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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#15051

Keith Simmons

#175878

Overall Influence

Keith Eric George Simmons is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at University of Connecticut. He is known for his works on logic and philosophy of mind. Books Semantic Singularities: Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth, Oxford University Press 2018Truth , edited with Simon Blackburn, Oxford University Press 1999Universality and the Liar: An Essay on Truth and the Diagonal Argument, Cambridge University Press 1993

#15052

Henry Clay Brockmeyer

Henry Clay Brockmeyer

1826 - 1906 (80 years)

Henry Clay Brockmeyer was a German-American poet, philosopher, and politician. Early life Brockmeyer was born Heinrich Conrad Brokmeyer in Westphalia, near Petershagen, to a well-to-do family. On his mother's side he was a nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, a Napoleonic-era general and diplomat in Württemberg. He emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen, reputedly after his religious mother burned his copy of Goethe's poems. Brockmeyer arrived in St. Louis around age 20 and worked in a tannery and in other trades. He built a prosperous shoe-making business in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and sold it when his health declined.

#15053

Aristo of Alexandria

Aristo of Alexandria was a Peripatetic philosopher who lived in the 1st century BC. According to Philodemus, he was a pupil of Antiochus of Ascalon . Strabo, a later contemporary, relates a story where both Ariston and Eudorus, a contemporary of his, had claimed to have written a work on the Nile, but that the two works were so nearly identical that the authors charged each other with plagiarism. Who was right is not said, though Strabo seems to be inclined to think that Eudorus was the guilty party.

#15054

Gemma Galdón-Clavell

Gemma Galdón-Clavell

#128233

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Gemma Galdón-Clavell is a Spanish technology policy analyst who specializes in ethics and algorithmic accountability. She is a senior adviser to the European Commission and she has also provided advice to other international organisations. Forbes Magazine described her as “a leading voice on tech ethics and algorithmic accountability”.

#15055

Ajip Rosidi

#14019

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Ajip Rosidi was an Indonesian poet and short story writer. As of 1983 he had published 326 works in 22 different magazines. Biography Rosidi was born on 31 January 1938, in Jatiwangi, Majalengka, West Java. He attended the School of the People, Jatiwangi, in 1950; District VIII Junior High School Jakarta in 1953; and Taman Madya High School, Taman.Siswa Jakarta in 1956. He began his literary career at the age of fourteen years. Since 1952, his works began to appear in magazines such as "Indonesia", "Indonesia Pulpit", "Arena/Ploy", "Confrontation" and "Zenith Platform".

#15056

Papirius Fabianus

Papirius Fabianus was an Ancient Roman rhetorician and philosopher from the gens Papirius in the time of Tiberius and Caligula, in the first half of the 1st century AD. Biography Fabianus was the pupil of Arellius Fuscus and of Blandus in rhetoric, and of Quintus Sextius in philosophy. Although much the younger of the two, he instructed Gaius Albucius Silus in eloquence. The rhetorical style of Fabianus is described by Seneca the Elder, and he is frequently cited in the third book of Controversiae as well as in the Suasoriae. His early model in rhetoric was his instructor Arellius Fuscus; but ...

#15057

Attalus

Attalus was a Stoic philosopher in the reign of Tiberius around 25 AD. He was defrauded of his property by Sejanus, and exiled where he was reduced to cultivating the ground. The elder Seneca describes him as a man of great eloquence, and by far the acutest philosopher of his age.

#15058

Sotion

100 BC - 100 (200 years)

Sotion , a native of Alexandria, was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher who lived in the age of Tiberius. He belonged to the school of the Sextii, which was founded by Quintus Sextius and combined Pythagoreanism with Stoicism. Sotion was the teacher of Seneca the Younger, who "sat as a lad, in the school of the philosopher Sotion." Seneca derived from him his admiration of Pythagoreanism, and quotes Sotion's views concerning vegetarianism and the migration of the soul: You do not believe that souls are assigned, first to one body and then to another, and that our so-called death is merely a ch...

#15059

Mário Vieira de Carvalho

#66107

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Mário Vieira de Carvalho is a Portuguese musicologist and author. His main research fields are sociology of music, philosophy and aesthetics of music, opera, contemporary music, music and literature, 18th-century studies, Wagner, Luigi Nono and Portuguese music from 18th to 21st centuries.

#15060

Elizabeth Vallance

#37967

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Elizabeth Vallance, Baroness Vallance of Tummel, was a British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker. She held non-executive roles on various boards, and was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2009.

