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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#9151

Arthur Lawrence Reingold

#128777

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#9152

Louis Jurine

1751 - 1819 (68 years)

Louis Jurine was a Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist mainly interested in entomology. He lived in Geneva. Surgeon He studied surgery in Paris and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise in medicine and natural history beyond that which he had in Geneva. He taught courses in anatomy and surgery at the Société des Arts in Geneva and was made honorary professor of zoology at the Academy . He also founded a maternity hospice in 1807 and was awarded prizes for his work on the gasses of the human body, artificial feeding of infants, and pectoral angina.

#9153

Frederik Wenz

#128811

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#9154

Ioannis Chalkeus

1667 - Present (359 years)

Ioannis Chalkeus or Chalkias, was an Aromanian scholar, philosopher and figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment. He was born in Moscopole, a major 18th century intellectual and commercial center of the Balkans . Chalkeus initially studied in the Greek college of his native town and then went to Rome where he converted to Catholicism. Chalkeus became director and teacher of the Greek school in Venice, the Flanginian, from 1694 to 1703 and from 1712 to 1716. He probably returned to Moscopole where he continued to teach.

#9155

Manuel Battegay

#128827

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#9156

David C. Warltier

#128831

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#9157

Sunil Vishwas Rao

#128849

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#9158

Léger Marie Deschamps

1716 - 1774 (58 years)

Léger Marie Deschamps , Benedictine monk, known under his Benedictine name of Dom Deschamps, was a French philosopher and utopian socialist, who taught a form of modified Spinozism. Metaphysics During his lifetime he published very little, but corresponded with most of the leaders of the French Enlightenment. Rediscovered in 1862, he was hailed as a precursor of Hegel. His metaphysical system anticipates Hegel by asserting that truth includes contradictory elements, and he had much to say about how the concept Being collapses into that of Nothing. There was a further revival of interest in h...

#9159

Justin Chang

#43069

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Justin Choigee Chang is an American film critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked for Variety. Early life Justin Chang graduated from the University of Southern California in 2004. Chang first became interested in film critique while in high school because he found it fascinating that "two or three intelligent people could watch a film and come away with completely different reactions to it."

#9160

S. Douglass Gilman

#128866

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#9161

Mitchell Thomashow

#74798

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mitchell S. Thomashow is a writer, educator, and environmentalist focused on innovations in sustainability and environmental learning. Thomashow is the author of essays in environmental and education anthologies, including as co-founder of Whole Terrain: The Journal of Reflective Environmentalism and Hawk and Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability.

#9162

Cornelia Lass‐flörl

#128870

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#9163

Cecil H. Rorabeck

#128878

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#9164

Frederic J. Seidler

#128882

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#9165

Jane C. Burns

#128885

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#9166

Eva-Maria Mandelkow

#98283

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Eva-Maria Mandelkow is a German neuroscientist and Alzheimer's disease researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases , Bonn. Biography Eva-Maria Mandelkow studied medicine in Hamburg and Heidelberg, qualifying in 1968. After three years of medical internships, she began doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, investigating the enzyme kinetics of the motor protein myosin. She graduated in 1973 with a Ph.D. in biochemistry, then undertook postdoctoral training at Brandeis University in Massachusetts researching cytoskeletal proteins. She c...

#9167

Vincent Larivière

#128918

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

#9168

Meg E. Morris

#128929

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#9169

Billy Goldberg

#54155

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Billy Goldberg is a New York City emergency medicine physician at the NYU School of Medicine , where he is also an Assistant Professor and an Assistant Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1992.

#9170

Rhea Seddon

#15998

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Margaret Rhea Seddon is an American surgeon and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women in 1978, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as a mission specialist on STS-51-D and STS-40, and as a payload commander for STS-58, accumulating over 722 hours in space. On these flights, she built repair tools for a US Navy satellite and performed medical experiments.

#9171

Joseph A. Aisner

#128932

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#9172

Arne Forsgren

#128959

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#9173

Mario Armando Luna

#128960

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#9174

Naomi Scheman

1900 - Present (126 years)

Naomi Scheman is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is also a guest professor at the Umeå Center for Gender Studies in Sweden. Scheman was one of the first scholars to bring Wittgenstein's thoughts in to feminist philosophy.

#9175

Harold Foster Hallett

1886 - 1966 (80 years)

Harold Foster Hallet , was a British philosopher Work He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophy; most noteworthy is his seminal work in the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. His "Spinoza The Elements of His Philosophy" stands as the most comprehensive and erudite analysis of Spinoza's system in the entire extant.

#9176

Frederick R. Singer

#128974

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#9177

David George Huntsman

#128976

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#9178

D. J. B. Hawkins

1906 - 1964 (58 years)

Denis John Bernard Hawkins was a British philosopher and Roman Catholic priest. Hawkins was born in Thornton Heath and attended Whitgift School, Croydon. He obtained his doctorates in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

#9179

Andrew f Shorr

#128991

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#9180

Nigel W Bunnett

#129015

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#9181

Michael G. Bissell

#129016

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#9182

Futa Helu

#94776

Overall Influence

1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Futa Helu was a Tongan philosopher, historian, and educator. He studied philosophy under the Australian empiricist John Anderson and in 1963 launched an educational institute named Atenisi . The institute began as a continuing education programme for civil servants, then initiated a high school in 1964 and a university in 1975.

