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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#2751

Parvis Emad

#27267

Overall Influence

1935 - 2023 (88 years)

Parvis Emad was an Iranian-American philosopher and translator of Martin Heidegger's writings. He was the founder and co-editor of the journal Heidegger Studies. Emad was a professor emeritus at DePaul University.

#2752

Morris W. Lev

#80024

Overall Influence

#2753

Menachem Lorberbaum

Menachem Lorberbaum

#45571

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Menachem Lorberbaum is an Israeli professor and the chair of the School of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Biography Menachem Lorberbaum completed his PhD in 1993 under the joint supervision of Aviezer Ravitzki of the Hebrew University and Michael Walzer of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with a dissertation entitled: Politics and the Limits of Law in Jewish Medieval Thought. While writing his dissertation he was invited to be a fellow at the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he stayed for three years.

#2754

Henry N. Wagner

#69168

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Henry N. Wagner , a former professor at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the pioneering researchers in nuclear medicine.

#2755

Anthony Steinbock

#71844

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Anthony J. Steinbock is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York. He is the Director of the Phenomenology Research Center, editor-in-chief of Continental Philosophy Review and a co-editor-in-chief of Phenomenological Reviews. Steinbock is known for his research on phenomenology.

#2756

Edwin Etieyibo

#65277

Overall Influence

Edwin Ekwevukugbe Etieyibo is a Nigerian-Canadian philosopher dedicated to advancing African philosophy. He is an advocate of the validity of ethnophilosophy. This view has been criticised by a number of scholars and philosophers who argue that traditional African philosophy and ethnophilosophy are not genuine philosophy. Etieyibo is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta.

#2757

A. Lee Dellon

#67623

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Arnold Lee Dellon is an American plastic surgeon known for pioneering and developing the modern field of peripheral nerve injury. He is a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University and the founder of Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery.

#2758

Peter Safar

#4536

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Peter Safar was an Austrian anesthesiologist of Czech descent. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation . Early life Safar was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924 into a medical family. His father, Karl, was an ophthalmologist and his mother, Vinca , who had a Jewish grandmother, was a pediatrician. He graduated from the University of Vienna in 1948. He married Eva Kyzivat and moved from Vienna to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1949 for surgical training at Yale University. He completed training in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952. That same year he worked in Lima, Peru, and founded that country's first academic anesthesiology department.

#2759

Jerzy Perzanowski

Jerzy Perzanowski

#76972

Overall Influence

1943 - 2009 (66 years)

Jerzy Perzanowski , was a Polish logician and ontologist, Professor of Logic to the University of Toruń from 1992 to 2004. Founder of the Polish review Logic and Logical Philosophy, his main contributions are to the development of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and ontology.

#2760

Carlos Cordon-Cardo

#35308

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and molecular oncology. He holds the "Irene Heinz Given and John LaPorte Given" Chair in Pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

#2761

Mark Bedau

#19315

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Mark A. Bedau is an American philosopher who works in the field of artificial life. He is the son of the philosopher Hugo Bedau . Bedau teaches philosophy at Reed College. He is also the co-founder of the European Center for Living Technology and Visiting Professor, Ph.D. Program in Life Sciences: Foundations and Ethics, European School of Molecular Medicine. Bedau is also the editor of the Artificial Life Journal.

#2762

Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 4th Baronet

#71706

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Sir Ralph Nicholas Wedgwood, 4th Baronet is a British philosopher currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Life and career Wedgwood was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the only son of the architectural historian Alexandra and her husband Martin Wedgwood, later 3rd Baronet. He was named after his great-grandfather, Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet. Wedgwood is a descendant of the master potter Josiah Wedgwood. He inherited the Wedgwood Baronetcy of Etruria upon the death of his father on 12 October 2010. The heir presumptive to the Baronetcy is John J...

#2763

Henry Shue

#33404

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Henry Greyson Shue is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at Merton College of Oxford University. Previously he was Wyn and William Y Hutchinson Professor of Ethics & Public Life at Cornell University. Shue is best known for his book, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy.

#2764

Ruben Gur

#80334

Overall Influence

#2765

Henri Laborit

#3478

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Henri Laborit was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatrists to test it on a patient, resulting in great success. Laborit was recognized for his work, but as a surgeon searching for an anesthetic, he came to be at odds with psychiatrists who made their own discoveries and competing claims.

#2766

Fang Keli

#61974

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

Fang Keli was a Chinese New Confucian philosopher and a member of the Chinese Communist Party. He was best known for his work in New Confucianism and his theories which attempt to fusion Marxism and Chinese culture.

#2767

Karl-Georg Niebergall

#75059

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Karl-Georg Niebergall is a German logician and philosopher and professor for logic and philosophy of language at Humboldt University of Berlin. Biography From 1982 Niebergall studied mathematics in Darmstadt. After that he studied logic and philosophy of science under Godehard Link and Matthias Varga von Kibéd at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . Niebergall received his PhD in philosophy from LMU in 1995. His PhD dissertation on ‘The metamathematics of non-axiomatized theories’ was awarded with the Stegmüller award of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy. In 1997 Niebergall was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

#2768

Susan Schneider

Susan Schneider

#44848

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Susan Lynn Schneider is an American philosopher and artificial intelligence expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.

