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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#11701

Achille Ouy

1889 - 1959 (70 years)

Achille Ouy was a French philosopher and sociologist. Ouy taught philosophy at various lycees, and was involved with the Mercure de France. "A follower of René Worms and Gaston Richard, Ouy "performed many day-to-day tasks that held the R.I.S. and IIS together from 1919 to 1940."

#11702

Philip H. Gutin

#150946

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#11703

Alfred A. Bové

#150952

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#11704

Harvey D. Preisler

#150953

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#11705

Giorgio Pullicino

1779 - 1851 (72 years)

Giorgio Pullicino was a Maltese painter, architect, and professor of drawing and architecture at the University of Malta. He is known for his harbour views painted in a number of media, and he is also considered to be one of the first neoclassical architects in Malta. He produced designs for a number of buildings, but the only structure which is definitely proven to have been designed by him is a monumental obelisk known as the Spencer Monument. However, several other buildings including the Monument to Sir Alexander Ball are widely attributed to him.

#11706

Anupama Chopra

#29840

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1967 - Present (59 years)

Anupama Chopra is an Indian author, journalist, film critic and director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. She is also the founder and editor of the digital platform Film Companion, which offers a curated look at cinema. She has written several books on Indian cinema and has been a film critic for NDTV, India Today, as well as the Hindustan Times. She also hosted a weekly film review show The Front Row With Anupama Chopra, on Star World. She won the 2000 National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema for her first book Sholay: The Making of a Classic. She presently critiques movies and interv...

#11707

Cyril Chantler

#150963

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#11708

Laurence Collette

#150978

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#11709

Massimo Santoro

#151001

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#11710

Laurence W. Way

#151015

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#11711

Michael W. Davidson

#151048

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#11712

Steven Frederic Bolling

#151059

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#11713

Mark A. Mcniven

#151074

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#11714

Johan Feehally

#151077

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#11715

Wayne W. Grody

#151078

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#11716

Dominique Meyer

#151085

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#11717

B. Ruby Rich

#83122

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1948 - Present (78 years)

B. Ruby Rich is an American scholar; critic of independent, Latin American, documentary, feminist, and queer films; and a professor emerita of Film & Digital Media and Social Documentation at UC Santa Cruz. Among her many contributions, she is known for coining the term "New Queer Cinema". She is currently the editor of Film Quarterly, a scholarly film journal published by University of California Press.

#11718

Niccolò Cabeo

1586 - 1650 (64 years)

Niccolò Cabeo, SJ was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. Biography He was born in Ferrara in 1586, and was educated at the Jesuit college in Parma beginning in 1602. He passed the next two years in Padua and spent 1606–07 studying in Piacenza before completing three years of study in philosophy at Parma. He spent another four years studying theology in Parma and another year’s apprenticeship at Mantua. He then taught theology and mathematics in Parma, then in 1622 he became a preacher. For a time he received patronage of the Dukes of Mantua and the Este in Ferrara.

#11719

Charles Sheffield

#10300

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1935 - 2002 (67 years)

Charles Sheffield , an English-born mathematician, physicist and science-fiction writer, served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.

#11720

Theodore Elliott Nash

#151118

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#11721

Ingerid Dal

1895 - 1985 (90 years)

Ingerid Dal was a Norwegian linguist known for her work and research of German, English and the Nordic languages. Early life and education Dal was born in Drammen, Norway. She attended Kristiana University after moving to Oslo at age 19. Following World War I, she moved to Germany where she attended Heidelberg University and studied philology and philosophy. She then attended the University of Hamburg where she continued her studies and, in 1925, presented her thesis on Lask's Kategorienlehre in relation to Kant's philosophy. In 1930, she finished her thesis at the University of Oslo on the o...

#11722

Juha Hernesniemi

#38268

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1947 - 2023 (76 years)

was a Finnish neurosurgeon and professor emeritus of the neurosurgery department in Helsinki. was born in on 18 October 1947. He had a special interest in cerebrovascular diseases that are surgically amenable, especially aneurysms and AVMs. He published extensively and is widely cited within this particular domain of neurosurgery. died in Helsinki on 25 June 2023, at the age of 75.

#11723

Roberto Carifi

#102403

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1948 - Present (78 years)

Roberto Carifi , is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intellectual of his generation he has been influenced by having a very difficult illness to cope with.

