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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12001

Michael. D. Joner

#153580

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#12002

Lanny J. Rosenwasser

#153583

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#12003

Richard Alan John. Knowles

#153592

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#12004

Neal A. Halsey

#153601

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#12005

Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff

Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff

#113947

Overall Influence

1912 - 1996 (84 years)

Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff was a German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist. He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculat...

#12006

Turan M. Itil

#153611

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#12007

L. E. Eckardt

#153622

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#12008

Stephen H. Zinner

#153641

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#12009

Anthony W. C. Chow

#153657

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#12010

Gert U. Auer

#153660

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#12011

John T. Parissis

#153666

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#12012

Francesco Benedetti

#153667

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#12013

Brian Gilmore Maegraith

1907 - 1989 (82 years)

Brian Gilmore Maegraith was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1907 and went to Britain in 1931 to take up the South Australian Rhodes Scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He served in France and Sierra Leone as a pathologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, led the Malaria Research Unit at Oxford, held the Deanship of Faculty of Medicine at Oxford, and was appointed to the Chair of Tropical Medicine at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1944. He died in England in 1989.

#12014

Johann Hermann

1738 - 1800 (62 years)

Johann, or Jean-Frederic, Hermann, or Herrmann, was a French physician and naturalist. In 1769 he was appointed professor of medicine at the School of Public Health of Strasbourg, then, in 1778, professor of philosophy, before going on, in 1784, to succeed Jacob Reinbold Spielmann as chair of chemistry, natural history and materia medica. In 1794 he became professor of botany and materia medica in the new School of Medicine.

#12015

Herman H. Stone

#153718

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#12016

Giuseppe Citerio

#153721

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#12017

Alessandra Ferrajoli

#153747

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#12018

Timothy Beal

#33758

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Timothy Beal is a writer and scholar in the field of religious studies whose work explores matters of religion, ecology, and technology. He is Distinguished University Professor, Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, and Director of h.lab at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has been Interim Dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences , Chair of the Department of Religious Studies , and Director and Associate Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.

#12019

Alexander E. Drzezga

#153753

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#12020

Ryszard Legutko

#100722

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ryszard Antoni Legutko ; born 24 December 1949 Biography Under communism he was one of the editors of the samizdat quarterly "Arka". After the collapse of the communist regime he co-founded the Centre for Political Thought, which combines research, teaching, seminars and conferences and is also a publishing house. He has translated and written commentaries to Plato's Phaedo , Euthyphro and Apology . He is the author of several books: Plato’s Critique of Democracy , Toleration , A Treatise on Liberty and An Essay on the Polish Soul , Socrates .

#12021

Howard Judd

#75109

Overall Influence

1935 - 2007 (72 years)

Howard Lund Judd was an American physician and medical researcher. He specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology, and contributed significant research to the field of women's health, in particular about menopause and hormone replacement therapy.

#12022

Isabelle M. Germano

#38431

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Isabelle M. Germano is a neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery, neurology, and oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Germano works with image-guided brain and spine surgery.

#12023

Larisa Bogoraz

#8735

Overall Influence

1929 - 2004 (75 years)

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union. Biography Born in Kharkiv, at the time capital of the Ukrainian SSR, to a family of Communist Party bureaucrats, she graduated as a linguist from the University of Kharkiv and in 1950, married her first husband, Yuli Daniel, a writer. Together, they moved to Moscow.

#12024

B. Michael Wroblewski

#153780

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#12025

Mohamed Bououdina

#153803

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#12026

Michel G. Bergeron

#109043

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michel G. Bergeron OC OQ is a Canadian physician. He is the founder and director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Laval University. He was invested as an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2008, invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010, and inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2017.