#2769

Harry Stopes-Roe

#32932

Overall Influence

1924 - 2014 (90 years)

Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe was a British philosopher known mainly for his active role in the humanist movement in Britain and around the world. He was a Vice-President of the British Humanist Association until his death in May 2014, having served as its Chair previously.

#2770

Laurence Zitvogel

#33380

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Laurence Zitvogel is a French physician specializing in oncology and immunology with a large research experience in exosomess and the biological impact of those structures in malignant neoplasms. Personal life Laurence Zitvogel was born in Suresnes, France on 25 December 1963. She has worked with her spouse, Guido Kroemer, since 2001.

#2771

Walter George Muelder

#23293

Overall Influence

1907 - 2004 (97 years)

Walter George Muelder was an American social ethicist, public theologian, ecumenist, and Methodist minister. He studied under Edgar S. Brightman at Boston University and began his teaching career at Berea College and the University of Southern California. He served as Dean of Boston University School of Theology from 1945 to 1972, and was known as the "Red Dean" because of his socialist and pacifist leanings.

#2772

Peter Byrne

#46764

Overall Influence

Peter Byrne is an emeritus professor in Philosophy at King's College London . Life Born in Wallasey, England, on 18 July 1950 and raised in Norris Green, Liverpool. He was educated at West Derby School, an all boys' Comprehensive. He studied Philosophy at the University of York, graduating with a first class degree in 1971, followed by a BPhil in Philosophy at Linacre College, Oxford. He was a lecturer, then later professor, of Philosophy and Ethics at Kings College from 1976 to 2009. In addition he was head of the department of Theology and Religious Studies at Kings from 2000 to 2002 and president of The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion from 2003 to 2005.

#2773

David Alan Johnson

#66772

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

David Alan Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Yeshiva University and has previously taught at UCLA, Syracuse University, Ohio State University, University of Connecticut, Wesleyan University, and College of William & Mary.

#2774

David W. Miller

#23888

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

David W. Miller is on the faculty of Princeton University, Director of the Princeton University Faith & Work Initiative, and scholar of the "faith at work" movement. Previously he taught for five years at the Yale School of Management and the Yale Divinity School and was the founding Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. Prior to academia he was a senior executive in international business for 16 years.

#2775

Qasem Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani

#594

Overall Influence

1957 - 2020 (63 years)

Qasem Soleimani was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps . From 1998 until his assassination in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds Force, an IRGC division primarily responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operationss. In his later years, he was considered by some analysts to be the right-hand man of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, as well as the second-most powerful person in Iran behind him.

#2776

Christopher S. Hill

#52155

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Christopher S. Hill is an American philosopher and William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is known for his expertise on consciousness and philosophy of mind. Career Hill previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Michigan, the University of Arkansas, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held various fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a fellow at the National Humanities Center. Hill is a former editor of Philosophical Topics and a former associate editor ...

#2777

Fernando Andacht

#46256

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Fernando Torres Andacht is a Uruguayan-born semiotician. Andacht studied Letters at the University of the Republic, graduating in 1978. Afterwards he obtained an MA in General Linguistics at Ohio University , a Doctorate in Latin American Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and a PhD in Communication and Information, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre . Currently he is a Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa.

#2778

Salahaddin Khalilov

#42306

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Salahaddin Khalilov is an Azerbaijani philosopher. Scientific-pedagogical activity He defended his PhD thesis titled “Systematic Structural Analysis of Scientific and Technological Progress in the USSR” in 1976. After completing his postdoctoral research he defended a thesis titled “Logico-gnoseological issues of Scientific and Technological Progress” in 1989. In the same year, he became a professor and the head of the Philosophy Department at Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. He founded the University “Azerbaijan” , a private university in Azerbaijan, in 1991 and was its rector until 2006.

#2779

Coriscus of Scepsis

#50601

Overall Influence

Coriscus of Scepsis and his brother Erastus were students of Plato. He was also a friend of Aristotle. Coriscus' son Neleus is mentioned as inheriting Aristotle's library. Scepsis is located about fifty kilometers from Assos in Asia Minor, to which Aristotle and Xenocrates traveled after Plato's death.

#2780

David Bostock

#53890

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

David Bostock was a British philosopher and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Life and career Bostock was one of four children of Edward and Alice Bostock. He was educated at Amesbury School in Hindhead, Surrey, and at Charterhouse School, before undertaking his National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Surrey Regiment. Having read Literae Humaniores at St John's College, Oxford, and after stipendiary posts at Leicester University , the Australian National University at Canberra and Harvard University , Bostock served as a Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Merton College, Oxford between ...

#2781

Bernard Delfgaauw

Bernard Delfgaauw

#29080

Overall Influence

1912 - 1993 (81 years)

Bernardus Maria Ignatius "Bernard" Delfgaauw was a Dutch philosopher. He studied Dutch language and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1947 he earned his doctoral degree on the French metaphysician Louis Lavelle. In 1961 he became a professor in philosophy at the University of Groningen.

