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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6801

Heiner Wedemeyer

#106461

Overall Influence

#6802

Werner Stegmaier

#87732

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Werner Stegmaier is a German philosopher. He was the founding director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Greifswald after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the German reunification. From 1994 until 2011, he was chair of philosophy with a focus on practical philosophy. His main field of research is the philosophy of orientation. He first published it in the German Philosophie der Orientierung ; its English translation has been published as What is Orientation? A Philosophical Investigation . To promote the ideas of this philosophical approach, the Hodges Foundation for Philosophical Orientation was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2018.

#6803

Warren J Manning

#106478

Overall Influence

#6804

John Arthur

#79449

Overall Influence

1946 - 2007 (61 years)

John Arthur was an American professor of philosophy and an expert in legal theory, constitutional theory, social ethics, and political philosophy. He taught at Binghamton University for 18 years. Early life and education John Arthur, son of L. James Arthur and Elizabeth Gleason Arthur, grew up in Denver, Colorado. Arthur earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and history at Cornell College and his master's degree in political sociology and PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

#6805

Johann Lukas Schönlein

Johann Lukas Schönlein

1793 - 1864 (71 years)

Johann Lukas Schönlein was a German naturalist, and professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was called to Berlin in 1839, where he taught therapeutics and pathology. He served as physician to Frederick William IV.

#6806

Denis Moreau

#75857

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Denis Moreau is a French philosopher. Life Studies Born in Bordeaux, Moreau is a former student of the École normale supérieure de Paris and member of the Institut universitaire de France. He taught at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University, then at the University of Nantes where he is currently professor of history of modern philosophy and philosophy of religion.

#6807

Camila Henríquez Ureña

1894 - 1973 (79 years)

Camila Henríquez Ureña , was a writer, essayist, educator and literary critic from the Dominican Republic who became a naturalized Cuban citizen. She descended from a family of writers, thinkers and educators; both her parents, Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal and Salomé Ureña, as well as her brothers Pedro and Max, were literary luminaries. Her essays have been published in Instrucción Pública, Ultra, Archipiélago , Casa de las Américas, La Gaceta de Cuba, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional, Revista de la Universidad de La Habana, and Revista Lyceum. A feminist and a humanist, she lectured durin...

#6808

Stephan Achenbach

#106546

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#6809

Anthony Wood

1632 - 1695 (63 years)

Anthony Wood , who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary. He was responsible for a celebrated Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon. Early life Anthony Wood was born in Oxford on 17 December 1632, as the fourth son of Thomas Wood , BCL of Oxford, and his second wife, Mary , daughter of Robert Pettie and Penelope Taverner.

#6810

Franz Hamburger

1874 - 1954 (80 years)

Franz Hamburger was an Austrian medical doctor and university lecturer. Biography Hamburger attended high school in Wiener Neustadt, and studied medicine at Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Munich and Graz. In Heidelberg in 1892 he was a member of the Corps Rhenania. In 1898 he passed the state medical examination for qualification as a doctor. After gaining his doctorate in medicine he became a ship's doctor, then worked as a doctor in Heidelberg, Vienna and Graz. Following specialist training as a pediatrician, he graduated in 1900 with Theodor Escherich. In 1906 he completed his habilitation thesis and worked as a lecturer.

#6811

John William Miller

1895 - 1978 (83 years)

John William Miller was an American philosopher in the idealist tradition. His work appears in six published volumes, including The Paradox of Cause and most recently The Task of Criticism . His principal philosophical ambitions were 1

#6812

Friederike Moltmann

Friederike Moltmann

#86397

Overall Influence

Friederike Moltmann is a linguist and philosopher. She has done pioneering work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics, especially on the interface between metaphysics and natural language semantics, but also on the interface between philosophy of mind and mathematics. She is an important proponent of natural language ontology. She is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.

#6813

Michal Kosinski

Michal Kosinski

#14166

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Michal Kosinski is an associate professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University, a computational psychologist, and a psychometrician. He studies the psychological processes in Large Language Models , as well as AI and Big Data to model and predict human behavior.

#6814

G. Prof. Dr. Med. Plewig

#106601

Overall Influence

#6815

Richard E. Chaisson

#106602

Overall Influence

#6816

Ian Greer

#33110

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Professor Sir Ian Andrew Greer is a medical doctor who is the President and Vice Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and formerly Vice-President of the University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. He was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow 2001−2007, Dean at Hull York Medical School 2007–2010, then Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool 2010−2015.

