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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#2951

Sergio Romagnani

#83543

Overall Influence

#2952

Christos Pantelis

#33688

Overall Influence

Professor Christos Pantelis is an Australian professor of medicine who is the Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre. Profile Prof. Christos Pantelis is an Australian of Greek background. He completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne and trained at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne. Two years later, in 1979, he commenced his training in psychiatry at the Royal Free Hospital in London, England. During his training, he spent 18 months as a Research Registrar at University College Hospital to undertake an epidemiological study of schizophrenia in Inner London. He was appointed as a lecturer at Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School in 1988.

#2953

Gerd Heusch

#74511

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Gerd Heusch is a German physician, physiologist, and professor as well as chair of the Institute for Pathophysiology at the University of Essen Medical School. Biography Heusch attended the Medical Schools at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bonn, where he graduated in 1979 and received his MD degree in 1980. Following obligatory military service as medical officer, he was postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology at the University of Düsseldorf Medical School where he completed his PhD in 1985. From 1985 to 1986 Heusch was research cardiologist at the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Dr.

#2954

Barry Kay

#75730

Overall Influence

1939 - 2020 (81 years)

Anthony Barrington "Barry" Kay was a British immunologist known for his research in asthma and allergy. He was a professor at Imperial College London and a consultant immunologist to Royal Brompton Hospital.

#2955

William A. Haseltine

William A. Haseltine

#42510

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

William A. Haseltine is an American scientist, businessman, author, and philanthropist. He is known for his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS and the human genome. Haseltine was a professor at Harvard Medical School, where he founded two research departments on cancer and HIV/AIDS. He is a founder of several biotechnology companies, including Cambridge Biosciences, The Virus Research Institute, ProScript, LeukoSite, Dendreon, Diversa, X-VAX, and Demetrix. He was a founder chairman and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, a company that pioneered the application of genomics to drug discovery.

#2956

Ernesto Grassi

#54645

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

Ernesto Grassi was an Italian philosopher. Life He maintained an intimate friendship with Donald Phillip Verene. Thought Grassi sought to take up the Heideggerean Destruktion of metaphysics, grounding his philosophical enterprise instead in the tradition of rhetoric. He identified the Italian humanist tradition as a potential site to begin this development of philosophy, and his works often contain copious references to the Italian humanists. In this tradition, "work and metaphor are the source of human history and society", an approach to thought which must reject the rational, proceeding a...

#2957

Engelbert Mveng

#24421

Overall Influence

1930 - 1995 (65 years)

Engelbert Mveng, SJ , was a Cameroonian Jesuit priest, artist, historian, theologian, and anthropologist. Early life and religious education Born in a Presbyterian family but baptized in a Catholic church, Mveng received a Christian education from his parents. His intelligence was noticed by a priest, Father Herbard, who sent him to school in Efok, Cameroon from 1943 to 1944. As a teenager, his talent for draftsmanship led him to tutor younger students at a nearby mission school in Minlaba. The next stage of his studies followed in the minor seminary of Akono from 1944 to 1949.

#2958

James Fraser Mustard

James Fraser Mustard

#29418

Overall Influence

1927 - 2011 (84 years)

James Fraser Mustard was a Canadian doctor and renowned researcher in early childhood development. Born, raised and educated in Toronto, Ontario, Mustard began his career as a research fellow at the University of Toronto where he studied the effects of blood lipids, their relation to heart disease and how Aspirin could mitigate those effects. He published the first clinical trial showing that aspirin could prevent heart attacks and strokes. In 1966, he was one of the founding faculty members at McMaster University's newly established medical school. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and the medical school at McMaster University from 1972 to 1982.

#2959

Robert A. Bruce

#17072

Overall Influence

1916 - 2004 (88 years)

Robert Arthur Bruce was an American cardiologist and a professor at the University of Washington. He was known as the "father of exercise cardiology" for his research and development of the Bruce Protocol.

#2960

Max Oelschlaeger

#74044

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Max Oelschlaeger is an American ecological philosopher, active in the study of Environmental Ethics, Environmental Philosophy, Ecofeminism, Deep Ecology, Philosophy of Ecology, Contemporary Environmental Issues, Postmodern Environmental Ethics, and the Philosophy of Wilderness.

#2961

Dorthe Jørgensen

Dorthe Jørgensen

#71307

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Dorthe Jørgensen is a Danish philosopher, theologian, and historian of ideas. In 2006, she became the first Danish woman to be awarded the honorary higher doctoral degree dr.phil.habil., in recognition of several successful publications. Since 2010, she has been Professor of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Aarhus University.

