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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8051

Prasad Devarajan

#118699

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#8052

Richard F. Keep

#118700

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#8053

Meir H. Kryger

#118710

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#8054

Bengt Björkstén

#118711

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#8055

Karin Bijsterveld

#77568

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Karin Theda Bijsterveld is a Dutch historian. She is a professor of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. Bijsterveld is active in the field of sound studies. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has called her one of the founders of the field.

#8056

Lars-Henrik Schmidt

#75694

Overall Influence

1953 - 2021 (68 years)

Lars-Henrik Schmidt was a Danish idea-historian and philosopher. Since the early 1980s the pivotal point of his writings has been the development of a specific philosophical perspective termed Social Analytics.

#8057

Massimo Piepoli

#118716

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#8058

Stuart S. Sherman

#118719

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#8059

Youssef Seddik

#56806

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Youssef Seddik is a noted Tunisian philosopher and anthropologist specializing in Ancient Greece and the anthropology of the Qur'an. Biography In 1966, he obtained a master's degree in philosophy and a degree in French literature and civilization. During the next four years, he taught at the French school in Compiègne in 1967 and obtained a DES in Philosophy and a degree in Ancient Greece.

#8060

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels

1821 - 1891 (70 years)

Friedrich Wilhelm Scanzoni von Lichtenfels was a German gynecologist and obstetrician born in Prague, in the Austrian Empire. He studied medicine in Prague, and spent most of his professional career as chair of obstetrics at the University of Würzburg, where he succeeded Franz Kiwisch von Rotterau.

#8061

Tom Polger

#93822

Overall Influence

Tom Polger is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati in the United States. His research focuses on naturalistic accounts of the metaphysics of mind. Polger is a past president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

#8062

Aldo R. Castañeda

#118797

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#8063

Francesco Filelfo

Francesco Filelfo

1398 - 1481 (83 years)

Francesco Filelfo was an Italian Renaissance humanist and author of the philosophic dialogue On Exile. Biography Filelfo was born at Tolentino, in the March of Ancona. He is believed to be a third cousin of Leonardo da Vinci. At the time of his birth, Petrarch and the students of Florence had already begun to exalt the recovery of classic texts and culture. They had created an eager appetite for the antique, had rediscovered many important Roman authors, and had freed Latin scholarship to some extent from the restrictions of earlier periods. Filelfo was destined to carry on their work in the...

#8064

M. Maria Glymour

#109760

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Medellena Maria Lee Glymour is an American epidemiologist. Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational attainment and work environment, influence cognitive function, memory loss, stroke and other health outcomes in old age."

#8065

E. Richard Moxon

#118818

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#8066

Robert E. Steiner

#118831

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#8067

Eugenia Elaine Calle

#118852

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#8068

Jorge O. Galante

#118854

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#8069

George Michalopoulos

#27668

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George K. Michalopoulos is a Greek-American pathologist and academic. He served as Maud L. Menten Professor of Experimental Pathology and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC from 1991 to 2023.

#8070

Beverley Pearson Murphy

#94334

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Beverley E. Pearson Murphy, MD, was a Canadian endocrinologist and professor emeritus at McGill University. Born in Toronto, she earned a B.A. in science from the University of Toronto in 1952, followed by an M.D. in 1956. She earned a masters’ degree in Experimental Medicine at McGill University in 1960, completing her residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and was awarded a PhD in Investigative Medicine from McGill in 1964.

#8071

José Angel Obeso

#118892

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#8072

Míchael Landthaler

#118905

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#8073

Shekhar Saxena

#118917

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#8074

David Oswald Thomas

#67335

Overall Influence

1924 - 2005 (81 years)

David Oswald Thomas was a Welsh philosopher, best known as an interpreter of the work of Richard Price. Thomas was born in Rhuthun, Denbighshire, the son of the Clerk to the Department of Education for the county. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School, after which he worked as a bank clerk. In 1943, after two years in the bank, he joined the RAF. He served until 1946. Stationed for most of the time in the Middle East, he served one and a half years in Iraq. At the end of his service he took advantage of a scheme for demobilizing into university and studied philosophy at the University College of Wales, Bangor.

#8075

Philip R. Taylor

#118943

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#8076

H. Julian G. Bloom

#118967

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#8077

Kenneth Dickstein

#119024

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#8078

Solomiia Pavlychko

#33115

Overall Influence

1958 - 1999 (41 years)

Solomiia Dmytrivna Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary critic, philosopher, feminist, and translator. She is considered as one of the pioneering scholars to introduce gender studies and feminist analysis to Ukraine.

#8079

Kenneth Turan

#20531

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Kenneth Turan is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He was a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1991 until 2020 and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies".

#8080

Sten H. Vermund

#93825

Overall Influence

Sten H. Vermund is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and former Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, and also serves as a Professor in Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a pediatrician and infectious disease epidemiologist focused on diseases of low and middle-income countries.

