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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Jorge Plutzky

#150547

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Theodore M. Bayless

#150549

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Faubion Bowers

#17402

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1917 - 1999 (82 years)

Faubion Bowers was an American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre. He also wrote the first full-length biography of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. During the Allied Occupation of Japan, he was General Douglas MacArthur's personal Japanese language interpreter and aide-de-camp.

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Peter Thielke

#145530

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Peter G. Thielke is an American historian of modern philosophy who specializes in Immanuel Kant, German idealism, epistemology, and aesthetics. He is the Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

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Bernard M. Nordlinger

#150587

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Andreas Scorilas

#150591

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#11657

Arthur Bank

#150598

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Georg Reiser

#150612

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Richard E. Tashian

#150613

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#11660

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson

#26784

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Iceland and a frequent commentator on current affairs in the Icelandic media. He is best known as a staunch spokesman for free market policies, and for neoliberalism or classical liberalism, as well as for his frequent climate change denial.

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Harry Suryapranata

#150631

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Georg Rajka

#110006

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1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Georg Rajka was a Norwegian of Hungarian origin dermatologist and legend of allergy and immunology. Rajka fled his native Hungary in the wake of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, where he had taken education as a dermatologist, following in the footsteps of his father. Originally settling in Sweden, he worked at Karolinska University Hospital—where he took his doctorate in 1964—and the University Hospital of Umeå.

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Fredrik Kiil

#120387

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1921 - 2015 (94 years)

Fredrik Kiil was a Norwegian physician, known for his improvements on the artificial kidney. He was born in Narvik to Arne Kristoffersen and Marthea Kiil, and was married to physician Ragnhild Valberg. He died in December 2015.

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Philip Spencer Rudland

#150645

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David Boulware

#125577

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David Boulware is a professor of medicine and a practicing infectious disease physician at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is a member of the graduate faculty for the University of Minnesota School of Public Health Epidemiology PhD program and for the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology graduate program. Boulware was the first Lois & Richard King Distinguished Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. Boulware is an active medical researcher engaged in clinical trials in infectious diseases.

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Clifford W. Jr. Colwell

#150651

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Vert. L. Mooney

#150655

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Dorothy Dinnerstein

#24145

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1923 - 1992 (69 years)

Dorothy Dinnerstein was an American academic and feminist activist, best known for her 1976 book The Mermaid and the Minotaur. Drawing from elements of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis, particularly as developed by Melanie Klein, Dinnerstein argued that sexism and aggression were both inevitable consequences of child rearing being left exclusively to women. As a solution, Dinnerstein proposed that men and women equally share infant and child care responsibilities. Her theories were not widely accepted at the time they were published. Dorothy Dinnerstein was a feminist, expressing her position b...

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Andrew McAfee

#9405

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Andrew Paul McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world.

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Stephan Baldus

#150665

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Günter Dörner

#150677

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Klaus Kühn

#150678

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D. Ralph Millard

#150680

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Augustus Quirinus Rivinus

Augustus Quirinus Rivinus

1652 - 1723 (71 years)

Augustus Quirinus Rivinus , also known as August Bachmann or A. Q. Bachmann, was a German physician and botanist who helped to develop better ways of classifying plants. Life and work Rivinus was born in Leipzig, Germany, and studied at the University of Leipzig , continued his studies in the University of Helmstedt . In 1677, he started lecturing in medicine at the University of Leipzig, in 1691 appointed to two chairs, that of physiology and of botany, and made the curator of the University medical garden. In 1701, he became professor of pathology, in 1719, professor of therapeutics and permanent dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

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Ian Mcdowell

#150682

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Eino Kulonen

1921 - 1984 (63 years)

Eino Kulonen was a Finnish physician and scientist. Kulonen was born in Kiikka in Pirkanmaa. He earned his D.Med.Sc. degree in 1951 and held the position of docent at the University of Helsinki from 1953 to 1954. From 1955 to 1984, he was professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Turku. His research involved the chemistry and structure of connective tissue, as well as the effects of alcohol on the nerve system.

