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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7051

Anthony B. Miller

#108836

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#7052

Clare Chambers

#85375

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Clare Chambers is a British political philosopher at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Life Chambers received her DPhil in political theory from the University of Oxford, and she subsequently taught at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, before moving to the University of Cambridge. She has published on feminism, liberalism, and social construction.

#7053

Joseph H. Ogura

#108839

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#7054

Virginia Apgar

1909 - 1974 (65 years)

Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given at one minute and five minutes after birth, the Apgar test measures a child's breathing, skin color, reflexes, motion, and heart rate. A friend said, "She probably did more than any other physician to bring the problem ...

#7055

Gary S. Francis

#108874

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#7056

Arnold Schering

1877 - 1941 (64 years)

Arnold Schering was a German musicologist. He grew up in Dresden as the son of an art publisher. He learned violin at the from which he graduated in 1896. Thereafter he studied violin at the Berlin School of Music under Joseph Joachim. From 1898 until 1902 he studied music in Berlin and Leipzig and wrote his dissertation on the instrumental concertos of Antonio Vivaldi and this work was influential in resurrecting the music of this composer. In 1907 he made his habilitation and was made a professor of music in 1915. In 1920 Schering gathered evidence that composer Johann Sebastian Bach usually used 12 singers in his cantatas and other vocal works.

#7057

Kim Heungsou

#80142

Overall Influence

1919 - 2014 (95 years)

Kim Heungsou was a Korean painter who was sometimes called the "Picasso of Korea". Jang soo hyun, his partner and executive curator of Kim Heungsou museum died of ovarian cancer in November 2012. Biography Born in Hamheung in Korea under Japanese rule, he graduated from Tokyo Art School . After the independence of the Korean Peninsula, he sat as deputy of Seoul Art high school and lecturer at Seoul National University.

#7058

Kristin Andrews

#94870

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kristin Alexandra Andrews is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University and she holds the York Research Chair in Animal Minds. Early life and education Andrews attended Antioch College and conducted co-op research at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory in Hawaii. After earning her Bachelor of Arts, she moved to Western Michigan University for her Master's degree where her first article was published in Etica et Animali.

#7059

Franciszek Krupiński

Franciszek Krupiński

1836 - 1898 (62 years)

Franciszek Salezy Krupiński was a Polish philosopher. Life Krupiński was an early representative of Polish Positivism. He preached "organic work" and fought against Catholic and Romantic philosophy.

#7060

Frank Miller

#13586

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, comic book writer, and screenwriter known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil, for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300.

#7061

Fred Dallmayr

#87885

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Fred Reinhard Dallmayr is an American philosopher and political theorist. He is Packey J. Dee Professor Emeritus in Political Science with a joint appointment in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame . He holds a Doctor of Law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and a PhD in political science from Duke University. He is the author of some 40 books and the editor of 20 other books. He has served as president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy ; an advisory member of the scientific committee of RESET – Dialogue on Civilizations ; the executive co-chair of Worl...

#7062

Cornelius de Pauw

1739 - 1799 (60 years)

Cornelius Franciscus de Pauw or Cornelis de Pauw was a Dutch philosopher, geographer and diplomat at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. Biography Although born in Amsterdam, son of Antonius Pauw and Quirina van Heijningen, he spent most of his life in Kleve. Working for the clergy, he nonetheless became familiar with the ideas of the Enlightenment. During his lifetime he was considered to be the greatest expert on the Americas, although he never visited the continent; he also wrote at length on the origins of ancient peoples, rejecting the popular idea of the time that China was or...

#7063

Richard H. Hunt

#108956

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#7064

Hussein Karim Manji

#7065

Fuad Gasimzade

#108981

Overall Influence

Fuad Gasimzade is an Azerbaijani philosopher and academician. His main area of research area was Azerbaijani philosophic public opinion, social philosophy, ontology, epistemology and aesthetics. His doctoral thesis was titled "Fizuli’s outlook”. His monograph "Caravan of sorrow" or "Light in the darkness" was printed in 1968. He wrote more than 20 scientific articles about Fizuli.

