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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8601

John T. Parissis

#153666

Overall Influence

#8602

Francesco Benedetti

#153667

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#8603

Herman H. Stone

#153718

Overall Influence

#8604

Giuseppe Citerio

#153721

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#8605

Alessandra Ferrajoli

#153747

Overall Influence

#8606

Timothy Beal

#33758

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Timothy Beal is a writer and scholar in the field of religious studies whose work explores matters of religion, ecology, and technology. He is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has been Interim Dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences , Chair of the Department of Religious Studies , and Director and Associate Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

#8607

Alexander E. Drzezga

#153753

Overall Influence

#8608

Ryszard Legutko

#100722

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ryszard Antoni Legutko ; born 24 December 1949 Biography Under communism he was one of the editors of the samizdat quarterly "Arka". After the collapse of the communist regime he co-founded the Centre for Political Thought, which combines research, teaching, seminars and conferences and is also a publishing house. He has translated and written commentaries to Plato's Phaedo , Euthyphro and Apology . He is the author of several books: Plato’s Critique of Democracy , Toleration , A Treatise on Liberty and An Essay on the Polish Soul , Socrates .

#8609

Howard Judd

#75109

Overall Influence

1935 - 2007 (72 years)

Howard Lund Judd was an American physician and medical researcher. He specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology, and contributed significant research to the field of women's health, in particular about menopause and hormone replacement therapy.

#8610

Isabelle M. Germano

#38431

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Isabelle M. Germano is a neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery, neurology, and oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Germano works with image-guided brain and spine surgery.

#8611

Larisa Bogoraz

#8735

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union. Biography Born in Kharkiv, at the time capital of the Ukrainian SSR, to a family of Communist Party bureaucrats, she graduated as a linguist from the University of Kharkiv and in 1950, married her first husband, Yuli Daniel, a writer. Together, they moved to Moscow.

#8612

B. Michael Wroblewski

#153780

Overall Influence

#8613

Mohamed Bououdina

#153803

Overall Influence

#8614

Michel G. Bergeron

#109043

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michel G. Bergeron OC OQ is a Canadian physician. He is the founder and director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Laval University. He was invested as an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2008, invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010, and inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2017.

#8615

Peter A. Edwards

#153829

Overall Influence

#8616

Gary Alton Dudley

#153831

Overall Influence

#8617

Vincent Chi‐chung Cheng

#153840

Overall Influence

#8618

Gillian Howie

#98410

Overall Influence

1966 - 2013 (47 years)

Gillian Howie was a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research. She is author of Essential Reorientations: feminism and dialectical materialism , Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of Expressionism , editor of Critical Quarterly’s special issue on higher education, ‘Universities in the UK: Drowning by numbers’ and editor of Women: A Cultural Review’s special issue on ‘Gender and Philosophy’ . She also co-edited Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration . Palgrave. , with the other co-editors Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford.

#8619

David J. Jollow

#153849

Overall Influence

#8620

J. Hoberman

#65817

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

James Lewis Hoberman is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. In 1981, he coined the term "vulgar modernism" to describe the "looney" fringes of American popular culture .

#8621

Terry L. Price

#79397

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Terry L. Price is an American philosopher. Price studied psychology and philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1989. He then completed a master of arts in philosophy at the University of Arizona in 1994. His studies in politics at the University of Oxford was funded by the John M. Olin Foundation. After Price obtained his M. Litt. in 1996, he returned to the University of Arizona to pursue a doctorate in philosophy. Price finished his Ph.D in 1998, under the supervision of Joel Feinberg. He later became the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the ...

#8622

Justin A. Zivin

#153881

Overall Influence

#8623

Jon Mills

#22803

Overall Influence

Jon Mills is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. His principle theoretical contributions have been in the philosophy of the unconscious, a critique of psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, value inquiry, and the philosophy of culture. His clinical contributions are in the areas of attachment pathology, trauma, psychosis, and psychic structure.

