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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7651

Stephen G. Pauker

#114993

Overall Influence

#7652

Eliot L. Berson

#115000

Overall Influence

#7653

Watson W. Buchanan

#115004

Overall Influence

#7654

Brie Gertler

#75497

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Brie Gertler is an American philosopher who works primarily on problems in the philosophy of mind. A mind-body dualist, she is Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her special interests include introspection, consciousness and mental content.

#7655

Haralambos P. Gavras

#115014

Overall Influence

#7656

Mohan k. Raizada

#115019

Overall Influence

#7657

Harry S. Jacob

#115026

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#7658

David Grob

#115032

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#7659

Richard V. Milani

#115036

Overall Influence

#7660

Karl Albert Scherner

1825 - 1889 (64 years)

Karl Albert Scherner was a German philosopher and psychologist. Life Karl Albert Scherner was born on 26 July 1825 in Deutsch-Krawarn, a village on the then border between Prussian Silesia and Austrian Silesia , near the district capital of Ratibor . He studied at the Gymnasium in Ratibor and in May 1846 went up to the university in Breslau , where he studied Catholic theology. In 1858 he became a Docent in the Philosophy Department of the same university, a position which he held until the winter term of 1871–72. He is said to have given up his university career because of a severe throat condition.

#7661

Marlène Zarader

#87208

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Marlene Zarader, born in 1949, is a French philosopher. She teaches philosophy at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III in Montpellier. Since became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 2007. Her book The Unthought Debt was originally published in French in 1990. The work was translated to English by Bettina Bergo.

#7662

Félix Martí Ibáñez

1911 - 1972 (61 years)

Félix Martí-Ibáñez was a physician, psychiatrist, author, and publisher, who was born in Spain, emigrated to the United States in 1939 following the Spanish Civil War when he was exiled during the Franco Era in Spain, and became an American citizen. In Spain he had served as a minister for the Second Spanish Republic. When he emigrated he settled in Manhattan.

#7663

Fons Elders

#79567

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Fons Elders is a Dutch philosopher and an emeritus professor at the University of Humanistic Studies. He was the host of the Chomsky–Foucault debate in 1971.

#7664

Wayne A. I. Frederick

Wayne A. I. Frederick

#18387

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Wayne Alix Ian Frederick is a Trinidadian-American scholar, surgeon, and university administrator. He served as president of Howard University in Washington D.C. from July 21, 2014 to August 31, 2023 superseded by Ben Vinson III. Frederick also serves as the distinguished Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery.

#7665

Sjur Olsnes

#100548

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Sjur Olsnes was a Norwegian biochemist. He was born in Bergen, but grew up in Vaksdal. He took his medicine degree at the University of Bonn, and worked at the University of Bergen from 1967 to 1968 before being hired at the Norwegian Radium Hospital. He took the dr.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1972 and was promoted to professor in 1989, retiring in 2009.

#7666

Alfred Kastil

1874 - 1950 (76 years)

Alfred Kastil was an Austrian philosopher. He earned his doctorate in 1898 at the University of Prague with the thesis Prinzipien der Aristotelischen Ethik under the supervision of Anton Marty. Kastil habilitated in 1901 with the thesis Zur Lehre von der Willensfreiheit in der nikomachischen Ethik .

#7667

Jamie Lindemann Nelson

#88356

Overall Influence

Jamie Lindemann Nelson is a philosophy professor and bioethicist currently teaching at Michigan State University. Nelson earned her doctorate in philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980 and taught at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and St. John's University before moving to Michigan State University. In addition, Nelson was an Associate for Ethical Studies at The Hastings Center from 1990–95 and is both a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. Nelson usually teaches courses on biomedical ethics, ethical theory, moral psychology, fe...

#7668

E. Regis Mcfadden

#115132

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#7669

Priscilla White

1900 - 1989 (89 years)

Priscilla White was a pioneer in the treatment of diabetes during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes. She was also a founding member of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Biography White was born in Boston, Massachusetts but while she was a baby her parents divorced and she was living in Woolaston. She graduated from Quincy High School in Massachiusetts. She attended Radcliffe College before transferring to Tufts University Medical School, where she graduated third in her class in the year 1923. At the time, Harvard Medical School did not accept women. She served her internship at Worcester Memorial Hos...

#7670

Abraham I. Braude

#115172

Overall Influence

#7671

Alim‐louis Benabid

#115183

Overall Influence

#7672

Fyodor Konstantinov

#100054

Overall Influence

1901 - 1991 (90 years)

Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov was a Soviet Marxist–Leninist philosopher and academician. Career Born in to a peasant family, he joined the Red Army after the October Revolution and became a participant of the Civil War in Siberia.

#7673

Rifat Atun

#64144

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rifat Atun is a British Physician and academic who currently serves as the Harvard University Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in the contemporary study of comparative health systems and healthcare innovation and has made substantial contributions to health systems theory, health systems reform, and innovation in health systems.

#7674

Egon Hynek Kodicek

#115212

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#7675

Nicholas T. Kouchoukos

#115219

Overall Influence

#7676

Samuel de Sorbiere

Samuel de Sorbiere

1615 - 1670 (55 years)

Samuel Sorbière was a French physician and man of letters, a philosopher and translator, who is best known for his promotion of the works of Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi, in whose view of physics he placed his support, though unable to refute René Descartes, but who developed a reputation in his own day for a truculent and disputatious nature. Sorbière is regarded often by his position on ethics and disclosure about medical mistakes. In 1672 Sorbière considered the idea of being honest and upfront about a mistake having been made in medicine but thought that it might seriously jeopard...