#7066

David Shatz

#79593

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David Shatz is an American philosopher and Ronald P. Stanton University Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva University. He is known for his works on philosophy of religion and ethics. Books Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies, and Moral Theories,

#7067

Elaine K. Perry

#108991

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#7068

David Clement Whitcomb

#108992

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#7069

Charanjit S. Rihal

#109005

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#7070

James Merritt Downey

#109010

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#7071

James A. Shannon

#56017

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

James Augustine Shannon was an American nephrologist who served as director of National Institutes of Health from August 1, 1955 to August 31, 1968. In 1962 he was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was a member. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and the American Philosophical Society in 1967. A collection of his papers is held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

#7072

Thomas Chang

#11713

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Thomas Ming Swi Chang, is a Chinese-born Canadian inventor, physician, and physiologist. While an undergraduate at McGill University in 1957, Chang invented the world's first artificial cell. Working with improvised materials like perfume atomizers inside his dorm room turned laboratory, Chang managed to create a permeable plastic sack that would effectively carry haemoglobin almost as effectively as a natural blood cell. He went on to complete his B.Sc. , M.D., C.M. , and Ph.D degrees at McGill. Chang's career continued as founder and Director of the Artificial Cells and Organs Research Ce...

#7073

Jakob Guttmann

1845 - 1919 (74 years)

Jakob Guttmann was a German-Jewish philosopher of religion and rabbi. He officiated as chief rabbi of the Land rabbinate of Hildesheim between 1874 and 1892. Thereafter he served as rabbi in Breslau until his death.

#7074

Robert H. Brookline Rubin

#109063

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#7075

Cynthia M. Grund

Cynthia M. Grund

#102618

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Cynthia M. Grund is an American philosopher and educator who as of August 2016 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark where she is also Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound project.

#7076

Keith Stephen. Taber

#109077

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#7077

Arthur Schatzkin

#101645

Overall Influence

1948 - 2011 (63 years)

Arthur Gould Schatzkin was an American nutritional epidemiologist who spent much of his career at the National Cancer Institute. Education Schatzkin earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1969. As an undergraduate, Schatzkin was active in Students for a Democratic Society, and after graduation from Yale he went to work for the university as a grounds maintenance worker. He remained an active leftist, including taking part in an occupation on behalf on another worker and speaking at a rally of striking Winchester workers, and in 1969 he was fired, arrested, and tried for his activ...

#7078

Yousaf Saleem Chishti

1895 - 1984 (89 years)

Prof. Yousaf Saleem Chishti , known as Yusuf Salim Chishti, was a Pakistani eminent scholar and writer. He was the interpreter and commentator of Allama Mohammed Iqbal's work and worked with him from 1925 to 1938 predominantly.

#7079

Ollie S. Miettinen

#7080

Kshemaraja

975 - 1025 (50 years)

Rajanaka Kṣemarāja was a philosopher and brilliant disciple of Abhinavagupta, who was a peerless master of tantra, yoga, poetics, and dramaturgy. Not much is known of Kṣemarāja's life or parentage. His chief disciple was a sage known as Yogāraja. The Pratyabhijnahridayam, a work in which Kṣemarāja brings the main tenets of the Pratyabhijna system into a succinct set of sutras for those who may not have studied in-depth metaphysics, occupies the same place in Kashmir Shaivite or Trika literature as Vedanta Sara does in Vedanta. Other works of his: Spandasandoha, Spandanirnaya, Svacchandodyota...

#7081

Benedykt Dybowski

Benedykt Dybowski

1833 - 1930 (97 years)

Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturalist Władysław Dybowski and the cousin of the French explorer Jean Dybowski.

