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#1301

Gerd B. Achenbach

#5831

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Gerd B. Achenbach is a German philosopher. He is widely noted for founding the world's first philosophical practice in 1981, a contemporary movement in practical philosophy. He received a doctorate in philosophy under Odo Marquard in 1981.

#1302

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

1864 - 1936 (72 years)

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca. His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life , and his most famous novel was Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion , a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story.

#1303

Leslie Green

#4375

Overall Influence

1918 - Present (106 years)

Leslie John Green is a Scottish-Canadian legal scholar specialising in jurisprudence. He is Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University, and Professor of Law and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Queen's University, Kingston. A legal positivist, his research also focuses on political philosophy and constitutional theory.

#1304

Curt John Ducasse

Curt John Ducasse

1881 - 1969 (88 years)

Curt John Ducasse was a French-born American philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. Career Ducasse was born in Angoulême, France. He obtained A.B. and A.M. degrees in philosophy from University of Washington. In 1912, he obtained his PhD from Harvard University.

#1305

Alan Ryan

#4859

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Alan James Ryan is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was also Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1996 to 2009. He retired as Professor Emeritus in September 2015 and lives in Summertown, Oxford.

#1306

Jacob M. Appel

#1397

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics, and euthanasia. Appel's novel The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2012. He is the director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry and a professor of psychiatry and medical education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he practices emergency psychiatry at the adjoining Mount Sinai Health System. Appel is the subject of the...

#1307

Joseph Runzo

#17230

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Joseph Runzo is an American professor publishing mainly in the area of a global philosophy of religion. He is currently Life Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Bibliography BibliographyGlobal Philosophy of Religion: A Short Introduction. Tsinghua University Distinguished Translation Series in Philosophy, Forthcoming 2007.Human Rights and Responsibilities: The Contribution of the World Religions. Co-editor with Nancy M. Martin. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, The Library of Global Ethics and Religion, Fall 2003. 364 pp.Ethics in the World Religions. Co-editor with Nancy M. Martin. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, The Library of Global Ethics and Religion, 2001.

#1308

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder

1472 - 1553 (81 years)

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued throughout his career to paint nude subjects drawn from mythology an...

#1309

Susan Moller Okin

#7988

Overall Influence

1946 - 2004 (58 years)

Susan Moller Okin was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author. Life Okin was born in 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand. She attended Remuera Primary School and Remuera Intermediate and Epsom Girls' Grammar School, where she was Dux in 1963.

#1310

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

1715 - 1771 (56 years)

Claude Adrien Helvétius was a French philosopher, freemason and littérateur. Life Claude Adrien Helvétius was born in Paris, France, and was descended from a family of physicians, originally surnamed Schweitzer . His great-grandfather Johann Friedrich Schweitzer known as "Helvetius", was a Dutch physician and alchemist, of German extraction. His grandfather Adriaan Helvetius introduced the use of ipecacuanha; his father Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius was first physician to Marie Leszczyńska, queen of France. Claude Adrien was trained for a financial career, apprenticed to his maternal uncle in Caen, but he occupied his spare time with poetry.

#1311

John A. Leslie

#5967

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

John Andrew Leslie is a Canadian philosopher and writer. Biography Leslie was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, earning his B.A. in English Literature in 1962 and his M.Litt. in Classics in 1968. He is currently Professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada.

#1312

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Ananda Coomaraswamy

1877 - 1947 (70 years)

Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West".

#1313

Arthur F. Holmes

#7243

Overall Influence

1924 - 2011 (87 years)

Arthur Frank Holmes was an English philosopher who served as Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois, US from 1951 to 1994. He built the philosophy department at Wheaton where he taught, wrote about the philosophy of Christian education, and participated in the creation of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Wheaton College President Philip Ryken said "It would be hard to think of anyone who has had a greater impact on Christian higher education than Arthur Holmes." Holmes died in Wheaton, Illinois, on October 8, 2011, at age 87.

#1314

Steven Nadler

#13304

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Steven M. Nadler is an American academic and philosopher specializing in early modern philosophy. He is Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

#1315

Lou Marinoff

#4997

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Lou Marinoff is a Canadian-born academic, author, and Commonwealth Scholar. He is Professor of Philosophy and Asian Studies at The City College of New York and founding President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association.

#1316

John Perry

#6290

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

John Richard Perry is a professor at Stanford University and the University of California, Riverside. He has made significant contributions to philosophy in the fields of philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics , reflexivity, indexicality, personal identity, and self-knowledge.

