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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#9701

Jason Walter Brown

#51225

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Jason W. Brown is an American neurologist and writer of works in neuropsychology and philosophy of mind. He has been a reviewer and recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is or has been on the editorial boards of leading journals in his field. He has written 14 books, edited 4 others, and more than 200 articles.

#9702

Ren� J. Duquesnoy

#133676

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#9703

John Hilton Edwards

#133687

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#9704

Bradley C. Leibovich

#133688

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#9705

Naoyuki Kamatani

#133692

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#9706

Holmes Iii Rolston

#9707

E. Rudolph Froesch

#133700

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#9708

Daniel Wan-yui Chan

#133705

Overall Influence

#9709

William M. Bourne

#133707

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#9710

Eugene A. Stead

Eugene A. Stead

#29511

Overall Influence

1908 - 2005 (97 years)

Eugene Anson Stead Jr. is best known as a physician, medical educator, and researcher. He served on the faculties at Harvard, Emory , and Duke universities. His research in the 1940s paved the way for cardiac catheterization in medicine today. He is the founder of the physician assistant profession.

#9711

Tatyana Kasatkina

#49680

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina is a Russian philosopher, philologist, culture expert, religious scholar and writer. She is an expert in the field of theory of culture, theory of literature, philosophy, religious studies, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She is Doctor of Philology , Head Researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Head of the Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture” at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, president of the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS.

#9712

Luc Langlois

#118172

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Luc Langlois is a Canadian philosopher, writer, and translator. He is a professor of philosophy at Laval University. He served as the francophone editor of the journal Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.

#9713

Muhammad ibn Muhammad Tabrizi

1201 - Present (825 years)

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad Tabrizi was a thirteenth-century Persian Muslim writer, known for his Arabic commentary on the twenty five propositions at the beginning of Book II of the Jewish philosopher Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed, on which Maimonides then based his proof of the existence, unity and incorporeality of God. The propositions, derived from Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics, were merely summarised by Maimonides; Tabrizi gives a detailed discussion of them, based on the work of Arabic authors. It is the earliest known commentary on a part of the Guid...

#9714

Dennis Leroy Stevens

#133740

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#9715

C. erik Hack

#9716

Kenneth A. Bauer

#133757

Overall Influence

#9717

Paul F. Schellhammer

#133761

Overall Influence

#9718

Michel Malherbe

#106446

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Michel Malherbe is a French translator and philosopher. A specialist of Anglo-Saxon empiricism, he has translated Bacon, Locke and Hume. He is director of the series "Analyse et philosophie" and "Bibliothèque des philosophies" by Vrin.

#9719

Michael Grodin

#103433

Overall Influence

1951 - 2023 (72 years)

Michael Alan Grodin is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has received the distinguished Faculty Career Award for Research and Scholarship, and 20 teaching awards, including the "Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching." He is also Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Grodin is the Director of the Project on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, and a member of the faculty of the Division of Religious and Theological Studies.

#9720

Stephan D. Fihn

#133789

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#9721

Martin van Hees

#95494

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Martin Vinzenz Baldur Paul Maria van Hees is a Dutch philosopher. Van Hees was professor of ethics at the University of Groningen and since April 2013 professor of political theory at the University of Amsterdam. He received a VICI-grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to further research and develop the program Modelling Freedom: Formal Analysis and Normative Philosophy. Van Hees is a vegetarian.

#9722

Kathleen L. Collins

#133811

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#9723

Edwin Milgrom

#133813

Overall Influence

#9724

William Clarke Little

#133816

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#9725

Jean-paul Gerard Vonsattel

#133817

Overall Influence

#9726

Ellen Rosand

#53047

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Ellen Rosand is an American musicologist, historian, and opera critic who specializes in Italian music and poetry of the 16th through 18th centuries. Her work has been particularly focused on the music and culture of Venice and Italian opera of the baroque era. She is an acknowledged expert on the operas of Handel and Vivaldi, and on Venetian opera. Her books include Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre and Monteverdi's last operas: a Venetian trilogy . She has also contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians...

#9727

John J. Mcneil

#133860

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#9728

Dolores Corella Piquer

Dolores Corella Piquer

#133870

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#9729

Theodore Friedmann

#133896

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#9730

Donald Acheson

#23434

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

Sir Ernest Donald Acheson was a British physician and epidemiologist who served as Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1991. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Early life Acheson was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926. His father, Captain Malcolm King Acheson, MC, MD, was a doctor who specialised in public health, and his mother, Dorothy Josephine , was the daughter of a Tyneside ship builder. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Brasenose College, Oxford . His elder brother, Roy Acheson , is Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine in the University of ...

