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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10401

Maroeska M. Rovers

#139494

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#10402

Gabriel Segal

#80288

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Professor Gabriel Segal is an academic philosopher, cognitive scientist and an author. Background and education Gabriel Mark Aurel Segal was born in the UK in 1959, and is the son of psychoanalyst Hanna Segal and brother of mathematician Dan Segal.

#10403

Gert-jan Ossenkoppele

#139527

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#10404

William Chadwick Wood

#139529

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#10405

Ian Donald

1910 - 1987 (77 years)

Ian Donald was an English physician who pioneered the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics, enabling the visual discovery of abnormalities during pregnancy. Donald was born in Cornwall, England, to a Scottish family of physicians. He was educated in Scotland and South Africa before studying medicine at the University of London in 1930, and became the third generation of doctors in his family. At the start of World War II, Donald was drafted into the Royal Air Force as a medical officer, where he developed an interest in radar and sonar. In 1952, at St Thomas' Hospital, he used what he ...

#10406

Giulio Cesare la Galla

1571 - 1624 (53 years)

Giulio Cesare la Galla was a professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy. Biography He was born in Padula, at that time part of the Kingdom of Naples. Lagalla was educated in philosophy and medicine. He became the official physician of the papal galleys for a period, then came to Rome to lecture in natural philosophy at the Collegio Romano. He apparently became the leading peripatetic of the city, and was counted among the opponents of the Copernican heliocentric theory.

#10407

Sergio Custodio

#87867

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Sergio Alfredo Custodio Contreras was a professor, writer and Humanist dedicated to Philosophy in Guatemala. Among his best-known works are textbooks on formal, inductive and analytical Logic, in addition to his books on Epistemology. He has abundant publications for the diffusion of Philosophy and the introduction of it to High school and University students. He stands out especially for his works on Metaphysics.

#10408

Carl Anton Ewald

Carl Anton Ewald

1845 - 1915 (70 years)

Carl Anton Ewald was a German gastroenterologist who was a native of Berlin. He was the brother of physiologist Ernst Julius Richard Ewald . In 1870, he earned his medical doctorate in Berlin, and subsequently became an assistant to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs . In 1888, he was appointed head physician of the department of internal medicine at Augusta Hospital in Berlin. Carl Ewald was a pioneer in the field of gastroenterology, and was a catalyst in making Augusta Hospital a center for pathological studies of digestion. Ewald is remembered for investigations of gastric secretions, and the introduction of intubation as a medical aid in gastric analysis.

#10409

Roger O. Mcclellan

#139556

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#10410

Richard R. Barakat

#139576

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#10411

Milton J. Rosenau

Milton J. Rosenau

1869 - 1946 (77 years)

Milton Joseph Rosenau was an American public health official and professor who was influential in the early twentieth century. Early life Milton Joseph Rosenau was born in 1869 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Nathan Rosenau and Mathilde Blitz, German Jewish emigrants. After obtaining his degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, he joined the United States Marine Hospital Service. After working for a few years under the supervision of Joseph Kinyoun, Rosenau began his ascent into positions of greater authority.

#10412

Don West

#52116

Overall Influence

1906 - 1992 (86 years)

Donald Lee West was an American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, civil-rights activist and a co-founder of the Highlander Folk School. Early life and career West was born in Devil's Hollow, Gilmer County, Georgia, the child of North Georgia sharecroppers. In high school he led a protest against an on-campus showing of the film The Birth of a Nation and was eventually expelled for other conflicts. He was also expelled from Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, for leading another protest against the paternalism of the campus, though he eventually returned and graduated in 1929.

#10413

Brett Delahunt

#81157

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Brett Delahunt is a New Zealand professor emeritus of pathology and molecular medicine at the Wellington School of Medicine. He is an expert in urological pathology. Early life and family Born in Wellington on 20 February 1950, Delahunt was educated at Scots College. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington from 1969 to 1972, graduating BSc, and then at the University of Otago from 1973 to 1978, where he completed a BMedSc in 1976 and MB ChB in 1978.

#10414

Larry May

#43401

Overall Influence

Larry May is an American philosopher and author. May is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of several books. His theory of international law has been described as "neo-Grotian".

#10415

Todd W. Rice

#139609

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#10416

John Gaventa

#26132

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Gaventa is currently the director of research at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, where he has been a Fellow since 1996. From 2011 to 2014, he served as the director of the Coady International Institute and vice-president of International Development at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.

#10417

Yoram Bresler

#139621

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#10418

James Edward Maynard

#139622

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#10419

Gilbert Habib

#139625

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#10420

Gunter K. Von Noorden

#139631

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#10421

Emily Carr

1871 - 1945 (74 years)

Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her 1929 work, The Indian Church , which is now her best known, until she changed her subject matter from Aboriginal themes to landscapes — forest scenes in particular, evoking primeval grandeur in British Columbia. As a writer Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in her surroundings. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a ...

