1745 (65 years)

Gasper Grima was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in metaphysics and logic. Life Grima was born at Mdina, Malta, around 1680. He joined the Franciscan friars towards the end of the 1690s, and studied philosophy and theology with the Franciscans at Val di Noto, Sicily. Grima taught philosophy and theology at Sicily, and even occupied high offices within his religious order. In 1719, he went to Palestine to do missionary work for a year. Back from the Holy Land, he settled in Malta. He lectured at the College of Philosophy and Literature which the Franciscans had at Rabat, Mal...

#6744

Constance Vella

1687 - 1759 (72 years)

Constance Vella was a major Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in physics, logic, cosmology, and metaphysics. Vella's speciality is that, despite being a Scholastic, he was not an Aristotelic-Thomist one , but rather an Aristotelic-Scotist philosopher, that is more in the line of John Duns Scotus.

#6745

Seit Devdariani

1879 - 1937 (58 years)

Seit Devdariani was a Georgian philosopher and political activist who was a deputy of the National Council of Georgia and the Constituent Assembly of Georgia . He was executed during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

#6746

Willem C. J. Hop

#105953

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#6747

Christopher H. Polman

#105954

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#6748

Gilbert Vassart

#105955

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#6749

Salomon Gessner

Salomon Gessner

1730 - 1788 (58 years)

Salomon Gessner was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher and poet; best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. Biography His father, Hans Konrad Gessner , was a printer, publisher, bookseller and member of the High Council of Zürich. From the age of six until his death, he lived in a home his father bought, at Münstergasse 9. He began an apprenticeship in 1749, at a bookshop in Berlin, but stayed for only a year, having decided to devote himself to landscape painting and etching. After a short stay in Hamburg, where he encountered the poetic works of...

#6750

Knut Erik Tranøy

#95611

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Knut Erik Tranøy was a Norwegian philosopher. During World War II Tranøy, along with 700 other Norwegian students, was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was appointed professor at the University of Bergen from 1959, and at the University of Oslo from 1978. His main contributions have been in fields of ethics, particularly in medicine and science. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1979. He was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2002.

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