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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8701

Norman Bradburn

#101860

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Norman M. Bradburn is an American social scientist and the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at University of Chicago and former University Provost, and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Statistical Association, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#8702

Marcello Pera

#69826

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Marcello Pera is an Italian philosopher and politician. He was the President of the Italian Senate from 2001 to 2006. Career Pera, who was born in Lucca,⁣ graduated in accounting, and he worked for the Banca Toscana and for the Camera di Commercio in Lucca. He went on to study philosophy at the University of Pisa, concentrating on the works of Karl Popper and his open society theory, and advocating these principles during the difficult 1970s, the anni di piombo.

#8703

G. C. Field

1887 - 1955 (68 years)

Guy Cromwell Field FBA was a British philosopher. He was Professor of Philosophy, at the University of Bristol 1926–1952 and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1944–1945 and 1947–1952. He was the grandson of Jesse Collings.

#8704

Donald Armstrong

#124737

Overall Influence

#8705

Edward R. Garrett

#124739

Overall Influence

#8706

Jean- Jacques Rousseau

#124745

Overall Influence

#8707

Gerhard Heinzmann

Gerhard Heinzmann

#114844

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Gerhard Heinzmann He is known for his work on the philosophy of Henri Poincaré and founded the Archives Henri Poincaré in Nancy in 1992. He is an editor of the journal Philosophia Scientiae and of the Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré and a member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, the Institut International de Philosophie and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.; He was director of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Lorraine from 2007 to 2014, member of the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Techn...

#8708

Lawrie William Powell

#124758

Overall Influence

#8709

Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie

1871 - 1940 (69 years)

Kenneth Sylvan Launfal Guthrie , philosopher and writer, was a grandson of feminist Frances Wright and brother of William Norman Guthrie, a Scottish-born Episcopalian priest who issued a series of translations of ancient philosophical writers, "making available to the public the neglected treasures of Neo-platonism".

#8710

Nikolai Stankevich

Nikolai Stankevich

1813 - 1840 (27 years)

Nikolai Vladimirovich Stankevich was a Russian public figure, philosopher, and poet. Biography Nikolay Stankevich was born in Uderevka, Voronezh Governorate, and in 1834 graduated from the Moscow State University, where he was influenced by Professor Mikhail Kachenovsky and followers of the so-called "skeptical school" in historiography. By late 1831, Stankevich had organized a literary and philosophical society called the Circle of Stankevich. He had been under police surveillance since 1833 due to his connections with a group of oppositionary university students led by Ya.I. Kostenetsky. I...

#8711

Chi Van Dang

#35583

Overall Influence

Chi Van Dang is a hematological oncologist and researcher, currently serving as the Scientific Director of Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. He is known for his research on genetics, the MYC gene and the cellular energy metabolism of cancer.

#8712

Camran Nezhat

#24075

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Camran Nezhat, FACOG, FACS is an American laparoscopic surgeon, reproductive endocrinology and infertility sub-specialist who has been teaching and practicing medicine and surgery as an adjunct clinical professor of surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California since 1993. Nezhat is also chair of the Association of the Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Stanford University School of Medicine, and a clinical professor of OB/GYN at the University of California, San Francisco.

#8713

Antonio L’abbate

#124800

Overall Influence

#8714

Ian Olver

#77625

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ian Olver AM is an Australian medical oncologist, cancer researcher and bio-ethicist. He is a former chief executive officer of Cancer Council Australia and a noted authority and media commentator on cancer issues.

#8715

Brett Kissela

#120902

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Brett Mancos Kissela is an American vascular neurologist. He is the Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research, Chief of Research Services for UC Health, and the Albert Barnes Voorheis Endowed Chair and Professor.

#8716

Nicky Britten

#8717

Stanley Lombardo

#41142

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Stanley F. "Stan" Lombardo is an American Classicist, and former professor of Classics at the University of Kansas. He is best known for his translations of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid . The style of his translations is a more vernacular one, emphasizing conversational English rather than the formal tone of some older American English translations of classical verse. Lombardo designs his translations to be performed orally, as they were in ancient Greece. He also performs the poems, and has recorded them as audio books. In performance he also likes to play the drums, much like Ezra...

#8718

Cai‐cun Zhou

#124825

Overall Influence

#8719

Milton Irwin Roemer

#124830

Overall Influence

#8720

Adriaan Heereboord

1614 - 1661 (47 years)

Adriaan Heereboord was a Dutch philosopher and logician. Life He was born in Leiden and graduated from the University of Leiden, where he had the chair of philosophy from 1643. Heereboord sympathised with the new thinking of René Descartes, but was also influenced by Petrus Ramus and Francis Bacon. He clashed almost immediately at Leiden with Jacobus Revius and Adam Steuart, standing respectively for traditional metaphysics and theology. A combative drinker, Heereboord became an embattled figure in the university, with his private life the subject of pamphlets, and in the end dropped out of h...

#8721

Takano Iwasaburo

1871 - 1949 (78 years)

was a Japanese social statistician and labor activist. Early life and education Takano was the younger brother of Takano Fusataro. He was born on October 15, 1871, in Nagasaki, Japan. He attended what is now the Kaisei Academy, the , and the Tokyo Imperial University . Takano's university education was partially funded by Fusataro's work in the United States. He studied at Munich University from 1899 to 1903, where he met his wife, Barbara. They had a daughter in 1902. After returning to Japan, he earned a Doctor of Law in 1904.

