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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14101

Brian Fay

#151456

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Brian C. Fay is an American philosopher and William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is known for his works on the philosophy of social sciences. Books Social Theory and Political Practice Critical Social Science: Liberation and its Limits Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science: A Multicultural Approach Louis Mink: Historical Understanding History and Theory: Contemporary Readings

#14102

Charlotte Blease

#123071

Overall Influence

Charlotte Blease is a Northern Irish philosopher of medicine from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a healthcare researcher at General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. Formerly she was a Fulbright Scholar to the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School. She is a former Irish Research Council fellow and a Queen's University, Belfast lecturer.

#14103

Alfred Wilhelmi

#117863

Overall Influence

1910 - 1994 (84 years)

Alfred Ellis Wilhelmi was an American endocrinologist recognized for contributing to the understanding of anterior pituitary hormones. Education Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Wilhelmi attended Cleveland public schools. Wilhelmi earned a B.S. degree in premedical sciences from Western Reserve University in 1933. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he obtained a B.A. in 1933 and Ph.D. in animal physiology in 1937. He then joined Yale University's Biochemistry Department, rising to the position of Professor in 1950.

#14104

Liselotte Mettler

#18453

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Liselotte Mettler is an Austrian-German surgeon who specializes in endocrinology, reproductive medicine, gynecological endoscopy and gynecological oncology. Mettler is a professor emeritus for the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Kiel University, Germany where she worked closely with Kurt Semm. The author of more than 600 publications and several books.

#14105

Gail Bradbrook

#114860

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Gail Marie Bradbrook is a British environmental activist and convicted criminal, who co-founded the environmental social movement Extinction Rebellion. Early life and career Bradbrook was born in 1972 and grew up in South Elmsall in West Yorkshire. Her father worked at a mine in South Kirkby. She studied molecular biophysics at the University of Manchester, gaining a PhD. She carried out post-doctoral work in India and France.

#14106

Joseph Gerhard Liebes

1910 - 1988 (78 years)

Joseph Gerhard Liebes was an Israeli translator and scholar of Ancient Greek classical literature and Latin literature into Hebrew. He translated Plato's writings into Hebrew. Biography Liebes was born in 1910 in San Salvador to a German-Jewish businessman. He was reared and educated in Hamburg, where he studied at a Latin and ancient Greek gymnasium. He was active in the Zionist youth movement Blau-Weis .

#14107

Joseph Hume

1777 - 1855 (78 years)

Joseph Hume FRS was a Scottish surgeon and Radical MP. Early life He was born the son of a shipmaster James Hume in Montrose, Angus, who died shortly. He attended Montrose Academy, where he knew the older James Mill; and from 1790 was apprenticed to a local surgeon-apothecary, John Bale.

#14108

Charles Rosen

1878 - 1950 (72 years)

Charles Rosen was an American painter who lived for many years in Woodstock, New York. In the 1910s he was acclaimed for his Impressionist winter landscapes. He became dissatisfied with this style and around 1920 he changed to a radically different cubist-realist style. He became recognized as one of the leaders of the Woodstock artists colony.

#14109

William de Burgh

1866 - 1943 (77 years)

William George de Burgh was an English philosopher who was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. Career Born on 24 October 1866 in Wandsworth, de Burgh was educated at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford. He was a founding member of the University of Reading, where he became Professor of Philosophy in 1907. His works include Towards a Religious Philosophy , From Morality to Religion , and The Legacy of the Ancient World .

#14110

Claude V. Palisca

#50625

Overall Influence

1921 - 2001 (80 years)

Claude Victor Palisca was an American musicologist. An internationally recognized authority on early music, especially opera of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University. Palisca is best known for co-writing the standard textbook A History of Western Music , as well as for his substantial body of work on the history of music theory in the Renaissance, reflected in his editorship of the Yale Music Theory in Translation series and in the book Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought . In particular, he was the leading expert on the Florentine Camerata.

#14111

Sandra Dingli

#147437

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sandra Dingli is a Maltese philosopher mostly specialised in Creative Thinking. Life Dingli was born at Paceville, Malta, in 1952. She started attending philosophy and language courses at the University of Malta, and later proceeding to graduate courses at the same university. She acquired a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Philosophy, and proceeded to obtain a Doctorate in Philosophy from Durham University in England.

