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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#14401

Peggy Piesche

#81691

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Peggy Piesche is a German literary and cultural scientist, works in adult education and works as a consultant for diversity, intersectionality and decoloniality in the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung . Peggy Piesche is one of the most famous voices of Black women in Germany. Her identities also include lesbian.

#14402

Aleksa Buha

#58560

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Aleksa Buha is a Bosnian Serb philosopher and member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska. During the 1990s, he was the minister of foreign affairs of Republika Srpska. Buha is also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska.

#14403

Martha Gulati

#79874

Overall Influence

Martha Gulati is the past Chief of Cardiology at the University of Arizona, Phoenix. She previously held the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health at the Ohio State University. Gulati is the Chair of the National Chest Pain Guidelines. She is the author of the popular science book Saving Women’s Heart and Editor-in-Chief of materials for the American College of Cardiology programme CardioSmart.

#14404

Reinhard Schulz

#123678

Overall Influence

1950 - 2009 (59 years)

Reinhard Schulz was a German musicologist and music critic. Early life Schulz was born as the son of a gatekeeper in Schirnding, Upper Franconia. He was educated in musicology, philosophy, theatre studies, sociology and psychology and received his doctorate in 1979 by Anton Webern.

#14405

Han Woo Park

#173486

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Han Woo Park is a Korean academic and professor at the Department of Media and Communications, Yeungnam University. He is one of South Korea's most highly cited social science scholars. He is recognized as a pioneer in Webometrics and an expert on Internet activism in South Korea. His research mainly focuses on online media and biggish data in academic, governmental, and business communications. He is currently Editor in Chief of Quality & Quantity and the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia.

#14406

Lloyd B. Minor

#173505

Overall Influence

#14407

David Bell

#141307

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

David Andrew Bell is a British philosopher. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield, He studied in Dublin , Göttingen and Canada , and is best known for his work on the philosophers Gottlob Frege, Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Husserl, and also on topics such as solipsism, phenomenology, the theory of thought and judgement, and the history of the Analytic Tradition.

#14408

Al Williamson

#12485

Overall Influence

1931 - 2010 (79 years)

Alfonso Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City, he spent much of his early childhood in Bogotá, Colombia before moving back to the United States at the age of 12. In his youth, Williamson developed an interest in comic strips, particularly Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. He took art classes at Burne Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School, there befriending future cartoonists Wally Wood and Roy Krenkel, who introduced him to the work of illustrators who had influenced adventure strips.

#14409

Diamond D

#63368

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Joseph Kirkland , better known by his stage name Diamond D , is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.

#14410

Francis Hutcheson

1721 - 1784 (63 years)

Francis Hutcheson was an Irish violinist, composer, physician and lecturer in chemistry. His surname was often misspelled as "Hutchinson". He published his music under the pseudonym "Francis Ireland".

#14411

Anthony de Jasay

Anthony de Jasay

#29316

Overall Influence

1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Anthony de Jasay was a Hungarian writer, economist, and right-libertarian philosopher. He studied in Székesfehérvár and Budapest, and obtained a degree in agriculture. He then worked as a freelance journalist, but emigrated from Hungary in 1948 after the Communist government nationalized his father's farm.

#14412

Roland Poirier Martinsson

#173556

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Roland Poirier Martinsson is an author, conservative philosopher and radio- and TV-personality from Sweden, who has lived in Austin, Texas. As a columnist, he writes mainly on American politics from a social and cultural point of view. He is a regular contributor to Svenska Dagbladet and Expressen, two major Swedish newspapers. He has also written for The Weekly Standard. Martinsson is married and has three children.

#14413

Hans-Joachim Schulze

#34917

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Hans-Joachim Schulze is a German musicologist, a Bach scholar who served as the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 1992 to 2000. With Christoph Wolff, he was editor of the Bach-Jahrbuch from 1975 to 2000. He published an introduction to all cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach in 2006.

