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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8551

Lucas Introna

#66330

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Lucas D. Introna is Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics at the Lancaster University Management School. He is a scholar within the Social Study of Information Systems field. His research is focused on the phenomenon of technology. Within the area of technology studies he has made significant contributions to our understanding of the ethical and political implications of technology for society.

#8552

Lisa Ginzburg

#83063

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lisa Ginzburg is an Italian author, translator and philosopher. She currently lives in Paris. Biography The daughter of Carlo Ginzburg and Anna Rossi-Doria, she graduated in philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome and further specialized her studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Tuscany. At first, she dedicated her studies to French mysticism from the Seventeenth century . She also worked as a translator . Moreover, she contributed to Italian newspapers and magazines, such as Il Messaggero and Domus. She edited, together with Cesare Garboli, È difficile parlare di sé, a multi...

#8553

Hermodorus

400 BC - Present (2426 years)

Hermodorus , an Ephesian who lived in the 4th century BC, was an original member of Plato's Academy and was present at the death of Socrates. He is said to have circulated the works of Plato , and to have sold them in Sicily. Hermodorus himself appears to have been a philosopher, for we know the titles of two works that were attributed to him: On Plato , and On Mathematics .

#8554

George Karpati

#63432

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

George Karpati, was a Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist who was one of the leading experts on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophy research. Born in Debrecen, Hungary, Karpati was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Canada in 1957. He received an M.D. from Dalhousie University in 1960. Karpati spent 30 years in clinical practise, research and teaching of neurology. He was the Izaak Walton Killam Chair and Professor of Neurology at McGill University.

#8555

Yitzhak Melamed

#109167

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is an Israeli philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy. He is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a master's degree in history & philosophy of science from Tel Aviv University and a philosophy PhD from Yale University. Melamed has won numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright , American Academy for Jewish Research , Mellon , Humboldt , NEH , and ACLS-Burkhardt Fellowships, and taught intensive masterclasses at the University of Toronto , École normale supérieure de Lyon , Peking Unive...

#8556

Harold Shipman

#3443

Overall Influence

1946 - 2004 (58 years)

Harold Frederick Shipman , known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Shipman hanged himself in his cell at HM Prison Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on 13 January 2004, aged 57.

#8557

David Aers

#62729

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Roland Aers is a James B. Duke Professor of English, historical theology and religion at Duke University. He has published widely on literature, sacramental culture and ideology in medieval and Renaissance England.

#8558

Volker Dr Ullrich

#123595

Overall Influence

#8559

Piotr Zawojski

#90927

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Dr. hab. Piotr Zawojski is a Polish media expert. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Biography Teaching career Zawojski works in the fields of film, photography, new media and the area of cyberculture. He teaches history and theory of film and television, communication, digital photography, new media and cyberculture. Professor Zawojski is a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, one of the oldest universities in the world. He also frequently of...

#8560

Dorit Bar-On

#121703

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dorit Bar-On is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning Research Group. Her research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaethics. She previously held positions at the University of Rochester and UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Research and Undergraduate Education from 2014 to 2015.

#8561

Giovanni Battista Doni

1595 - 1647 (52 years)

Giovanni Battista Doni was an Italian musicologist and humanist who made an extensive study of ancient music. He is known, among other works, for having renamed the note "Ut" to "Do" in solfège. In his day, he was a well-known lawyer, classical scholar, critic and musical theorist, and from 1640 to 1647 he occupied the Chair of Eloquence at the University of Florence and was a prominent member of the city's Accademia della Crusca, the premier academic philologic society of Florence and Italy at the time. They had published the first Italian-language dictionary and grammar in 1612.

#8562

Helmut Loos

#84337

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Helmut Loos is a German musicologist and emeritus scholar. Life Born in Niederkrüchten, Loos studied music education from 1971 to 1974 and musicology, art history and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his habilitation.

#8563

David J. Anderson

#123684

Overall Influence

#8564

Arthur J. Ammann

#77567

Overall Influence

1936 - 2021 (85 years)

Arthur J. Ammann was an American pediatric immunologist and advocate known for his research on HIV transmission, discovering transmission and the risk of contaminated transfusions and blood products, and his role in the development of the first successful vaccine to prevent pneumococcal infection in 1977. He founded Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and was Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the UCSF Medical Center.