#6817

Barry J. Hoffer

#106609

Overall Influence

#6818

Paul Nelson

#30206

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Paul A. Nelson is an American philosopher, noted for his advocacy of the pseudosciences of young earth creationism and intelligent design. Biography Nelson is the grandson of the creationist author and Lutheran minister Byron Christopher Nelson and edited a book of his grandfather's writings. He is married to Suzanne Nelson, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University.

#6819

Hugh Christian Watkins

Hugh Christian Watkins

#39831

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Hugh Christian Watkins is a British cardiologist. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, an associate editor of Circulation Research, and was Field Marshal Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2013.

#6820

Denise J. Jamieson

#77158

Overall Influence

Denise J. Jamieson is an American gynecologist. She is the University of Iowa Vice President for Medical Affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. She is a former medical officer in the United States Public Health Service.

#6821

Dimitris Glinos

1882 - 1943 (61 years)

Dimitris Glinos was a Greek philosopher, educator and politician. Life Glinos was born in Smyrna, the eldest of twelve children of Alexandros Glinos. After graduating from the Smyrna Evangelical School, he went to Athens in 1899 and enrolled in the Philosophy Department of the University of Athens. He graduated in 1905 and proceeded to study philosophy, pedagogy, and experimental psychology in Germany at the University of Jena , and at the University of Leipzig . In Germany, he was acquainted with Georgios Skliros who introduced Glinos to socialist ideology and had decisive effect on his lat...

#6822

Alexamenus of Teos

500 BC - 500 BC (0 years)

Alexamenus of Teos was one of the potential inventors of Greek literary genre of prose dialogue. Also known as Alexamenus of Tenos or Alexamenus of Styra, the only surviving news about him have been handed down, centuries later, by three sources: Athenaeus of Naucratis, Diogenes Laërtius and a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus.

#6823

Mario Tronti

#87454

Overall Influence

1931 - 2023 (92 years)

Mario Tronti was an Italian philosopher and politician, considered one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s. An active member of the Italian Communist Party during the 1950s, he was, with Raniero Panzieri, amongst the founders of the Quaderni Rossi review from which he split in 1963 to found the Classe Operaia review. This evolving journey progressively distanced him from the PCI, without him ever formally leaving, and engaged him in the radical experiences of operaismo. Such experience, considered by many to be the matrix of Italian Autonomist Marxism in the 1960s, was ...

#6824

Theodore Brown Rasmussen

#106661

Overall Influence

#6825

Stephen Friend

#66943

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Stephen H. Friend is co-founder and director of Sage Bionetworks. Formerly Senior Vice-president at Merck & Co. Friend co-founded Rosetta Inpharmatics with Leland H. Hartwell and Leroy Hood in 1996. Much of his research has focused on cancer.

#6826

Pauli Pylkkö

#65518

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Pauli Pylkkö is a Finnish philosopher. He was a student of Jaakko Hintikka, and later a professor and a researcher in both the United States and Finland. Pylkkö has addressed such topics as logic, semiotics, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. Pylkkö has published several works focused specifically on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and his works have examined the often problematic relationships between language and subjectivity, nationalism, the limits of scientific rationality, and the semiotic and linguistic mechanics of fascism. His work has also aroused interest in theologi...

#6827

Nancy Frankenberry

#54539

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Nancy K. Frankenberry is an American philosopher of religion, currently John Phillips Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College.

#6828

Hans Herrman Strupp

#55551

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Hans Hermann Strupp was born in Frankfurt, Germany and died in the U.S. He moved from Nazi Germany to the U.S. and he pursued a PhD in Psychology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where the Department of Psychiatry granted him with a Certificate in Applied Psychiatry for Psychologists. One of the founders of this school was Harry Stack Sullivan whose work had a large impact on Strupp's academic career and thinking. Hans became a Full Professor at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Psychology in 1966 and was named Distinguished Professor in 1976.

#6829

Laurence F. Prescott

#106699

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#6830

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#6831

Arnall Patz

#33386

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Arnall Patz was an American medical doctor and research professor at Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1950s, Patz discovered that oxygen therapy was the cause of an epidemic of blindness among some 10,000 premature babies. Following his discovery, there was a sixty percent reduction in childhood blindness in the United States. He also conducted pioneering research in the 1960s into the use of lasers in the treatment of retinal disorders. He received the Lasker Award in 1956 for his research into the causes and prevention of blindness and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for...

