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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#12401

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#80877

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American scholar, college administrator and rabbi; president of Gratz College. from 1998 to 2009; president emeritus of Gratz College and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, since 2009. He is a specialist in Biblical history, the paleography and epigraphy of ancient Semitic languages, and American Jewish history.

#12402

Giannalberto Bendazzi

Giannalberto Bendazzi

#58427

Overall Influence

1946 - 2021 (75 years)

Giannalberto Bendazzi was an Italian animation historian, author, and professor. Life and career Born in Ravenna, Italy, and raised in Milan, Bendazzi started his career as a journalist and at the same time a self-funded scholar. He turned to full-time academic teaching by 2002. Bendazzi has lectured on several continents, and particularly in Italy. In 2002 he first received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation Theory from the Animafest Zagreb. In 2016 Asifa granted him the Life Achievement Award. In 2019, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Universidade Lusófona. He died on...

#12403

Hanna Al-Fakhoury

#72494

Overall Influence

1914 - 2011 (97 years)

Hanna-l-Fakhoury was a Lebanese Melkite priest, member of the Missionaries of St. Paul Society, philosopher and linguist. He was born in Zahlé, Lebanon, where his family moved from the village of Majdaloun near Baalbek بعلبك. In 1927 he joined the "Séminaire Sainte-Anne de Jérusalem" where he completed his basic education in 1936. He was ordained to priesthood in 1943.

#12404

Larry Goldenberg

#113777

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

S. Larry Goldenberg, is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine and a pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer. Goldenberg was born in Toronto, Ontario to survivors of the Holocaust who had immigrated to Canada after the Second World War. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto in 1978. He is married to Paula Gordon, a pioneer in the diagnostic imaging of breast cancer and recipient of the Order of Canada. They have two sons. Goldenberg is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He holds adju...

#12405

Ute Jung-Kaiser

#99850

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Ute Jung-Kaiser, née Jung is a German musicologist. Life and work Born in Essen, Jung-Kaiser completed studies for the teaching profession at grammar schools in Cologne. After her first Staatsexamen in the fields of musicology, German studies, philosophy and school music she was awarded a Doctorate in 1968. She passed the second Staatsexamen in 1975. In 1981 she received her habilitation in historical musicology at the University of Hamburg.

#12406

Raymond Monelle

#146820

Overall Influence

1937 - 2010 (73 years)

Raymond Monelle . was a music theorist, teacher, music critic, composer and jazz pianist. Monelle wrote three books, dozens of articles on music, and many music criticism reviews in newspapers, mainly for Opera and The Independent His main field of research was Music Signification or, as it is also known, Music Semiotics. Towards the end of his life, he wrote a novel, yet to be published, entitled Bird in the Apple Tree, about the adolescence of the composer Alban Berg.

#12407

Sebastian Rahtz

Sebastian Rahtz

#78519

Overall Influence

1955 - 2016 (61 years)

Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz was a British digital humanities information professional. Life Born in 1955 to Somerset-focused archaeologist Philip Rahtz, Sebastian trained in archaeology, before delving into the computing realm via Lexicon of Greek Personal Names in 1982.

#12408

Julio Montaner

#53722

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Julio S. G. Montaner, is an Argentine-Canadian physician, professor and researcher. He is the director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the chair in AIDS Research and head of the Division of AIDS in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the past-president of the International AIDS Society. He is also the director of the John Ruedy Immunodeficiency Clinic, and the Physician Program Director for HIV/AIDS PHC. He is known for his work on HAART , a role in the discovery of triple therapy as an effective treatment for HIV in the late 1990s...

#12409

Kenny Easwaran

#187642

Overall Influence

Kenny Easwaran is an Indian American philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. His expertise lies in epistemology, decision theory, mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics. Easwaran is an associate editor of Journal of Philosophical Logic. Two of his articles have been selected as among the "ten best" of their year by the Philosopher's Annual.

#12410

Janna Oetting

#181785

Overall Influence

Janna Beth Oetting is a researcher and speech-language pathologist specializing in the cross-dialectal study of childhood language development and developmental language disorders. Education Oetting received a BA in Speech-Language Pathology from Augustana College in 1986. In 1988, Oetting completed an MA in Speech-Language Pathology, at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. in Child Language from the same university in 1992 under the supervision of Mabel Rice. Oetting’s dissertation, “Language-impaired and normally developing children's acquisition of English plural,” examined the p...

#12411

Jonas Kellgren

#87727

Overall Influence

1911 - 2002 (91 years)

Jonas Henrik Kellgren was a British physician and the first professor of rheumatology in the United Kingdom at the University of Manchester. He became Vice-Chancellor of the university and dean of the institution's medical school. He was an expert adviser to the World Health Organization and earned a Canada Gairdner International Award for his work.