#10422

Alexander H. Glassman

#139640

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#10423

Amanda Helen Spink

#139670

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#10424

Claudio E.A. Pizzi

#135118

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Claudio E.A. Pizzi is an Italian logician and epistemologist. Biography Pizzi completed his Master's degree in philosophy from the Universita' degli studi di Milano in 1969. From 1976, he taught logic for three years at the University of Calabria. He then worked as a professor of logic and of philosophy of science at the University of Siena from 1979 to 2014, in which he became a full professor in 1997. Beginning from 1992, he worked for several Brazilian universities and especially for Centro de Logica, Epistemologia e Historia da Ciencia of the University of Campinas. From 2008–2012, he t...

#10425

Edward Weitzberg

#139694

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#10426

Douglas L. Packer

#139701

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#10427

Adit A. Ginde

#139714

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#10428

David Gooding

#87406

Overall Influence

1947 - 2009 (62 years)

David Charles Gooding was a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Director of the Science Studies Centre, at the University of Bath, UK . He was President of the History of Science Section of the BAAS .

#10429

Ma Ding

#21024

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ma Ding is a Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist who is director of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tongji Medical College of HUST, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

#10430

Jenefer Robinson

#60073

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jenefer Mary Robinson is an American philosopher, author and emerita professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. She writes on aesthetics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind and theory of emotions. She has published two monographs, one edited collection, and numerous peer reviewed articles. She is on the editorial Board for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and was on the editorial board for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. She was president of the American Society of Aesthetics from 2009 until 2013. In 2007 she was a Leverhulme visiting professor of philosop...

#10431

Wei-xing Cao

#139733

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#10432

Paul Reclus

1847 - 1914 (67 years)

Jean Jacques Paul Reclus was a French physician specializing in surgery. The Reclus' disease is named after him. He was the son of pastor Jacques Reclus and brother of Élie, Élisée, Onésime and Armand Reclus.

#10433

Marc Goldstein

#91957

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Marc Goldstein, MD, DSc , FACS is an American urologist and the Matthew P. Hardy Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine, and Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University; Surgeon-in-Chief, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery; and Director of the Center of Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is Adjunct Senior Scientist with the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University.

#10434

Marcus D. Flather

#139742

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#10435

Célia Landmann Szwarcwald

#139743

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#10436

Parker Cleaveland

Parker Cleaveland

1780 - 1858 (78 years)

Parker Cleaveland was an American geologist and mineralogist, born in Rowley, Massachusetts. He was identified with the early progress of the natural sciences. After having attending the Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard in 1799, was tutor in mathematics there from 1803 to 1805, was chosen professor of mathematics and natural philosophy and lecturer on chemistry and mineralogy in Bowdoin College, a position which he retained until his death, although many professorships in other colleges and the presidency of his own were offered to him. He was elected an Ass...

#10437

Roger A. Hitchings

#139760

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#10438

Osman Bakar

#79549

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Osman Bakar is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Malaya, the Chair Professor and Director of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies , Universiti Brunei Darussalam and an Islamic philosopher. He is a fellow at the Center for Civilisational Dialogue in the University of Malaya and Doshisha University in Japan and a former President of the Islamic Academy of Sciences of Malaysia. He was the recipient of the honorary title "Dato" by the Sultan of Pahang in 1994 and "Datuk" by the King of Malaysia in 2000, and was Included in the list of 500 most influential M...

#10439

Ahmad Vaezi

#71384

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ahmad Vaezi is an Iranian philosopher, scholar and clergyman. As of 2023, he is the chief of Islamic propagation office of the Center for the Islamic Iranian Model of Progress in Qom. Early life and education Ahmad Vaezi was born in Rey, Iran, in 1963. He entered Qom seminary in 1982 and studied preliminary courses in religious sciences in 1986. He then took courses in Islamic jurisprudence, including the classes of scholars such as Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani, Shiekh Jawad Tabrizi, Seyed Kazem Haeri, and Sadeq Larijani. Mastering Philosophy under Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi and H.

#10440

Robert Alan Goldberg

#139776

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#10441

Peter S. Aronson

#139790

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#10442

Anthony M. Vintzileos

#139795

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#10443

Henry D. Appelman

#139796

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#10444

Jean M. Carlet

#139812

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#10445

Richard Horton

#139817

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#10446

Václav Benda

#73447

Overall Influence

1946 - 1999 (53 years)

Václav Benda was a Czech Roman Catholic activist and intellectual, and mathematician. Under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, Benda and his wife were rare in that they were devout Roman Catholics among the leadership of the anti-communist dissident organization Charter 77. After the Velvet Revolution, Benda became the head of an organization charged with investigating the former Czechoslovakian secret police and their many informants.

#10447

Donald Rutherford

#87404

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Donald Paul Rutherford is a Canadian philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his research on early modern philosophy. Rutherford is a former president of Leibniz Society of North America and a winner of its Essay Prize . He is an editor of Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy.

#10448

Frank S. Chytil

#139834

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#10449

Heidi L. Rehm

#139835

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#10450

Bette Kay Kleinschmidt‐demasters

#139837

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