#6832

David Naylor

#18935

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Christopher David Naylor, is a Canadian physician, medical researcher and former president of the University of Toronto. He is ICES scientist emeritus and founding CEO. In 2016, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

#6833

Christopher J. Packard

#106782

Overall Influence

#6834

Martin Reivich

#106785

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#6835

Bert Sakmann

#1122

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

#6836

Roya Kelishadi

#106810

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#6837

Philippe Amouyel

Philippe Amouyel

#106818

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#6838

John M. Walshe

#106823

Overall Influence

#6839

Warren Ashby

1920 - 1985 (65 years)

Dr. Warren Ashby was an American philosopher, born in Newport News, Virginia. Biography Ashby graduated with a bachelor of arts from Maryville College, Tennessee, in 1939 and earned B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. Following graduation, Ashby taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1947–1949, then joined the faculty of Woman's College where he taught philosophy until his retirement in 1983. Ashby, who specialized in western ethics, originated and served as head of the Department of Philosophy for twenty years. In 1970 he founded a residential college on the campus, later named Warren Ashby Residential College at Mary Foust in his honor.

#6840

Scott Gottlieb

#5217

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Scott Gottlieb is an American physician and investor who served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from May 2017 until April 2019. He is presently a senior fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute , a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates , a member of the board of directors of drug maker Pfizer, Inc, a member of the board of directors of Illumina, Inc., a contributor to the cable financial news network CNBC, and a frequent guest on the CBS News program Face the Nation. An elected member of the National Academy ...

#6841

Wilhelm Marstrand

Wilhelm Marstrand

1810 - 1873 (63 years)

Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand , painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

#6842

Jimmy Altham

#95111

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

James Edward John Altham , known as Jimmy Altham and normally cited as J. E. J. Altham, is a British philosopher and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Biography He obtained his BA degree in Philosophy at Cambridge followed in 1969 by a Ph.D. also in Philosophy. His dissertation was entitled 'Assertion, Command and Obligation. Philosophical Foundations of the Logic of Imperatives and Deontic Logic'.

#6843

Constantine G. Lyketsos

#89918

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Constantine G. Lyketsos is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor in Alzheimer's Disease Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is the founding director of the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease, and an associate director of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center .

#6844

Arvid Wallgren

1889 - 1973 (84 years)

Arvid Wallgren was a Swedish pediatrician. He was Professor of Pediatrics at the Karolinska Institute, a member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and editor-in-chief of Acta Paediatrica from 1950 til 1964.

#6845

Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman

1870 - 1936 (66 years)

Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing. Berkman was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vilna in the Russian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1888. He lived in New York City, where he became involved in the anarchist movement. He was the one-time lover and lifelong friend of anarchist Emma Goldman. In 1892, undertaking an act of propaganda of the deed, Berkman made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead strike, for which he served 14 years in prison.

#6846

Jeffrey Sconce

#36632

Overall Influence

Jeffrey Sconce is a professor and cultural historian of media and film. He is a professor in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University. Early life and education Sconce has a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

#6847

Vladimir Smirnov

#101908

Overall Influence

1931 - 1996 (65 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smirnov was a Russian philosopher. He worked at both Tomsk University in Siberia and later at the Department of Logic of the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow. He revived interest in the work of Nicolai A. Vasiliev.

#6848

Kōji Taki

#45357

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

was a Japanese critic and philosopher. Life and career Taki graduated with a degree in art history from Tokyo University. Taki began his professional career as a core figure at the Japanese photography magazine Provoke, which he co-founded and where he worked from 1968 to 1970. He also provided most of the funds for the magazine. However, because of his "aloofness" and greater focus on writing, he was best known as a critical writer rather than a visual artist. Next to art, he also wrote frequently on philosophy, politics and history.

#6849

Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer

1891 - 1959 (68 years)

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former ...

#6850

Amy Kass

#65244

Overall Influence

1940 - 2015 (75 years)

Amy Judith Kass was an American academic and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. She spent most of her career as a professor of classic texts in the College of the University of Chicago. Her scholarly interests included courtship, marriage, citizenship and philanthropy. Her books include Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists, Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying, and What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.

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