#12412

Edward Rubenstein

Edward Rubenstein

#59834

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Edward Rubenstein was an American doctor of internal medicine, with major contributions in the fields of medical education, research , and the arts. Mechanisms of blood clotting Edward Rubenstein was an Internal Medicine physician, with areas of expertise which included clotting disorders that predispose to pulmonary embolism.

#12413

Fushih Pan

#55673

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Fushih Pan is a Taiwanese plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Fushih Pan is also certified by the National Board of General Surgery of Taiwan and the Board of Plastic Surgery Specialist of the U.A.E.

#12414

Mahendra S. Rao

#188455

Overall Influence

#12415

John Hinchcliff

#86390

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

John Clarence Hinchcliff is a New Zealand university administrator, philosopher, politician and peace campaigner. Biography Hinchcliff was born in Wairoa on 9 October 1939, the son of Frank and Gwen Hinchcliff. He was educated at Nelson College from 1953 to 1958, where he was head prefect in his final year, and was a member of the school's 1st XV rugby union and first XI cricket teams. He then studied at the University of Canterbury, where he earned a Master of Arts in philosophy. He was awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, providing funding for a year anywhere in the world, choosing to go to the Middle East.

#12416

Blessings Chinsinga

#184408

Overall Influence

Professor Blessings Chinsinga is a Malawian lecturer at the centre of the Malawi Academic Freedom Stand off and eventual protests. He was a Senior Lecturer in Development Administration, Public Policy Analysis and Institutions, and Development at University of Malawi's Chancellor College.

#12417

Surinder Singh Matharu

Surinder Singh Matharu

#105901

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Professor Surinder Singh Matharu is a British scholar of Indian music, philosophy, and naad yoga. Career In 1994 in London, Prof. Surinder Singh founded the Raj Academy of Asian Music, which later became the non-profit organisation now known as Raj Academy Conservatoire. The Academy is an international institution and it quickly became one of the foremost schools for the study and practice of Sikh Music and Gurmat Sangeet of the Sikh musical tradition, teaching the art of playing ancient musical instruments of India including the Rabab, Taus, Saranghi, Dilruba, Saranda and Jori. He is also...

#12418

Zenon Mariak

#54106

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Zenon Mariak is a Polish neurosurgeon, researcher, and professor who is currently head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Białystok. He previously served as the Deputy President of the Medical University of Białystok. He is a member of the Committee of Neurological Sciences at the 5th Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

#12419

John Bruce Wallace

#172063

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Bruce Wallace is an American composer and avant-garde, free jazz, fusion, experimental, improvisational progressive metal guitarist. Early life John Bruce Wallace a/k/a jacewbal was born February 6, 1950, in Calais, Maine, United States. John exhibited an affinity for the performing arts at an early age, first in acting, playing the lead roles in grade school plays, later he expanded his interests to include singing solo for his grade school classmates. Encouraged by his father to take up trumpet, he began studying clarinet while in grade school. By high school John had found "the Guitar"...

#12420

Duane Mitchell

#105633

Overall Influence

Duane A. Mitchell is an American physician-scientist and university professor. He is currently employed at the University of Florida College of Medicine, in Gainesville, Florida as the Assistant Vice President for Research, Associate Dean for Translational Science and Clinical Research, and Director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He is the Phyllis Kottler Friedman Professor in the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery. and co-director of the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy. Mitchell is also the founder, President, and Chair...

#12421

John H. Sampson

#43894

Overall Influence

John Howard Sampson is an American neurosurgeon who was formerly chief of the department of neurosurgery at Duke University where he serves as a professor of surgery, biomedical engineering, immunology, and pathology.

#12422

Moses Nagari

#149605

Overall Influence

Moses Nagari or Moses ben Judah Steinschneider has pointed out the mistakes made concerning this author. Dukes in Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1840, p. 156, corrupts his name into "Nagara," and in "Orient, Lit." 1845, p. 617, into "Najara." Wolf in Bibl. Hebr. i. 852, No. 1562, calls him "Moses ben Judah Nigdi," but ib. iii. 758, No. 1562, "Nagara" and "Nagari." 1b. iii. 795, No. 1610, he confounds him with Moses ben Levi Najara, as does Fürst in "Bibl. Jud." iii. 13; and both erroneously ascribe to him Moses ben Levi's work Lekhah Tov.

#12423

Diarmuid Costello

#188485

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Diarmuid Costello is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is known for his works on aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Costello chaired the British Society of Aesthetics executive committee and was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow.

