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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7201

Donlin M. Long

#110399

Overall Influence

#7202

Deborah Mash

#18995

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Deborah Carmen Mash is an American professor of neurology and of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, and director of the Brain Endowment Bank at the University of Miami. She is also the Chief Executive Officer and founder of DemeRx.

#7203

Katharine Gilbert

1886 - 1952 (66 years)

Katharine Everett Gilbert , an American philosopher who studied aesthetics, was one of the first women to be president of the American Philosophical Society. She was also the first female professor at Duke University and, during her lifetime, the only female chairman of a liberal arts department.

#7204

Lazar John Greenfield

#110415

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#7205

Heber C. Kimball

Heber C. Kimball

1801 - 1868 (67 years)

Heber Chase Kimball was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Church of the Latter Day Saints, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than two decades, from 1847 until his death.

#7206

Ian Wilson

#24440

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ian Wilson is a British prolific author of historical and religious books. He has investigated such topics as the Shroud of Turin and life after death. Life He was born in Clapham, south London, during World War II. Neither of his parents was religious. His school was nominally Church of England, but during scripture classes he was always, as he put it, "the number one sceptic". He graduated in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1963.

#7207

Bernard Andrieu

#72195

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Bernard Andrieu is a French philosopher and historian of the body. Biography Andrieu was born on 24 December 1959 in Agen. He studied in Bordeaux from 1978 to 1984. He is a professor at the University of Nancy. He has written on the philosophy of neuroscience and the mind-body problem, as well as the history of bodily practices such as tanning, touch, the open air, and immersion. He is the editor of a 450-article Dictionary of the Body.

#7208

Lisa Iezzoni

#98951

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Lisa I. Iezzoni is an American medical researcher with expertise in health policy. She is a professor at Harvard Medical School, as well as the director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is known for her research on health disparities among people with disabilities.

#7209

Anthony-jake Demetris

#110479

Overall Influence

#7210

Sushil Kumar Saxena

#57971

Overall Influence

1921 - Present (105 years)

Sushil Kumar Saxena is an Indian musicologist, academic, scholar and the author of several books on music, philosophy and aesthetics. He is a former member of the faculty of the University of Delhi and has served the University Court as a member. His works include Studies in the Metaphysics of Bradley, Hindustan Music and Aesthetics Today, Art and Philosophy: Seven Aestheticians, Croce, Dewey, Collingwood, Santayana, Ducasse Langer, Reid, and Swinging Syllables Aesthetics of Kathak Dance and his lectures have been included in a book, Indian Music: Eminent Thinkers on Core Issues ; Discourses by Premlata Sharma, S.

#7211

Timothy James Gabbett

#110485

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#7212

Linda-Gail Bekker

Linda-Gail Bekker

#84863

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Linda-Gail Bekker MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP is a Professor of Medicine and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is also Director of the Desmund Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town. She is a Past President of the International AIDS Society .

#7213

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

1236 - 1311 (75 years)

Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud b. Mosleh Shirazi was a 13th-century Persian polymath and poet who made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism.

#7214

Charles Bluestone

#110505

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Charles D. Bluestone is an American physician, focusing in otitis, currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Otolarngology at University of Pittsburgh.

#7215

Joseph Škoda

1805 - 1881 (76 years)

Joseph Škoda was an Austrian physician, medical professor and dermatologist. Together with Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, he was the founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna. Life Škoda was born in Pilsen, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire, as the second son of a locksmith. He attended the gymnasium at Pilsen, entered the University of Vienna in 1825, and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine on 10 July 1831.

#7216

Pierre Lemonnier

1675 - 1757 (82 years)

Pierre Lemonnier was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt , and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus which consisted of the following volumes :Volume 1 - LogicaVolume 2 - MetaphysicaVolume 3 - Physica Generalis including mechanics and geometryVolume 4 - Physica Particularis including astronomy , optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamicsVolume 5 - Physica Particularis including fluid mechanics, human ...