#9731

Alexander Monro Secundus

Alexander Monro Secundus

1733 - 1817 (84 years)

Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as to distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of the same name. His students included the naval physician and abolitionist Thomas Trotter. Monro was from the distinguished Monro of Auchenbowie family. His major achievements included, describing the lymphatic system, providing the most detailed elucidation of the musculo-skeletal system to date and introducing clinical medicine into the curriculum. He is known for the Monro–Kellie doctrine on...

#9732

Andreas Straube

#133949

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#9733

Harold L. Kundel

#133954

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#9734

David T. Durack

#133976

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#9735

Xu Gan

170 - 217 (47 years)

Xu Gan , courtesy name Weichang , was a Chinese philosopher and poet of the late Eastern Han dynasty. He was also one of the "Seven Scholars of Jian'an". He is best known in the West for his discourse on the relationship between the names and actualities, preserved in his treatise Zhonglun .

#9736

Mir Fendereski

1562 - 1640 (78 years)

Mir Fendereski ‎ was a Persian philosopher, poet and mystic of the Safavid era. His full name is given as Mir Abulqasim Mirfendereski , and he is famously known as MirFendereski. He lived for a while in Isfahan at the same time as Mir Damad, spent a great part of his life in India among yogis and Zoroastrians, and learnt from them. He was patronized by both the Safavid and Mughal courts. The famous Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra also studied under him.

#9737

Victor Alan Levin

#134000

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#9738

Thomas Annandale

Thomas Annandale

1838 - 1907 (69 years)

Thomas Annandale, FRCS FRSE was a Scottish surgeon who conducted the first repair of the meniscus and the first successful removal of an acoustic neuroma, and introduced the pre-peritoneal approach to inguinal hernia repair. He served as Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. His collection of anatomical specimens was donated to the Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh and is now known as the Thomas Annandale Collection.

#9739

Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan

1870 - 1920 (50 years)

Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan was a Bengali scholar of Sanskrit and Pali Language and principal of Sanskrit College. Early life Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan was born in 1870 in Rajbari District, British India. His father Pitambar Vidyavagish was a Pandit and astronomer. In 1888, Satish Chandra passed entrance from Nabadwip Hindu School and in 1892, passed the B.A. with Sanskrit Honours from Krishnagar Government College with gold medal. He was the first Indian who obtained M.A. degree in Pali from Calcutta University.

#9740

Karl Prof Dr Werdan

#134040

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#9741

Pio Colonnello

#117543

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Pio Colonnello is an Italian philosopher and university professor. Biography Pio Colonnello has three degrees with honours in philosophy, in law and in humanities. In the academic year 1973/74 he won a scholarship at the "Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici", founded by Benedetto Croce, in Naples. Already a teacher in the Secondary School, from 1980 he has worked as researcher with tenure at the Department of Philosophy "A. Aliotta" of the University of Naples "Federico II". From 2001, he works as Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of Calabria University.

#9742

N. E. Balaram

#72882

Overall Influence

1919 - 1994 (75 years)

N.E. Balaram was one of the founding leaders of the communist movement in Kerala, India. A Marxist ideologue, scholar in Indian Philosophy and a well known literary critic in Malayalam, he wrote on the history of the communist movement in Kerala, which is considered as the most authentic record of the early period. He also authored several works in history, philosophy, politics, and literature.

#9743

Erkki Huhtamo

#62261

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Erkki Huhtamo is a media archaeologist, exhibition curator, and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Departments of Design Media Arts and Film, Television, and Digital Media.

#9744

Johann Heinrich Ernesti

Johann Heinrich Ernesti

1652 - 1729 (77 years)

Johann Heinrich Ernesti was a Saxon philosopher, Lutheran theologian, Latin classicist and poet. He was rector of the Thomasschule, and Professor of Poetry at Leipzig University. He gained fame through his writings on Cicero.

#9745

T.M.P. Mahadevan

1911 - 1983 (72 years)

Telliyavaram Mahadevan Ponnambalam Mahadevan was an Indian writer, philosopher, and Advaita scholar. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Madras. His doctoral thesis was titled "The Philosophy of Advaita".

#9746

Masataka Sata

#134066

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#9747

Emmet B. Keeffe

#134078

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#9748

Nils Wallerius

1706 - 1764 (58 years)

Nils Wallerius was a Swedish physicist, philosopher and theologian. He was one of the first scientists to study and document the characteristics of evaporation through modern scientific methods. He was also among the first and more notable followers of the philosophies of German philosopher Christian Wolff .

#9749

Wilhelm Bloch

#134090

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#9750

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

#80630

Overall Influence

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.

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