#8565

Christine Rouzioux

#123694

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#8566

Federico Celestini

#112180

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Federico Celestini is an Italian musicologist. Since 2011 he has been professor of musicology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Life Federico Celestini was born in Rome. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule Giulio Briccialdi in Terni, Italy, and musicology, aesthetics and literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He received his doctorate in 1998 and the Habilitation in 2004, both in Musicology, at the University of Graz. At the same time, he worked as a member of the Special Research Project "Modern - Vienna and Central Europe around 1900" in the Musicology department at the university until 2005.

#8567

Per Soelberg Sørensen

#123713

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

#8568

Helen Wodehouse

1880 - 1964 (84 years)

Helen Marion Wodehouse was a British philosopher and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. She was also the first woman to hold a professorial chair at the University of Bristol. Life and education Helen Wodehouse was born on 12 October 1880 in Bratton Fleming, North Devon. She was one of four children of the Reverend Philip John Wodehouse , and his wife, Marion Bryan Wallas, meaning Helen and P.G. were cousins. She was educated at Notting Hill High School in London, where her aunt Katharine Wallas was teaching mathematics and in 1898 she won an exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge to read mathematics.

#8569

Ignacio Ponseti

Ignacio Ponseti

#25921

Overall Influence

1914 - 2009 (95 years)

Ignacio Ponseti was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, Ponseti was the son of a watchmaker and spent his childhood helping repair watches. This skill was said to eventually contribute to his abilities as an orthopedist. He served three years as a medic during the Spanish Civil War treating orthopedic injuries of wounded soldiers. He left Spain shortly after the end of the war and became a faculty member and practicing physician at the University of Iowa, where he developed his ground-breaking,...

#8570

Derald E. Brackmann

#123726

Overall Influence

#8571

J. Rodney Allen

#123727

Overall Influence

#8572

Théophile Godfraind

#123738

Overall Influence

#8573

Johann Christoph Hoffbauer

1766 - 1827 (61 years)

Johann Christoph Hoffbauer was a German philosopher, who published extensively on natural law, ethics and psychology. From 1785 he studied at the University of Halle, where his influences included the anti-Kantian philosopher Johann Augustus Eberhard. In 1794 he became an associate professor, and in 1799 a full professor of philosophy at Halle.

#8574

George du Maurier

George du Maurier

1834 - 1896 (62 years)

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali. His son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier. The writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier and the artist Jeanne du Maurier were all granddaughters of George. He was also father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

#8575

Meena Dhanda

#31742

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Dr. Meena Dhanda is an Indian philosopher and writer, based in the United Kingdom. She is a Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton, and is internationally recognised as a leading academic in the development of diaspora dalit studies. She conducts philosophy with a 'practical intent', and her work has confirmed existence of caste discrimination in Britain in areas covered by the Equality Act 2010, and pushed for more legal protections against caste-based discrimination.

#8576

Michael P. T. Leahy

#107512

Overall Influence

1934 - 2007 (73 years)

Michael Paul Tutton Leahy was an English conservative philosopher and opponent of animal rights and vegetarianism. Biography Leahy was born in Westminster. He was educated Salesian College in Battersea and Trinity College, Dublin. After he graduated he studied at Cornell University and Penn State University. He was as assistant lecturer in philosophy at Durham University during 1965–1968 and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent where he became a senior lecturer in 1976. He was the university’s admissions officer from 1992–1999.

#8577

Leslie Zieve

#123745

Overall Influence

#8578

Henry Laurie

1837 - 1922 (85 years)

Henry Laurie was an Australian philosopher, a journalist, and the first professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne. Laurie was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he was strongly influenced by the philosopher Alexander Campbell Fraser. Laurie did not graduate from the university for health reasons, and then moved first to Canada, then to Victoria. In Australia, he became a journalist and contributed to the Warrnambool Examiner, and subsequently edited the weekly newspaper, the Warrnambool Standard, in partnership with a printer and journalist named William Fairfax. His i...

#8579

Robert A. Kehoe

1893 - 1992 (99 years)

Robert Arthur Kehoe was an American toxicologist and a dominant figure in occupational health. Working on behalf of the lead industry , Kehoe was the most powerful medically-trained proponent for the use of tetraethyllead as an additive in gasoline.