#8624

Jerald C. Sadoff

#153927

Overall Influence

#8625

Franz Allerberger

#153930

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#8626

R. E. T. Smith

#153932

Overall Influence

#8627

Markus Stoffel

#153933

Overall Influence

#8628

Gabrio Bassotti

#153934

Overall Influence

#8629

Roger Sanders

#61239

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Roger Cobban Sanders is an American doctor specializing in Ultrasound and Radiology. Originally from the United Kingdom, he obtained a degree in physiology at Oxford University, from the Oxford Clinical Medical School. In 1970 Sanders traveled to the United States to begin a one-year teaching position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time the University was presented a bistable ultrasound system, at the time the only one in Maryland, which Sanders was asked to oversee and use. Eventually he became professor of Radiology, Urology, Obstetric, and Gynecology, as well as director of Ultrasound at the University.

#8630

Richard Grusin

#55423

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Arthur Grusin is an American new media scholar and author. Grusin is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and former Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies.

#8631

Azra Raza

#21431

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at Columbia University. She has previously held positions at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, Rush University, and the University of Massachusetts. Raza's research focuses on myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia.

#8632

Alessandro Laviano

#153962

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#8633

Marshall J. Orloff

#153971

Overall Influence

#8634

Nancy Kendrick

#82786

Overall Influence

Nancy Kendrick is an American philosopher and William and Elsie Prentice Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College . She is known for her expertise on George Berkeley and has been president of the International Berkeley Society since 2015.

#8635

Stefan Evers

#153993

Overall Influence

#8636

Mia Consalvo

#77428

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Mia Consalvo is an American professor of Communication Studies presently at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and holds the post of Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design, Communication Studies. Consalvo has authored a number of scholarly books and publications on the topic of video games in contemporary society and the culture of gameplay.

#8637

Allan Gibofsky

#153995

Overall Influence

#8638

Jacques Billé

#154008

Overall Influence

#8639

Hensin Tsao

#154019

Overall Influence

#8640

Norman G. Lewis

#154025

Overall Influence

#8641

Saroj Saigal

#154027

Overall Influence

#8642

Ernst Lengyel

#65186

Overall Influence

Ernst Robert Lengyel is an American gynecologic oncologist. Lengyel is the Arthur L. and Lee G. Herbst Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago. Lengyel directs the Ovarian Cancer Research Laboratory, a translational research laboratory focused on understanding ovarian cancer metastasis and on developing and testing new treatments for ovarian cancer. In this role, Lengyel and his research team began to investigate the role of the fallopian tube in ovarian cancer as the cells more closely resemble those in the fallopian tube rather than the ovary.

#8643

Reinhold Brinkmann

#77322

Overall Influence

1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Reinhold Brinkmann was a German musicologist. Brinkmann was born in Wildeshausen and studied at Freiburg im Breisgau. His dissertation was about Arnold Schönberg's Klavierstücke op. 11. He started working on the faculty of Freie Universität Berlin in 1970. From 1972 to 1980 he taught at Philipps-Universität Marburg, and then until 1985 again in Berlin, at the Universität der Künste Berlin. After 1985 he taught at Harvard University, as the James Edward Ditson professor, and chair of the department of music. In 2001 he was honored with the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. In 2006 he was elected ...

#8644

Steven T. Pals

#154038

Overall Influence

#8645

Murad Alam

#142736

Overall Influence

Murad Alam is an American physician, scientist, and author. Is a frequently cited expert in the area of cosmetic dermatology, and noted for his research in areas of cosmetic repair and barbed suture use. His work has also extended to serving on expert panels such as those dedicated to merkel cell cancer and guidelines of care. He is the current president of the Blade and Light Society for dermatologic surgeons and serves as the Chief of the Section of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Serves as a regular figure, in local and national news outlets, on discussions of skin care and skin cancer.

#8646

Werner Alfons Scherbaum

#154047

Overall Influence

#8647

Sidney Cohen

#154050

Overall Influence

#8648

Takeshi Sano

#154060

Overall Influence

#8649

Michael X. Repka

#154070

Overall Influence

#8650

Nobuhiko Isshiki

#154093

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