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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#10851

Rosemary Pattenden

#101453

Overall Influence

Rosemary Pattenden is emeritus professor at UEA Law School. She took the degrees of bachelor of commerce and bachelor of laws at the University of New South Wales and doctor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. On the completion of her DPhil in 1979 she joined the University of East Anglia where she was lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and, between 1998 and 2013, professor.

#10852

Hanna Wallach

#60384

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Hanna Wallach is a computational social scientist and partner research manager at Microsoft Research. Her work makes use of machine learning models to study the dynamics of social processes. Her current research focuses on issues of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics as they relate to AI and machine learning.

#10853

Mona Loutfy

#168693

Overall Influence

Mona R. Loutfy is a Canadian clinician-scientist and infectious disease specialist. Early life and education Loutfy earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario and her medical degree from the University of Toronto. Following this, she completed her Internal Medicine Residency in 1999 and her Infectious Diseases Fellowship in 2001 at the University of Toronto. Loutfy then did a Master's of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2002 and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at McGill University.

#10854

Bernhard Casper

#171635

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Bernhard Casper was a German philosopher. Biography Born in Trier in 1931, Casper passed his Abitur in Aschaffenburg in 1949. From 1979 to 2000, he taught Christian philosophy at the University of Freiburg. He was a Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Würzburg and lived in Wittnau, Baden-Württemberg. In 1995, he earned an honorary doctorate from the Institut Catholique de Paris. In 2012, he was named a citizen of honor of Travagliato.

#10855

Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou Mourelatos

#176752

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Alexander Phoebus Dionysiou Mourelatos is an American philosopher. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Works The Route of Parmenides. Yale UP, 1974.: The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays. Doubleday 1974, ND Princeton University Press 1993.

#10856

Christine Beveridge

#132390

Overall Influence

Christine Beveridge is an Australian scientist and plant physiologist whose research focuses on the shoot architecture of plants, shrubs and trees. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture, and affiliated professor at the Centre for Crop Science at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.

#10857

Hugh Borton

#42105

Overall Influence

1903 - 1995 (92 years)

Hugh Borton was an American historian who specialized in the history of Japan, later serving as president of Haverford College. Biography Borton was born on May 14, 1903, to a devout Quaker household in Moorestown Township, New Jersey. His parents sent him to Quaker schools and after graduating from Haverford College in 1927, he and his wife Elizabeth Wilbur, proceeded to find a way of making a living that was in line with their Quaker beliefs. They looked to the American Friends Service Committee, which set up teaching posts for them at a small school in the foothills of the Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains.

#10858

George Jelinek

#54718

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

George Jelinek is an Australian doctor who is professor and founder, Neuroepidemiology Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. This unit expressly evaluates modifiable risk factors that predict the progression of Multiple sclerosis. He has served since 2017 as the Chief Editor for Neuroepidemiology in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, and he was Founding Editor – and is currently the Editor Emeritus – for Emergency Medicine Australasia. Jelinek also has the distinction of being the first Professor of Emergency Medicine in Australasia. Between 1987 and 2018, he published more ...

#10859

Peter Watkins

#63842

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Peter Watkins is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary.

#10860

Daniel Roses

#56263

Overall Influence

Daniel F. Roses is an American surgeon who is the Jules Leonard Whitehill Professor of Surgery and Oncology of the New York University School of Medicine and a Senior Attending Surgeon at Tisch Hospital of the New York University Medical Center.

#10861

Giorgio Agamben

#176783

Overall Influence

#10862

Jing Wang

#135993

Overall Influence

1950 - 2021 (71 years)

Jing Wang was Professor of Chinese media and Cultural Studies and S.C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language & Culture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was jointly appointed to MIT's Comparative Media Studies and Global Studies & Languages.

#10863

John C. Baldwin

#30269

Overall Influence

1948 - 2016 (68 years)

John Charles Baldwin was an American cardiac surgeon and academic administrator. He served as the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine, as dean of Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine, as president and CEO of the Harvard Immune Disease Institute, and as president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

#10864

Sorin Lavric

#151422

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sorin Lavric is a Romanian writer, philosopher and politician. Having started studying medicine in 1987, Lavric later began studying philosophy as well. Posteriorly, as he did not want to be a physician, he focused entirely on philosophy. Lavric finished his university studies in 1996 and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 2005. Lavric has written several books.

