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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7251

J. B. Shepherd

#110843

Overall Influence

#7252

Gustavo E. Romero

Gustavo E. Romero

#93397

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata and Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Currently, he is Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy . He is past President of the Argentine Astronomical Society and currently he is the leader of GARRA research group and a Helmholtz International Fellow. Romero has been honored with several award for his achievements in scientific research, including the award of the Argentine Academy of Sciences, the Houssay Prize and the Konex Award 2023.

#7253

Carlos Simon

#98544

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Carlos Simón Vallés is a Spanish clinical researcher, obstetrician, and gynecologist. He is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Valencia, an adjunct professor at Harvard University, and an international expert in assisted reproduction.

#7254

Jörg Tremmel

#50226

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jörg Tremmel is a political theorist and philosopher. He is a professor at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany. Academic career Tremmel holds two PhDs, one in philosophy and one in social sciences. From 2010 to 2016, he was the incumbent of a Junior Professorship for Intergenerationally Just Policies at the University of Tübingen. Spending a year in England, from 2009 to 2010, he was a research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, both at its Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment.

#7255

Wylie J. Dodds

#7256

Bernard Thorens

#110918

Overall Influence

#7257

Jean C. Baudet

#73779

Overall Influence

1944 - 2021 (77 years)

Jean C. Baudet is a Belgian philosopher and writer, born in Brussels and died in Laeken . Life J.C. Baudet taught philosophy and history of science, from 1966 to 1973, in Africa . From 1973 to 1978, he was a biology researcher . In 1978, he was the founder of the periodical Technologia . Since 1996, he was an editor of the Revue Générale . The philosophical system developed by J.C. Baudet is known as editology.

#7258

D. F. M. Strauss

#60251

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

D. F. M. Strauss is a South-African philosopher and the world's leading expert on the theory of modal aspects, one of the core features of the thought of the Dutch philosopher, Herman Dooyeweerd, and the movement for Reformational philosophy.

#7259

Alan F. Segal

#34439

Overall Influence

1945 - 2011 (66 years)

Alan Franklin Segal was a scholar of ancient religions, specializing in Judaism's relationship to Christianity. Segal was a distinguished scholar, author, and speaker, self-described as a "believing Jew and twentieth-century humanist." Segal was one of the first modern scholars to write extensively on the influences of Judaism on Paul of Damascus.

#7260

Michael Bond

#86875

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Sir Michael Richard Bond FRSA FRSE FRCPsych FRCPGlas FRCSE is an English physician and medical researcher, whose specialism lies in the study of pain. He has held a number of national and international appointments in his field and was Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1973 to 1998.

#7261

Adil Asadov

#73232

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Adil Asadov - is an Azerbaijani philosopher, currently head of the department at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and President of Association of Philosophical Enlightenment. Biography Adil Asadov was born on October 1, 1958, in Guba, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR. In 1975 he finished Guba boarding school and in 1980 graduated from Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction. In 1986 he was admitted to the Aspirantura in Philosophy at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law. He defended his PhD thesis titled “Historical types of thinking and engineering activity” in 1989.

#7262

Friedrich Theodor Vischer

Friedrich Theodor Vischer

1807 - 1887 (80 years)

Friedrich Theodor Vischer was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and writer on the philosophy of art. Today, he is mainly remembered as the author of the novel Auch Einer, in which he developed the concept of , a comic theory that inanimate objects conspire against humans.

#7263

Linda D. Cardozo

#111018

Overall Influence

#7264

David Kerr

#91237

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Professor David James Kerr CBE is a British Cancer Researcherer. His primary area of research is treatment and management of colorectal cancer. He served as Chief Research Advisor at Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha, Qatar. David James Kerr is Professor of Cancer Medicine and Former Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was also President-Elect for European Society for Medical Oncology .

#7265

Zhang Xuecheng

1738 - 1801 (63 years)

Zhang Xuecheng was a Chinese historian and philosopher during the Qing dynasty. His father and his grandfather had been government officials, but, although Zhang achieved the highest civil service examination degree in 1778, he never held high office. Zhang's ideas about the historical process were revolutionary in many ways and he became one of the most enlightened historical theorists of the Qing dynasty, but he spent much of his life in near poverty without the support of a patron and, in 1801, he died, poor and with few friends. It was not until the late 19th century that Chinese scholars began to accept the validity of Zhang's ideas.