#1317

P. D. Ouspensky

P. D. Ouspensky

1878 - 1947 (69 years)

Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii was a Russian philosopher and esotericist known for his expositions of the early work of the Greek-Armenian teacher of esoteric doctrine George Gurdjieff. He met Gurdjieff in Moscow in 1915, and was associated with the ideas and practices originating with Gurdjieff from then on. He taught ideas and methods based in the Gurdjieff system for 25 years in England and the United States, although he separated from Gurdjieff personally in 1924, for reasons that are explained in the last chapter of his book In Search of the Miraculous.

#1318

Leopold von Henning

1791 - 1866 (75 years)

Leopold August Wilhelm Dorotheus von Henning was a German philosopher associated with the Hegelian Right. Biography Leopold von Henning was born in Gotha in 1791 to Colonel Christian von Henning . He studied history, law and philosophy at Heidelberg University; and, following participation in the wars of liberation, economics at the University of Vienna. In 1815 he began his training in Königsberg in der Neumark. After re-participation in the war, he held a clerkship in Erfurt, and from 1818 onwards, lived in Berlin. He was a student of Hegel's and a friend of Friedrich Wilhelm Carové. Due to the Persecution of Demagogues, he was arrested on 8 July 1819 but released ten weeks later.

#1319

Timon of Phlius

Timon of Phlius

320 BC - 230 BC (90 years)

Timon of Phlius was an Ancient Greek philosopher from the Hellenistic period, who was the student of Pyrrho. Unlike Pyrrho, who wrote nothing, Timon wrote satirical philosophical poetry called Silloi as well as a number of prose writings. These have been lost, but the fragments quoted in later authors allow a rough outline of his philosophy to be reconstructed.

#1320

A. C. Ewing

1899 - 1973 (74 years)

Alfred Cyril Ewing , usually cited as A. C. Ewing, was an English philosopher and a sympathetic critic of idealism. Biography Ewing studied at Oxford, where he gained the John Locke Lectureship and the Green Prize in Moral Philosophy. He taught for four years in Swansea/Wales, and became lecturer in Moral Science at Cambridge in 1931, based at Trinity Hall, and reader in Moral Science in 1954. He was an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and one of Wittgenstein's foremost critics.

#1321

Jesús Padilla Gálvez

Jesús Padilla Gálvez

#10997

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Jesús Padilla Gálvez is a philosopher who worked primarily in philosophy of language, logic, and the history of sciences. Professional biography Jesús Padilla Gálvez studied Philosophy, History and Mathematics at the University of Cologne and was awarded the M.A. in 1983 and a Dr. phil. in Philosophy in 1988. He was Research Assistant at the University of Murcia and later held the post of Associate Professor for Logic and Philosophy of Language at the University of León . From 1994 to 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz . Since 1999 he has been Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo .

#1322

Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius

1514 - 1564 (50 years)

Andries van Wezel , latinised as Andreas Vesalius , was a Flemish anatomist and physician who wrote De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem , what is considered to be one of the most influential books on human anatomy and a major advance over the long-dominant work of Galen. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Padua and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.

#1323

Friedrich Wilhelm Carové

Friedrich Wilhelm Carové

1789 - 1852 (63 years)

Friedrich Wilhelm Carové was a German philosopher and publicist. Biography He was a lawyer, held some judicial offices, was made doctor of philosophy by the University of Heidelberg, and officiated for a short time as professor at Breslau. He was one of the founders of the Heidelberg Burschenschaft, and participated in the famous Wartburg festival. He was afterward a member of the provisional German parliament of 1848. Carové was a pupil of Hegel's between 1816 and 1818 and was chosen by Hegel as the first interpreter of his thought. They were in friendly terms for all their life. Due to his...

#1324

Gisela Striker

#17371

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Gisela Striker is a German classical scholar. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University and a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Education and career Striker was born and educated in Germany, earning her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Günther Patzig in 1969 and her Habilitation, also from Göttingen in 1978. She taught philosophy at Göttingen from 1971–1986, and then was professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1986–1989, and then at Harvard from 1989–1997. In 1997, she became the sixt...

#1325

Gotthard Günther

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Gotthard Günther was a German philosopher. Biography Günther was born in Arnsdorf, Hirschberg im Riesengebirge, Prussian Silesia . From 1921 to 1933, Günther studied sinology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, and wrote his doctor's thesis on Hegel in 1933 under the guidance of Eduard Spranger. From 1935 to 1937, he worked at the institute of Arnold Gehlen at the University of Leipzig, publishing Christliche Metaphysik und das Schicksal des modernen Bewusstseins . He was a member of the Leipzig School.

#1326

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

1883 - 1957 (74 years)

Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.

#1327

Charles Parsons

#11076

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Charles Dacre Parsons is an American philosopher best known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. He is professor emeritus at Harvard University.

#1328

Bradley Dowden

#12004

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Bradley Harris Dowden is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the California State University, Sacramento. Work He is a general editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Dowden received his MS in physics from Ohio State University and his PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. His main interests are metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, logic, time, paradox and infinity.

