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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#2851

Claudio Franceschi

#81840

Overall Influence

#2852

Lindley Darden

#28668

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Lindley Darden is a contemporary philosopher of science, with a research focus on the philosophy of biology. Biography She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974 and B.A. in 1968 from Rhodes College, and is currently Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland. Between 2001 and 2003, she was the president of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.

#2853

Alfred Cuschieri

#20682

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Sir Alfred Cuschieri is a Maltese-British surgeon and academic. He is most notable for his pioneering contribution to the development and clinical implementation of minimal access surgery, also known as key-hole surgery. He has been Professor of Surgery at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, since 2003 as well as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Institute of Medical Science and Technology at the University of Dundee since 2008.

#2854

Riccardo Pozzo

#61692

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Riccardo Pozzo is an Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy. Biography Graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan in 1983, he received his Ph.D. in 1988 at Saarland University and Habilitation in 1995 at University of Trier. In 1996 he went to the U.S. to teach Kant and Hegel at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 2003 he came back to Italy to take up the chair of the History of Philosophy at University of Verona.

#2855

Rado Riha

#45595

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Rado Riha is a Slovene philosopher. He is a senior research fellow and currently the head of the Institute of Philosophy, Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coordinator of the philosophy module at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica.

#2856

Matt Stone

#19284

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Matthew Richard Stone is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, and composer. He is best known for co-creating South Park and The Book of Mormon with his creative partner Trey Parker. Stone was interested in film and music as a child and at high school, and attended the University of Colorado Boulder, where he met Parker. The two collaborated on various short films, and starred in the feature-length musical Cannibal! The Musical .

#2857

Andrea Nye

#41119

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Andrea Nye is a feminist philosopher and writer. Nye is a Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater for the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department and an active member of the Women's Studies Department. In 1992, Nye received the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Award for Outstanding Research.

#2858

Anand Pillay

#55531

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Anand Pillay is a British mathematician and logician working in model theory and its applications in algebra and number theory. Biography Pillay studied as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1973 at Balliol College. At the University of London, he received his master's degree in mathematics in 1974 and his PhD in 1978 with Wilfrid Hodges at Bedford College, titled Gaifman Operations, Minimal Models, and the Number of Countable Models. In 1978, he was a Royal Society Fellow and visiting scientist at CNRS at Paris Diderot University.

#2859

Mia Berner

#78361

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

Mia Berner was a Norwegian philosopher, sociologist, university lecturer, radio journalist, essayist, novelist, poet and non-fiction writer. Berner grew up in Stavanger, and started studying philosophy at the University of Oslo. During the German occupation of Norway she was involved in resistance work, and had to flee to Sweden in 1943. She was married to the Swedish journalist Sven Öste, and the couple settled on the island of Tjörn, near Gothenburg. In 1975 she married the Finnish poet Pentti Saarikoski. Among her works is the memoir book PS. Anteckningar från et sorgeår from 1985, the nov...

#2860

Gahan Wilson

#7675

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Gahan Allen Wilson was an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Biography Wilson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was inspired by the work of the satiric Mad and Punch cartoonists, and 1950s science fiction films. His cartoons and prose fiction appeared regularly in Playboy, Collier's and The New Yorker for nearly 50 years. He was a regular contributor to the National Lampoon humor magazine. He published cartoons and film reviews for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. From 1992 through end of publication, he prepared all the front covers for the annual book Passport to World Band Radio.

#2861

Quirino Principe

#36318

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Quirino Principe is an Italian philosopher of music, Germanist, translator and dramatist. actor. Teaching activity Principe holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Padua. He taught on the musicology courses of the "G. Verdi" Conservatory of Milan. Further teaching engagements have included those at the University of Trieste , at Roma Tre "Ostiense" University and at Verona Accademia per l'Opera Italiana .

#2862

Mary Cushman

#50517

Overall Influence

Mary Cushman is an American vascular hematologist. She is a Full professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Early life and education Cushman grew up in western Massachusetts where she was encouraged by her mother to pursue "an easier, more traditional life and not have to work so hard." In spite of this, she enrolled at the University of Vermont, a school she described as "very progressive," and sought after a medical degree. Cushman earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Vermont in 1985 before enrolling at their Robert Larner College of Medicine for her medical degree.