#14112

Linda Eastman

1867 - 1963 (96 years)

Linda Anne Eastman was an American librarian. She was selected by the American Library Association as one of the 100 most important librarians of the 20th century. Eastman served as the head Librarian of the Cleveland Public Library from 1918 to 1938 and president of the ALA from 1928 to 1929. At the time of her appointment in Cleveland, she was the first woman to head a library system the size of Cleveland's. She was also a founding member and later president of the Ohio Library Association, and a professor of Library Science at Case Western Reserve University.

#14113

Alva Belmont

1853 - 1933 (80 years)

Alva Erskine Belmont , known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention.

#14114

Alexander Sutherland

1852 - 1902 (50 years)

Alexander Sutherland was a Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher. Early life and education Sutherland was born at Glasgow, both parents were Scottish, his father, George Sutherland, a carver of ship's figureheads, married Jane Smith, a woman of character and education. The family came to Australia in 1864 on account of the father's health, and Alexander at 14 years of age became a pupil-teacher with the education department at Sydney.

#14115

Quintus Lucilius Balbus

1 BC - 100 (101 years)

Quintus Lucilius Balbus was a Stoic philosopher and a pupil of Panaetius. Balbus appeared to Cicero as comparable to the best Greek philosophers. He is introduced by Cicero in his dialogue On the Nature of the Gods as the expositor of the opinions of the Stoics on that subject, and his arguments are represented as of considerable weight. His name appears in the extant fragments of Cicero's Hortensius, but it is no longer thought that Balbus was a speaker in the dialogue.

#14116

Victoria Sork

#114512

Overall Influence

Victoria Louise Sork is an American scientist who is Professor and Dean of Life Sciences at University of California, Los Angeles. She studies tree populations in California and the Eastern United States using genomics, evolutionary biology and conservation biology. Sork is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#14117

Nkiru Nzegwu

#39154

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nkiru Nzegwu is a Nigerian philosopher, painter, author, curator and art historian. She is Distinguished Professor for Research at State University of New York at Binghamton. Among Dr. Nzegwu’s areas of expertise are African aesthetics, philosophy, African feminist issues, multicultural studies in art, and digital publishing.

#14118

Lesley McCowan

#158941

Overall Influence

Lesley Margaret Elizabeth McCowan is a New Zealand medical researcher and academic specialising in maternal health. She is currently a full professor and head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Auckland.

#14119

Karl Thiersch

1822 - 1895 (73 years)

Karl Thiersch, also spelled Carl Thiersch , was a German surgeon born in Munich. His father was educationist Friedrich Thiersch, his father-in-law was renowned chemist Justus von Liebig. One brother, Ludwig, was an influential painter, while another, Heinrich Wilhelm Josias, was a theologian.

#14120

Tori Haring-Smith

Tori Haring-Smith

#89461

Overall Influence

Tori Haring-Smith is the former president of Washington & Jefferson College. Education Haring-Smith received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and doctoral and master's degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate, she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study abroad.

#14121

Rebecca Landa

#170264

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Rebecca Jean Moellman-Landa is an American speech-language pathologist specializing in neuropsychology and autism research. She is the founder and director of the center for autism and related disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Landa is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

#14122

Andrew Biankin

#88673

Overall Influence

Andrew Victor Biankin is a Scotland-based Australian clinician-scientist, best known for his work on enabling precision oncology in learning healthcare systems by integrating discovery, preclinical and clinical development to accelerate novel therapeutic strategies, and developing standardised pan-cancer assays for use by healthcare systems and researchers worldwide.

#14123

John Gager

#59723

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

John Goodrich Gager Jr. is an American scholar of Christianity. He retired from his position as William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Princeton University in the spring of 2006. Biography The Gager family's roots in New England reach back to the arrival of John Winthrop and the "Winthrop Fleet" at what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

#14124

Mauro Ceruti

#124513

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mauro Ceruti is an Italian philosopher. He is one of the pioneers and developers of Complex Systems Theories, Methods and Epistemologies, and of the trans-disciplinary research line usually called "Complex Thinking", which aims at the innovation of the paradigms of rationality.

#14125

Diane Winston

#149736

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Diane Winston is an American professor of Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and an author. USC lists her current research interests as media coverage of Islam, religion and new media, and the place of religion in American identity.

#14126

Franklin David Keim

1886 - 1956 (70 years)

Franklin David Keim was a professor at the University of Nebraska where he studied plant genetics, grasses, and grazing. He served as the chair of the University of Nebraska Department of Agronomy for 22 years from 1930 to 1952. He was elected a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 1937 and served as the president of the American Society of Agronomy in 1943. The University of Nebraska's Keim Hall is named in his honor.