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Janet Woodcock

#37592

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1948 - Present (78 years)

Janet Woodcock is an American physician serving as Principal Deputy Commissioner of Food and Drugs, having previously served as Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . She joined the FDA in 1986, and has held a number of senior leadership positions there, including terms as the Director of Center for Drug Evaluation and Research from 1994 to 2004 and 2007 to 2021.

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Zilda Arns

#25283

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1934 - 2010 (76 years)

Zilda Arns Neumann was a Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker. A sister of Cardinal Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, the former Archbishop of São Paulo known for his efforts against the Brazilian military dictatorship, Zilda Arns became internationally known by founding a Catholic pastoral care for poor children. Her humanitarian work, which also included the poor and the elderly, spanned over three decades.

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Elaine Shemilt

#69692

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Elaine Shemilt is a British artist and researcher especially known as a fine art printmaker. Her work does not take a conventional approach to the medium and ranges across a wide variety of media. According to the art historian and theorist Alan Woods: "Her work initially focused on installation, the various printmaking media were used in an attempt to continue and develop the installations by other means. If the event is inevitably lost, a new artwork is launched from it, and as themes and subjects occur and re-occur, their re-generation might usefully be imagined as located within an extend...

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Simone Simoni

1532 - 1602 (70 years)

Simone Simoni was an Italian philosopher and physician. After graduating in medicine from the University of Padua, Simoni moved to Geneva, where he became professor of philosophy and engaged in controversy with Jakob Schegk. Expelled by the city for his heretical views, he moved to Paris and subsequently to Leipzig and Heidelberg . In 1581, he became court physician to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague; there were unconfirmed rumours that he had converted to Catholicism.

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Fini M. Schulsinger

#150741

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Max Friedlaender

1852 - 1934 (82 years)

Max Friedlaender was a German bass singer, music editor, and musicologist. He specialized in German Lieder. Life Friedlaender studied voice with well-known teachers Manuel Garcia in London and Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt, both of the bel-canto school. From 1881 to 1883 the singer lived and worked at Frankfurt, moving to Berlin in 1883. He received a doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1894 with a dissertation on Franz Schubert and joined the music faculty at Berlin University in 1894.

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Don McGregor

#110093

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1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Donald Dalglish McGregor was a New Zealand scientist and research advisor. Early life and education McGregor was born and raised in Christchurch to Roy and Elsie . He married Marjorie in Timaru on Easter Monday, 1966. After having completed an MSc with first Class Honours at the University of Canterbury, he arrived in Dunedin in 1962 to work as a Research Officer in the Wellcome Medical Research Institute at the University of Otago, where he obtained his PhD in 1969.

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Dianna Mcgookey Milewicz

#150772

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E.j.d. Van Cutsem

#150779

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Rafael Lozano

#150787

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Raghuvarya Tirtha

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Raghuvarya Tirtha was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, theologian and saint. He served as the pontiff of Shri Uttaradi Math from 1502-1557. He was the thirteenth in succession from Madhvacharya. According to tradition Sri Raghuvarya Tirtha taught the famous Nyayasudha of Jayatirtha seven times to his disciples.

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Kenneth W. Kizer

#150803

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Jacques Trotel-klausz Remy

#150809

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Carmelo Scarpignato

#150818

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David H. Johnson

#150840

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Sueli Carneiro

#38477

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1950 - Present (76 years)

Aparecida Sueli Carneiro Jacoel, best known as Sueli Carneiro is a Brazilian philosopher, writer and anti-racism activist. Carneiro is the founder and current director of Geledés — Instituto da Mulher Negra and a leading author on black feminism in Brazil.

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Jukka H. Meurman

Jukka H. Meurman

#150853

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1947 - Present (79 years)

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Marc R. Nuwer

#150875

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Gerard Reedy

#90135

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1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Gerard C. Reedy, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, academic and academic administrator. Reedy served as the 30th President of the College of the Holy Cross from 1994 until 1998. He also served as a professor of English and academic dean at Fordham University for almost forty years.

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Harisios K. Boudoulas

#150901

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William. L. Weston

#150905

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Wadih Arap

#150915

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David G. Mcleod

#150916

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Amiram Eldor

#150925

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