#8081

David F. Penson

#119090

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#8082

Yukihiko Kitamura

#119098

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#8083

Paul L. Kimmel

#119108

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#8084

Saviour Cumbo

1810 - 1877 (67 years)

Saviour Cumbo was a Maltese theologian and minor philosopher. His philosophical writings deal mainly with the relationship between reason and faith. Though his engagement with philosophical reflection was peripheral, his contribution in this field was at least interesting and at most insightful. No portrait of him has been identified up till now.

#8085

Appiano Buonafede

Appiano Buonafede

1716 - 1793 (77 years)

Appiano Buonafede was an Italian priest and philosopher who published under the name Agatopisto Cromaziano. Appiano Buonafede was born in Comacchio, a Province of Ferrara, and died in Rome. He became a professor of theology while in Naples in 1740, and entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order in 1777.

#8086

Berechiah ha-Nakdan

1200 - 1300 (100 years)

Berechiah ben Natronai Krespia ha-Nakdan was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator, poet, and philosopher. His best-known works are Mishlè Shu'alim and Sefer ha-Ḥibbur . Biography Little is known for certain about Berechiah's life and much discussion has taken place concerning his date and native country. He is thought to have lived sometime in the 12th or 13th century, and is likely to have lived in Normandy and England, with some placing him about 1260 in Provence. It is possible that he was a descendant of Jewish scholars of Babylonia. He also knew foreign languages and...

#8087

Sherman Morton Weissman

#119132

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#8088

Crates of Athens

Crates of Athens

400 BC - 260 BC (140 years)

Crates of Athens was a Platonist philosopher and the last scholarch of the Old Academy. Biography Crates was the son of Antigenes of the Thriasian deme, the pupil and eromenos of Polemo, and his successor as scholarch of the Platonic Academy, in 270–69 BC. The intimate friendship of Crates and Polemo was celebrated in antiquity, and Diogenes Laërtius has preserved an epigram of the poet Antagoras, according to which the two friends were united after death in one tomb. The epigram, according to him, reads:

#8089

Grant Wacker

#35698

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Grant Albert Wacker is an American historian of Christianity in the United States. Education Wacker is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard University . Career Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992. In 1992 he joined the faculty of Duke Divinity School, where he taught until he partly retired in 2015 and fully retired in 2018. A specialist in American Christian history, Wacker is the auth...

#8090

Thomas A. Gennarelli

#119143

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#8091

Valérie Vilgrain

#119150

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#8092

Glenn Dranoff

#119151

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#8093

James L. Madara

#119167

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#8094

Mihaela Miroiu

#72580

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Mihaela Miroiu is a Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher, the most prominent activist for women's rights and a very well known activist for Roma rights, more generally, for minorities rights. She is currently Professor of Political science at the Faculty of Political Science, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.

#8095

James Paget

1814 - 1899 (85 years)

Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet FRS HFRSE was an English surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for naming Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours and Lectures on Surgical Pathology . There are several medical conditions which were described by, and later named after, Paget:Paget's disease of bonePaget's disease of the nipple Extramammary Paget's disease refers to a group of similar, more rare skin lesions discovered by Radcliffe Crocker in 1889 which affec...

#8096

Carl Braun

1822 - 1891 (69 years)

Carl Braun , sometimes Carl Rudolf Braun alternative spelling: Karl Braun, or Karl von Braun-Fernwald, name after knighthood Carl Ritter von Fernwald Braun was an Austrian obstetrician. He was born 22 March 1822 in Zistersdorf, Austria, son of the medical doctor Carl August Braun.

#8097

Richard F. Edlich

#83700

Overall Influence

1939 - 2013 (74 years)

Richard F. Edlich was a Professor Emeritus of Plastic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. His basic clinical and research interests focused on improving the safety and outcome of wound care in emergency medicine and surgery.

#8098

Lucien Braun

#69133

Overall Influence

1923 - 2020 (97 years)

Lucien Braun was a French philosophy historian who specialized in Paracelsus. Biography Braun wrote his version of Histoire de l'histoire de la philosophie. At the end of his introduction, he wrote:"We believe that we have thus opened up the field of research for which we had no model; because when we undertook this study, in 1961, the subject was new. It is already less so today, because works towards a history of the history of philosophy are announced, in Germany by L. Geldsetzer and W. Ehrhardt, in France by M. Gueroult. This means that we are, in fact, participating in a concern that goe...

#8099

Justine Sergent

#66779

Overall Influence

1950 - 1994 (44 years)

Justine Saade-Sergent was a researcher in the cognitive neuroscience field. From 1979 to 1982, she was an associate professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University.

#8100

Stuart D. B. Picken

#35574

Overall Influence

1942 - 2016 (74 years)

Stuart Donald Blair Picken was a Scottish philosopher, academic and cleric. He was a noted expert on comparative ethics and Japanese thought. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the government of Japan in recognition of his work.

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