#1329

Esa Saarinen

#9862

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Esa Jouni Olavi Saarinen is a Finnish philosopher who was a professor of applied philosophy at Aalto University and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group. until his retirement in 2021.

#1330

Michael Oakeshott

Michael Oakeshott

1901 - 1990 (89 years)

Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about the philosophies of history, religion, aesthetics, education, and law. Biography Early life and education Oakeshott was the son of Joseph Francis Oakeshott, a civil servant and member of the Fabian Society, and Frances Maude, daughter of George Thistle Hellicar, a well-off Islington silk-merchant. Though there is no evidence that he knew her, he was related by marriage to the women's rights activist Grace Oakeshott, and to the economist and social reformer Gilbert Slater.

#1331

Georg Misch

1878 - 1965 (87 years)

Georg Misch was a German philosopher. Life Of Jewish descent, Misch was the pupil and son-in-law of Wilhelm Dilthey. Misch attempted to further develop Dilthey's life-philosophical hermeneutics, in particular in relation to the study of logic, comparative philosophy and autobiography. Misch edited a number of volumes of Dilthey's works. Misch concluded his studies with Dilthey in Berlin in 1900 with a dissertation on Die philosophische Begründung des Positivismus in den Schriften von D’Alembert und Turgot. He worked as a professor in Marburg and Göttingen before retiring under pressure from the National Socialist government in 1935.

#1332

Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abu Bakr al-Razi

866 - 925 (59 years)

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī , , often known as Razi or by his Latin name Rhazes, also rendered Rhasis, was a physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine, and also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar. He is also known for his criticism of religion, especially with regard to the concepts of prophethood and revelation. However, the religio-philosophical aspects of his thought, which also included a belief in five "eternal principles", are only recorded by authors who were often hostile t...

#1333

Richard Avenarius

Richard Avenarius

1843 - 1896 (53 years)

Richard Ludwig Heinrich Avenarius was a German-Swiss philosopher. He formulated the radical positivist doctrine of "empirical criticism" or empirio-criticism. Life Avenarius attended the Nicolaischule in Leipzig and studied at the University of Zurich, Berlin, and the University of Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig, he received the Doctor of Philosophy in 1868 with his thesis on Baruch Spinoza and his pantheism, obtained the habilitation in 1876 and taught there as Privatdozent. One year later, he became professor at the University of Zurich. He died in Zurich in 1896.

#1334

Norman Kretzmann

#17045

Overall Influence

1928 - 1998 (70 years)

Norman J. Kretzmann was a professor of philosophy at Cornell University who specialised in the history of medieval philosophy and the philosophy of religion. Biography Kretzmann joined Cornell's Department of Philosophy in 1966. His work as a teacher and scholar was recognized in 1970, when he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, and in 1977 when he was elected a Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy by the University Board of Trustees. In 1992, he received a Graduate Teaching Award from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Deans for his excellence and creativity in the teaching of graduate students.

#1335

Louis Rougier

1889 - 1982 (93 years)

Louis Auguste Paul Rougier was a French philosopher. Rougier made many important contributions to epistemology, philosophy of science, political philosophy and the history of Christianity. Early life Rougier was born in Lyon. Debilitated by pleurisy in his youth, he was declared unfit for service in World War I and devoted his adolescence to intellectual pursuits. He studied philosophy under Edmond Goblot.

#1336

J. Baird Callicott

J. Baird Callicott

#12115

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

J. Baird Callicott is an American philosopher whose work has been at the forefront of the new field of environmental philosophy and ethics. He is a University Distinguished Research Professor and a member of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies and the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of North Texas. Callicott held the position of Professor of Philosophy and Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point from 1969 to 1995, where he taught the world's first course in environmental ethics in 1971. From 1994 to 2000, he served as vice president then president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics.

#1337

Alexander R. Galloway

#12117

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Alexander R. Galloway is an author and professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He has a bachelor's degree in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and earned a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University in 2001. Galloway is known for his writings on philosophy, media theory, contemporary art, film, and video games.

#1338

Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander

1859 - 1938 (79 years)

Samuel Alexander was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. Early life Alexander was born at 436 George Street, in what is now the commercial heart of Sydney, Australia. He was the third son of Samuel Alexander, a prosperous saddler, and Eliza née Sloman. Both parents were Jewish. His father died just before he was born, and Eliza moved to the adjacent colony of Victoria in 1863 or 1864. They went to live at St Kilda, and Alexander was placed at a private school kept by a Mr Atkinson.