#2863

Gordon Park Baker

#46778

Overall Influence

1938 - 2002 (64 years)

Gordon Park Baker was an American-English philosopher. His topics of interest included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Friedrich Waismann, Bertrand Russell, the Vienna Circle, and René Descartes. He was noted for his collaboration with Peter Hacker and his disagreements with Michael Dummett.

#2864

Thomas P. Stossel

Thomas P. Stossel

#35396

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Thomas P. Stossel was an American hematologist, inventor, medical researcher, and writer that discovered gelsolin, and invented the BioAegis technology estate. He was also a professor emeritus of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor emeritus of clinical research at the American Cancer Society. He was Chief Scientific Advisor to BioAegis Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biotech company developing a non-immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory with potential to address a wide range of infectious, inflammatory and degenerative diseases. He is the holder of more than 50 patents and had authored more than 300 papers, studies, and reviews.

#2865

John Marenbon

#28096

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

John Alexander Marenbon FBA is a British philosopher and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His principal area of specialization is medieval philosophy. Career He obtained BA, MA, PhD, and DLitt degrees from the University of Cambridge. Since 1978 he has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a senior research fellow there since 2005. In 2010 he became an honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge, delivering an inaugural lecture entitled 'When was medieval philosophy?'. He has also taught at Paris-Sorbonne University, been a visiting fellow at both the Centre for Me...

#2866

Lorenzo Bruzzone

#81986

Overall Influence

#2867

Vijay Prashad

#5153

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Vijay Prashad is an American-based Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual. He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. For Tricontinental, he writes a weekly newsletter. Ideologically a Marxist, Prashad is well known for his criticisms of capitalism, neocolonialism, American exceptionalism, and Western imperialism, while expressing support for co...

#2868

John Heil

#65358

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

John Heil is an American philosopher, known primarily for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. Heil is Professor of Philosophy at the Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. Heil is the inaugural editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, the North American Representative of The Philosophical Quarterly, and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of seven books and over 100 articles and book chapters.

#2869

Dermot Moran

#62520

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Dermot Moran is an Irish philosopher specialising in phenomenology and in medieval philosophy, and he is also active in the dialogue between analytic and continental philosophy. He is currently the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

#2870

John J. O'Meara

#65783

Overall Influence

1915 - 2003 (88 years)

John J. O'Meara was an Irish classical scholar, historian of ancient and medieval philosophy , educationalist and writer. Biography John J. O'Meara was born in Eyrecourt to Mary Donelan and Patrick O'Meara on 18 February 1915, but lost his father when he was less than a year old. He had a younger brother, Patrick . He was educated at Rockwell College and Garbally, Ballinasloe, becoming for a time a Jesuit seminarist. In his autobiographical book, The Singing Masters, O'Meara describes the hard times of his childhood, including the terror brought by the British Black and Tans, and by the subsequent Irish Civil War.

#2871

Tom Hayden

#11240

Overall Influence

1939 - 2016 (77 years)

Thomas Emmet Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, authoring the Port Huron Statement and standing trial in the Chicago Seven case.

#2872

Mahapurna

#68901

Overall Influence

Mahapurna , also called Periyanambi, was one of the teachers and maternal uncle of the medieval Vaishnava philosopher Ramanuja. He was responsible for initiating Ramanuja into Sri Vaishnavism. Biography Mahapurna was born in a Choḻiyar family and lived in the eleventh or twelfth century CE. He was a disciple of Yamunacharya, whom he helped with the management of the Ranganathasamy temple at Srirangam.

#2873

Andrzej Grzegorczyk

Andrzej Grzegorczyk

#46044

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Andrzej Grzegorczyk was a Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Historical family background Andrzej Grzegorczyk's foundational family background has its origins in the Polish intellectual, religious, patriotic and nationalist traditions. He was the only child to the Galician family of well-educated and wealthy parents, his father Piotr Jan Grzegorczyk was a Polish philologist and historian of Polish literature involved in literary criticism, bibliographic studies, and chronicles of the Polish cultural life.

