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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Peter F. Whitington

#156730

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#12352

Joseph P. Kriss

#156742

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#12353

Nanette Mutrie

#156762

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#12354

Nikos Sypsas

#59879

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Nikos Sypsas is a Greek academic and medical doctor specialized in infectious diseases from Nafpaktia, Greece. He is primarily known for his participation in the scientific committee of the Greek government for the coronavirus pandemic 2019-20. He has authored and co-authored numerous papers for scientific journals and has an H-index of 32.

#12355

Annette Rid

#138697

Overall Influence

Annette Rid is a bioethicist and physician-scientist specialized in research ethics, global health ethics, and justice in health and health care. She works at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

#12356

Ian C. Talbot

#156781

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#12357

Beverly Winikoff

#156785

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#12358

Pascal James Imperato

#12359

Jenell A. Roberts

#156795

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#12360

Udo Jonas

#156801

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#12361

Edward S. Henderson

#12362

Peter Brossart

#156812

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#12363

Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart

1789 - 1844 (55 years)

Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm von Sigwart was a German philosopher and logician. He was the father of Christoph von Sigwart , who also was a philosopher and logician. Life Sigwart was born into a family with a long history of philosophers, theologians and physicians at Remmingsheim in Württemberg. From 1813 he served as a repentant at Tübinger Stift in Tübingen, and obtained an associate professorship at the University of Tübingen in 1816. He became a full professor of philosophy at Tübingen in 1818 and wrote numerous books on the history of philosophy. He died in Stuttgart.

#12364

Thierry Ponchon

#156828

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#12365

T. Jacob John

#12366

Albert P. Rocchini

#156842

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#12367

A. D. Gardner

1884 - 1977 (93 years)

Arthur Duncan Gardner, FRCP, FRCS was a British physician and scientist known for his contributions to the development of penicillin and his role as the Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford from 1948 to 1954.

#12368

Judith Krug

#40847

Overall Influence

1940 - 2009 (69 years)

Judith Fingeret Krug was an American librarian, freedom of speech proponent, and critic of censorship. Krug became director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association in 1967. In 1969, she joined the Freedom to Read Foundation as its executive director. Krug co-founded Banned Books Week in 1982.

#12369

Michael E. Bertrand

#156851

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#12370

John Alexander Stewart

1846 - 1933 (87 years)

John Alexander Stewart was a Scottish writer, educator and philosopher. He was a university professor and classical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford from 1875 to 1883, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, and professorial fellow of Corpus Christi College, from 1897 to his retirement in 1927. Throughout his academic career, he was an editor and author of works on Aristotle and considered one of the foremost experts on the subject. His best known books were Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle and The Myths of Plato .

#12371

Randy H. Kardon

#156871

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#12372

Gerd U. Auffarth

#70885

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gerd Uwe Auffarth is a German eye surgeon and is Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Heidelberg University Eye Hospital and Head of the David J. Apple Center for Vision Research which includes the David J. Apple International Laboratory for Ocular Pathology.

#12373

Daniel Morgensztern

#156884

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#12374

George Whipple

1878 - 1976 (98 years)

George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia". This makes Whipple the first of several Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Rochester.

#12375

Moses ben Joshua

1300 - 1362 (62 years)

Moses Narbonne, also known as Moses of Narbonne, mestre Vidal Bellshom, maestro Vidal Blasom, and Moses Narboni, was a medieval Catalan philosopher and physician. He was born at Perpignan, in the Kingdom of Majorca, at the end of the thirteenth century and died sometime after 1362. He began studying philosophy with his father when he was thirteen and then studied with Moses and Abraham Caslari. He studied medicine and eventually became a successful physician, and was well versed in Biblical and rabbinical literature.

#12376

John Michael Webster

#156916

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#12377

Kenneth Megill

#87247

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Kenneth Megill is an American philosopher, trade unionist, political activist, and records and knowledge manager. Philosopher Megill's primary philosophical contribution is the development of a democratic theory in the tradition of Democratic Marxism. Megill defined democracy as a political and social order where people control where they live and work.

#12378

Khoren Sargsian

1891 - 1970 (79 years)

Khoren Sargsian was an Armenian writer, critic, doctor of philology, and professor. He graduated from Saint Petersburg University and later went on to become the director of the Literature Institute of the Armenian SA from 1943 to 1947. He authored many publications on famous Armenian figures such as Vahan Terian, Levon Shant, Stepan Zoryan, and Sayat-Nova.

#12379

Kevin M. Spencer

#156970

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Harvey Wolinsky

#156982

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Denis Daneman,

#12382

Harold A. Oberman

#156986

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#12383

Alan M. Fein

#157004

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#12384

Emerson Franchini

#157007

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#12385

Bruno Pot

#157015

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#12386

Helmut Beckmann

#157019

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#12387

Ishak Efendi

1774 - 1835 (61 years)

Hoca Ishak Efendi was an Ottoman mathematician and engineer. Life Ishak Efendi was born in Arta , probably in 1774, to a Jewish family. His father had converted to Islam. After his father died, he went to Constantinople, where he studied mathematics and foreign languages, learning French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew alongside Turkish, Arabic and Persian.

#12388

Tong Shijun

#54238

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Tong Shijun is a Chinese philosopher and Chancellor of New York University Shanghai. From 2011 to 2019, Tong served as professor of philosophy and party secretary at East China Normal University , where he also held several positions in the philosophy faculty and university administration from 1984 to 2004. He served as a researcher and Deputy Party Secretary at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences from 2004 to 2011.

#12389

Jason of Nysa

100 BC - 60 BC (40 years)

Jason of Nysa was a Stoic philosopher, the son of Menecrates, and, on his mother's side, grandson of Posidonius, of whom he was also the disciple and successor at the Stoic school at Rhodes. He therefore flourished after the middle of the 1st century BC. The Suda lists four works of his:Βίοι Ἐνδόξων Vii Endoxon – Famous LivesΦιλοσόφων Διαδοχαί Filosofon Diadoche – Successions of PhilosophersΒίος Ἑλλάδος Vios Ellados – Life of Greece, in 4 booksΠερὶ Ῥόδου Peri Rodou – On RhodesHowever, the Suda expresses doubt about whether the third book is his, and also credits Jason of Argos as having writt...

#12390

Petrus Adrianus Fre Doevendans

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Albert B. Lowenfels

#157059

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#12392

Leonard Morgenstern

#157061

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#12393

Leo Kuper

#24785

Overall Influence

1908 - 1994 (86 years)

Leo Kuper was a South African sociologist specialising in the study of genocide. Early life and legal career Kuper was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family. His siblings included his sister Mary , who in later life directed the Johannesburg Legal Aid Bureau.

#12394

Tracey J. Woodruff

#157075

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#12395

Marc Blitzstein

Marc Blitzstein

1905 - 1964 (59 years)

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein , was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation/adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed trans...

#12396

Alan H. Goldman

#40362

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Alan Harris Goldman is an American philosopher and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the College of William & Mary. He is known for his works on philosophy and popular culture, literature, morality, love, and beauty.

#12397

Charles J. Coté

#157110

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#12398

Otto Flügel

1842 - 1914 (72 years)

Otto Flügel was a German philosopher and theologian. Biography He studied at Schulpforta and Halle, and took up pastoral work. He was made editor of the Zeitschrift für exacte Philosophie im Sinne des Neueren Philosophischen Realismus , and in 1894 was one of the founders of Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Pädagogik. He was a supporter of Herbartian realism, as opposed to New-Kantian speculations, yet he believed in the necessity of a revelation.

#12399

Hiroshi Ito

#157140

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#12400

Daniel Memmert

#157157

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

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