#10865

Slobodan Škerović

#86410

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Slobodan Škerović is a Serbian author, painter and philosopher, and a member of the international neo-avantgarde Signalism movement. Biography Škerović studied painting at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade and Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He has had poems and articles published since 1976 in numerous Yugoslav journals: Haiku, Student, Vidici, Knjizevna reč, Koraci, Stvaranje, Signal, Rukovet, Savremenik, Književne novine... He was editor of the Student and Vidici journals from 1980 to 1982, and for a short time was a comics writer and a member of Belgrade's comics art group "Tuš grupa".

#10866

Arnon Afek

#45839

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Arnon Afek is an Israeli physician who specializes in pathology and medical management. Afek served as Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2014–2015. He is currently Deputy Director-General of Sheba Medical Center and acting director of Sheba General Hospital at Tel Hashomer.

#10867

Jonathan Grigg

#93194

Overall Influence

Jonathan Grigg is a British professor of paediatric respiratory and environmental medicine at Queen Mary University of London. He is a former Research lead of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society and was a Vice Chair of the Royal College of Physicians' working party on air pollution and authored the report "Every breath we take, the lifelong impact of air pollution".

#10868

Richard Alan Fox

#89809

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Richard Alan Fox was an Australian medical physicist. He was the son of Alan Fox, a businessman, and Rosalind née Morris. Biography While initially educated at Aquinas College. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and studied physics at the University of Western Australia. In 1964, he graduated Bachelor of Science with first class honours. In 1966, he went to Oxford University and completed his Doctorate of Philosophy in 1970. During 1970-1974, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex. The next four years, he worked as a Scientifi...

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Bill Martin

#105024

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Bill Martin is a professor of philosophy at DePaul University whose academic work concerns Derrida, Sartre, Marxist theory, Aesthetics, and critiques of Richard Rorty. Martin has also written on progressive rock bands including Yes.

#10870

Samy Azer

#53140

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Samy A. Azer is an Egyptian-born Australian physician author and medical educator who has contributed to medical education internationally. Academic career Professor Azer has contributed to medical education at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne . He is Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Curriculum and Research Unit at King Saud University College of Medicine in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was Professor of Medical Education and the Chair of Medical Education Research and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia, from 2007 to 2009.

#10871

Chen Chao-long

#100941

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Chen Chao-long is a Taiwanese transplant surgeon. Early life and education Chen was born in Kaohsiung on 29 September 1950. He earned his medical degree at Kaohsiung Medical University and trained in surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he worked with Thomas Starzl. He has taught at China Medical University and Chang Gung University.

#10872

Zsolt Liposits

#173061

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Zsolt Liposits is a Hungarian physician, neuroscientist and university professor. Career In 1976, he received MD degree from University Medical School Pécs and was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy. He was invited by Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University and was appointed chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Szeged, Hungary in 1993.

#10873

Munzifa Gafarova

#176867

Overall Influence

1924 - 2013 (89 years)

Munzifa Kakharovna Gafarova Biography Born in Khujand, Ghafforova was the daughter of two of the first teachers to work in the city. She graduated from the Leninabad Pedagogical Institute in 1944, and from that year until 1947 served as a secretary of the local Komsomol committee and director of the Tajikistan branch of the Cultural Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1948 she married Solijon Rajabov, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of the Tajik SSR, with whom she would go on to have numerous children.

#10874

Hanah Margalit

#74811

Overall Influence

Hanah Margalit is a Professor in the faculty of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research combines bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology, specifically in the fields of gene regulation in bacteria and eukaryotes.

