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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8951

Stascha Rohmer

#99324

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Stascha Rohmer is a German philosopher. His main research topics are Theoretical philosophy, German idealism, Anthropology, Philosophy of Nature and History of Philosophy. He is a specialist of the Metaphysics of Hegel and Alfred North Whitehead and since 2008 permanent member of the Whitehead Research Project in Claremont, California, United States. Currently he holds a visiting professorship at the Universidad de Antioquia.

#8952

Vasilis Politis

#98748

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Vasilis Politis is a Greek philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He is known for his expertise on Plato and Aristotle. Politis is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Trinity College Dublin and director of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition.

#8953

John Stuart Soeldner

#127096

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#8954

Philip McShane

#73697

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Philip McShane was an Irish mathematician and philosopher-theologian. Originally trained in mathematics, mathematical physics, and chemistry in the 1950s, he went on to study philosophy from 1956 to 1959. In 1960, after teaching mathematical physics, engineering, and commerce to undergraduates, and special relativity and differential equations to graduate students, McShane began studying theology. He did his fourth year of theology in 1963 and in 1968 began reading economics.

#8955

Michael David Lebowitz

#127123

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#8956

Stephen Pattison

#94915

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Stephen Pattison is a British scholar and former H. G. Wood Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. He is best known for his research on practical theology, ethics, and public service management. He attended Bootham School, York and Selwyn College, Cambridge, before going on to train for ministry in the Anglican Church at Edinburgh Theological College and Edinburgh University, where he gained a PhD in Theology.

#8957

Roberto Cipriani

Roberto Cipriani

#33064

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Roberto Cipriani is an Italian social scientist. He is professor emeritus of sociology at Roma Tre University. "He has written extensively on popular religion, the sacred and secularization", and is known for his unconventional applications of the "concept of 'diffused religion' and then that of 'religion of values' ". He has made analytical contributions to the concept of diffused religion by using grounded theory. "He also underlines what he calls the 'meta-institutional' character of this religion, even if, he says, these characteristics have a religious institutional origin".

#8958

John Duncan

1839 - 1899 (60 years)

John Duncan, LLD FRCSEd FRSE was a Scottish surgeon best known for his surgical teaching at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine. He was a pioneer of the use of electricity in surgery both for surgical cautery and for tumour necrosis. On the death of his father James Duncan in 1866 he became a director of the major drug manufacturer Duncan Flockhart & Co, which had been founded by his grandfather, also John Duncan . He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889 to 1891.

#8959

Winthrop Pickard Bell

1884 - 1965 (81 years)

Winthrop Pickard Bell was a Canadian academic who taught philosophy at the University of Toronto and Harvard. He is however perhaps best known for his work as a historian of Nova Scotia. Biography He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated at Mount Allison University, McGill University, Harvard University , the University of Leipzig, and finally at the University of Göttingen .

#8960

Fiona Jenkins

#111491

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Fiona Jenkins is an Australian philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. She is known for her works on feminist theory, the status of women in philosophy and Nietzschean philosophy. Jenkins was the convenor of the ANU Gender Institute from 2012 to 2015.

#8961

Gaozi

401 BC - Present (2427 years)

Gaozi , or Gao Buhai , was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States period. Gaozi's teachings are no longer extant, but he was a contemporary of Mencius , and most of our knowledge about him comes from the Mencius book titled "Gaozi".

#8962

Davy Vancampfort

#127143

Overall Influence

#8963

Walter A. Kukull

#127144

Overall Influence

#8964

Allen D. Elster

#127145

Overall Influence

#8965

Mikołaj Bojańczyk

#30067

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Mikołaj Bojańczyk is a Polish theoretical computer scientist and logician known for settling open problems on tree walking automata jointly with Thomas Colcombet, and for contributions to logic in automata theory. He is a professor at Warsaw University.

#8966

Douglas Waples

1893 - 1978 (85 years)

Douglas Waples was a pioneer of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in the areas of print communication and reading behavior. Waples authored one of the first books on library research methodology, a work directed at students supervised through correspondence courses. Jesse Shera credits Waples’s scholarly research into the social effects of reading as the foundation for the approaches to the study of knowledge known as social epistemology. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".

#8967

Neil E. Caporaso

#127178

Overall Influence

#8968

Kaave Lajevardi

#123487

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Kaave Lajevardi is an Iranian philosopher. He is known for translating classic philosophy books into Persian. Lajevardi was a faculty member of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences . He has published some papers on academic dishonesty in Iranian universities.

#8969

Mahmoud Rafieian‐kopaei

#127197

Overall Influence

#8970

Lewis Lockwood

#39429

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Lewis H. Lockwood is an American musicologist whose main fields are the music of the Italian Renaissance and the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven. Joseph Kerman described him as "a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation, and the leading American authority on Beethoven".

#8971

Celestia (tia) S. Higano

#127212

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#8972

Maciej Gołąb

#99453

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Maciej Gołąb is a Polish musicologist. Biography Gołąb was born in Lębork and educated at University of Warsaw, where he received his M.A. in 1976 and PhD in 1981. At University of Warsaw he studied under Józef M. Chomiński and Zofia Lissa and wrote his doctoral thesis on the history of the theory of twelve-tone technique. From 1978 to 2003 he taught at University of Warsaw. 2003 he joined the faculty of University of Wrocław, where he became a full professor and chairman of the Department of Musicology . In 1999, he was visiting scholar-in-residence at Indiana University Bloomington and in ...

