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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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J. Gregory Cairncross

#166650

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#13452

Jacques P. Brown

#166660

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1954 - Present (72 years)

#13453

George Fein

#166676

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#13454

Sharmila Dorbala

#166692

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#13455

Vincenzo Eusebi

#166695

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#13456

Fausto Biancari

#166698

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1968 - Present (58 years)

#13457

Jeremy Freese

#118778

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jeremy Jay Freese is an American sociologist and author. Work life Freese is a professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he is also the co-leader of the Health Disparities Working Group in the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. He previously served as professor of sociology at Northwestern University from 2007 to 2015, where he chaired the Department of Sociology from 2010 to 2013 and served as Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Sociology from 2013 to 2015.

#13458

William Ted Brown

#166705

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#13459

Otto Duintjer

#136085

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Otto Dirk Duintjer was a Dutch philosopher. Life He was born in Amsterdam, where he studied theology at the Free University in Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam, as well as philosophy at Groningen University. He was an assistant professor at Leiden University from 1960 to 1970, where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy in 1966 with a dissertation entitled The Issue of the Transcendental, Especially in Relation to Heidegger and Kant .

#13460

Eugene J. Carragee

#166743

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#13461

Maximilian Balzan

1637 - 1711 (74 years)

Maximilian Balzan was a minor Maltese mediaeval philosopher who specialised mainly in physics and art. He was also an accomplished theologian. He had a very successful administrative career, both in the civil as well as the ecclesiastical sphere, and he further gave a significant share in academic circles.

#13462

Roland Hagenbüchle

#90825

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Roland Hagenbüchle was a scholar for American Studies and cultural philosopher. Life, teaching and research Hagenbüchle studied first architecture at the ETH Zurich and completed a two-year internship in Basel, then linguistics, English and German at the University of Zurich. After studying in Cambridge and Nancy he finished his PH.D. in Zurich 1964. From 1970 to 1972 Hagenbüchle was doctoral fellow at Yale University. In 1974 he finished the habilitation in Zürich.

#13463

Louis Joseph Dell'italia

#166754

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#13464

Pierre-Joseph Desault

Pierre-Joseph Desault

1738 - 1795 (57 years)

Pierre-Joseph Desault was a French anatomist and surgeon. Biography Pierre-Joseph Desault was born in Vouhenans, Franche-Comté. He was destined for a career in the Church, but his own inclination was towards the study of medicine; after learning something from the barber-surgeon of his native village, he was settled as an apprentice in the military hospital of Belfort, where he acquired some knowledge of anatomy and military surgery. Going to Paris at about twenty years of age, he later opened a school of anatomy there in the winter of 1766, the success of which excited the jealousy of the established teachers and professors, who tried to make him give up his lectures.

#13465

Steven John Fleck

#166774

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#13466

Anna Taddio

#161943

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Anna Taddio is a Canadian pharmacist. She is a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and adjunct senior scientist and clinical pharmacist at SickKids Hospital.

#13467

Søren Riis Paludan

#166791

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1972 - Present (54 years)

#13468

Richard S. Foster

#166802

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#13469

Dallas M. Hyde

#166814

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#13470

Maria Feychting

#166817

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#13471

Christian Friedrich Nasse

Christian Friedrich Nasse

1778 - 1851 (73 years)

Christian Friedrich Nasse was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Bielefeld. He studied medicine at the University of Halle under physiologist Johann Christian Reil . At Halle, Achim von Arnim and Friedrich von Raumer were among his friends. Following graduation returned to Bielefeld as a general practitioner, later serving as director of a hospital for the poor. From 1819 until his death in 1851, he worked as a professor at the University of Bonn.

#13472

Craig Michael Mellis

#166824

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#13473

Steven A. Atlas

#166836

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#13474

Michael Lewis

#133994

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Michael Andrew Lewis is a British philosopher. He is the co-founder and general editor of the Journal of Italian Philosophy. Lewis is known for his expertise on continental philosophy. Books The Beautiful Animal: Sincerity, Charm, and the Fossilised Dialectic, Rowman and Littlefield, 2018Phenomenology: An Introduction, with Tanja Staehler, Continuum, 2010Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing, Edinburgh University Press, 2008Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction: On Nature, Bloomsbury, 2007Heidegger and the Place of Ethics: Being-with in the Crossing of Heidegger's Thought, Bloomsbury, 2005

#13475

M. Mohemed Rela

#166849

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#13476

Felix “buddy” H. Savoie

#166855

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#13477

D. D. H. Thomas

#166860

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#13478

John Crofton

#61269

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1912 - 2009 (97 years)

Sir John Wenman Crofton was a pioneer in the treatment of tuberculosis, who also spent the better part of his life raising awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco. Early life and family Crofton was born in Dublin, Ireland to a well-off Anglo-Irish family. His father was physician William Mervyn Crofton, who conducted medical research at the Royal University in Dublin, wrote books on endocrinology and virology, and had flourishing private medical practices both in Dublin and London. His mother was Mary Josephine Abbott, known as Molly. Crofton was sent to prep school at Baymount, in the...