#2782

Jussi Parikka

#42426

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Jussi Ville Tuomas Parikka is a Finnish new media theorist and Professor in Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art as well as Visiting Professor at FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In Finland, he is Docent of digital culture theory at the University of Turku. Until May 2011 Parikka was the Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy research institute at Anglia Ruskin University and the founding Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre for Digital Culture. Wit...

#2783

William Newton-Smith

#33061

Overall Influence

1943 - 2023 (80 years)

William Herbert Newton-Smith was a Canadian philosopher of science. Biography Newton-Smith's undergraduate degree from Queen's University was in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1966. He took an MA from Cornell University in Philosophy, in 1968, and a DPhil in philosophy from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1974. His working life before retirement was mainly as a Fellow of Balliol.

#2784

Humberto Giannini

#33296

Overall Influence

1927 - 2014 (87 years)

Humberto Giannini Íñiguez was a Chilean philosopher of Italian descent. A disciple and continuator of , he was a member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua and winner of the National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences in 1999.

#2785

Serene Khader

#69094

Overall Influence

Serene J. Khader is an American moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in the Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her main areas of research are political philosophy, moral psychology, feminist philosophy, global justice and development ethics. In April 2017 she was elected vice-president of the Human Development and Capabilities Association.

#2786

William Hatcher Davis

#76688

Overall Influence

1939 - 2017 (78 years)

William Hatcher Davis was Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, where he taught for 47 years and served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy. He was interested in the philosophy of religion, ethics, epistemology, and pragmatism. Among his publications are The Freewill Question , Peirce's Epistemology , and "Why be Moral?" .

#2787

Charles Bernard Higgins

#80594

Overall Influence

#2788

Elizabeth V. Spelman

#69067

Overall Influence

Elizabeth V. Spelman is a philosopher in the United States. She is currently a professor at Smith College. She is a Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities. Due to this position she currently resides in Northampton, Massachusetts.

#2789

Richard Zach

#71328

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Richard Zach is a Canadian logician, philosopher of mathematics, and historian of logic and analytic philosophy. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Research Zach's research interests include the development of formal logic and historical figures associated with this development. In the philosophy of mathematics Zach has worked on Hilbert's program and the philosophical relevance of proof theory. In mathematical logic, he has made contributions to proof theory and to modal and many-valued logic, especially Gödel logic.

#2790

Oscar Terán

#72112

Overall Influence

1938 - 2008 (70 years)

Oscar Terán was an Argentinean philosopher. Terán was born in Carlos Casares, Buenos Aires. He left his hometown in 1959 to study philosophy in the Buenos Aires University where he devoted himself to the study of history with the help of his teacher . In 1976 he was exiled in Mexico because of a military dictatorship. He was the author of numerous books and also a supporter of Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Alfonsinismo in the 1980s.

#2791

Lawrence Einhorn

#12051

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Lawrence Einhorn is an American oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine. A pioneer in cancer treatment research, Einhorn developed cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimens that increased cure rates while minimizing toxic side effects.

#2792

Beth Lord

#76274

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Beth Lord is a Canadian philosopher specialising in the history of philosophy, especially the work and influence of Immanuel Kant and Baruch Spinoza, and contemporary Continental philosophy. She is currently a Professor and Head of School in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, where she has worked since 2013.

#2793

Alejandro A. Rabinstein

#80685

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

#2794

Sandra Black

#39535

Overall Influence

Sandra Elizabeth Black, is a Canadian physician and neurologist known for her work in "contributing to improved diagnosis and treatment of vascular dementia, Alzheimer's disease and stroke". She is currently a Senior scientist at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She holds the Brill Chair in Neurology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

#2795

Juan Manuel Silva Camarena

#51883

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Juan Manuel Silva Camarena , is a Mexican philosopher, Cathedratic Professor and academic functionary. Biography Juan Manuel Silva Camarena was born on November 6, 1945, younger son of the candy, chocolate and Mexican cream manufacturer Heladio Silva Chávez and Refugio Camarena Padilla , born in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco.

#2796

Peter Malfertheiner

#80743

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

#2797

Edward H. Shortliffe

#8247

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Edward Hance Shortliffe is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems, which obtained clinical data interactively from a physician user and was used to diagnose and recommend treatment for severe infections. While never used in practice , its performance was shown to be comparable to and sometimes more accurate than that of Stanford infectious disease faculty.

#2798

Petr Vopěnka

#42651

Overall Influence

1935 - 2015 (80 years)

Petr Vopěnka was a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory , which he subsequently developed in a series of articles and monographs. Vopěnka’s name is associated with many mathematical achievements, including Vopěnka's principle. Since the mid-eighties he concerned himself with philosophical questions of mathematics .

#2799

Ronald Anthony Depinho

#80775

Overall Influence

#2800

Clifford Williams

#46082

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Clifford Williams is an American professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is also Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. Williams graduated from Wheaton College in 1964 and from Indiana University with a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1972. He taught at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York from 1968 to 1982 with the exception of one semester at Houghton College. He then taught at Trinity International University from 1982 to 2012, becoming the chair of the philosophy department, with the exception of 1998–1999, where he taught at Wheaton College.

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