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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12151

Jean‐paul Galmiche

#154830

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#12152

Joachim von Sandrart

Joachim von Sandrart

1606 - 1688 (82 years)

Joachim von Sandrart was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the Teutsche Academie, published between 1675 and 1680.

#12153

Narushima Ryūhoku

Narushima Ryūhoku

1837 - 1884 (47 years)

Narushima Ryūhoku was a Japanese author and scholar born in Asakusa. His given name was Korehiro . The Narushima family were okujusha , or Confucian tutors to the Tokugawa shōguns, who were also involved in editing the Tokugawa jikki and other historical annals, including the Nochikagami . Ryuhoku participated in these editing projects as a young man.

#12154

Günter Mayer

#117342

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Günter Mayer was a German cultural academic and musicologist. Activities Born in Berlin, Mayer dealt with aesthetics, music aesthetics and music sociology, general theory of culture and art, media theory and media aesthetics. From 1980 to 1994 he was professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was the editor of the collected works of Hanns Eisler, published in three volumes, and the planned historical-critical complete edition of Eisler's works. Mayer was a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus and the journal The Argument and si...

#12155

Leon S. Robertson

#67472

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Leon S. Robertson is a retired injury epidemiologist. From 1978 to 1998, Robertson occupied various positions in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. He previously served on the faculties of Harvard University Medical School and Wake Forest University . He was also Senior Behavioral Scientist in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety .

#12156

Alberto Zanella

#154874

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#12157

Michael Tymianski

#154884

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#12158

Richard A. Gillis

#154899

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#12159

Donald J. Sherrard

#154913

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#12160

Eugenio Imaz

1900 - 1951 (51 years)

Eugenio Ímaz Echeverría was a Spanish philosopher and translator. He is the grandfather of Carlos Imaz Gispert, the Mexican politician. Biography He graduated in law and philosophy from the Universidad Central de Madrid . Through a grant from the Board for the Expansion of Studies Imaz travelled to Germany, where he worked at different universities and completed his studies for two years. From this period, he collaborated in publications such as Revista de Occidente y Cruz y Raya.

#12161

Douglas Scott Reintgen

#154929

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#12162

Gillian Leng

#44353

Overall Influence

Gillian Catherine Leng, Lady Cosford CBE is a British health administrator, academic, visiting professor at King's College London and the former Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence , where she was responsible for several programmes and guidelines including the guidelines on COVID-19. In 2023 she was elected president-elect of the Royal Society of Medicine .

#12163

Rex Reed

#39181

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Rex Taylor Reed is an American film critic, journalist, and media personality. Raised throughout the Southern United States and educated at Louisiana State University, Reed moved to New York City in the early 1960s to begin his career, writing about popular culture, art, and celebrities for a number of newspapers and magazines. He became a public figure in his own right, making regular appearances on television and occasionally acting in films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

#12164

Helmer Ringgren

#53961

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Karl Vilhelm Helmer Ringgren , was a Swedish theologian. He became Associate Professor in Religion at Uppsala University, 1947–59, and Acting Professor of Old Testament exegesis at the Åbo Akademi University, 1947–56, the professor of Old Testament exegesis at the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illinois, 1960–62, professor of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, 1962–64, and then Old Testament exegesis at Uppsala University, 1964-83. Ringgren died on March 26, 2012.

#12165

Tomoo Kosuge

#154938

Overall Influence

#12166

Graeme Clark

#26191

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Graeme Milbourne Clark AC is an Australian Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne. Worked in ENT surgery, electronics and speech science contributed towards the development of the multiple-channel cochlear implant. His invention was later marketed by Cochlear Limited.

#12167

Uladzimir Konan

#94754

Overall Influence

1934 - 2011 (77 years)

Uladzimir Konan was a Belarusian philosopher. He was born in the Hrodna region of Belarus. He graduated from Belarusian State University's History faculty and worked with the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences.

#12168

Kunio Hiwada

#154959

Overall Influence

#12169

Moses Robert Kamya

#154974

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#12170

Hugues Dufourt

#103701

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28, 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory.

#12171

Ulf H. Haglund

#155008

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#12172

Susanne Becken

#155038

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

#12173

Eva Verona

#92095

Overall Influence

1905 - 1996 (91 years)

Eva Verona was the most eminent Croatian librarian and information scientist and is well known among information scientists around the world. She was born in Trieste in 1905. Her early childhood was spent in Vienna and eventually moved to Zagreb, Croatia where she attended grammar school. She graduated with a degree in mathematics and physics from Zagreb University in 1928 and was immediately employed in the National and University Library in Zagreb. She worked in different departments of the Library as her career progressed. She reorganized the natural sciences section in the classified catalogue and also worked on the foreign periodicals collection.