#7082

Stanley Dudrick

#25957

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Stanley John Dudrick was a surgeon who pioneered the use of total parenteral nutrition . Early life and education Dudrick was born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Polish immigrants. His father was a coal miner and his mother a factory worker. At age seven he decided to become a doctor after seeing the care his mother received during a serious illness. He graduated Franklin and Marshall College in 1957. Graduating cum laude with a degree in biology with honors, he was awarded the Williamson Medal, the highest honor for student achievement. His first research project, done in college, was growing tomato plants and studying the effects of magnesium doses in the soil.

#7083

Pauline Kael

#12988

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael's opinions often ran contrary to those of her contemporaries.

#7084

Sallustius of Emesa

450 - Present (1576 years)

Sallustius of Emesa was a Cynic philosopher, who lived in the latter part of the 5th century AD. Biography Sallustius' father Basilides was a Syrian; his mother Theoclea a native of Emesa, where probably Sallustius was born, and where he lived during the earlier part of his life. He applied himself first to the study of jurisprudence, and studied the art of oratory under the tuition of Eunoius at Emesa. He subsequently abandoned his forensic studies, and took up the profession of a sophist. He directed his attention especially to the Attic orators, and learnt all the orations of Demosthenes by heart.

#7085

R. Wayne Alexander

#109200

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#7086

Wilmar Maarten Wiersinga

#7087

Maria Bezobrazova

Maria Bezobrazova

1857 - 1914 (57 years)

Maria Vladimirovna Bezobrazova was a philosopher, historiographer, educator, journalist and women's rights activist from the Russian Empire. She was "the first among Russian women to receive training in philosophy".

#7088

Jenny L Donovan

#109223

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#7089

Gaston R. Vantrappen

#109236

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#7090

Nariman Narimanov

1870 - 1925 (55 years)

Nariman Karbalayi Najaf oghlu Narimanov was an Azerbaijani Bolshevik revolutionary, writer, publicist, politician and statesman. For just over one year beginning in May 1920, Narimanov headed the government of Soviet Azerbaijan. He was subsequently elected chairman of the Union Council of the Transcaucasian SFSR. He was also Party Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union from 30 December 1922 until the day of his death.

#7091

Catherine Cornille

#38779

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Catherine Cornille is a professor of comparative theology and specializes in theology of religions and interreligious dialogue. She presently holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture in the department of theology at Boston College.

#7092

Hugo Bedau

#79552

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr., who has quoted Bedau as saying "I'll let the criminal justice system execute all the McVeighs they can capture, provided they'd sentence to prison all the people who are not like McVeigh."

#7093

Zhang Shiying

#101801

Overall Influence

1921 - 2020 (99 years)

Zhang Shiying is a Chinese philosopher. He became a philosophy professor at Peking University in 1952. He began doing research into German Idealism in the 1950s. He emphasized God as a material force in order to justify his analysis into Hegel's theology. In 1972 he published a materialist analysis of Hegel that was translated and commented upon by Alain Badiou. In opposition to the Idealist System, Hegelian Contradiction was interpreted in light of the theory of One Divides Into Two. Since the 1970s he has written works in dialogue with the broader stream of Continental Philosophy, including...

#7094

Christine Koggel

#93004

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is a specialist in development ethics, particularly on the ethics of care. Academic career Before her appointment at Carleton University in 2013, she was Harvey Wexler Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for International Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

#7095

Farouk El-Baz

#5549

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American space scientist and geologist, who worked with NASA in the scientific exploration of the Moon and the planning of the Apollo program. He was a leading geologist on the program, responsible for studying the geology of the Moon, the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions, and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. He played a key role in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, and later Apollo missions. He also came up with the idea of touchable Moon rocks at a museum, inspired by his childhood pilgrimage to Mecca where h...

#7096

Kenneth M. Rosen

#109338

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#7097

Ian Edward Smith

#109345

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#7098

Charles L. Schepens

#109352

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#7099

Bryn Arthur Bridges

#109360

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#7100

Isaak Iselin

1728 - 1782 (54 years)

Isaak Iselin was a Swiss philosopher of history and politics. Iselin studied law and philosophy at the University of Basel and the University of Göttingen. In 1756 he became secretary of the republic of Basel. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society, the first national Swiss reform society.

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