#10875

Vidyadhiraja Tirtha

#156715

Overall Influence

Vidyadhiraja Tirtha was a Hindu philosopher, dialectician and the seventh pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha and served as peetadhipathi from . Bifurcation of Mathas It was during the time of Vidyadhiraja Tirtha that the first bifurcation of the Madhva Mathas took place. According to tradition Vidyadhiraja want to ordain Rajendra Tirtha, one of his disciples, to succeed him on the pontifical throne. But when Vidyadhiraja fell ill and the time came for formally handing over Matha to Rajendra Tirtha, the latter, who was on tour at the critical juncture. So Vidyadhiraja ordained his disciple Kavindra to succeed him on the pontifical throne.

#10876

Isabella Eckerle

#55530

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Isabella Eckerle is a German virologist who is the co-Head of the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases at the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva. Her research considers infectious diseases and the development of cell lines that allow a better understanding of their epidemiology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Eckerle studied the difference in response of adults and children to coronavirus disease.

#10877

Klaus-Ernst Behne

#96999

Overall Influence

1940 - 2013 (73 years)

Klaus-Ernst Behne was a German professor of musicology with a focus on music psychology. Life Born in Uelzen, Behne studied school music, musicology, psychology and physics in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and Hamburg. He belonged to a group of young musicologists around Hans-Peter Reinecke. - besides Klaus-Ernst Behne also Helga de la Motte-Haber, Ekkehard Jost, Günter Kleinen and Eberhard Kötter. When Reinecke was commissioned in 1964 to set up the department for musical acoustics at the State Institute for Music Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, he took four of the above...

#10878

Fred Turner

#73720

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Fred Turner is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, having formerly served as department chair. Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman C...

#10879

Ladette Randolph

#140774

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor. Ladette Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: Private Way, Haven’s Wake and A Sandhills Ballad, a short story collection, This is Not the Tropics, and a memoir, Leaving the Pink House. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College and co-owner of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine. A long-time Nebraskan, she spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations. She now lives in Boston with her husband Noel.

#10880

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola

#34491

Overall Influence

1930 - 2016 (86 years)

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola was a Puerto Rican doctor and educator. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1954 where he was top of his class. He did his internship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He was the first Puerto Rican and first alumni to be dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967. In 1967, he became the first rector of the newly formed University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus.

#10881

Dorothy Grover

#170298

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Dorothy Lucille Grover was a New Zealand philosopher of logic who worked as a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was known for prosententialism, a deflationary theory of truth in which assertions of the truth of a proposition combine with the proposition to form a pro-sentence, a part of speech which refers to the proposition itself much like a pronoun refers to a noun.

#10882

Helen Stokes-Lampard

#28024

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Dame Helen Jayne Stokes-Lampard , FLSW is a British medical academic and a medical general practitioner. She is Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges a GP principal and Chair of the National Academy for Social Prescribing . She was Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners from November 2016 to November 2019. She is also a professor of GP Education at Birmingham University and holds a visiting chair at St George's, University of London.

#10883

Bruce A. Peterson

#176899

Overall Influence

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Richard McSorley

#104596

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Richard McSorley was a Jesuit priest and peace studies Professor at Georgetown University. In 1964 he was unofficially assigned by Robert F. Kennedy to give counsel to his sister-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy at Georgetown University. Five years later Bill Clinton asked him to say a prayer for peace at St. Mark's Church. McSorley founded the Center for Peace Studies at Georgetown.

#10885

Nikolai Eberhardt

#112945

Overall Influence

Nikolai Eberhardt was a German émigré physicist and author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament . Biography Born 1930 in Estonia, Eberhardt has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a Physics Diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University . Intermittently he also served as Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation.

#10886

Roger Schofield

#151291

Overall Influence

1937 - 2019 (82 years)

Roger Snowden Schofield, FBA, FRHistS, FSS was a British social scientist, social historian, demographer and academic. He was director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure between 1974 and 1994, and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, from 1969 until his death.

#10887

Adebowale A. Adeyemo

#110493

Overall Influence

Adebowale A. Adeyemo is a Nigerian physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist specialized in genomics and cardiometabolic disorders. He is the deputy director and chief scientific officer of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

#10888

Thomas Stapleton

#130390

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Thomas Stapleton FRCP , FRACP, FRCPCH was a British paediatrician who worked in Australia. Early life Stapleton was born on 1 February 1920 in Lynton, Devon, England, with Anglo-Irish heritage. His maternal ancestors included John Nicholson of the East India Company.

