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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Alarcos Cieza

#136549

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Ana S. Iltis

#136553

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1974 - Present (52 years)

Ana S. Iltis is an American philosopher and Carlson Professor of University Studies at Wake Forest College. She is known for her works on bioethics. Iltis is a co-editor of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics and a former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities .

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Hans-Werner Bothe

Hans-Werner Bothe

#74958

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1952 - Present (74 years)

Hans-Werner Bothe is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon working in the field of Neurobionics. Life Bothe studied Philosophy and Medicine from 1973 until 1981 in Tübingen und Mainz, graduated 1978 in Philosophy with Magister Artium, later working for three years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne. He received his PhD in 1983 .

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Hendrik Lehnert

#136574

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K. Michael Laurence

#136585

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Mike Levin

#134153

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Michael Levin is professor of paediatrics and international child health at Imperial College London.

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Özlem Türeci

#115559

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1967 - Present (59 years)

Özlem Türeci is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19. Türeci has served as BioNTech's chief medical officer since 2018. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Personalized Immunotherapy at the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Türeci and her spouse, Uğur Şahin, have won a number of awards.

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Paul M. Harari

#136630

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John Webster

1610 - 1682 (72 years)

John Webster , also known as Johannes Hyphastes, was an English cleric, physician and chemist with occult interests, a proponent of astrology and a sceptic about witchcraft. He is known for controversial works.

#10060

Hirotaka Iwase

#136640

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J. Stewart Cameron

#136649

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George Dale Zuidema

#136651

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Eugene Howard Courtiss

#136659

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Samuel A. Yousem

#136674

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Jeffrey L. Ponsky

#136677

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Giovanni Battista Scaramelli

1687 - 1752 (65 years)

Giovanni Battista Scaramelli was an Italian Jesuit, ethicist, and ascetical writer. Biography He was born at Rome and died at Macerata in 1752. He entered the Society of Jesus on 21 September 1706. He devoted himself to preaching and the ministry for fifteen years.

#10067

Tamar Sovran

#83715

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1948 - Present (78 years)

Tamar Sovran is an Israeli linguist and Hebrew Culture Studies researcher in the Language Department of Tel Aviv University. Biography Sovran was born in Rishon leZion, the second daughter of Lea and Gershon Mann , sister of Nira and Na'ama. She served in the Israel Defence Forces.

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James Brooks

#34715

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1906 - 1992 (86 years)

James David Brooks was an American Abstract Expressionist, muralist, abstract painter, art teacher, and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Life and career Brooks was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906. He attended Southern Methodist University and the Dallas Art Institute. In 1926, he moved to New York, where he worked as a commercial letterer and display artist and attended night classes at the Art Students League.

#10069

Gārgī Vāchaknavī

700 BC - Present (2726 years)

Gargi Vachaknavi , was an ancient Indian sage and philosopher. In Vedic literature, she is honored as a great natural philosopher, renowned expounder of the Vedas, and known as Brahmavadini, a person with knowledge of Brahma Vidya. In the Sixth and the eighth Brahmana of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, her name is prominent as she participates in the brahmayajna, a philosophic debate organized by King Janaka of Videha and she challenges the sage Yajnavalkya with perplexing questions on the issue of atman . She is also said to have written many hymns in the Rigveda. She remained a celibate all her li...

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Nicholas J. Petrelli

#136719

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Alan Richard Dyer

#136722

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Twan Lammers

#136730

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Knut A. Engedal

#136742

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Peter Moore

#10924

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1939 - Present (87 years)

Peter B. Moore is Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He has dedicated his entire career to understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome.

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Luce Irigaray

#136761

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Robert Desgabets

1610 - 1678 (68 years)

Robert Desgabets was a French Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior, born in Ancemont. He published two book-length philosophical works in his lifetime, in 1671 and in 1675. In July 1658, Desgabets introduced the concept of blood transfusion or xenotransfusion at a meeting of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor's scientific society, which would later become the French Academy of Sciences. He would later publish in 1668.