#2874

Eric Winer

#51995

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Eric P. Winer is a medical oncologist and clinical researcher specializing in breast cancer. He is director of Yale Cancer Center and president and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale New Haven Health System, effective February 1, 2022. He also is Deputy Dean for Cancer Research at Yale School of Medicine. From 1997 to 2021, he was the Chief of the Breast Oncology Program at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Beginning in 2013, he held a range of institutional roles at Dana-Farber, including Chief of Clinical Development, the Thompson Chair in Breast Cancer Research and Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard SPORE in Breast Cancer.

#2875

Brian Martin

#27014

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Brian Martin is a social scientist in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Wollongong in NSW, Australia. He was appointed a professor at the university in 2007, and in 2017 was appointed emeritus professor. His work is in the fields of peace research, scientific controversies, science and technology studies, sociology, political science, media studies, law, journalism, freedom of speech, education and corrupted institutions, as well as research on whistleblowing and dissent in the context of science. Martin was president of Whistleblowers Australia from 1996 to 1999 and remains their International Director.

#2876

David Braine

#68112

Overall Influence

1940 - 2017 (77 years)

David Braine was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy of religion and metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and phenomenology to the metaphysics of classical Thomism. His The Reality of Time and the Existence of God set out to prove the existence of God from the fact that the world enjoys continuity in time. He argued that nothing in the world could be the cause of this continuity, whence God came into the picture.

#2877

Roy Yorke Calne

Roy Yorke Calne

#21787

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRCP, FRCS, FRS is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation. Career His most notable achievements are the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant together with John Wallwork in 1987; the first successful combined stomach, intestine, pancreas, liver, and kidney cluster transplant in 1994, the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968, and the first intestinal transplant in the UK in 1992.

#2878

Romane Clark

#66253

Overall Influence

1925 - 2007 (82 years)

Romane Lewis Clark was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is known for his works on logic, especially his eponymous paradox . Books Introduction to Logic, Romane Clark and Paul Welsh, D. Van Nostrana Company, Inc., Princeton, N.J., Toronto, New York, London, 1962.

#2879

R. James Long

#59160

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Raymond James Long is an American academic and professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is also a faculty member at St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut. Long was the president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.

#2880

Crescens the Cynic

#58668

Overall Influence

Crescens was a Cynic philosopher who attacked the Christians, and was in turn attacked by Justin Martyr. Eusebius, writing 150 years later, accused him of causing Justin's death. Life The only information regarding Crescens comes from hostile attacks by the church fathers. He was active, according to the Chronicon of Eusebius of Caesarea, around 152-153. Tatian refers to Crescens as being resident in the "great city", presumably Rome. According to Justin, Crescens attacked the Christians with great acrimony, calling them atheists: Crescens, that lover of bravado and boasting; for the man is n...

#2881

Rada Iveković

#39599

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Rada Iveković is a Croatian professor, philosopher, Indologist and writer. Research Iveković's research interests include comparative philosophy , feminist theory and feminist philosophy as well as political philosophy.

#2882

Joseph E. B. Lumbard

Joseph E. B. Lumbard

#25031

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Joseph E.B. Lumbard is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Quranic studies at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. He is the author, editor, and translator of several scholarly books and many articles on Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and Quranic studies.

#2883

Eugeniusz Grodziński

#51733

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

Eugeniusz Grodziński was a Polish philosopher, whose principal interests were philosophy of natural language, philosophical foundations of logic, and philosophical problems of psychology. He was born as Yefim Grodziński in Pskov, Russian Empire, studied law, and in 1957 emigrated from Vilnius, the Soviet Union to Warsaw, Poland. Until his retirement, he was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

#2884

John G. Batsakis

#82302

Overall Influence

#2885

Clyde Yancy

#58442

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Clyde Warren Yancy is an American cardiologist and the Magerstadt Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He has previously served as the Past President of the American Heart Association. His research considers heart failure, heart transplantation and ways to prevent heart failure. He is Vice Dean of Diversity and Inclusion.