#10889

Kay O'Halloran

#78411

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Kay L. O'Halloran is an Australian-born academic in the field of multimodal discourse analysis. She is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University . She is the founding director of the Multimodal Analysis Laboratory of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute at the National University of Singapore . She is widely known for her development of systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis and its application in the realm of mathematical discourse and multimodal text construction.

#10890

Anne Macaulay

#77498

Overall Influence

1924 - 1998 (74 years)

Anne Macaulay was a Scottish musicologist, author and lecturer. Biography Macaulay was born in Aithernie, Fife in Scotland near Lundin standing stones, the youngest child of Alison and Sir David Russell. Her family soon moved to Silverburn near Lundin Links where her father managed a paper-making business through the Great Depression and had interests in religion, archaeology, industry and a good sense of family values. She attended St Leonards School in St Andrews during the Second World War going on to briefly attend the University of Edinburgh which she departed for South Africa she learned how to fly an aeroplane.

#10891

Aryeh Eldad

#93719

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Aryeh Eldad is an Israeli physician, politician and former medical officer. Eldad is a professor of medicine, and was head of the plastic surgery and burns unit at the Hadassah Medical Center. He was a member of the Knesset from 2003 to 2013 for the National Union and from 2012 for Otzma LeYisrael, which he co-founded. He was formerly a chief medical officer, and was the senior commander of the Israeli Defense Forces medical corps for 25 years.

#10892

David Lowery

#82994

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

David Lowery is an American filmmaker. His original work Ain't Them Bodies Saints , starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he directed the Disney film Pete's Dragon , a live-action film which he had co-written. It was a new work loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name. In 2017, he directed the drama film A Ghost Story and in 2018, he directed The Old Man & the Gun. In 2021, he directed the fantasy epic The Green Knight.

#10893

Hartmut Krones

#75480

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Hartmut Krones is an Austrian musicologist. Training Born in Vienna, Krones studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna as well as music education, vocal pedagogy and Lied and Oratorio at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He also won a doctorate in musicology.

#10894

John Tooke

#37987

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Sir John Edward Tooke, is the Head of the School of Life & Medical Sciences at University College, London. He was formerly worked at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry where he was the Inaugural Dean, and of the Peninsula Medical School which was its first constituent. He was President of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 2011 to 2015.

#10895

Anna Amalie Abert

Anna Amalie Abert

#104918

Overall Influence

1906 - 1996 (90 years)

Anna Amalie Abert or Anna Abert was a German musicologist. Life Abert was born in Halle in 1906. Abert was the daughter of the music historian Hermann Abert. She studied with Hans Joachim Moser and Friedrich Blume at the University of Kiel. From 1943 to 1971 she worked at the university. In 1950 she became a professor. She has studied the works of Heinrich Schütz, Monteverdi , Gluck and Richard Strauss.

#10896

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

#174283

Overall Influence

Elizabeth S. Radcliffe is Professor of philosophy at William & Mary. She is the author of Hume, Passion, and Action, which discusses David Hume's views on passion's role in driving our actions and constituting our moral judgments. Simon Blackburn calls it "a beautifully judged, balanced, and therefore especially valuable addition to the literature."

#10897

Omid Payrow Shabani

#173242

Overall Influence

Omid A. Payrow Shabani is an Iranian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Payrow Shabani is known for his expertise on constitutional patriotism, Iranian politics and Jürgen Habermas's philosophy. He was awarded an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2002.

#10898

Irini Sereti

#118575

Overall Influence

Irini Sereti is a Greek scientist and physician. She is chief of the HIV pathogenesis section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Sereti researches immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia, and immune-based therapeutic strategies of HIV investigation.

#10899

Josephine Briggs

Josephine Briggs

#55598

Overall Influence

Josephine P. Briggs is an American nephrologist and director emeritus of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , an agency of the National Institutes of Health. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

#10900

Ali S. Raja

#105864

Overall Influence

Ali S. Raja is an American emergency physician and researcher. He is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a professor at Harvard Medical School.

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