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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#2651

Fiona Macpherson

#47482

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017 and a member of Academia Europaea in 2018.

#2652

Glen Pettigrove

#51796

Overall Influence

Glen Allan Pettigrove is an American philosopher and Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of emotions. Career Pettigrove has taught at the University of Auckland , Massey University and Santa Clara University .

#2653

Francesca Gargallo

Francesca Gargallo

#64381

Overall Influence

1956 - 2022 (66 years)

Francesca Gargallo was a Sicilian-born Mexican writer and poet. Life and career Born in Syracuse, Italy as Francesca Gargallo di Castel Lentini Celentani, she studied philosophy at the Università degli studi di Roma and then at the National Autonomous University of Mexico . A naturalized Mexican citizen, she lived in the country since 1979. She wrote many poetry books and novels such as; Calla mi amor que vivo, Estar en el mundo, La decisión del capitán, Marcha seca among others. Gargallo published work in magazines such as Proceso. Gargallo died of cancer on 3 March 2022, aged 65.

#2654

Lương Kim Định

#45620

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Lương Kim Định or Dominic Lương Kim Định, Kim Định was a Vietnamese catholic priest, scholar and philosopher. Biography He was born in Nam Dinh, French Indochina. He was ordained Catholic priest in 1943. He was a philosophy graduate of the Seminary of Saint Albert le Grand, and a professor of philosophy at Bui Chu Seminary . He afterwards went to Paris, France to study French civilization, sociology and philosophy at Institut Catholique de Paris, and Confucianism at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises. Returning to Vietnam in 1957, he taught philosophy at the Le Bao Tinh Academy and the ...

#2655

Michel Odent

#6312

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Michel Odent is a French obstetrician and childbirth specialist. Education Born in a French village in 1930, Odent studied medicine in Paris and was educated as a surgeon in the 1950s. He has been presented in Lancet as “one of the last real general surgeons”.

#2656

Roger Yates

#53176

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Roger Yates is an English lecturer in sociology at University College Dublin and the University of Wales, specialising in animal rights. He is a former executive committee member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection , a former Animal Liberation Front press officer, and a co-founder of the Fur Action Group.

#2657

Julien Freund

#32206

Overall Influence

1921 - 1993 (72 years)

Julien Freund was a French philosopher and sociologist. Freund was called an "unsatisfied liberal-conservative" by Pierre-André Taguieff, for introducing France to the ideas of Max Weber. His work as a sociologist and political theorist is a continuation of Carl Schmitt's. Freund, like many people from Alsace, was fluent in German and French. His works have been translated into nearly 20 languages.

#2658

Derek Denton

#19123

Overall Influence

1924 - 2022 (98 years)

Derek Ashworth Denton was an Australian scientist who elucidated the regulation of electrolytes in extracellular fluid, the hormones controlling this regulation, particularly aldosterone, and the instinctive behaviours controlling intake of water and salts. He was cited in 1995 at election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences as the world’s leading authority on the regulation of salt and water metabolism and relevant endocrine control mechanisms. He was one of Australia’s most eminent scientists.

#2659

Steven James Bartlett

Steven James Bartlett

#48454

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Steven James Bartlett is an American philosopher and psychologist notable for his studies in epistemology and the theory of reflexivity, and for his work on the psychology of human aggression and destructiveness, and the shortcomings of psychological normality. His findings challenge the assumption that psychological normality should serve as a standard for good mental health. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books and research monographs as well as many papers published in professional journals in the fields of epistemology, psychology, mathematical logic, and philosophy of science...

#2660

Mark E. Josephson

#77906

Overall Influence

#2661

John Rockwell

#4355

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

John Sargent Rockwell is an American music critic, dance critic and arts administrator. According to Grove Music Online, "Rockwell brings two signal attributes to his critical work: a genuine admiration for all kinds of music and the arts, and the ability to fit a spirit of inquiry and enthusiasm for newer approaches to music into a reasoned overview of cultural history".