#8722

Kenneth Kitchen

#8770

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is a British biblical scholar, Ancient Near Eastern historian, and Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England. He specialises in the ancient Egyptian Ramesside Period , and the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt, as well as ancient Egyptian chronology, having written over 250 books and journal articles on these and other subjects since the mid-1950s. He has been described by The Times as "the very architect of Egyptian chronology".

#8723

Rivka Weinberg

#109764

Overall Influence

Rivka Weinberg is an American philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at Scripps College. She specializes in bioethics, the ethics of procreation, and the metaphysics of birth, death, and existence.

#8724

Jason Jorjani

#46746

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Jason Reza Jorjani is an American philosopher, writer, former New Jersey Institute of Technology lecturer, former editor-in-chief of the European New Right publishing company Arktos Media, and co-founder of the AltRight Corporation with Richard Spencer. Jorjani is interested in the possibility that parapsychology offers insights into metaphysics.

#8725

Michael Komajda

#124901

Overall Influence

#8726

Cansu Canca

#13776

Overall Influence

Cansu Canca is a moral and political philosopher, with a Ph.D. specializing in applied ethics, and founder and director of AI Ethics Lab. Formerly, she was a bioethicist at the University of Hong Kong, and an ethics researcher at Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, National University of Singapore, Osaka University, and the World Health Organization.

#8727

David Beerling

#81182

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

David John Beerling FLSW is the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate change mitigation and Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

#8728

Bosley Crowther

1905 - 1981 (76 years)

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years. His work helped shape the careers of many actors, directors and screenwriters, though his reviews were sometimes regarded as unnecessarily harsh. Crowther was an advocate of foreign-language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini.

#8729

John C. Morris

#124946

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#8730

Jan Lexell

#33070

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jan Lexell is a Swedish physician and academic, who is a specialist in rehabilitation medicine and neurology. He is head of the rehabilitation medicine research group in the Department of Health Sciences at Lund University, Lund. One of his research areas is the effect of physical activity on the aging process. Lexell is also senior consultant in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine at Skane University Hospital, Lund. Lexell's research is frequently cited; in particular, his work during the 1980s on examining the vastus lateralis muscle immediately post-mortem, which helped...

#8731

David John Doukas

#74100

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David John Doukas , is an American family physician and bioethicist. He holds the James A. Knight Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, and directs the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at Tulane University's School of Medicine. Prof. Doukas is also the Executive Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Tulane University. Professor Doukas was Founding President of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care from 2012 to 2019, for which he was awarded the first Presidential Award at the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care Annual Meeting i...

#8732

Michael A. Wulder

#124955

Overall Influence

#8733

Moritz von Schwind

Moritz von Schwind

1804 - 1871 (67 years)

Moritz von Schwind was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna. Schwind's genius was lyrical—he drew inspiration from chivalry, folklore, and the songs of the people. Schwind died in Pöcking in Bavaria, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.

#8734

Karsten Friis Johansen

#115594

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Karsten Friis Johansen was a Danish philosopher and classical philologist. He was a brother of Holger Friis Johansen. He was a librarian at the Royal Library, Denmark from 1957 to 1968, took the dr.phil. degree with the thesis Studier over Platons Parmenides in 1964 and was a professor of antique and medieval philosophy at the University of Copenhagen from 1969 to 1998. He was a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Society for Danish Language and Literature. He also chaired Platonselskabet and Den Arnamagnæanske Stiftelse...

#8735

John E. Repine

#124971

Overall Influence

#8736

Francesco Forastiere

#124985

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#8737

H. A. Len Fozzard

#125006

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#8738

Seth Lazar

#41291

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Seth Lazar is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He leads the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab. Lazar won the Frank Chapman Sharp Prize in 2011 "for the best unpublished monograph on the philosophy of war and peace". He is known for his research on defensive war.

#8739

Michael Schachter

#125014

Overall Influence

#8740

James Demske

#45952

Overall Influence

1922 - 1994 (72 years)

James M. Demske, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, academic, academic administrator and, expert on existentialism. Demske served as the President of Canisius College, a private Jesuit college in Buffalo, New York, for 27-years from 1966 until 1993. Under Demske's administration, Canisius College established its school of business. Demske also increased Canisius' endowment from just $1 million in 1966 to more than $27 million by 1993.

#8741

Richard William Price

#125030

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#8742

Robert E. Marx

#125043

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#8743

Donald Wayne Seldin

#125060

Overall Influence

#8744

Julie Louise Gerberding

#125061

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#8745

J. Yellowlees Douglas

J. Yellowlees Douglas

#28022

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jane Yellowlees Douglas is a pioneer author and scholar of hypertext fiction. She began writing about hypermedia in the late 1980s, very early in the development of the medium. Her 1993 fiction I Have Said Nothing, was one of the first published works of hypertext fiction.

#8746

Tomas L. Kirchhausen

#125067

Overall Influence

#8747

Edwyn Bevan

1870 - 1943 (73 years)

Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world. Life Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, a partner in Barclays Bank, and his second wife Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at New College, Oxford.

#8748

Tsunashima Ryōsen

1873 - 1907 (34 years)

Tsunashima Ryōsen was a Japanese author and philosopher. He was a graduate of Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō. He was originally a rationalist and then became a Christian. He is buried in Tokyo's Zōshigaya cemetery.

#8749

Patrick J. Casey

Patrick J. Casey

#74946

Overall Influence

Patrick J. Casey is a biochemist and molecular pharmacologist and is a James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University School of Medicine. In 2005, he relocated to Singapore to help found the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, where he served as its Senior Vice Dean of Research through July, 2023.

#8750

Judith K. Ockene

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