#14127

Selwyn M. Vickers

#64114

Overall Influence

Selwyn Maurice Vickers is an American gastrointestinal surgical oncologist. He is the President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, starting in September 2022. Previously, he was the senior vice president for Medicine and Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the CEO of both the UAB Health System and the UAB/Ascension St. Vincent's Alliance.

#14128

Jacob ben Nissim

950 - 1006 (56 years)

Jacob ben Nissim ibn Shahin was a Jewish philosopher and mathematician who lived at Kairouan, Tunisia in the 10th century; he was a younger contemporary of Saadia. At Jacob's request Sherira Gaon wrote a treatise entitled Iggeret, on the redaction of the Mishnah. Jacob is credited with the authorship of an Arabic commentary on the Sefer Yeẓirah .

#14129

Ashfaq Ahmed

#8670

Overall Influence

1925 - 2004 (79 years)

Ashfaq Ahmed was a Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for television and radio of Pakistan. He received the President's Pride of Performance and Sitara-i-Imtiaz awards for his everlasting services in the field of broadcasting and literary heritage of Pakistan.

#14130

Richard J. Blackwell

#81107

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Richard Joseph Blackwell was an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at Saint Louis University, where he held the Danforth Chair in the Humanities. His research has been on the interactions between modern science and philosophy.

#14131

Marsha Kinder

#56175

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Marsha Kinder is an American film scholar and Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. Background Kinder began her career as a scholar of eighteenth-century English Literature before moving to the study of transmedia relations among various narrative art forms. From 1965 through 1980 she taught at Occidental College in the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature. With her colleague, William Moritz, Kinder introduced film studies into their curriculum. In 1980 she joined USC as a Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts where she taught ...

#14132

Monaldo Leopardi

Monaldo Leopardi

1776 - 1847 (71 years)

Count Monaldo Leopardi was an Italian philosopher, nobleman, politician and writer, notable as one of the main Italian intellectuals of the counter-revolution. His son Giacomo Leopardi was a poet and thinker with completely opposite views, which were probably the root cause of their discord.

#14133

Giles Hooper

#119573

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Giles Hooper is an author and lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He is known for contributions to contemporary musicology and applications of postmodernist theory in musicology. Hooper completed his PhD, The study of music and the status of musical knowledge, at the University of Keele in 2003. After teaching at Keele, Exeter, and Bristol, he was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Music in 2005. Hooper's work is currently in wide-ranging research interests including twentieth-century music, critical theory and analysis. In 2010, Hooper was appointed Head of the School of Music. His...

#14134

Andrew E. Sloan

#150198

Overall Influence

Andrew Edward Sloan is an American neurosurgeon and physician-scientist. He is the Peter D. Cristal Chair of Neurosurgical Oncology at Case Western Reserve University. In June 2000, Sloan married biostatistician and data scientist Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

#14135

Benedictus Aretius

Benedictus Aretius

1522 - 1574 (52 years)

Benedictus Aretius was a Swiss Protestant theologian, Protestant reformer and natural philosopher. Life He was born at Bätterkinden, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. He studied at Strasbourg and at Marburg, where he became professor of logic. He was called to Bern as a school-teacher, 1548, and became professor of theology, 1564.

#14136

Torstein Hovig

#131998

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Torstein Hovig was a Norwegian pathologist. He took the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1954 and the dr.med. degree in 1965. He worked at Rikshospitalet from 1967, was promoted to docent in 1973 and professor in 1985.

#14137

Christopher Hookway

#169579

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Christopher Hookway is a British philosopher and Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He is known for his studies of Charles S. Peirce and is a former president of the Aristotelian Society.

#14138

Robert Plot

1640 - 1696 (56 years)

Robert Plot was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Early life and education Born in Borden, Kent to parents Robert Plot and Elisabeth Patenden, and baptised on 13 December 1640, Plot was educated at the Wye Free School in Kent. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1658 where he graduated with a BA in 1661 and an MA in 1664. Plot subsequently taught and served as dean and vice principal at Magdalen Hall while preparing for his BCL and DCL, which he received in 1671 before moving to University College in ...

#14139

David Selbourne

#54410

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

David Selbourne is a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence, held the Winter Williams Law Scholarship, and was awarded a Paton Studentship and the Jenkins Law Prize. He was thereafter a British Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and in 1960 was called to the bar of the Inner Temple where he was student scholar, but did not practise law. He is the father of Raphael Selbourne, winner of the 2009 Costa First Book Award.