#12424

Leo Galland

#105202

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Leopold David Galland is a New York-based internist and author who specializes in undiagnosed or difficult-to-treat illnesses. His practice combines conventional and alternative therapies. Within the field of functional medicine he is known for developing the concept of "patient-centered diagnosis", for which he was awarded the Linus Pauling Award by the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2000.

#12425

David Batstone

#177649

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

David Batstone is an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco and is the founder and president of Not for Sale. Batstone is also a journalist and the president and founder of Right Reality, an international business that engages in social ventures. He is a leader in Central American Mission Partners, a human rights group. As a representative of this group, he met with Bono through Glide Memorial Church during A Conspiracy of Hope, a concert tour in support of Amnesty International. Before becoming a human rights activist, Batstone was a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

#12426

Ralph Brown

#83999

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ralph William John Brown is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies. He won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.

#12427

Hiroki Ueda

#89493

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

is a Japanese professor of biology at the University of Tokyo and the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center. He is known for his studies on the circadian clock. Career Hiroki R. Ueda was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1975. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2000, and obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from the same university. He was appointed as a team leader in RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology from 2003 and promoted to be a project leader at RIKEN CDB in 2009, and to be a group director at RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center in 2011. He became a professor of Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2013.

#12428

Sidney Gordin

#68111

Overall Influence

1918 - 1996 (78 years)

Sidney Alexander Gordin was a Russian-born American artist and educator, known for his abstract paintings, prints, and sculptures. He was a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1958 to 1986. Gordin was associated with abstract expressionism and constructivism.

#12429

Dante Della Terza

#83750

Overall Influence

1924 - 2021 (97 years)

Dante Della Terza was an Italian academic living and working in the United States. Biography He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, under the supervision of Luigi Russo, a major critic between the 1930s and the 1960s. After studying philology in Zurich and teaching in Italy for some time, Della Terza moved to Los Angeles, where he started teaching Italian at the University of California Los Angeles. In the early 60's he moved to Harvard University, where he was Professor of Romance Languages and the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literatures until Fall 1993. His supervision was fundamental for many American scholars in Italian literature.

#12430

Axel Beer

#111148

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Axel Beer is a German musicologist. He has been teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 1995. Born in Fulda, Beer studied musicology, Latin philology and auxiliary sciences of history at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main .

#12431

Hans Skjervheim

#92117

Overall Influence

1926 - 1999 (73 years)

Hans Skjervheim was a Norwegian philosopher. He was born in Voss. He was a research fellow at the University of Oslo from 1963, professor at the Roskilde University from 1968, lector at the University of Bergen from 1969, and professor there from 1982. His work Deltakar og tilskodar og andre essays was selected for the Norwegian Sociology Canon in 2009–2011.

#12432

Michael Glanzberg

#187758

Overall Influence

Michael Glanzberg is an American analytic philosopher specializing in philosophy of language and philosophical logic who is currently affiliated with Rutgers University. He received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University, where Charles Parsons and Warren Goldfarb supervised his dissertation. Glanzberg has previously held faculty positions at Northwestern University, University of California, Davis, University of Toronto, and MIT. Often working at the intersection of logic and the philosophy of language, Glanzberg is recognized for his work on quantification, paradox, semantics, theories of truth, and the role of context in various linguistic settings.

#12433

G. R. Searle

#59523

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Geoffrey Russell Searle, born 1941, is a British historian, specialising in British nineteenth century history. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of East Anglia. Works The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899-1914 .Eugenics and Politics in Britain, 1900-1914 .Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930 .The Liberal Party: Triumph and Disintegration, 1886-1929 .Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain .Country Before Party: Coalition and the Idea of National Government in Modern Britain, 1885-1987 .Morality and the Market in Vic...

#12434

C. Mel Wilcox

#188550

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Charles Melburn "Mel" Wilcox is a professor of medicine and director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Wilcox has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and miscellaneous articles such as Atlas of Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

#12435

Lois Mai Chan

#71402

Overall Influence

1934 - 2014 (80 years)

Lois Mai Chan was an American librarian, author, and professor at the University of Kentucky School of Library and Information Science until 2011. Her publications on cataloging, library classification, and subject indexing were recognized with various awards.

#12436

Mary Ronnie

#81929

Overall Influence

1926 - 2023 (97 years)

Mary Allan Ronnie was a New Zealand librarian. She was New Zealand's first female National Librarian, from 1976 to 1981, and the first woman in the world to head a national library. Before becoming National Librarian she was head of Dunedin Public Library, and afterwards she served as Auckland City Librarian.