#11724

Elias

600 - 600 (0 years)

Elias was a Greek scholar and a commentator on Aristotle and Porphyry. Life No information has been handed down about the life of Elias; all assumptions represented in the research are deductions from circumstantial evidence in his works. That he was at least nominally a Christian is inferred from his Christian name, but has not been proven conclusively. His thinking is influenced by Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical direction in late antiquity.

#11725

August Breisky

1832 - 1889 (57 years)

Professor August Breisky was an Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician. He studied medicine in Prague, obtaining his M.D. degree in 1855. At Prague, he served for several years as an assistant to pathologist Václav Treitz and obstetrician Bernhard Seyfert . In 1865 he received his habilitation with a dissertation about the influence of kyphosis on the pelvic shape.

#11726

Robyn Alders

#70603

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1950 - Present (76 years)

Robyn Gwen Alders AO is the first female veterinary scientist to be made an Officer of the Order of Australia. Dr. Alders is most recognised for her work on food security by improvements in poultry health in developing countries. Alders' work on the maintenance of the health of small poultry flocks helps under-resourced women to provide adequate nutritional and financial support for their families.

#11727

Domenico Inzitari

#151156

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#11728

Amy B. Heimberger

#124875

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Amy B. Heimberger is an American neurosurgeon and physician-scientist. She is the Jean Malnati Miller Professor of Neurological Surgery, vice-chair for research in the department of neurological Surgery at Feinberg School of Medicine and scientific director of The Malnati Brain Tumor Institute at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.

#11729

Marion Danis

#136613

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Marion Danis is an American bioethicist and physician-scientist. She is head of the section on ethics and health policy and chief of the bioethics consultation service at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

#11730

David J. Ewing

#151172

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#11731

Albert Chernenko

#88372

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1935 - 2009 (74 years)

Albert Konstantinovich Chernenko was a Russian philosopher, best known for his innovations in the field of social and legal philosophy. He was the son of Konstantin Chernenko, the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Faina Chernenko.

#11732

Donald M. Yealy

#151174

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#11733

Harry G. Preuss

#151181

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#11734

John F. Morris

#151184

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#11735

Karl-erik Arfors

#151197

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#11736

Nirmal Kumar Ganguly

#151204

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#11737

Göran Wadell

#151207

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#11738

Robert S. Dittus

#11739

Kikuo Arakawa

#151215

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#11740

Semyon Desnitsky

1740 - 1789 (49 years)

Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky was a Russian legal scholar. He was known as a disciple of Adam Smith and introduced his ideas to the Russian public. He was also the first academic to deliver his lectures in Russian language rather than in Latin.

#11741

Vito M. Campese

#151228

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#11742

Annick Alpérovitch

#151230

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#11743

William Charles Lineaweaver

#11744

Miroslav Šutej

#49434

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1936 - 2005 (69 years)

Miroslav Šutej was a Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist. Šutej was born in Duga Resa in 1936. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and was an associate in Krsto Hegedušić's master's workshop. Since 1970, Šutej was a professor at the Academy.

#11745

Alan B. Retik

#151299

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#11746

Hans Zinsser

1878 - 1940 (62 years)

Hans Zinsser was an American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author. The author of over 200 books and medical articles, he was also a published poet. Some of his verses were published in The Atlantic Monthly. His 1940 publication, As I Remember Him: the Biography of R.S., won one of the early National Book Awards, the sixth and last annual award for Nonfiction voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

#11747

William Duncan

1717 - 1760 (43 years)

William Duncan was a Scottish natural philosopher and classicist, professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, he was appointed professor of natural philosophy there in 1752. His popular Elements of Logic, first published in Robert Dodsley's The Preceptor , combined a Lockean theory of knowledge with syllogistic logic. He translated the Commentaries of Julius Caesar and orations of Cicero; at his death, translations of Plutarch's Lives and a continuation of Thomas Blackwell's Court of Augustus were left unfinished.

#11748

Jonathan L. Meakins

#151321

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#11749

Joseph Owen Hendley

#151322

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#11750

John of St Amand

1230 - 1303 (73 years)

John of St Amand, Canon of Tournay , also known as Jean de Saint-Amand and Johannes de Sancto Amando, was a Medieval author on pharmacology, teaching at the University of Paris. He wrote treatises on a variety of topics including magnetism and experimental method.

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