#14414

Laura Niklason

#55419

Overall Influence

Laura Elizabeth Niklason is a physician, professor and internationally recognized researcher in vascular and lung tissue engineering. She is the Nicholas M. Greene Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University and co-founder, chief executive officer and president of Humacyte, a regenerative medicine company developing bioengineered human tissues.

#14415

Alan McKee

#171689

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Alan McKee is an Australian university professor and researcher of sexualised media. He has served as the president of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia and sits on the editorial boards of the academic journals Continuum, M/C Journal, and the magazine Girlfriend Guide to Life.

#14416

Steven Gundry

#11915

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Steven R. Gundry is an American physician and low-carbohydrate diet author. He is a former cardiac surgeon and cardiac surgery researcher who runs an experimental clinic investigating the impact of diet on health. Gundry is the author of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain, which promotes the controversial lectin-free diet.

#14417

Huston Smith

#173575

Overall Influence

#14418

Ricardo Asch

#56659

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ricardo Hector Asch is an obstetrician, gynecologist, and endocrinologist. He worked with reproductive technology and pioneered gamete intrafallopian transfer , as well as working on research linking fertility and marijuana usage, and investigated the use of GnRH analogues with Andrew Schally. In the mid-1990s he was accused of transferring ova harvested from women into other patients without proper consent at the University of California, Irvine's fertility clinic. Asch left the United States one year before a federal indictment was filed. He was tried and acquitted of all charges in Argentina in 2008.

#14419

David Cohen

#65280

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

David Cohen is an American art critic, art historian, curator and publisher. He is the editor of artcritical.com, which he founded in 2001. Cohen is also the organizer and moderator of The Review Panel, an ongoing public discussion forum which he launched in 2004, and has been hosted by the National Academy Museum and School and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He teaches at Pratt Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fashion Institute of Technology and other institutions.

#14420

Robert Brumbaugh

#115234

Overall Influence

1918 - 1992 (74 years)

Robert Sherrick Brumbaugh was an American philosopher and a professor of medieval philosophy at Yale University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Works 1962-73. Plato manuscripts: a catalogue of microfilms in the Plato microfilm project, Yale University Library. New Haven. .1973. Plato on the one: the hypotheses in the Parmenides. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat. .1975. Ancient Greek gadgets and machines. Westport: Greenwood Press. .1978. The most mysterious manuscript: the Voynich 'Roger Bacon' cipher manuscript. Carbondale [etc.]; London [etc.: Southern Illinois University Press ; Feffer and Simons.

#14421

Alejandro Planchart

Alejandro Planchart

#67075

Overall Influence

1935 - 2019 (84 years)

Alejandro Enrique Planchart was a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He was considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Du Fay; more broadly, he was a specialist on music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance music.

#14422

David Armstrong

#173618

Overall Influence

#14423

Oswald Oberhuber

#29627

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Oswald Oberhuber was an Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. Biography Oberhuber learned sculpture at the Federal Trade School in Innsbruck. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 1972, Oberhuber represented Austria at the Venice Biennale. The following year, he became a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he worked until his retirement in 1998. The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart recognized Oberhuber as an honorary member in 1982, and as an honorary senator in 2004.

#14424

Hans Curschmann

Hans Curschmann

1875 - 1950 (75 years)

Hans Heinrich Curschmann was a German physician and neurologist remembered for Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome. He attended universities in Freiberg, Leipzig and Munich, earning his doctorate in 1900. From 1900 to 1907 he worked in Leipzig, Heidelberg, Berlin and Tübingen, and from 1907 to 1916 he was the senior physician at the city hospital in Mainz. In 1916 he became director of the medical clinic of Rostock, becoming professor in 1921.

#14425

Eric Vilain

#70381

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Eric Vilain is a physician-scientist and professor in the fields of Disorders/Differences of Sex Development and precision medicine. He has been the director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research at Children's National Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Genomics and Precision Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. since 2017. Vilain is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics, serves on the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission, and sits on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the ...

#14426

Jason Wirth

#169039

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jason Martin Wirth is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Seattle University. He was the Theiline Pigott McCone Chair in Humanities from 2014 to 2016. He won The Torch Bearer Award in 2018. Wirth is known for his research on environmental philosophy.