#7266

Donald R. Anderson

#111051

Overall Influence

#7267

Carl Elliott

#41130

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Carl Elliott is an American academic working as a professor in department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Early life and education A native of South Carolina, Elliott was educated at Davidson College in North Carolina and at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, where he received his PhD in philosophy. He received his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina.

#7268

Gyula Pikler

1864 - 1937 (73 years)

Gyula Pikler Hungarian philosopher of law, university professor, member of the Society for Social Sciences. He was one of the most prominent and influential representatives of positivist philosophy of law and state, and was also known abroad. It was under his influence and around his person that the Galileo Circle was founded in Budapest in 1908, which was joined primarily by progressive young intellectual people.

#7269

Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster

1729 - 1798 (69 years)

Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist of partially Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, where he was accompanied by his son Georg Forster. These expeditions promoted the career of Johann Reinhold Forster and the findings became the bedrock of colonial professionalism and helped set the stage for the future development of anthropology and ethnology. They also laid the framework for general concern about the impact that alteration of t...

#7270

Athenodorus of Soli

300 BC - 360 BC (-60 years)

Athenodorus of Soli was a Stoic philosopher, and disciple of Zeno of Citium, who lived in the 3rd century BC. He was the son of Athenodorus, and was born in the town of Soli, Cilicia, and was the compatriot of another disciple of Zeno, Chrysippus. Athenodorus was the brother of the poet Aratus of Soli, the author of the long didactic poem, Phaenomena. Both brothers followed the teachings of Zeno.

#7271

Robert Oliver Cunningham

1841 - 1918 (77 years)

Robert Oliver Cunningham was a Scottish naturalist. Birth and early life Cunningham was born on 27 March 1841, in Prestonpans, the second son of the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham , Free Church of Scotland minister in Prestonpans, and Cecilia Margaret Douglas , daughter of David Douglas, Lord Reston , the heir of Adam Smith. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy , and graduated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1864. He gained a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh with a thesis on the Solan Goose.

#7272

Donald Grierson

#111084

Overall Influence

#7273

Edward Abramowski

Edward Abramowski

1868 - 1918 (50 years)

Edward Józef Abramowski was a Polish philosopher, libertarian socialist, anarchist, psychologist, ethician, and supporter of cooperatives. Abramowski is also one of the best known activists of classical anarchism in Poland.

#7274

Henri Sarles

#111093

Overall Influence

#7275

Peter H. Schur

#111103

Overall Influence

#7276

Karl Gustav Fellerer

1902 - 1984 (82 years)

Karl Gustav Fellerer was a German musicologist. His works include more than 600 scientific publications on catholic church music, Italian music from 1600 to the beginning of the 20th century, and music history of the 19th century. He wrote monographs on Palestrina, Handel, Mozart, and Max Bruch and was editor of several musical journals. He published the Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch for 46 years, from 1930 until 1976. Fellerer was president of several musicology societies, including 16 years of the Joseph Haas Society.

#7277

Kevin Volpp

#11833

Overall Influence

Kevin G. Volpp is an American behavioral economist and Mark V. Pauly President's Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. He is the Director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics ..

#7278

Jean Davignon

#91488

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Jean Davignon, is a Canadian physician, medical researcher, and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received his Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1958 and a Master of Science degree in 1960 from McGill University.

#7279

Michael Ferejohn

#88009

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Michael Ferejohn is a Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, and the author of the books The Origins of Aristotelian Science and Formal Causes: Definition, Explanation, and Primacy in Socratic and Aristotelian Thought. He received his A.B. from San Fernando Valley State College and his doctorate from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to teaching at Duke, he held a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University. Ferejohn specializes in ancient philosophy, epistemology, and logic. He received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012 at Duke Univ...

#7280

William of Heytesbury

1313 - 1372 (59 years)

William of Heytesbury, or William Heytesbury, called in Latin Guglielmus Hentisberus or Tisberus , was an English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow.

#7281

Henry Fox Talbot

Henry Fox Talbot

1800 - 1877 (77 years)

William Henry Fox Talbot FRS FRSE FRAS was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent that affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He ...

#7282

Giuseppe Cacciatore

#99155

Overall Influence

1945 - 2023 (78 years)

Giuseppe Cacciatore was an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. He was professor emeritus of history of philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. Life and career Born in Salerno, Cacciatore graduated in philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1968, and the same year he became assistant in the faculty of philosophy at the University of Salerno, becoming ordinary professor in 1970. Starting from 1981 he was professor of history of philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II, becoming emeritus in 2017. He also served as president of the class of Moral Scien...