#13479

Hiromasa Ishii

#166862

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#13480

Rose Tremain

#16046

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Dame Rose Tremain is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Life Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on 2 August 1943 in London to Viola Mabel Thomson and Keith Nicholas Home Thomson. Her paternal great-grandfather is William Thomson, who was Archbishop of York from 1862 to 1890.

#13481

Axel Stuart Merseburger

#166888

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#13482

Barnett S. Kramer

#166909

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#13483

Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer

Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer

1837 - 1914 (77 years)

Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer was a German gynecologist who was a native of Guntersblum in Rhenish Hesse. He was the father of neurologist Ferdinand Adalbert Kehrer . He studied medicine at the University of Giessen under Ferdinand von Ritgen , at Munich with Karl von Hecker and in Vienna under Karl von Braun-Fernwald . From 1872 to 1881, he was a "full professor" of obstetrics at the University of Giessen, where he also served as director of the Frauenklinik. In 1881 he relocated to the University of Heidelberg as chair of gynecology.

#13484

Fritz Schultze

1846 - 1908 (62 years)

Fritz Schultze was a German philosopher. Schultze was born at Celle and educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Munich. He was professor extraordinary of philosophy at Jena in 1875 and 1876, when he was appointed professor of philosophy and pedagogy at the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Dresden.

#13485

Barbara Dudley Alexander

#66170

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Barbara Dudley Alexander is an American infectious disease physician. She is a professor of medicine and pathology at the Duke University School of Medicine. Alexander earned an M.D. at ECU Brody School of Medicine in 1993. She completed a residency in medicine at Duke University. She conducted fellowships in infectious diseases and medical microbiology at Duke University. Alexander was president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

#13486

Paul Walfish

#82385

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Paul Gerald Walfish, was a Canadian endocrinologist "whose research in the area of thyroid physiology and pathology has contributed to improved health care in Canada, especially for newborn infants".

#13487

Damião de Góis

1502 - 1574 (72 years)

Damião de Góis , born in Alenquer, Portugal, was an important Portuguese humanist philosopher. He was a friend and student of Erasmus. He was appointed secretary to the Portuguese factory in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal. He compiled one of the first accounts on Ethiopian Christianity.

#13488

Ziyad Al-Aly

#155668

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Ziyad Al-Aly is an American physician and clinical epidemiologist who is currently Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Center and Chief of the Research and Development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System. He is also a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. He has led multiple studies on long COVID and its sequelae.

#13489

Guido Pennings

#166940

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Lisa Meier Mcshane

#166943

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Jack Rootman

#166948

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Helena M. Käyhty

#166966

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#13493

Alfred Williams Momerie

1848 - 1900 (52 years)

Alfred Williams Momerie was an English cleric and academic of Broad Church views. Life Born in London on 22 March 1848, he was the only child of Isaac Vale Mummery , a Congregational minister, and his wife, a daughter of Thomas George Williams of Hackney; he used the form Momerie of the Huguenot name Mummery from 1879. He was educated at the City of London School and Edinburgh University, where he won the Horsliehill and Miller scholarship with the medal and Bruce prize for metaphysics, and graduated M.A. in 1875 and D.Sc. in 1876. From Edinburgh he went on to St. John's College, Cambridge, w...

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D. E. Royston

#166982

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Andrei Konchalovsky

Andrei Konchalovsky

#40746

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Andrei Sergeyevich Konchalovsky is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian cinema. He is a laureate of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", a National Order of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, a Cavalier of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. He is the son of writer Sergey Mikhalkov, and the brother of filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov.

#13496

Peter A. Meredith

#166994

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#13497

Salamishah Tillet

Salamishah Tillet

#26309

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Salamishah Margaret Tillet is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist. She is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University–Newark, where she also directs the New Arts Justice Initiative. Tillet is also a contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times.

#13498

Bernard J. Ransil

#13499

Susan Brison

#141323

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Susan Brison is Professor of Philosophy and Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College, where she also teaches in the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For the 2016-17 academic year, she was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. She has also held visiting appointments at New York University, Tufts University, and Princeton University. Brison's work has succeeded in increasing the amount of attention that philosophy, as a field, pays to issues of rape and domestic...

#13500

S. Serge Barold

#167029

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