#12027

Peter A. Edwards

#153829

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#12028

Gary Alton Dudley

#153831

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#12029

Vincent Chi‐chung Cheng

#153840

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#12030

Gillian Howie

#98410

Overall Influence

1966 - 2013 (47 years)

Gillian Howie was a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research. She is author of Essential Reorientations: feminism and dialectical materialism , Deleuze and Spinoza: Aura of Expressionism , editor of Critical Quarterly’s special issue on higher education, ‘Universities in the UK: Drowning by numbers’ and editor of Women: A Cultural Review’s special issue on ‘Gender and Philosophy’ . She also co-edited Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration . Palgrave. , with the other co-editors Stacy Gillis and Rebecca Munford.

#12031

David J. Jollow

#153849

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#12032

James William Colbert Jr.

James William Colbert Jr.

1920 - 1974 (54 years)

James William Colbert Jr. was an American physician and the first vice president of academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina , serving in this capacity from 1969 until his death in a plane crash in 1974. He was the father of Stephen Colbert and Elizabeth Colbert Busch.

#12033

J. Hoberman

#65817

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

James Lewis Hoberman is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic. He began working at The Village Voice in the 1970s, became a full-time staff writer in 1983, and was the newspaper's senior film critic from 1988 to 2012. In 1981, he coined the term "vulgar modernism" to describe the "looney" fringes of American popular culture .

#12034

Terry L. Price

#79397

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Terry L. Price is an American philosopher. Price studied psychology and philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1989. He then completed a master of arts in philosophy at the University of Arizona in 1994. His studies in politics at the University of Oxford was funded by the John M. Olin Foundation. After Price obtained his M. Litt. in 1996, he returned to the University of Arizona to pursue a doctorate in philosophy. Price finished his Ph.D in 1998, under the supervision of Joel Feinberg. He later became the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the ...

#12035

Justin A. Zivin

#153881

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#12036

Jon Mills

#22803

Overall Influence

Jon Mills is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and clinical psychologist. His principle theoretical contributions have been in the philosophy of the unconscious, a critique of psychoanalysis, philosophical psychology, value inquiry, and the philosophy of culture. His clinical contributions are in the areas of attachment pathology, trauma, psychosis, and psychic structure.

#12037

Jerald C. Sadoff

#153927

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#12038

Franz Allerberger

#153930

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#12039

R. E. T. Smith

#153932

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#12040

Markus Stoffel

#153933

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#12041

Gabrio Bassotti

#153934

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#12042

Roger Sanders

#61239

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Roger Cobban Sanders is an American doctor specializing in Ultrasound and Radiology. Originally from the United Kingdom, he obtained a degree in physiology at Oxford University, from the Oxford Clinical Medical School. In 1970 Sanders traveled to the United States to begin a one-year teaching position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time the University was presented a bistable ultrasound system, at the time the only one in Maryland, which Sanders was asked to oversee and use. Eventually he became professor of Radiology, Urology, Obstetric, and Gynecology, as well as director of Ultrasound at the University.

#12043

Richard Grusin

#55423

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Arthur Grusin is an American new media scholar and author. Grusin is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and former Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies.

#12044

Azra Raza

#21431

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center at Columbia University. She has previously held positions at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati, Rush University, and the University of Massachusetts. Raza's research focuses on myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia.

#12045

Alessandro Laviano

#153962

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#12046

Marshall J. Orloff

#153971

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#12047

Nancy Kendrick

#82786

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Nancy Kendrick is an American philosopher and William and Elsie Prentice Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College . She is known for her expertise on George Berkeley and has been president of the International Berkeley Society since 2015.

#12048

Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage

1848 - 1884 (36 years)

Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of naturalism, an artistic style that emerged from the later phase of the Realist movement. His most famous work is his landscape-style portrait of Joan of Arc which currently resides at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

#12049

Stefan Evers

#153993

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#12050

Mia Consalvo

#77428

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Mia Consalvo is an American professor of Communication Studies presently at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and holds the post of Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design, Communication Studies. Consalvo has authored a number of scholarly books and publications on the topic of video games in contemporary society and the culture of gameplay.

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