#14140

Mehdi Bayani

1906 - 1968 (62 years)

Mehdi Bayani was the founder and the first head of the National Library of Iran, specialist in Persian manuscripts and calligraphy, writer, researcher, and professor at the University of Tehran. Life and careers Mehdi Bayani was born in 1906 in Hamedan, Iran. His father, "Mirza Mohammad Khan Mostofi Farahani", was from the succession of teachers and accountant of Farahan and his maternal ancestor was "Mirza Soleimaan Bayan ol-Saltaneh Farahani", the head of the royal exchequer and the author of "the treatise on the rules of clerking and accounting". At the age of two, his father died and his mother came to Tehran with him and other children.

#14141

David Weyhe Smith

1926 - 1981 (55 years)

David Weyhe Smith was an American pediatrician and dysmorphologist, best known for his pioneering book Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation and for describing fetal alcohol syndrome. Early life and education David Weyhe Smith was born in Oakland, California. He gained his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and undertook postdoctoral studies during 1950-51 and 1953-56 in the Department of Pediatrics. He worked with Lawson Wilkins in the field of pediatric endocrinology.

#14142

Euphraeus

Euphraeus was a philosopher and student of Plato from the town of Oreus in northern Euboea. He appears to have been active in politics in addition to his speculative studies, being first an adviser to Perdiccas III of Macedon and then an opponent of Philip II and his supporters in Oreus. Information regarding his life is scant, however, and few facts about it are mentioned in more than one source. He appears in the Fifth Letter of Plato, Demosthenes' Third Philippic, and Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae .

#14143

John Anderson

1726 - 1796 (70 years)

John Anderson was a Scottish natural philosopher and liberal educator at the forefront of the application of science to technology in the industrial revolution, and of the education and advancement of working men and women. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was the posthumous founder of Anderson's College , which ultimately evolved into the University of Strathclyde.

#14144

Sydney Ringer

1836 - 1910 (74 years)

Sydney Ringer FRS was a British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Ringer's solution. He was born in 1835 in Norwich, England and died following a stroke in 1910 in Lastingham, Yorkshire, England. His gravestone and some other records report 1835 for his birth, some census records and other documents suggest 1836, but his baptismal record at St Mary's Baptist Chapel confirms this was 1835.

#14145

Owen Wade

#87787

Overall Influence

1921 - 2008 (87 years)

Owen Lyndon Wade was a British medical researcher and academic, described by the Royal College of Physicians as "one of the founding fathers of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics in the UK". Wade was born in Penarth, South Wales, on 17 May 1921, to Katie Jones and James Owen David Wade, the latter a surgeon.

#14146

Ludovic Lalanne

1815 - 1898 (83 years)

Ludovic Lalanne was a French historian and librarian. The engineer and politician Léon Lalanne was his brother. Biography Lalanne was a student at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and later at the École des Chartes, where he was graduated archivist paleographer in 1841. He was librarian of the Institut.

#14147

Jacob van Campen

Jacob van Campen

1596 - 1657 (61 years)

Jacob van Campen was a Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age. Life He was born into a wealthy family at Haarlem, and spent his youth in his home town. Being of noble birth and with time on his hands, he took up painting mainly as a pastime. In 1614, he became a member of the Guild of Saint Luke , and studied painting under Frans de Grebber - a number of Van Campen's oils survive. About 1616 to 1624 he is thought to have lived in Italy. On his return to the Netherlands, Van Campen turned to architecture, applying ideas borrowed from Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi and classical influences from Vitruvius.

#14148

Radomir Đorđević

Radomir Đorđević

#122090

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Radomir Č. Đorđević – Pule is a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade. Biography Đorđević – Pule completed his secondary school in Belgrade, where he also obtained his undergraduate degree in philosophy. After graduation, he was elected assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences before joining academia on 1 October 1965 at the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade, where he spent his entire working life. Additionally, he taught philosophy at the Tenth Grammar School in Belgrade , the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy , the Faculty of Philology , the Land Forces Military Academy , the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Kragujevac .

#14149

Vincent Luizzi

#168713

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Vincent Luizzi is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He is known for his expertise on legal ethics and philosophy of law. Luizzi was the Chair of Philosophy at Texas State University . He is also a member of the State Bar of Texas and a municipal judge in San Marcos, TX.

#14150

Frank Viola

#64150

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Frank Viola is an American author, speaker, and blogger on Christian topics. His work focuses on Jesus studies and biblical narrative, with a strong emphasis on helping the poor and the oppressed. He is most noted for his emphasis on the gospel of the kingdom, the centrality and supremacy of Jesus Christ, and the idea that Jesus indwells all Christians and they can learn to live by his life.

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