#12174

Louis C. Argenta

#155044

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#12175

Nick G. Kingsbury

#155049

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#12176

Syed Ahmad Khan

Syed Ahmad Khan

1817 - 1898 (81 years)

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan , also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India. Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement. Born into a family with strong ties to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889.

#12177

Jean-Paul Martinon

#137122

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jean-Paul Martinon is an American philosopher. Martinon is currently Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Life and education Martinon was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied international relations at the Institute of Higher International Studies where he obtained an MA in 1988. He obtained his PhD at the University of Reading in 2001. Martinon was appointed a lecturer at Goldsmiths College in 2001, becoming Reader in 2013.

#12178

Charles G. Plopper

#155071

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#12179

Martine Vrijheid

#155078

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

#12180

Max Kishor Bulsara

#155090

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#12181

Alfred Königsrainer

#155128

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#12182

Qais Al-awqati

#155171

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#12183

Reijo Sakari Tilvis

#155187

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#12184

David Derodon

1600 - 1664 (64 years)

David de Rodon or plain Derodon , was a French Calvinist theologian and philosopher. Derodon was born at Die, in the Dauphiné. He had the reputation of being one of the most eminent logicians of his time. His knowledge of philosophy was both extensive and profound. He taught philosophy at Orange, at Nismes, and at Geneva. He inclined to the doctrines of Gassendi rather than to those of the Cartesian philosophy. He had frequent discussions with the followers of Descartes. He kept up a close correspondence with many learned men of his time, particularly with Galileo and Descartes.

#12185

Ben Scheres

#102058

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Bernardus Johannes Godefridus Scheres Scheres is a Dutch developmental biologist. He is Professor of Plant Developmental Biology at Wageningen University. Scheres studied phytopathology at Wageningen University, where he received his doctorate in 1990. After a post-doctoral period at the Laboratory of Genetics in Ghent, he became a lecturer at the University of Utrecht, where he became Professor of Plant Developmental Biology in 1999 and Professor of Molecular Genetics in 2005.

#12186

Kadija Perreault

#155196

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#12187

Patrick Benedict Zimmer

1752 - 1820 (68 years)

Patrick Benedict Zimmer was a Catholic philosopher and theologian. Life Zimmer studied the Humanities and philosophy at Ellwangen, theology and jurisprudence at Dillingen and was ordained a priest on 1 April 1775. In 1777, he became repetitor of Canon law at the College of St. Jerome at Dillingen, and professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Dillingen in 1783. He was also appointed pastor of Steinheim in 1791. In 1795 he was dismissed from the faculty of the university, ostensibly because as pastor of Steinheim he should reside at that place, but in reality, because of his extreme idealism.

#12188

Mark Lawrence Urken

#155209

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#12189

Nikolaus Amrhein

#155230

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

#12190

Christopher M. Filley

#155235

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#12191

Michael Bouvet

#155236

Overall Influence

#12192

Wil Waluchow

#69172

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow , known as Wil Waluchow or W. J. Waluchow, is a Canadian philosopher, currently the Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies at McMaster University, where he has taught since 1984. General jurisprudence and the philosophy of constitutional law are his main research interests.

#12193

Leontion

400 BC - 360 BC (40 years)

Leontion was a Greek Epicurean philosopher. Biography Leontion was a pupil of Epicurus and his philosophy. She was the companion of Metrodorus of Lampsacus. The information we have about her is scant. She was said to have been a hetaera – a courtesan or prostitute.

#12194

Richard Bruce Schuessler

#155261

Overall Influence

#12195

Mariano Iberico Rodríguez

1892 - 1974 (82 years)

Mariano Iberico Rodríguez was a Peruvian philosopher. Life and education He was born in Cajamarca, Peru on April 11, 1892 and received his higher education at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. In 1919 he was awarded doctorates in Literature, Political Science and Administration, and Jurisprudence. After completing his training, he became a professor in the School of Arts at the University of San Marcos, the same center of Lima where he had completed his studies. Throughout his career he would teach History of Modern Philosophy, Subjective Philosophy, History of Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics and Contemporary Philosophers.

#12196

Franke Lehmann‐horn

#155263

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#12197

Clivе P. Duncan

#155276

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#12198

Giora Weisz

#155291

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#12199

Kenneth D. Bloch

#155300

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#12200

Zorba Paster

#22754

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Zorba Paster is a physician and radio show host. Paster was born on August 19, 1947, and raised in Chicago. He hosts a weekly radio call-in show on personal health issues called Zorba Paster on Your Health. The show is produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, syndicated by the Public Radio Exchange, and is broadcast on public radio stations around the United States. The show's trademark is a lighthearted, humorous approach, made possible by Zorba's banter with his co-host, Tom Clark. The show's style is somewhat similar to National Public Radio's program, Car Talk, providing callers both ...

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