#2662

Joan Copjec

#38677

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joan K. Copjec is an American philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian psychoanalytic theorist. She is Professor of Modern Culture & Media at Brown University. Early life and career Joan K. Copjec was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1946; her family is of Czech ancestry. She received her bachelor's degree in English literature, with a minor in Classics, in 1968 from Wheaton College. She received her master's degree in English in 1969 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began her doctoral work there, with a minor in Film in 1972. Abandoning her original Ph.D.

#2663

John Haddox

#37293

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

John Herbert Haddox was an American philosopher known for his thought in the area of ethics and social philosophy, and for his groundbreaking work of introducing Mexican philosophers to the English-speaking world. He taught over 56 years at the University of Texas at El Paso before becoming professor emeritus in philosophy upon his retirement in 2013. His best known books were Vasconcelos of Mexico: Philosopher and Prophet, and Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico, both of which were published by the University of Texas Press. He also wrote extensively on Chicano and Native American thought...

#2664

Andrzej Leder

#45931

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Andrzej Leder is a Polish philosopher of culture, practicing psychotherapist, and internationally recognized expert on Polish cultural history. Biography Andrzej Leder, the son of Witold Leder and Ewa Lipińska, graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw, and in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. He then obtained his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, supervised by Professor . He has worked at the latter institute since 1996, including from 2010 as an associate professor.

#2665

Max Weismann

#39626

Overall Influence

1936 - 2017 (81 years)

Max Weismann was an American philosopher and a long-time friend and colleague of Mortimer Adler, with whom he co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago. He was director and president of the Center and dedicated his time and talents to promoting the philosophical and pedagogical ideas of Dr. Adler, especially the importance of the study of the "Great Books". He also compiled, edited, and published How To Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization, a 600-page tome of never-published work from Adler's television series The Great Ideas. Weism...

#2666

Robert Redeker

#31608

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Robert Redeker is a French writer and philosophy teacher. He was teaching at the Pierre-Paul-Riquet high school, in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, and at the École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile. He is currently in hiding under police protection.

#2667

Bruce Mark Psaty

#78021

Overall Influence

#2668

Vishal Mangalwadi

Vishal Mangalwadi

#14664

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Vishal Mangalwadi is a social reformer, political columnist, Indian Christian philosopher, writer and lecturer. Early life Vishal was born in Chhattarpur , India, to Victor and Kusum Mangalwadi and grew up along with his six siblings in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

#2669

Charles F. Code

#78095

Overall Influence

#2670

Gerald Midgley

#43332

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Gerald Robert Midgley is a British organizational theorist, professor of systems thinking, director of the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, and past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is known for his work on "Systemic Intervention;" which he defined as "purposeful action by an agent to create change in relation to reflection upon boundaries."

#2671

Frederick Wilhelmsen

#37902

Overall Influence

1923 - 1996 (73 years)

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen was a Catholic philosopher known for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition. He also was a political commentator, assessing American politics and society from a traditionalist perspective, and a political thinker, addressing what he perceived to be the failings of secular-liberal democracy. He principally was a professor at the University of Dallas from 1965 to his death in 1996. He also taught at the University of Santa Clara, the Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and lectured and taught classes at many other universities.

#2672

Michel Hulin

#55569

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Michel Hulin is a French philosopher, specialised in Indian philosophy. An alumn of the École normale supérieure, he obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the Paris-Sorbonne University in 1977 with a dissertation on the Vedic concept of ahamkara. He was a professor of Indian and comparative philosophy at Paris-Sorbonne from 1981 to 1998. His research has focused on classical Indian philosophy, such as the nondualism in Vedanta, Tantric-inspired texts in Shaivism and the confrontations between European and Asian traditions of thought.

#2673

Joanna Bryson

#25197

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007. Education Bryson attended Glenbard North High School and graduated in 1982. She studied Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago, graduating with an AB in 1986. In 1991 she moved to the University of Edinburgh where she completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence before an MPhil in Psychology. Bryson moved to MIT to complete her PhD, earning a doctorate under Lynn Andrea Stein in 2001 for her thesis "Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents".