#12437

Jean-Jacques Askenasy

#100621

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Jean-Jacques Askenasy is an Israeli neurologist. He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Askenasy received his doctorate in medicine degree cum laude from the University of Cluj in Romania 1954. Appointed instructor of neurology in his 5 ler School of Medicine. Residence of Neurology- Neurological Institute of Academy 1956. Doctor in Science at the University C.I.Parhon Bucharest, 1969. Chairman of the dpt. of Neurology at the University Hospital CFR II Bucharest. In 1973 neurologist at Ichilov Hospital-Tel Aviv University. Researcher in Neuroscience at Weitzman Institute 1974–1975.In 1981 was appointed Associated Prof.

#12438

Michèle Cloonan

#157543

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Michèle V. Cloonan is an American library and information science educator. She is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, in Boston, Massachusetts, and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons. She is an advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage.

#12439

Jean Arnauld

#84839

Overall Influence

Jean Arnauld was a French philosopher and theologian of the 17th century. He predominantly lived in Reims and most of his work was focused on logic and the failure of reason. He was unrelated to Antoine Arnauld, although contemporaneous. His arguments that reason is flawed are what he is most known for.

#12440

Angela Byars-Winston

#101335

Overall Influence

Angela Michelle Byars-Winston is a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was the first African American to achieve the rank of tenured Full Professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies the impact of culture on career development, in particular for women and minorities in STEM. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and was one of Barack Obama's Champions of Change.

#12441

Alfred Michael

#122895

Overall Influence

Alfred Michael was an American physician and medical educator and scientist. He was Emeritus Regents' Professor and Dean of the university of Minnesota Medical School and previously served as chair of the department of pediatrics. He was Regents' Professor and dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the American Society of Nephrology from which he received the Peters Award. He received numerous other awards and was a member of numerous academic and scientific societies. A cited...

#12442

Heinrich Sievers

#176483

Overall Influence

1908 - 1999 (91 years)

Heinrich Sievers was a German musicologist, music critic, university lecturer, and conductor. He was regarded as an authority on the history of music in Hanover and Lower Saxony, and wrote music-historical monographs in English and Finnish publications.

#12443

Peter Agostini

#82393

Overall Influence

1913 - 1993 (80 years)

Peter Agostini was an American sculptor. Life Agostini studied at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School in 1935 and 1936. He taught sculpture and painting at the New York Studio School, Columbia University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Parsons School of Design.

#12444

Susanne Rode-Breymann

Susanne Rode-Breymann

#116228

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Susanne Rode-Breymann is a German musicologist and since 2010 the president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover. Biography Rode-Breymann studied early music and music education at the Hamburg Conservatory and musicology, art history and literature at the University of Hamburg and received her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on Alban Berg and Karl Kraus. She was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth and the University of Bonn , a research fellow of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel in 1989 researching Anton Webern etc. From 1996 to 1999 she taught as a universit...

#12445

William Ashbrook

#33891

Overall Influence

1922 - 2009 (87 years)

William Ashbrook was an American musicologist, writer, journalist, and academic. He was perhaps best noted as a historian, researcher and popularizer of the works of Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti.

#12446

Robert M. Epstein

Robert M. Epstein

#97339

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (98 years)

Robert Marvin Epstein is an American anesthesiologist, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and the Harold Carron Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia. Early life and education Epstein was born in the Bronx, New York on March 10, 1928, the son of immigrants from Slonim, in present-day Belarus. He attended primary school in the Bronx, and completed his secondary education in Miami Beach, Florida where the family moved in 1940. From there he attended the University of Michigan from 1944 to 1951, where he obtained both his bachelor's and MD degrees. Epstein serv...

#12447

Sara Cohen

#178525

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Sara Cohen is a musicologist and academic. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford; her DPhil in social anthropology was awarded in 1987. The following year, she joined the newly founded Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool as a research fellow; she has remained with the IPM since then, and is its director as of 2018. Since 2017, she has also been the James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. She is a specialist in ethnographic research into popular music. Her first book Rock Culture in Liverpool has been described...

#12448

Thomas L. Riis

#97567

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Thomas L. Riis or Thomas Laurence Riis is an American musicologist and professor. His current position is the Joseph Negler Professor of Musicology and Director of the American Music Research Center at the College of Music, at the University of Colorado Boulder.

#12449

Henry Mwandumba

Henry Mwandumba

#150491

Overall Influence

Henry Charles Mwandumba is an African Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme. He works on the tuberculosis phagosome in the University of Malawi College of Medicine, and serves as President of the Federation of African Immunological Societies. In 2019 Mwandumba was awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize.

#12450

Bhisham Sahni

#78281

Overall Influence

1915 - 2003 (88 years)

Bhisham Sahni was an Indian writer, playwright in Hindi and an actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas , a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for literature in 1998, and Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2002. He was the younger brother of the noted Hindi film actor, Balraj Sahni.

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