#2886

Patricia A. Ganz

#62521

Overall Influence

Patricia Anne Ganz is an American medical oncologist. She is a professor of health policy and management in the Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In 2007, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

#2887

Angela Vincent

#53403

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Angela Vincent is Emeritus professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Career and research Angela Vincent was born in 1942, the third child of Carmen and Joseph Molony . After St Mary's Convent, Ascot, she studied medicine at King's College London and Westminster Hospital School of Medicine . After one year as a junior doctor at St Steven's and St Charles' hospitals in London , she obtained an MSc in biochemistry from University College London. In 1967 she married Philip Morse Vincent and they have four children.

#2888

Algis Uždavinys

Algis Uždavinys

#62421

Overall Influence

1962 - 2010 (48 years)

Algis Uždavinys was a Lithuanian philosopher and scholar. His work pioneered the hermeneutical comparative study of Egyptian and Greek religions, especially their esoteric relations to Semitic religions, and in particular the inner aspect of Islam . His books have been published in Lithuanian, Russian, English and French, including translations of Plotinus, Frithjof Schuon and Ananda Coomaraswamy into Russian and Lithuanian.

#2889

Fernando Tesón

#31014

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Fernando Tesón is an Argentine-American legal scholar who is known for his contributions to the philosophy of law and to neoclassical liberal theory. He is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. His publications include Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality ; Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation [with Guido Pincione]; A Philosophy of International Law ; and many articles in law, philosophy, and international relations journals and collections of essays. Before entering academia, Professor Tesón was a career diplomat for the Argentina Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires for four years.

#2890

Fran Balkwill

#57325

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Frances Rosemary Balkwill is an English scientist, Professor of Cancer Biology at Queen Mary University of London, and author of children's books about scientific topics. Early life and education Balkwill was born in south-west London in 1952, and was educated at Surbiton High School. She obtained a BSc in Cellular Pathology at the University of Bristol and a PhD on leukaemia cell biology in the Medical Oncology Department at St Bartholomew's Hospital supervised by Gordon Hamilton Fairley.

#2891

Ted Cohen

#73976

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Ted Cohen was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. His interests included philosophy of art, history of the philosophy of art, especially in the 18th-century, and the philosophy of language.

#2892

Noël O'Sullivan

#29713

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Noël O'Sullivan is currently Research Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Hull. He studied at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. In 1967 he joined the Politics Department at Hull University. In 1992 he was given a personal chair in political philosophy at Hull.

#2893

Ian Almond

#7118

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Ian Almond is a literary scholar. He is professor of world literature at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Biography Ian Almond was born in 1969 in Skipton, England. He received his PhD in literature at Edinburgh University, and worked for University of Bari in Italy, Erciyes University and Boğaziçi University in Turkey, Frei University in Germany, and Georgia State University in the US, before coming to Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar in 2013.

#2894

Jayshree Talwalkar

#80978

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Jayshree Talwalkar, also known as Didiji, which literally translates as elder sister in Hindi, is an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer. She has represented Swadhyay and Indian philosophy at different conferences.

#2895

Peter F. Strawson

#82502

Overall Influence

#2896

Mehdi Aminrazavi

#46038

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Mehdi Aminrazavi is an Iranian scholar of philosophy and mysticism. He is the Kurt Leidecker Chair in Asian Studies and a professor of philosophy and religion as well as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Mary Washington.

#2897

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

#23213

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman is an English political theorist, academic, social commentator, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is a senior lecturer in Political Theory at London Metropolitan University, Director of its Faith and Citizenship Programme and a columnist for the New Statesman, UnHerd, Tablet and Spiked. He is best known as a founder of Blue Labour, a term he coined in 2009.

#2898

Sebastian Rödl

#69795

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sebastian Rödl is a German philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at the University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2012 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. Biography Rödl studied philosophy, musicology, German literature and history in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, completing his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Albrecht Wellmer. His work focuses on the self-conscious nature of human thought and action. His main influence is Hegel, and he sees himself as introducing and restating Hegel's Absolute Idealism in a historical moment that is wrought with mi...

#2899

Charles P. O’brien

#82654

Overall Influence

#2900

Lee Goldman

#52108

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Lee Goldman is an American cardiologist and educator at Columbia University, where he is professor of medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and dean emeritus of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine. From 2006 to 2020 he served as executive vice president and dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the university. Before moving to Columbia, he was chair of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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