#8973

C. Garrison Fathman

#51662

Overall Influence

C. Garrison Fathman is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief of Immunology and Rheumatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection and Director of the Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford University. He was Founder and first-President of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies. As Director of the CCIS, Dr. Fathman initiated a multidisciplinary approach to study and treat autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and insulin-dependent diabetes me...

#8974

William Krivit

#127220

Overall Influence

#8975

Lorenzo Cerroni

#127278

Overall Influence

#8976

Morton N. Swartz

#127282

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#8977

J. Robert Cameron

#127286

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#8978

Ban Zhao

45 - 116 (71 years)

Ban Zhao , courtesy name Huiban , was a Chinese historian, philosopher, and politician. She was the first known female Chinese historian and, along with Pamphile of Epidaurus, one of the first known female historians. She completed her brother Ban Gu's work on the history of the Western Han, the Book of Han. She also wrote Lessons for Women, an influential work on women's conduct. She also had great interest in astronomy and mathematics and wrote poems, commemorative writings, argumentations, commentaries, essays and several longer works, not all of which survive. She became China's most famous female scholar and an instructor of Taoist sexual practices for the imperial family.

#8979

Oliver Sensen

#102131

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Oliver Sensen is a German philosopher and associate professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He is known for his expertise on Kantian philosophy. Sensen is the vice-president of North American Kant Society.

#8980

Todd J. Albert

#127325

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#8981

Christoph Zielinski

#23116

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Christoph Zielinski is an Austrian physician and cancer researcher. A medical oncologist, Zielinski is Director of the Clinical Division of Oncology and Chairman of the Department of Medicine I and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre at the Medical University of Vienna.

#8982

Pim J. De Feyter

#127359

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#8983

D. Bruce Wilson

#127361

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#8984

Roland Berger

#127385

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#8985

Paul Pojman

#109240

Overall Influence

1966 - 2012 (46 years)

Paul Theodore Pojman was a philosopher, activist, and gardener whose interdisciplinary work involved fields such as religion, economics, and ecology. He was a professor of philosophy at Towson University in Maryland from 2002 until his death; he lived in Baltimore city at the Baltimore Free Farm in Hampden.

#8986

Mark A. Socinski

#127410

Overall Influence

#8987

Tia Powell

#66516

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Tia Powell is an American psychiatrist and bioethicist. She is Director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics and of the Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics Program, as well as a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York. She holds the Trachtenberg Chair in Bioethics and is Professor of Epidemiology, Division of Bioethics, and Psychiatry. She was director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City from 1992-1998, and executive director of the New York State Task F...

#8988

Upendranath Brahmachari

Upendranath Brahmachari

1873 - 1946 (73 years)

Rai Bahadur Sir Upendranath Brahmachari was a leading Indian physician and scientist of his time. He synthesised urea-stibamine in 1922 and determined that it was an effective treatment for kala-azar .

#8989

Tzachi Zamir

#106517

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Tzachi Zamir is an Israeli philosopher and literary critic specialising in the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of theatre, and animal ethics. He is Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

#8990

Nicola Dalbeth

#119119

Overall Influence

Nicola Dalbeth is a New Zealand academic rheumatologist whose research focuses on understanding the impact and mechanisms of gout. She supports clinical and laboratory research programmes and holds dual appointments as a full professor at the University of Auckland and as a consultant for the Auckland District Health Board.

#8991

Lisa Cartwright

#36911

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Lisa Cartwright is a scholar, author, professor and critic best known for helping to found the field of visual culture studies and for coauthoring Practices of Looking, a widely translated visual studies textbook with Marita Sturken that is regarded as one of the first comprehensive books in the field after John Berger's Ways of Seeing. In Practices of Looking, Cartwright and Sturken examine the complexity of the relationship between viewers and objects in a variety of visual media ranging from film and photography to advertising, painting, and printmaking. They pay especially close attention ...

#8992

Seymour Lubetzky

Seymour Lubetzky

1898 - 2003 (105 years)

Seymour Lubetzky was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Biography Born in the Russian Empire as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the United States in 1927. He earned his BA from UCLA in 1931, and his MA from UC Berkeley in 1932. Lubetzky also taught at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, then the School of Library Service. He was fluent in six languages, a fact that made him valuable both as a cataloger and a speaker at library conferences.

#8993

William Kinderman

William Kinderman

#77487

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

William Andrew Kinderman is an American author and music scholar who plays the piano. Life Born in Philadelphia, Kinderman studied music and philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and later the same subjects at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. He studied musicology at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. He held a professorship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently is professor and inaugural Leo and Elaine Krown Klein Chair of Performance Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.

#8994

Andreas Wilhelm Unterberg

#127530

Overall Influence

#8995

Kausik Kumar Ray

#127532

Overall Influence

#8996

Anthony N. Damato

#127535

Overall Influence

#8997

Victor L. L. Villemagne

#127544

Overall Influence

#8998

Phil Gold

#39840

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Phil Gold is a Canadian physician, scientist, professor and author. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a BSc degree in 1957, a MSc degree in 1961, a MD degree in 1961, and a PhD in 1965 from McGill University. He obtained his Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada fellowship certification in Internal Medicine in November 1966.

#8999

Stefano Bellucci

#127554

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#9000

Rebecca Whisnant

#65951

Overall Influence

Rebecca Suzanne Whisnant is professor and chair of the philosophy department at the University of Dayton. Biography Whisnant gained her degree in philosophy from Oberlin College in 1989. She went on to complete a masters , and a Ph.D. , both in philosophy, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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