#7283

Malcolm W. Greaves

#7284

Samuel E. Broder

#111209

Overall Influence

#7285

Alfio Ferlito

#111214

Overall Influence

#7286

Juan Rodés

#111220

Overall Influence

#7287

Grete L. Bibring

Grete L. Bibring

1899 - 1977 (78 years)

Grete Lehner Bibring was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst who became the first female full professor at Harvard Medical School in 1961. Life Life in Vienna Grete Bibring was born as Margarethe Lehner on January 11, 1899, in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest child of factory owner Moriz Lehner and his wife Victoria Josefine Lehner, née Stengel. Her siblings were two older brothers, Ernst and Fritz, and a sister, Rosi. Her upbringing was amongst a wealthy Jewish family that often hosted dinner parties and imparted to her an appreciation for music, science, and art. She attended Akademisches Gymnasium until 1918, when she graduated.

#7288

Dallas B. Phemister

1882 - 1951 (69 years)

Dallas Burton Phemister was an American surgeon and researcher who gave his name to several medical terms. During his career, he was the president of the American Surgical Association and the American College of Surgeons, and was a member of the editorial board of the journal Annals of Surgery.

#7289

Lee A. Fleisher

#111244

Overall Influence

#7290

Yuichirou Doki

#111245

Overall Influence

#7291

Charles Theodore Dotter

#111246

Overall Influence

#7292

Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg

#45419

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Leslie Arnold Turnberg, Baron Turnberg, , is a British medical professional and an author of many publications and books related to the medical and health services fields. His experience extends to areas of research in these fields, and maintaining a clinical practice. He has published four books and some 150 articles on medical and scientific research. He has written two books on the history of Israel: Beyond the Balfour Declaration; the 100 Year Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace was published in 2017, and Mandate: Britain's Palestinian Burden, 1919–1939 was published in 2021.

#7293

Simon Karpatkin

#111315

Overall Influence

#7294

Alexander Kabanov

Alexander Kabanov

#108589

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Alexander Viktorovich Kabanov , is a Russian and American chemist, an educator, an entrepreneur, and a researcher in the fields of drug delivery and nanomedicine. Biography and career Kabanov was born in Moscow, USSR on 27 March 1962, in the family of Soviet chemist Viktor A. Kabanov. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Moscow State University in 1984, where he also received PhD – Candidate of Chemical Sciences in 1987 and D.Sc. – Doctor of Chemical Sciences in 1990. In 1994 he reallocated to United States to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he served on a faculty for nearly 18 years before moving to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012.

#7295

Stefan Sarnowski

#111324

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Stefan Sarnowski was a Polish philosopher working as professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Biography Stefan Sarnowski graduated from University of Warsaw, and in 1964 obtained his magister degree for the work Marksizm i darwinizm w etyce Kautskiego , with Marek Fritzhand being the supervisor. After receiving his doctorate, Stefan Sarnowski started working as adjunct at the same university.

#7296

Will Ord

#86955

Overall Influence

Will Ord is a UK-based educational trainer and speaker. He is the Chair of the Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education . Ord advocates for education that promotes thinking and communication skills, reflective practice, and the 'community of learners' at the heart of learning and teaching.

#7297

Izrail Agol

1891 - 1937 (46 years)

Izrail Iossofovich Agol was a Soviet geneticist and philosopher. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Science, worked briefly in the United States of America, and took an interest in radiation induced mutagenesis. As a Marxist philosopher, he also studied vitalist and mechanist views in biology and their relation to Marxism. He was killed in the aftermath of Trofim Lysenko's rise in the Stalin regime.

#7298

Neil Marlow

#111343

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

#7299

Alan Donagan

#87643

Overall Influence

1925 - 1991 (66 years)

Alan Harry Donagan was an Australian/American philosopher, distinguished for his theories on the philosophy of history and the nature of morality. He attended the University of Melbourne and was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

#7300

Francis Anderson

1858 - 1941 (83 years)

Sir Francis Anderson was a Scottish-born Australian philosopher and educator. Early life Francis Anderson was born in Glasgow, the son of Francis Anderson, a manufacturer, and his wife Elizabeth Anna Lockart, née Ellison. Anderson was educated at Old Wynd and Oatlands public schools and became a pupil-teacher at the age of 14. He went on to the University of Glasgow, matriculating in 1876 and graduated M.A. in 1883. He was awarded Sir Richard Jebb's prize for Greek literature, took first place in the philosophical classes of Professors Veitch and Caird, and won two scholarships. For two years...

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