#10077

Stefano degli Angeli

Stefano degli Angeli

1623 - 1697 (74 years)

Stefano degli Angeli was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuate. He was member of the Catholic Order of the Jesuats . In 1668 the order was suppressed by Pope Clement IX. Angeli was a student of Bonaventura Cavalieri. From 1662 until his death he taught at the University of Padua.

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Sebastian Gardner

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1960 - Present (66 years)

Sebastian Angus Gardner is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy in the University College London. He is known for his expertise on Kant, German Idealism, Sartre and Freud, and for his philosophical interpretations and investigations in the subject of psychoanalytic theory.

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Antonio Rocco

1586 - 1652 (66 years)

Antonio Rocco was an Italian priest and philosophy teacher , and a writer. Ever since 1888 when he was identified as its anonymous author, he is best known for his satirical homosexual text, L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola, written in 1630 and published in 1652.

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Anna N. A. Tosteson

#136793

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Messoud Ashina

#136798

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James P. Quigley

#136800

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John Deathridge

#89711

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1944 - Present (82 years)

John William Deathridge is a British musicologist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Lincoln College, Oxford culminating with a dissertation on Wagner's sketches for Rienzi, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Music at King's College London. Deathridge lives in Cambridge.

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Yannis Manios

#136814

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Peggy Sullivan

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1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Peggy Sullivan was an American librarian and educator. She was elected president of the American Library Association and was a scholar of the history of librarianship. Biography Throughout her career, Sullivan served as:Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University , River Forest, Illinois Executive director, American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois Director and professor, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Dean and professor, College of Professional Studies, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Assistant...

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Francis Glisson

Francis Glisson

1597 - 1677 (80 years)

Francis Glisson was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets. An experiment he performed helped debunk the balloonist theory of muscle contraction by showing that when a muscle contracted under water, the water level did not rise, and thus no air or fluid could be entering the muscle.

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Timo Krings

#136835

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John Joseph Compton

#103650

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1929 - 2014 (85 years)

John Joseph Compton was an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University . Compton was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America . He was the son of Arthur Compton.

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Daniell B. Carr

#136846

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Wayne A. Border

#136848

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Jonas Bergström

#136849

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Timothy L. Cover

#136852

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2000 - Present (26 years)

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Niccolò Giani

1909 - 1941 (32 years)

Niccolò Giani was an Italian Fascist philosopher and journalist who was the founder of Fascist mysticism. Biography After attending the "Dante Alighieri" High School in Trieste he moved to Milan, where in 1928 he enrolled in the Faculty of Law, graduating in 1931. While at the University of Milan he also joined the Fascist University Groups . On 4 April 1930 Giani announced the imminent founding of the School of Fascist Mysticism, which he opened in Milan a few weeks later along with Arnaldo Mussolini. In 1931 Giani became director of the school, a post he left at the end of the following yea...

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Leon Schiff

#136863

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Marcus L.e. Alden

#136867

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Hoosen Coovadia

#95068

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1940 - Present (86 years)

Hoosen Mahomed Coovadia was a South African doctor, and Victor Daitz professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal. He was awarded the 2013 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. He also received the 1999 Star of South Africa Award from President Nelson Mandela and the 2000 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.

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Denis Castaing

#136887

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Mariana J. Kaplan

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Mariana J. Kaplan is a rheumatologist and physician-scientist. She researches mechanisms of immune dysregulation, organ damage, and premature vascular disease in systemic autoimmunity. Kaplan is chief of the systemic autoimmunity branch at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

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Raymund A. C. Roos

#136908

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Paul-Louis Landsberg

1901 - 1944 (43 years)

Paul-Louis Landsberg was a twentieth century Existentialist philosopher who is known for his works The Experience of Death and The Moral Problem of Suicide. Landsberg lectured at the Universities of Bonn, Madrid and Paris, among others. He was a pupil of Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, continuing their work in Phenomenology to tackle several vital subjects, including personal identity, death and suicide. He was a close friend of the Christian Existentialist Emmanuel Mounier and a key contributor to the philosophical journal Esprit .

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