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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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John Charin Somberg

#155309

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Paul B. Kantor

#55748

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Paul B. Kantor is an American information scientist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Information Science at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and an Honorary Research Associate in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Howard H. Hiatt

#155330

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Catherine O'Brien

#39511

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1962 - Present (64 years)

Catherine O'Brien is a British academic, film scholar, linguist and writer. Her main fields are French cinema; the First World War in French and German cultures in relation to art and comparative literature and the intersections between cinema, theology and religion.

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Paul Tazewell

#33054

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1964 - Present (62 years)

Paul Tazewell is an American costume designer for the theatre, dance, and opera and television. After training at New York University Tisch School of the Arts he started his career on Broadway. He went on to win a Tony Award and a Emmy Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award.

#12206

Panthoides

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Panthoides was a dialectician and philosopher of the Megarian school. He concerned himself with "the logical part of philosophy", and at some point taught the Peripatetic philosopher Lyco of Troas. He wrote a book called On Ambiguities, against which the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus wrote a treatise.

#12207

Soham Swami

1858 - 1918 (60 years)

Soham Swami was a Hindu guru and yogi from India.

#12208

David H. Adams

#18448

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As director of Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center, he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States. Dr. Adams is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repa...

#12209

Donald B. Doty

#155370

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Jeffry B. Mitton

#155371

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Michael Freissmuth

#155377

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Edward Henry Hare

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Catharine Trotter Cockburn

Catharine Trotter Cockburn

1674 - 1749 (75 years)

Catharine Trotter Cockburn was an English novelist, dramatist and philosopher who wrote on various subjects, including moral philosophy and theology, and maintained a prolific correspondence. Trotter's writings encompass a wide range of topics, such as necessity, the infinitude of space and substance. However, her primary focus was on moral issues. She believed that moral principles were not inherent but could be discovered by each individual through the use of reason, a faculty bestowed by God. In 1702, she published her first significant philosophical work, titled "A Defence of Mr. Lock's [...

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Ikuo Morita

#155400

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Kate Crawford

#87175

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1974 - Present (52 years)

Kate Crawford is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research , the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Data...

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John. J. Treanor

#155405

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Michael D. Mcgoon

#155422

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A˚ke Seiger

#155432

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Mary-Jane Rubenstein

#126807

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1977 - Present (49 years)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is a scholar of religion, philosophy, science studies, and gender studies. At Wesleyan University, she is Professor of Religion and Science in Society. She is also affiliated with Environmental Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. From 2014 to 2019, she was co-chair of the Philosophy of Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

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Anneke Brand

#155437

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Daryl J. Hoban

#155439

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Gordon Ralph Corey

#155451

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Stephen J. Mcphee

#155457

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Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster

1789 - 1860 (71 years)

Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was an English astronomer, physician, naturalist and philosopher. An early animal rights activist, he promoted vegetarianism and founded the Animals' Friend Society with Lewis Gompertz. He published pamphlets on a wide variety of subjects, including morality, Pythagorean philosophy, bird migration, Sati, and "phrenology", a term that he coined in 1815.

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Wilford F. Weeks

#155493

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David S Rosenblatt

#72935

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1946 - Present (80 years)

David Rosenblatt is a Canadian medical geneticist, pediatrician, and professor in the departments of Human Genetics, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Biology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he was the chairman of the Department of Human Genetics from 2001 to 2013. He is known for his contributions to the field of inborn errors of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism.

#12227

Władysław Dobrzaniecki

Władysław Dobrzaniecki

1897 - 1941 (44 years)

Władysław Dobrzaniecki was a Polish physician and surgeon. Władysław was since 1936 head of the Saint Zofia Children Hospital in Lwów, and since 1938 titular professor of surgery at the Lviv University. He was a precursor of plastic surgery in Poland.