#2674

Philipp E. Scherer

#78221

Overall Influence

#2675

Per Bauhn

#52221

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Per Roald Bauhn is a Swedish philosopher and a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Kalmar since 2004, and at Linnaeus University since 2010. His main subjects include the study of ethics and political philosophy. Per Bauhn has authored books on topics as diverse as nationalism, political terrorism, the virtue of courage, and the duty to rescue. He has also contributed to the field of philosophical aesthetics. His philosophical work is inspired by the agency-based ethical theory of Alan Gewirth. Per Bauhn is married to Turkish sociologist and women's studies scholar Fatma ...

#2676

Israel Eldad

#11404

Overall Influence

1910 - 1996 (86 years)

Israel Eldad , was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the Jewish underground group Lehi in Mandatory Palestine. Biography Israel Scheib was born in 1910 in Pidvolochysk, Galicia in a traditional Jewish home. The Scheibs wandered as refugees during the First World War. In 1918, in Lvov, young Scheib witnessed a funeral procession for Jews murdered in a pogrom. After high school, Scheib enrolled at the Rabbinical Seminary of Vienna for religious studies and the University of Vienna for secular studies. He completed his doctorate on "The Voluntarism of Eduard von Hartmann, B...

#2677

Hans Heinz Holz

#50447

Overall Influence

1927 - 2011 (84 years)

Hans Heinz Holz was a German Marxist philosopher. Born in Frankfurt am Main, he was professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg and from 1979 to 1993 at the University of Groningen. He is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of philosophy on one hand and for his openly expressed ideological viewpoints on the other. Influenced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's monadology, he regards Widerspiegelung not only as an epistemological but also as an ontological category. Some critics spot here a hazard of deviating from materialism. Though Holz saw himself as in footsteps of Lenin, his vision is disputed among the leftist circles.

#2678

Helen Nissenbaum

#15891

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Helen Nissenbaum is professor of information science at Cornell Tech. She is best known for the concept of "contextual integrity" and her work on privacy, privacy law, trust, and security in the online world. Specifically, contextual integrity has influenced the United States government's thinking about privacy issues.

#2679

Stafford Lightman

Stafford Lightman

#58773

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Stafford Louis Lightman has been Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, since 1993. He was president of the British Neuroscience Association 2017–2019. Education Lightman was educated at Repton School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge . He did his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital Medical School

#2680

Peter Carravetta

#70965

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Peter Carravetta is an Italian philosopher, poet, literary theorist and translator. Works The Elusive Hermes. Method, Discourse, Interpreting Existenz delle voci The Sun and Other Things Linfinito Weak Thought, Gianni Vattimo, Translated by Peter Carravetta, SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy, 2012 Translation of Il pensiero debole, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1983

#2681

Janet Broughton

#62406

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Janet Broughton is Emerita Professor of Philosophy and former Vice Provost for the Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic research focuses on early modern philosophy, in particular that of David Hume and René Descartes.

#2682

Alfred Schutz

#78435

Overall Influence

#2683

Srećko Horvat

#28010

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Srećko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Jacobin, Newsweek and The New York Times.

#2684

Stefan S. Zeuzem

#78476

Overall Influence

#2685

Wolfgang Kuhlmann

#69891

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Wolfgang Kuhlmann is a German philosopher and representative of the discourse ethics. Academic career Born in Kiel, Kuhlmann, who received his doctorate in 1974, and habilitated in 1983, is a student of Karl-Otto Apel and a colleague of Peter Rohs. He then worked as a private lecturer in philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and from 1985 to 1992 as managing director and editor of the publication series in the Forum für Philosophie in Bad Homburg. In the context of this activity there was from 1987 to 1991 a co-operation with . In 1989 Kuhlmann became full professor at the University of Frankfurt and in 1992 a professor at the University of Erfurt.

#2686

Robert D. Rupert

Robert D. Rupert

#50288

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Robert D. Rupert is an American philosopher. His primary academic appointment is at the University of Colorado at Boulder , where he is Professor of Philosophy, a fellow of UCB's Institute of Cognitive Science, and a member of UCB's Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science. He is Regular Visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn Centre and is the co-editor in chief of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

#2687

Izak Benbasat

#27326

Overall Influence

Izak Benbasat is a Turkish–Canadian professor and scientist, currently the Sauder Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and professor of information-system management at the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business. He is also a published author, being largely cited as a researcher.