#14427

Mark Waer

#31127

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Mark Jozef Albert, Baron Waer is a Belgian physician, biomedical scientist, and former Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Biography From 1969 to 1976, Waer studied medicine at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven. In 1981, he was qualified the Specialist of Internal Medicine in nephrology. In 1983, he obtained PhD in medical sciences.

#14428

Stephen Banfield

#67036

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stephen David Banfield is a musicologist, music historian and retired academic. He was Elgar Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1992 to 2003, and then Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol from 2003 to his retirement at the end of 2012; he has since been an emeritus professor at Bristol.

#14429

Eliza Haywood

1693 - 1756 (63 years)

Eliza Haywood , born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. An increase in interest and recognition of Haywood's literary works began in the 1980s. Described as "prolific even by the standards of a prolific age", Haywood wrote and published over 70 works in her lifetime, including fiction, drama, translations, poetry, conduct literature and periodicals. Haywood today is studied primarily as one of the 18th-century founders of the novel in English.

#14430

Tina Hartert

#116407

Overall Influence

Tina Vivienne Hartert is an American physician and the Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Translational Science and Director of the Center for Asthma Research. Her research considers asthma and allergic disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic Hartert studied the transmission of coronavirus disease amongst children.

#14431

Barbara J. Ford

#70507

Overall Influence

Barbara J. Ford is an American librarian who served as president of the American Library Association from 1997 to 1998. She earned a bachelor's degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, a master's degree in International Relations from Tufts University and a master's degree in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#14432

John Bellany

#26007

Overall Influence

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

John Bellany was a Scottish painter. Early life Bellany was born in Port Seton. His father and grandfather were fishermen in Port Seton and Eyemouth near Edinburgh. During the early 1960s, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art, here he met with other young Scottish artists to begin lifelong friendships and share ideals for a renaissance in Scottish arts. His contemporaries included Alan Bold and Alexander Moffat. Bellany and Moffat studied under Robin Philipson. Their initial interest was in impressionism but with their common Scottish background they looked toward Alan Davie as a connecti...

#14433

Bizhan Aarabi

#35688

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Bizhan Aarabi is an Iranian-American neurosurgeon, researcher, author, and academic. He is a professor of neurosurgery at University of Maryland and the Director of Neurotrauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.

#14434

Henry Byerly

#103556

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Henry Clement Byerly was an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of science, logic and evolutionary theory. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught from 1967–1995.

#14435

Ole Worm

1588 - 1654 (66 years)

Ole Worm , who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Greek, Latin, physics and medicine.

#14436

Frank Gotch

#158555

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Frank A. Gotch was an American physician known for his work in renal dialysis adequacy, specifically the development of Kt/V and standardized Kt/V. He was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

#14437

Miriam Cnop

#156695

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Miriam Cnop is a Belgian researcher and physician specializing in diabetology. She is Professor of Medicine at Université Libre de Bruxelles and Clinical Director of Erasmus Hospital’s Endocrinology Department. Her work centered on type 2 diabetes, in particular mechanisms of lipotoxicity using human islets of Langerhans and human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived β Cells. She is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. In 2013, her work was awarded the Oskar Minkowski prize from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

#14438

Pavel Machotka

#139159

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Pavel Machotka was a Czech-born American academic and painter. He was a professor of Psychology of Aesthetics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1970 to 1994. He was the author of several books, including two about French painter Paul Cézanne.

#14439

Grace C. Bibb

1842 - 1912 (70 years)

Grace C. Bibb was a feminist and philosopher. She was part of the push for equality between the sexes, as well as an advocate for women's rights, access to higher education, expansion in employment opportunities, a right to equal pay, and a woman's right to vote. She was appointed Dean at the Normal school despite the fact that women were not at that time allowed to attend the College. In her position at the Normal school, Bibb pushed that women be allowed into the College of Education. She later pushed for women to be allowed into all other University departments.