#15061

Ann Baynard

1672 - 1697 (25 years)

Ann Baynard was a British natural philosopher and model of piety. She sought discussions with atheists and non-Christians. Later, during her eulogy, Reverend Prude called her philosophical knowledge of this 20-year-old woman the same size as that of an "old bearded male philosopher"

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Barbara Zecchi

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Overall Influence

Barbara Zecchi is a feminist film scholar, film critic, videoessayist, and film festival curator. She is professor of Film Studies and director of the Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Donald Edward White

#177654

Overall Influence

#15064

Edward Lowinsky

1908 - 1985 (77 years)

Edward Elias Lowinsky was an American musicologist. Lowinsky was one of the most prominent and influential musicologists in post-World War II America. His 1946 work on the "secret chromatic art" of Renaissance motets was hotly debated in its time, spurring considerable research into the issues of musica ficta and performance practice of early music.

#15065

Julian Johnson

#169803

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Julian Michael Johnson FBA is a musicologist, specialising in music history and the aesthetics of modern music. Since 2013, he has been Regius Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. After completing his undergraduate degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Johnson studied for his master's degree at the University of Sussex, which also awarded him his doctorate in 1994. He then lectured at Sussex until 2001, when he became a reader in the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music, and a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. In 2007, he joined Royal Holloway as Professor of Mus...

#15066

John Leonard Dawson

John Leonard Dawson

#64567

Overall Influence

1932 - 1999 (67 years)

John Leonard Dawson was an English surgeon particularly known for his work in the field of liver disease. He pioneered several surgical techniques, including radical tumour resection, injection sclerotherapy and portosystemic shunt surgery. He served as the Serjeant Surgeon to the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, and was described by a peer as "the best general surgeon in London in the 1970s and 1980s".

#15067

Peter Rheinstein

Peter Rheinstein

#50874

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Peter Howard Rheinstein is an American physician, lawyer, author, and administrator . He was an official of the Food and Drug Administration 1974-1999. Education Rheinstein, a General Motors Scholar, received a B.A. with high honors from Michigan State University in 1963, an M.S. in mathematics from Michigan State University in 1964, an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1967, and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1973. At Michigan State University Rheinstein was noted for his facility in mathematics.

#15068

Tom Shires

#48784

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

George Thomas Shires was an American trauma surgeon. He is known for his research on shock, which initiated the current practice of giving saline to trauma and surgical patients. He operated on John Connally and Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

#15069

L. Ebony Boulware

#154080

Overall Influence

Leigh Ebony Boulware is an American general internist, physician-scientist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is the Dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine and chief science officer and vice chief academic officer of Advocate Health. Boulware formerly served as the Nanaline Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.

#15070

Donald Brook

#57671

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Donald Brook was an Australian artist, art critic, philosopher, and theorist, whose research and publications centre on the philosophy of art, non-verbal representation and cultural evolution. He initiated the Experimental Art Foundation in the 1970s in Adelaide, and was later Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University in Adelaide.

#15071

Daniel S. Milo

#154996

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Daniel Shabetai Milo is an Israeli-French philosopher and writer. Milo is a professor of natural philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Paris. He is the author of nine books, eight published by Les Belles Lettres in Paris and one at Harvard University Press, and has written thirty-five articles and book chapters; his work was translated into nine languages. He directed three short films and several theatrical productions. The leitmotiv of his scientific and artistic work is excess. His ambition is to revive natural philosophy, the precursor of modern science during t...

#15072

Frederick Kayanja

#101203

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Frederick Ian Bantubano Kayanja is a Ugandan veterinarian, academic, and academic administrator. He has been the chancellor of Gulu University, a public institution of higher education, since October 2014, replacing Martin Aliker. He is a former vice chancellor of the Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He assumed that position in 1989 and stepped down in October 2014. Before that, he served as the deputy vice chancellor of Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda.

#15073

Percy Hughes

1872 - 1952 (80 years)

Percy Hughes was a philosopher and teacher, and a leading figure in the Philosophy, Education, and Psychology department at Lehigh University. Life Hughes was born in Peshawar in British India. A child of missionary Anglican parents, Hughes lived in London before arriving to the United States at the age of 16. He received his A.B degree from Alfred University, and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Teachers College at Columbia University under John Dewey, who would become a lifelong friend.

#15074

Johann Heynlin

1430 - 1496 (66 years)

Johann Heynlin, variously spelled Heynlein, Henelyn, Henlin, Hélin, Hemlin, Hegelin, Steinlin; and translated as Jean à Lapide, Jean La Pierre , Johannes Lapideus, Johannes Lapidanus, Johannes de Lapide was a German-born scholar, humanist and theologian, who introduced the first printing press in France in 1470.