#9183

Daniel A. Weintraub

#129067

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#9184

Mitzi Waltz

#58800

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Mitzi Waltz is a scholar of media and disability studies. As of 2020, she is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Waltz was formerly an associate lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre of Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. Before her appointment in 2012, she was a lecturer in autism studies at the Autism Centre for Education and Research , University of Birmingham and a senior lecturer at the University of Sunderland.

#9185

Jonathan Carapetis

#80839

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Jonathan Carapetis is an Australian paediatric physician with particular expertise in infectious disease and Indigenous child health. He is a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia, an infectious diseases consultant at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, and an Honorary Distinguished Research Fellow of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Carapetis is the Director of the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Western Australia.

#9186

Walter J. Hogan

#129100

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#9187

Jonathan Birch

#51177

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Jonathan Birch is a British philosopher who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work addresses the philosophy of biology, especially questions around the evolution of social behaviour and social norms, animal sentience, and animal welfare.

#9188

S. Morris Engel

#86356

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

S. Morris Engel is an author, philosopher, and linguist. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1959, writing on "The philosophy of language in Hobbes and Locke". He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and York University.

#9189

Hossein Gharib

#129114

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#9190

Kjell Asplund

#129124

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#9191

Claus Werning

#129150

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#9192

Gilbert Ling

#36167

Overall Influence

1919 - 2019 (100 years)

Gilbert Ning Ling was a Chinese-born American cell physiologist, biochemist and scientific investigator. In 1944, Ling won the biology slot of the sixth Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, a nationwide competitive examination that allowed Chinese science and engineering students full scholarship to study in a United States university. In 1947 he co-developed the Gerard-Graham-Ling microelectrode, a device that allows scientists to more accurately measure the electrical potentials of living cells. In 1962 he proposed the Association induction hypothesis, which claims to be unifying, general theory of...

#9193

Helen A. Berger

#31828

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Helen Alice Berger is an American sociologist known for her studies of the Pagan community in the United States. Life and career Helen Berger, then an assistant professor at Boston University, first became involved in the study of the Pagan movement in October 1986, when she gave a series of public lectures on the subject of the historical witch trials of New England at the Boston Public Library. She devoted the final lecture to the subject of contemporary Pagan Witches, or Wiccans, who were living in the area, taking her information both from the information published in the works of Margot ...

#9194

Richard Dyer

#57921

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Richard Dyer is an English academic who held a professorship in the Department of Film Studies at King's College London. Specialising in cinema , queer theory, and the relationship between entertainment and representations of race, sexuality, and gender, he was previously a faculty member of the Film Studies Department at the University of Warwick for many years and has held a number of visiting professorships in the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.

#9195

Mark S. George

#70474

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Mark S. George is a Distinguished University Professor of psychiatry, radiology and neurosciences and is the director of the Medical University of South Carolina Center for Advanced Imaging Research as well as the Brain Stimulation Laboratory. As of June 2020, his research has been cited over 47,000 times, with an h-index of 113 and i-10 index of 404.

#9196

Ivan Sarailiev

1887 - 1969 (82 years)

Ivan Sarailiev was a Bulgarian philosopher related to the school of pragmatism.; he finished his major book Pragmatism in 1938 quoting from Charles Sanders Peirce’s Collected Papers. Sarailiev was the first pragmatist in Eastern Europe and also a "very early pragmatist". He also introduced the idea of implied reader in his reception theory as early as in Savremennata nauka y religiata .

#9197

Ieuan Hughes

#73179

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Ieuan Arwel Hughes is a paediatric endocrinologist and an emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Cambridge. Hughes is most notable for long-standing research into disorders of sex development , established one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of cases of DSD including publishing the Consensus on DSD management framework which, barely eight years after its publication, is now already accepted worldwide as the framework for care of patients and families with DSD.

#9198

Peter Thielst

#128983

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Peter Thielst is a Danish philosopher, author and publisher of philosophical books from the Danish bureau "Det lille forlag" . He has written biographical works on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. Bibliography Driftens fortolkninger Den kønspolitiske tænkning Søren og Regine Psykoanalyse og psykoterapi Kierkegaards filosofi Latterens lyst Drømmens veje Narkissos og Ekko Alice Miller Kønnet, kroppen og selvet Selvpsykologi Den europæiske krop Det onde Livet må forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns Det gode Man bør tvivle om alt - og tro på meget, introduction to philosophy Jeg er ikke noget menneske - jeg er dynamit 5 danske filosoffer fra det 19.

#9199

Joel Edward Kleinman

#129221

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#9200

Daniel Lee Traber

#129226

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