#7217

A. Victor Hoffbrand

#110511

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#7218

Lee H. Schwamm

#110518

Overall Influence

#7219

Norman l. Letvin

#110554

Overall Influence

#7220

Ralf Baron

#110556

Overall Influence

#7221

Edward M. Iii Copeland

#110571

Overall Influence

#7222

Richard M. Capobianco

#102188

Overall Influence

Richard M. Capobianco is an American philosophy professor and one of the leading commentators on the thought of the 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger. His three books, Engaging Heidegger, Heidegger's Way of Being, and Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding have led the way to a renewed appreciation of Heidegger's core concern with Being as temporal radiant emergence or manifestation. He has also brought Heidegger into closer proximity with American authors such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and E. E. Cummings, and with English poets s...

#7223

Arnold Epstein

#48805

Overall Influence

Arnold Epstein is an American health scholar currently the John H. Foster Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has had over 20 authored or co-authored papers cited each over 100 and 1,000 times, starting with his currently highest one published in 1991.

#7224

Bonaventura Clotet

Bonaventura Clotet

#101748

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Bonaventura Clotet Sala is a Spanish physician. He has been the head of the HIV unit at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona from 1987 to 2015, and since then he has been the head of the Infectious Diseases service at the same hospital. He has been the director of the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute since 1995 and chairman of the Fight Against AIDS Foundation since 1992. Since 2006 he has been co-director of the HIVACAT AIDS vaccine research program. He has been an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1986 and director of the Chair in AID...

#7225

Lorraine Smith Pangle

#85334

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lorraine Smith Pangle is a professor of political philosophy in the Department of Government and co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin. Her interests are ancient, early modern, and American political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of education, and problems of justice and moral responsibility. She has won fellowships from the Searle, Olin, and Earhart Foundations, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Pangle received her B.A. in history from Yale, a B.Ed.

#7226

Irving Thalberg Jr.

1930 - 1987 (57 years)

Irving Grant Thalberg Jr. was an author and the son of 1930s Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg and Academy Award-winning actress Norma Shearer. Thalberg was six years old when his father died from pneumonia at the age of 37. He was educated at Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and attended Stanford University. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago until he died of cancer on August 21, 1987, four days before his 57th birthday. He left a wife and three daughters. Prior to the University of Illinois, he was briefly a professor at the University of Washington.

#7227

Vojin Rakić

#82830

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Vojin B. Rakic is a Serbian philosopher and political scientist. He publishes in English, but also in Serbian. He has a PhD in political science from Rutgers University in the United States. His publications on ethics, bioethics , Kant, and cosmopolitan justice are considered as influential writings in the international academic arena, as can be read in the references to Rakić`s works, the endorsements of his two latest books, as well as in the open letter of support for Rakić that has been signed by dozens of the world`s most reputed ethicists and philosophers, in which they state their opin...

#7228

William H. Welch

William H. Welch

1850 - 1934 (84 years)

William Henry Welch was an American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, and medical-school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first school of public health in the country. Welch was more known for his cogent summations of current scientific work, than his own scientific research. The Johns Hopkins medical school library is also named after Welch. In his lifetime, he was called the "...

#7229

Hiroyuki Tsutsui

#110633

Overall Influence

#7230

José Benardete

#82576

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

José Amado Benardete was an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. He was the son of Maír José Benardete and the brother of Seth Benardete and Diego Benardete, professor of mathematics at the University of Hartford. He is known for his works on metaphysics and infinity.

#7231

Kurt Hostettmann

#110655

Overall Influence

#7232

A. Etc. Pinchera

#110679

Overall Influence

#7233

Hans O. L. Lithell

#110687

Overall Influence

#7234

Robert Steele

1860 - 1944 (84 years)

Robert Steele was a British scholar, best known for editing between c. 1905 and 1941 the 16-volume Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Bacon. Early in his life Steele was a disciple of William Morris, who was apparently influential in directing young Steele's attention towards studying medieval writings, and also attracted Steele's political views towards socialism. After studying chemistry, Steele was for a brief time a teacher of this subject at Bedford School. He soon abandoned this job and moved to London where he worked as a freelance journalist, writing for various literary and socialist publications.