#15075

Neil Piller

#177759

Overall Influence

Neil "George" Piller is an Australian professor of lymphology at the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Flinders University Piller is also the Director of the Lymphoedema Assessment Unit, Flinders Surgical Oncology as well as member of the Flinders University microcirculatory and lymphological research group. Piller's major interest is in the accurate diagnosis of, targeted treatment for and management of all forms of primary and secondary lymphoedema.

#15076

Agapius of Athens

500 - 600 (100 years)

Agapius was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in Athens. He was a notable philosopher in the Neoplatonist school in Athens when Marinus of Neapolis was scholarch after the death of Proclus . He was admired for his love of learning and for putting forward difficult problems.

#15077

Stanisław Żółkiewski

Stanisław Żółkiewski

1547 - 1620 (73 years)

Stanisław Żółkiewski was a Polish nobleman of the Lubicz coat of arms, magnate, military commander and a chancellor of the Polish crown of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, who took part in many campaigns of the Commonwealth and on its southern and eastern borders. He occupied a number of high-ranking posts in the administration of the Commonwealth, including castellan of Lwów , voivod of the Kiev Voivodeship and Great Chancellor of the Crown . From 1588 he was also a Field Crown Hetman, and in 1618 was promoted to Grand Hetman of the Crown. During his military career he won major battles a...

#15078

Michael Murphy

#71436

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Michael B. Murphy is an Irish doctor and academic. He was the President of University College Cork from 2007 to 2017. Since April 2019, Murphy is president of the European University Association . Early life and education Murphy earned his undergraduate degree in medicine at University College Cork , graduating in 1973. He undertook further studies at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, England. He then studied for a doctorate at the National University of Ireland, which he completed in 1984.

#15079

David A. Newsome

#177796

Overall Influence

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Richard T. Neer

#121592

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Richard Theodore Neer is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies and the College, and an affiliate of the Department of Classics, at the University of Chicago. Neer is also Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry.

#15081

Robert Cade

#8941

Overall Influence

1927 - 2007 (80 years)

James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida. Although Cade engaged in many areas of medical research, he is most widely remembered as the leader of the research team that created the sports drink Gatorade. Gatorade would have significant medical applications for treating dehydration in patients, and has generated over $150 million in royalties for the university.

#15082

Kelly Metcalfe

#75596

Overall Influence

Kelly A. Metcalfe is a Canadian scientist and a professor at the University of Toronto and at Women's College Hospital. Her work's focus is on understanding the clinical and psychosocial implications of genetic testing for BRCA gene mutations in women, men and their families.

#15083

Widukind Lenz

#9909

Overall Influence

1919 - 1995 (76 years)

Widukind Lenz was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy.

#15084

Deborah Doniach

#39817

Overall Influence

1912 - 2004 (92 years)

Deborah Doniach MD FRCP was a British clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. Early and personal life Deborah Abileah was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6 April 1912 to Russian parents. Her father, Arieh Abileah , of Jewish descent, was a concert pianist and music teacher; her mother, Fée Héllès, of Russian-German descent , ran a novel dance school in Paris. The family moved frequently during Deborah's childhood, living at various times in Paris, Vienna and Italy.

#15085

Jeannie Callum

#116392

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Jeannie Callum is a transfusion medicine specialist and hematologist in Ontario, Canada. She is also a professor at the University of Toronto and Queen's University. She was the co-principal investigator of the CONCOR trial, an international randomized controlled trial evaluating the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 infection. She was lead editor for Bloody Easy 4: Blood Transfusions, Blood Alternatives and Transfusion Reactions, fourth edition a handbook in transfusion medicine for the province of Ontario.

#15086

Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti

1220 - 1280 (60 years)

Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti was a Florentine Epicurean philosopher and father of Guido Cavalcanti, a close friend of Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti was a wealthy member of the Guelph faction of Florentine aristocrats. He was a merchant banker who, with others, lent money under usurious conditions during the crusades with the consent and support of the papacy. In 1257 Cavalcanti served as Podestà of the Umbrian city of Gubbio. Following the 1260 victory of the Ghibellines over the Florentine Guelphs in the Battle of Montaperti, Cavalcanti went into exile in Lucca in Tuscany. He returned from ex...

#15087

Neal A. Maxwell

Neal A. Maxwell

#11532

Overall Influence

1926 - 2004 (78 years)

Neal Ash Maxwell was an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death.

#15088

William Penn

1644 - 1718 (74 years)

William Penn was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. Penn was an advocate of democracy and religious freedom known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Native Americans who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania prior to European settlements in the state.