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Hermann Danuser

#114277

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1946 - Present (80 years)

Hermann Danuser is a Swiss-German musicologist. Life Born in Frauenfeld, Danuser studied piano, oboe, musicology, philosophy and German language and literature at the Musikhochschule and the University of Zurich from 1965; he received his doctorate with a dissertation on musical prose. From 1973 he studied in Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus and Gerhard Puchelt . After working as a research assistant, he habilitated in 1982 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on the music of the 20th century . From 1982 to 1988, Danuser taught as professor for musicology at the Hochschule für Musik,...

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Mark Eli Kalderon

#147015

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Mark Eli Kalderon is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy in the University College London Department of Philosophy. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of color and philosophy of perception.

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Giulio Pace

1550 - 1635 (85 years)

Giulio Pace de Beriga, also known as Giulio Pacio, or by his Latin name Julius Pacius of Beriga was a well-known Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist. Life He was born in Vicenza, Italy, and studied law and philosophy in Padua.

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Gerald S. Levey

#155529

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Petter Andreas Steen

#155533

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Stephen Gershom Simpson

#155537

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Daniel J. Deangelo

#155547

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Joachim W. Thüroff

#155558

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John Francis Horty

#155564

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Michael Brada

#155580

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John Cornell Drummond

#155588

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William H. Brackney

William H. Brackney

#102166

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1948 - Present (78 years)

William Henry Brackney was the Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Thought and Ethics Emeritus at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and an ordained Baptist minister, accredited by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and the American Baptist Churches, USA. He was previously the Dean of Theology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and published numerous books and articles dealing with post-Reformation Protestant thought, particularly the Baptist and Radical Reformation traditions. Brackney did significant work in the areas of global ethics and human rights, and was the director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies .

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Alan Cass

#155606

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Swami Satyabhakta

Swami Satyabhakta

1899 - 1998 (99 years)

Swami Satyabhakta was an Indian scholar, philosopher, reformer and the founder of Satya Samaj. Early life Born Mulchanda at Shahpur, Sagar, he moved to Damoh to his aunt's house after the death of his mother at age 4, where he was renamed Darbarilal. He met Ganeshprasad Varni at Damoh and influenced by him, he joined the pathshala established by Varniji at Sagar. At age 19, he graduated with the title Nyayatirth and became a teacher at Sdyavad Vdyalaya at Varanasi for a year. He then moved to Seoni and then Indore, where he developed his rationalistic principles.

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Hans‐peter Dienes

#155630

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Yoshikazu Kinoshita

#155636

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Yasushi Shiratori

#155639

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Juan José Urráburu

1844 - 1904 (60 years)

Juan José Urráburu was a Spanish Jesuit and a scholastic philosopher who worked for some time as a professor of philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome. Beginning in 1890, he published eight large volumes treating of Scholastic philosophy under the title Institutiones Philosophicae. The last volume appeared in 1900, though he reworked the Institutiones into the slightly abbreviated five-volume Compendium Philosophiae Scholasticae.

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Joann Elmore

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Dr. Joann G. Elmore is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, the endowed chair in Health Care Delivery for The Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and a practicing physician . She publishes studies on diagnostic accuracy of cancer screening and medical tests in addition to AI/machine learning, using computer-aided tools to aid in the early detection process of high-risk cancers Previously, she held faculty and leadership ...

#12247

Pertti Törmälä

#155647

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Tomás Berl

#155650

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J. William White

J. William White

1850 - 1916 (66 years)

James William White was an American surgeon from Philadelphia. After participating in the Hassler expedition to the West Indies, he became a respected surgeon, teacher and author at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, with which he was associated from 1874 to 1916. He was John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital from 1900 to 1912 and professor emeritus until his death.

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Satyavara Tirtha

#155660

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Satyavara Tirtha was an Indian philosopher, scholar and the pontiff of Uttaradi Math, a math dedicated to Dvaita philosophy. He was the successor of Satyasandha Tirtha and the 27th pontiff of Uttaradi Math since Madhvacharya, the chief proponent and the one who rejuvenated this Dvaita philosophy and served the pontificate from 1794 to 1797.

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