#1339

Konstanty Michalski

Konstanty Michalski

1879 - 1947 (68 years)

Konstanty Michalski was a Polish Catholic theologian and philosopher. Life Michalski was a member of an order of missionary priests. From 1918 he was a professor of philosophy at—from 1931 rector of— Kraków's Jagiellonian University. From 1927 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

#1340

Walter Burley

1275 - 1344 (69 years)

Walter Burley was an English scholastic philosopher and logician with at least 50 works attributed to him. He studied under Thomas Wilton and received his Master of Arts degree in 1301, and was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until about 1310. He then spent sixteen years in Paris, becoming a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324, before spending 17 years as a clerical courtier in England and Avignon. Burley disagreed with William of Ockham on a number of points concerning logic and natural philosophy. He was known as the Doctor Planus and Perspicuus.

#1341

Baron d'Holbach

Baron d'Holbach

1723 - 1789 (66 years)

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach , known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He helped in the dissemination of "Protestant and especially German thought", particularly in the field of the sciences, but was best known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature and The Universal Moral...

#1342

Herman Dooyeweerd

Herman Dooyeweerd

1894 - 1977 (83 years)

Herman Dooyeweerd was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of Reformational philosophy with Dirk Vollenhoven, a significant development within the Neocalvinist school of thought. Dooyeweerd made several contributions to philosophy and other academic disciplines concerning the nature of diversity and coherence in everyday experience, the transcendental conditions for theoretical thought, the relationship between religion, philosophy, and scientific theory, and an understanding of meaning, b...

#1343

Robert C. Koons

#17824

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Robert Charles Koons is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas , noted for his contribution to metaphysics and philosophical logic. Koons has also advocated for academic freedom and courses on Western civilization.

#1344

Hans Freyer

1887 - 1969 (82 years)

Hans Freyer was a German conservative revolutionary sociologist and philosopher. Life Freyer began studying theology, national economics, history and philosophy at the University of Greifswald in 1907, with the aim of becoming a Lutheran theologian. A year later he moved to Leipzig, where he initially took the same courses, but then gave up the theological parts. He gained his doctorate in 1911. His early works on the philosophy of life had an influence on the German youth movement. In 1920 he qualified as a university lecturer, and in 1922 he became a professor at the university of Kiel.

#1345

Bert Vogelstein

Bert Vogelstein

#5661

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Bert Vogelstein is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. A pioneer in the field of cancer genomics, his studies on colorectal cancers revealed that they result from the sequential accumulation of mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. These studies now form the paradigm for modern cancer research and provided the basis for the notion of the somatic evolution of cancer.

#1346

Ralph Johnson

#9722

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Ralph Henry Johnson is a Canadian American philosopher, born in Detroit, Michigan. Johnson has been credited as one of the founding members of the informal logic movement in North America, along with J. Anthony Blair who co-published one of the movement's most influential texts, Logical Self-Defense, with Johnson. Alongside its founder, Blair, Johnson co-directed the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor. As Johnson and Blair write in the preface to the newest edition of Logical Self-Defense on the influential nature of the text:

#1347

Dnyaneshwar

1275 - 1296 (21 years)

Sant Dnyaneshwar , also referred to as Dnyaneshwar, Dnyanadeva, Dnyandev or Mauli or Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Kulkarni , was a 13th-century Indian Marathi saint, poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath and Varkari tradition. In his short life of 21 years, he authored Dnyaneshwari and Amrutanubhav. These are the oldest surviving literary works in the Marathi language, and considered to be milestones in Marathi literature. Sant Dnyaneshwar's ideas reflect the non-dualistic Advaita Vedanta philosophy and an emphasis on Yoga and bhakti towards Vithoba, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. His legacy inspired...

#1348

Hu Shih

1891 - 1962 (71 years)

Hu Shih , also known as Hu Suh in early references, was a Chinese diplomat, essayist and fiction writer, literary scholar, philosopher, and politician. Hu contributed to Chinese liberalism and language reform and advocated for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He participated in the May Fourth Movement and China's New Culture Movement. He was a president of Peking University. He had a wide range of interests such as literature, philosophy, history, textual criticism, and pedagogy. He was also a redology scholar.

#1349

Daniel Bonevac

#22037

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Daniel Bonevac is an American philosopher born in Pittsburgh. He is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has degrees in philosophy from Haverford College, and the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of interest are metaphysics, philosophical logic, ethics, and Eastern philosophy. In autumn 2016, Bonevac joined 145 other scholars and writers in declaring support for Donald Trump for president. He has posted hundreds of philosophy videos on his YouTube channel.

#1350

Giorgi Japaridze

#13247

Overall Influence

Giorgi Japaridze is a Georgian-American researcher in logic and theoretical computer science. He currently holds the title of Full Professor at the Computing Sciences Department of Villanova University. Japaridze is best known for his invention of computability logic, cirquent calculus, and Japaridze's polymodal logic.

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