#8580

Paul G. Polakis

#123766

Overall Influence

#8581

Louis J. Tobian

#123768

Overall Influence

#8582

A. G. Everson Pearse

#123771

Overall Influence

#8583

Diodorus of Tyre

150 BC - 200 BC (-50 years)

Diodorus of Tyre was a Peripatetic philosopher, and a disciple and follower of Critolaus, whom he succeeded as the head of the Peripatetic school at Athens . He was still alive and active there in 110 BC, when Licinius Crassus, during his quaestorship of Macedonia, visited Athens. Cicero denies that he was a genuine Peripatetic, because it was one of his ethical maxims, that the greatest good consisted in a combination of virtue with the absence of pain, whereby a reconciliation between the Stoics and Epicureans was attempted.

#8584

Esmail Zanjani

#27985

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Esmail D. Zanjani is a professor and medical researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research involves growing human cells within sheep embryos. In March 2007, it was announced that Zanjani had created a human-sheep chimera. Zanjani has stated that his work involves sheep because of the blood-forming systems of sheep and humans are similar.

#8585

Lennart Hansson

#123780

Overall Influence

#8586

Stefan Mundlos

#123786

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#8587

Günter Burg

#123787

Overall Influence

#8588

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

#32237

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a professor in the Computational Media department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio. He is an alumnus of the Literary Arts MFA program and Special Graduate Study PhD program at Brown University. In addition to his research in digital media, computer games, and software studies, he served for 10 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.

#8589

Frederick George Novy

1864 - 1957 (93 years)

Frederick George Novy was an American bacteriologist, organic chemist, and instructor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, the third son of Joseph Novy and his wife Frances, grew up on the West Side, near the site where the Great Chicago Fire started in 1871. After attending the local public schools, Novy matriculated to the University of Michigan where he studied chemistry, graduating with a B.S. in 1886. He performed his graduate studies at the same institution, receiving his master's degree in 1887 with a thesis on "Cocaine and its derivatives". At this time he became an instructor at the University, teaching a course in bacteriology, then was awarded an Sc.D.

#8590

Louis L. Scharf

#123796

Overall Influence

#8591

Hiroshi Okamoto

#123800

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

#8592

Robert F. Breiman

#123820

Overall Influence

#8593

Milan Damnjanović

#83222

Overall Influence

1924 - 1994 (70 years)

Milan Damnjanović was a Serbian philosopher, full professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Belgrade University. Milan Damnjanović was the founder and the president of the Aesthetic Society of Serbia , vice president of the International Aesthetics Society, a member of the International Committee of Greek Humanistic Society for Philosophy in Athens, a member of the presiding committee of the International Society for Dialectic Philosophy , a member of the American Aesthetics Society.

#8594

Thomas Laubach

#49874

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Thomas Laubach is a German Catholic theologian. He wrote the texts for numerous hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied . He has used his birth name in publications. Under his family name Weißer, he worked in education and journalism, specifically as representative of the Catholic Church at the broadcaster SWR. He has been professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg from 2003.

#8595

Christopher Cordner

#102057

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Christopher Donald Cordner is an Australian philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his expertise on ethics. Cordner is a recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship .

#8596

Sadiq Jalal al-Azm

Sadiq Jalal al-Azm

#28141

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm was a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria and was, until 2007, a visiting professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His main area of specialization was the work of German philosopher Immanuel Kant, but he later placed a greater emphasis upon the Islamic world and its relationship to the West, evidenced by his contribution to the discourse of Orientalism. Al-Azm was also known as a human rights advocate and a champion of intellectual freedom and free speech.

#8597

John Woodward

1665 - 1728 (63 years)

John Woodward was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at the University of Cambridge. Though a leading supporter of observation and experiment in what we now call science, few of his theories have survived.

#8598

Ann Partridge

#105409

Overall Influence

Ann Hart Partridge is an American medical oncologist. She is the founder and director of the Young and Strong Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer at the Susan F. Smith Center for Women's Cancers at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute.

#8599

Joseph Hamill

#123841

Overall Influence

#8600

Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn

Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn

1711 - 1756 (45 years)

Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn was a German physician. His middle name is sometimes misspelled Nathaniel. Lieberkühn studied theology initially, and then moved to physics, in particular mechanics. It was only after this that he commenced medicine. In 1739 he moved to Leiden, in the Netherlands, and then a year later to London and Paris. Following this he returned to Berlin as a member of the Collegium medico-chirurgicum, the body charged with improving the teaching and science of medicine in the Holy Roman Empire, making mathematical and optical instruments and working as a professor and medica...

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