#14440

Sydney Sparkes Orr

1914 - 1966 (52 years)

Sydney Sparkes Orr was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and the centre of the "Orr case", a celebrated academic scandal of the 1950s. Born in Belfast in 1914, Orr achieved a first-class-honours BA in Philosophy and received an MA with special commendation at Queen's University before commencing his teaching career at the University of St Andrews and the University of Melbourne. In 1952 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the University of Tasmania, after falsifying his academic record in his application.

#14441

Uri McMillan

#152928

Overall Influence

Uri McMillan is an American humanities academic whose research interests include performance studies, black cultural studies, aesthetics, contemporary art, popular culture and queer theory from a cultural history perspective. As of 2016, he is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#14442

Danièle Pistone

Danièle Pistone

#34416

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Danièle Pistone is a French musicologist, emeritus professor at the University Paris Sorbonne 4. Biography In addition to her musical studies Since 1971, she has been teaching at the University of Paris-Sorbonne where she was appointed professor of history of music in 1981.

#14443

Amytis Towfighi

#101163

Overall Influence

Amytis "Amy" Towfighi is Professor of Neurology, Director of Neurological Services and Innovation for Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and Chief of Neurology and Associate Medical Director of Neurological Services at LAC+USC Medical Center.

#14444

Henry David Aiken

1912 - 1982 (70 years)

Henry David Aiken was an American professor of philosophy. Life and career Born July 3, 1912, Henry David Aiken was raised in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Reed College in the same city in 1934, he continued onto Stanford University and Harvard University, where he received his master's and Ph.D. , respectively, in philosophy.

#14445

Christy Lemire

#56271

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Christy A. Lemire is an American film critic and host of the movie review podcast Breakfast All Day. She previously wrote for the Associated Press from 1999 to 2013, was a co-host of Ebert Presents at the Movies in 2011 and co-hosted the weekly online movie review show What The Flick?! until 2018.

#14446

Ravindra Laxman Thatte

#99366

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Dr. Ravin Laxman Thatte is a doyen a professor in the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a teacher to most plastic surgeons in India, an Indian philosopher and an active environmentalist. Early life and education Thatte's father Laxman was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service and his mother, Kusum Maydeo, was a social worker and short story writer. He studied in several schools in the state of Maharashtra, passed his intermediate science examination from the Willingdon College, Sangli and completed M.B.B.S, and M.S. from Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai.

#14447

Friedrich Geiger

#128037

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Friedrich Geiger is a German musicologist. Life Born in Munich, Geiger studied music, historical and systematic musicology and Latin philology in Munich and Hamburg. After gaining his PhD in 1997 with a thesis on Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel, he headed the Research and Information Centre for ostracized Music at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002. He then lectured at the musicological institutes of the TU Dresden and the University of Hamburg. After his habilitation in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin, he was research assistant ...

#14448

Fausto Cardoso

1864 - 1906 (42 years)

Fausto de Aguiar Cardoso was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, philosopher, and politician from the state of Sergipe. He was born in a rural part of the state Sergipe, and studied at the Faculty of Law of Recife in Pernambuco. He was elected to political office in 1900, and came into dispute with Olímpio Campos in Rio de Janeiro, the seat of the First Brazilian Republic. Cardoso returned to Sergipe in 1906 and led a revolt against the state government. He was assassinated in 1906 by federal troops summoned to the state by Olímpio Campos. Cardoso's sons, in turn, avenged their father's death and murde...

#14449

Giorgio Fano

1885 - 1963 (78 years)

Giorgio Fano was an Italian philosopher and linguist. He belonged to the school of Italian neo-idealist thinkers, among a group of artists and writers who made Trieste of the early Twentieth Century a notable center of intellectual activity. Fano read and interpreted the work of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile from an original point of view. In particular, he recognized the importance of the natural sciences and mathematics, which in his system are not pseudo-concepts. He also stressed the major importance of the simplest and most basic aspects of the life of mind, inspired by reflection...

#14450

Jessica Vitak

#114386

Overall Influence

Jessica Vitak is an American information scientist who is an associate professor at the University of Maryland. She is faculty in the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and Communication Department. She serves as Director of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab and an Associate Member of the Social Data Science Center .

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