#15089

Ingrid Miethe

#118962

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ingrid Miethe is a German professor of education at the University of Giessen. Her areas of focus include biographical research, the history of education, and connections between education and social inequality. Her book is Biografiearbeit: Lehr- und Handbuch für Studium und Praxis and she coauthored Globalisation of an Educational Idea: Workers’ Faculties in Eastern Germany, Vietnam, Cuba and Mozambique . She instigated the founding of an ethics committee within the German Educational Research Association and has been the chair of this committee since.

#15090

Mirosław Dzielski

1941 - 1989 (48 years)

Mirosław Dzielski was a Polish philosopher, writer and politician, founder of the Kraków Industrial Society in 1985. Dzielski was one of the leaders of the democratic anti-communist opposition in the 1980s in Poland. He was married to classics scholar Maria Dzielska. Father to Witold Dzielski.

#15091

Joseph Anthony Murphy

Joseph Anthony Murphy

1857 - 1939 (82 years)

Joseph Anthony Murphy was born in Ireland but raised in Chicago. He became a Jesuit priest and served, inter alia, as dean of the liberal arts college at Marquette University for eleven years and as Vicar Apostolic for the Catholic mission in British Honduras , Central America, being ordained bishop on March 19, 1924.

#15092

James McEvoy

#90761

Overall Influence

1943 - 2010 (67 years)

James J. McEvoy was an Irish philosopher and priest. His principal academic interests were related to medieval philosophy, particularly the work of John Scotus Eriugena and Robert Grosseteste. He also wrote about the philosophy of friendship.

#15093

Miriam Galston

#137146

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Miriam Galston is an American philosopher and associate professor at The George Washington University Law School. She is known for her research on Farabi and won the Farabi International Award for her book Politics and Excellence.

#15094

Giorgi Khuroshvili

#171498

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Giorgi Khuroshvili is a Georgian philosopher. Biography Giorgi Khuroshvili was born in 1988, Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied Law and Political sciences at Grgiol Robakidze University . In 2014–2016 he was a doctoral student of Political Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań . In 2017 he received his PhD in Philosophy from Grgiol Robakidze University for doctoral thesis "Jerusalem and Athens as a Paradigm on Intercultural Philosophy" supervised by Tengiz Iremadze and Helmut Schneider. Since 2012 he is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences . Since 2015 ...

#15095

Michael Palmer

#141939

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Michael Palmer is an English philosopher, whose work has been translated into many languages. His primary field of interest is The Philosophy of Religion. More recently, however, his work has concentrated on the philosophy of atheism, culminating in his authorship of The Atheist's Creed , The Atheist's Primer and the projected Atheism for Beginners .

#15096

Bruce C. Kone

#75976

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Bruce C. Kone is an American professor, nephrologist and molecular biologist. He is also a World Aquatics Masters Swimming world record holder, United States Masters Swimming national record holder, twenty-three-time USMS national champion, and eight-time FINA Masters world's top-ranked age group swimmer. He is currently a tenured professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston .

#15097

Jane Kister

#102469

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Jane Elizabeth Kister was a British and American mathematical logician and mathematics editor who served for many years as an editor of Mathematical Reviews. Early life and education Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, where she was born on 18 October 1944; her father was a lawyer and later a judge. Her family moved to London when she was four, and she studied at St Paul's Girls' School in London. She matriculated at Somerville College, Oxford in 1963, but her studies were interrupted by a diagnosis of lupus; she resumed reading mathematics there in 1964, tutored by Anne Cobbe.

#15098

Michael Geschwind

#48235

Overall Influence

Michael D. Geschwind is a professor of neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center , specializing in neurodegenerative disorders. Geschwind has published highly-cited papers on rapidly progressive dementias, prion diseases , Alzheimer disease, and limbic and autoimmune encephalitis. He has served as the principal investigator on studies on human prion disease and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. He was guest editor for the American Academy of Neurology Continuum Dementia edition, and was on the AAN committee for dementia criteria. He has also published highly-cited papers on cognitive dysfunction...

#15099

Qian Dehong

1496 - 1574 (78 years)

Qian Dehong was a notable Chinese philosopher, writer, and educator during the mid-late Ming Dynasty. Biography Qian was born in Yuyao, Shaoxing Fu , Zhejiang Province. His original name was Kuan , and courtesy name was Hongfu . Because his recent ancestry also had the same name, to avoid the taboo, his name was changed from Kuan to Dehong.

#15100

Milt Holland

#77652

Overall Influence

1917 - 2005 (88 years)

Milton Holland was an American drummer, percussionist, ethnomusicologist, and writer in the Los Angeles music scene. He pioneered the use of African, South American, and Indian percussion styles in jazz, pop and film music, traveling extensively in those regions to collect instruments and learn styles of playing them.

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