#2688

Colin Terence Dollery

#78513

Overall Influence

#2689

Timothy David Noakes

#78540

Overall Influence

#2690

Riffat Hassan

#9206

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Riffat Hassan is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an. Early life and career Hassan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to an upper-class Sayid Muslim family. Hassan's maternal grandfather was Hakim Ahmad Shuja, a Pakistani poet, writer and playwright. She lived a comfortable childhood, but was affected by the conflict between her father's traditional views and her mother's nonconformism. For most of her life, she hated her father's traditionalism because of his views of sex roles, but she later came to appreciate it because of his kindness and compassion.

#2691

John Najarian

#42196

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

John Sarkis Najarian was an American transplant surgeon and clinical professor of transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota. Najarian was a pioneer in thoracic transplant surgery. Early life Najarian was born in Oakland, California to Armenian immigrants. He studied medicine at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also an offensive tackle for the college's football team, and played in the 1949 Rose Bowl.

#2692

Matthias Schirn

Matthias Schirn

#63087

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Matthias Schirn is a German philosopher and logician. Education and academic career Schirn completed his doctoral degree at the University of Freiburg in 1974 with a thesis on identity and synonymy in logic and semantics and subsequently taught at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Michigan State University. Schirn’s research during this time focused on theories of meaning for natural languages and intensional semantics, and he continued working in this area at the University of California at Berkeley, St. John’s College , Harvard University and at Wolfson College . In 1985, Sc...

#2693

Martin Heidegger

#78612

Overall Influence

#2694

Duane M. Ilstrup

#78660

Overall Influence

#2695

Richard Cartwright

#66318

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Richard Lee Cartwright was an American philosopher of language and emeritus professor of philosophy at MIT. Education and career Cartwright took his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1945, and his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1954 under Curt John Ducasse and Roderick Chisholm. He taught at the University of Michigan and then at Wayne State University. In 1967 he moved to MIT, where he was appointed to strengthen the new graduate philosophy program, and where he continued to teach until his retirement in 1996. Cartwright served twice as head of philosophy at MIT, and also as head of the humanities department.

#2696

Ali Asghar Mosleh

Ali Asghar Mosleh

#63835

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Ali Asghar Mosleh Fasaei is an Iranian philosopher and professor of philosophy at Allameh Tabataba'i University. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of culture. Mosleh holds the presidency of The Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy and Research Institute for Contemporary Culture at Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He was the Dean of ATU's Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages , and Acting-Dean of ATU's Faculty of Theology and Islamic Knowledge . He is associate member of the Iranian Academy of Science.

#2697

Heather Widdows

#55833

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Heather Widdows is a British philosopher, specialising in applied ethics. She was at the University of Birmingham for 22 years, beginning as research fellow and finishing as Pro-Vice-Chancellor .She is currently a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her research is in the areas of global ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of health and bioethics. In 2005, she was awarded a visiting fellowship at Harvard University.

#2698

Walter Womacka

#20653

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Walter Womacka was a German Socialist Realist artist. His work was pioneering early German Democratic Republic aesthetics. Biography Walter Womacka was born on 22 December 1925 in Horní Jiřetín, Czechoslovakia. He lived in East Berlin for most of his life. During World War II he did military service. Between 1946 and 1951, he studied art in Braunschweig, Weimar, and Dresden in Germany.

#2699

Louis Groarke

#38206

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Louis Groarke is a Canadian philosopher, author, and a professor in the Philosophy Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. His work is characterized by his specialization in Western philosophy, especially the thought of Aristotle.

#2700

Félix de Azúa

#35579

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Félix de Azúa Comella is a Spanish professor of aesthetics and philosophy, poet, novelist, essayist and translator, member of Real Academia Española. He taught Spanish literature at the University of Oxford from 1979 to 1981. He was director of the Institut Cervantes in Paris. With Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, José Angel Valente, Antonio Gamoneda, Pere Gimferrer, Julián Ríos and others, he is part of the generation of writers who revived democratic Spain.

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