#7235

Víctor Li-Carrillo Chía

1929 - 1988 (59 years)

Víctor Li-Carrillo Chía was a Peruvian philosopher. Education and influences He studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, then in France and Germany . On these trips he met Victor Goldschmidt and Martin Heidegger, among other famous names in philosophy and world culture. In this first part of his life his philosophical interests were focused on ancient Greek philosophy and language, as well as being heavily influenced by Heidegger, whom he recognizes as a teacher.

#7236

Rachel Ankeny

#62392

Overall Influence

Rachel Ankeny is a professor of history and philosophy of science at University of Adelaide. In 2020, she was elected as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for her contributions to our understanding of the foundational roles that organisms play in biological research and her leadership in history and philosophy of science." She is currently the president-elect of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology .

#7237

Trevor J. Phillips

#61112

Overall Influence

1927 - 2016 (89 years)

Trevor Joeseph Phillips was a British-born educational philosopher and Professor of Educational Foundations and Inquiry at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He wrote a dissertation on the philosophy transactionalism.

#7238

Ezequiel Di Paolo

#60159

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ezequiel A Di Paolo is a full-time Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. He also has affiliations with the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at the University of Sussex. His field of research covers enactivism and embodiment in cognitive science.

#7239

William C. Koller

#110730

Overall Influence

#7240

Razi Shirazi

#60319

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Ayatollah Sayyid Radhi al-Husayni al-Shirazi , also known as Razi Shirazi, was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia who was a jurist, philosopher and theologian. He was the great-grandson of the renowned Shia jurist, Mirza Shirazi, the pioneer of the Tobacco protest. He was the Imam of the Shifa mosque in Yousefabad.

#7241

Warwick Anderson

#67559

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Warwick Hugh Anderson , medical doctor, poet, and historian, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was previously an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow . He is also honorary professor in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of New South Wales, from which he received the History and Philosophy of Science Medal in 2015.

#7242

Ed. Dewey W. Hall

#110751

Overall Influence

#7243

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1805 - 1873 (68 years)

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria .

#7244

Michael Broyde

#13702

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Michael Jay Broyde is a professor of law and the academic director of the Law and Religion Program at Emory University School of Law. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His primary areas of interest are law and religion, Jewish law and Jewish ethics, and comparative religious law. Broyde has published 200 articles on various aspects of law and religion and Jewish law, and a number of articles in the area of federal courts.

#7245

Donald Hubin

#42549

Overall Influence

Donald Clayton Hubin is an American philosopher, specializing in ethics, legal philosophy and political philosophy. He has published research on justice and future generations, parental rights, paternity, instrumental rationality and benefit-cost analysis, among other topics. Hubin is a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University and the Founding Director Emeritus of its Center for Ethics and Human Values. He serves as the Chair of the national board of National Parents Organization.

#7246

Hans E. Grossniklaus

#110788

Overall Influence

#7247

Elaine Svenonius

#86444

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Elaine Svenonius is an American librarian and library scholar, known for her research on bibliographic control, particularly cataloging, classification, and indexing. She is best known for bringing a philosophical knowledge organization approach to cataloging theory.

#7248

Jay David Bolter

#16940

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Jay David Bolter is the Wesley Chair of New Media and a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of study include the evolution of media, the use of technology in education, and the role of computers in the writing process. More recently, he has conducted research in the area of augmented reality and mixed media. Bolter collaborates with researchers in the Augmented Environments Lab, co-directed with Blair MacIntyre, to create apps for entertainment, cultural heritage and education for smart phones and tablets. This su...

#7249

Dominique Parodi

1870 - 1955 (85 years)

Dominique Parodi was a French philosopher and educational administrator. Dominique Parodi was born in Genoa. He was the son of Margarita and Dominique-Alexandre Parodi; his father was a poet and dramatist of Graeco-Italian background. A member of the group around Émile Durkheim, he was a contributor to their journal, L'Année Sociologique. Between 1919 and 1934 he was General Inspector of Public Instruction. He succeeded Xavier Léon as editor of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, editing it from 1935 to 1955.

#7250

Charles Secrétan

1815 - 1895 (80 years)

Charles Secretan was a Swiss philosopher. He was born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on 21 January 1895. Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in Munich, he became a professor of philosophy at Lausanne , and later at Neuchâtel. In 1866 he returned to his old position at Lausanne.

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