#7677

Lala Lajpat Rai

1865 - 1928 (63 years)

Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian revolutionary, politician, and author, generally known as Lala Lajpat Rai. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal trio. He died of severe head trauma injuries sustained 18 days earlier during a baton charge by police in Lahore, when he led a peaceful protest march against the all-British Simon Commission Indian constitutional reforms.

#7678

Manuel Curado

#85390

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Manuel Curado is a Portuguese essayist and philosopher dedicated to Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of mind. He has worked on the following issues: the intellectual history of the idea of a universal language and the idea of machine translation, or automatic translation, the problem of human consciousness and its relationship with the brain, the relationship between science and religion, studies about the European and Portuguese intellectual history, academic editions of works by authors such the Eighteenth-century mathematician José Maria Dantas Pereira, the logician Edmundo Curvelo, and other...

#7679

Lisa Shapiro

#80574

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Lisa C. Shapiro is an American and Canadian philosopher, Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Arts at McGill University. She is known for her expertise on early modern philosophy. Shapiro is the first winner of the German Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize which celebrates the history of women in philosophy. It is awarded to internationally recognized philosophers for outstanding services to research on women in the history of philosophy.

#7680

Anthony. H. Barnett

#115263

Overall Influence

#7681

Leonard B. Seeff

#115279

Overall Influence

#7682

Nicholas W. Read

#115287

Overall Influence

#7683

Frank L. Meyskens Jr.

#54230

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Frank L. Meyskens Jr. is the former Daniel G. Aldrich chair and director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; currently professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Biography Meyskens received an MD from the University of California, San Francisco in 1972. At UC Irvine Meyskens holds appointments in cancer biology, epidemiology, public health, and pharmacological sciences.

#7684

Andrea Nightingale

#81524

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Andrea Wilson Nightingale is an American scholar working in the field of Classics. She is a Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She works on Ancient philosophy and literature, focusing on the intersection of philosophy and literature. She has also taught and written on ecological issues from a literary and philosophical point of view.

#7685

John Loike

#72352

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

John Loike is an American research biologist and bioethicist at Touro University. Biography Loike has a Ph.D from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. His research focuses on the role of inflammation in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published many articles in leading scientific journals including Science, Nature, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Cell Biology, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, PNAS, PlosOne, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Scientist. In addition he has authored or co-authored several books.

#7686

Kenneth Fearon

#78152

Overall Influence

1960 - 2016 (56 years)

Kenneth C. H. Fearon FRCSE FRCPSG was a 20th-century Scottish surgeon and cancer specialist. He was Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Edinburgh with a special interest in cachexia.

#7687

Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt

1893 - 1983 (90 years)

Marianne Brandt was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt in Dessau in 1928. Today, Brandt's designs for household objects such as lamps and ashtrays are considered timeless examples of modern industrial design. She also created photomontages.

#7688

Kim Hyung-suk

#51586

Overall Influence

1920 - Present (106 years)

Kim Hyung-suk or Kim Hyung-seok is a South Korean writer, philosopher, and professor emeritus of Yonsei University. He taught as a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Yonsei University from 1954 to 1985. He became professor emeritus of the same school after his retirement in 1985. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. He is the author of a few best-selling books which include Solitude and The Discourse between Eternity and Love . He turned 100 in Korean age in 2019.

#7689

Shuji Ogino

#115364

Overall Influence

#7690

Paolo Macchiarini

#31695

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Paolo Macchiarini is a Swiss-born Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy and Sweden.

#7691

Mark Norman Levine

#115394

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#7692

John Beatty

#66342

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

John Beatty is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received his PhD in 1979 in the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on the theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology. He is well known in the philosophy of biology community.

#7693

Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner

1868 - 1943 (75 years)

Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of fifty five for professional opportunities, working for the Rockefeller Institute.

#7694

Cushman D. Haagensen

#115436

Overall Influence

#7695

Robert Lyndsay Sutherland

#115440

Overall Influence

#7696

Professor Peter J. Scheuer

#115457

Overall Influence

#7697

Götz Briefs

1889 - 1974 (85 years)

Götz Briefs was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and political economist, who together with Gustav Gundlach, SJ influenced the social teachings of Pope Pius XI. Biography In 1908, Briefs began to study history and philosophy at the University of Munich. As it was customary in German academic circles at the time, he frequently switched universities, moving in 1909 to Bonn, and later in 1911 to Freiburg. In Freiburg, he became a member of K.D.St. V. Wildenstein Freiburg im Breisgau, a Catholic student fraternity that belong to the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen.

#7698

Giles Skey Brindley

#115474

Overall Influence

#7699

John Major

1467 - 1550 (83 years)

John Major was a Scottish philosopher, theologian, and historian who was much admired in his day and was an acknowledged influence on all the great thinkers of the time. A renowned teacher, his works were much collected and frequently republished across Europe. His "sane conservatism" and his sceptical, logical approach to the study of texts such as Aristotle or the Bible were less prized in the subsequent age of humanism, when a more committed and linguistic/literary approach prevailed.

#7700

David-Hillel Ruben

#109831

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David-Hillel Ruben is a University of London professor emeritus of philosophy, now at Birkbeck, University of London. He gained his PhD in Philosophy at Harvard University . He previously held posts at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Essex University, The City University London, and the London School of Economics. He served as Founding Director of NYU's campus programme in London. His research relates to the philosophy of the social sciences, metaphysics, and the philosophy of action. In 2011, Ruben resigned from the Universities and Colleges Union in protest at their stance on ant...

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