#2962

Amalie J. Hathaway

#82032

Overall Influence

Amalie John Hathaway was a German-American philosopher and lecturer, who contributed to the pessimism controversy in Germany. Life and work Hathaway was born in Mühlhausen, Germany. She moved with her family to Wisconsin when she was 12 and ran a country school from the age of 15, as a source of income. She was introduced to philosophy by the lecturer Benjamin Cocker who brought to her attention the works of "German metaphysicians and philosophers", including Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann, which she could read and understand in their original language. While pursuing her studies, ...

#2963

Peter M. Donohue

#24704

Overall Influence

Peter M. Donohue is an American academic administrator and Roman Catholic priest who was inaugurated as Villanova University's 32nd President on September 8, 2006. He had served as the Chair of the Villanova Theatre Department since 1992.

#2964

Peter T. Macklem

#83692

Overall Influence

#2965

Nikolaus Knoepffler

#63995

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Nikolaus Knoepffler is a philosopher and theologian. He currently holds the Chair of Applied Ethics and is the Director of the Ethics Center at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Knoepffler is founder and president of the Global Applied Ethics Institute a consortium mainly involved with research on bioethics and business ethics.

#2966

Roy A. Clouser

#42459

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Roy A. Clouser is professor emeritus of the College of New Jersey. He has served as professor of philosophy, religion, and logic at the college since 1968. He serves as the resident philosopher of Christian Leaders Institute.

#2967

Michael Waterman

Michael Waterman

#6897

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Michael Spencer Waterman is a Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California , where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. He previously held positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Idaho State University.

#2968

Lorenzo Chiesa

#54854

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Lorenzo Chiesa is a philosopher, critical theorist, translator, and professor whose academic research and works focus on the intersection between ontology, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Biography Chiesa is currently a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. He also teaches at the European Graduate School. Previously, he taught at the University of Kent , where he was a Full Professor of Modern European Thought and founded and directed the Centre for Critical Thought. He was also visiting professor in the MA programme in Socio-Political Philosophy of the European University at Saint Petersburg and at the Freud's Dream Museum in Saint Petersburg.

#2969

Åsa Wikforss

#83764

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Åsa Wikforss is a professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University, and a member of the Swedish Academy. Wikforss does research in the intersection of philosophy of mind, language and epistemology and has published widely on a variety of topics in the area. She is a member of several international research networks and research councils and was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In September 2017 she published Alternativa fakta: Om kunskapen och dess fiender . The book was gifted to over 100 000 gymnasium students for the Christmas of 2019, but was criticized in an a...

#2970

Bernard Zinman

#71004

Overall Influence

Bernard Zinman is a Canadian clinical and research endocrinologist, whose research at the University of Toronto focuses on type 1 and type 2 diabetes. He directed the Mount Sinai Hospital Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes and the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre . In 2019, he was appointed as an Officer to the Order of Canada in recognition of his scientific contributions, including the development of preventative therapies for diabetes.

#2971

Jay A. Levy

#20366

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Jay A. Levy is an American AIDS and cancer research physician. He is a professor of medicine with specialties in virology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco . Biography Levy was born in Wilmington, Delaware, with his twin brother, Stuart B. Levy. Levy received his B.A. degree with high honors from Wesleyan University in 1960 and subsequently his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1965. He conducted research for a year on regeneration in planaria at the Université de Paris on Fulbright and French government fellowships. ...

#2972

Filippo Crea

#83799

Overall Influence

#2973

Gwenaëlle Aubry

Gwenaëlle Aubry

#68264

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Gwenaëlle Aubry is a French novelist and philosopher. Biography After two years of preparatory classes at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, Aubry began her studies at the École Normale Supérieure in 1989 at the age of eighteen, earning an agrégation in Philosophy in 1992. She then received the Knox Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she earned a Master of Philosophy. In 1999 she received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne.

#2974

Carl Posy

#50327

Overall Influence

Carl Jeffrey Posy is an Israeli philosopher. He is a full professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. Carl Posy received his PhD degree from Yale University in the United States in 1971.

#2975

Alfonso Gómez-Lobo

#71963

Overall Influence

1940 - 2011 (71 years)

Alfonso Gómez-Lobo was a professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Georgetown University known for his critical evaluations of modern-day ethics. He was a member of The President's Council on Bioethics of the United States.

#2976

Patricia De Martelaere

Patricia De Martelaere

#49824

Overall Influence

1957 - 2009 (52 years)

Patricia De Martelaere was a Flemish philosopher, professor, author and essayist. Born in Zottegem, Belgium, her full name was Patricia Marie Madeleine Godelieve. She graduated in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and then taught and lectured there and at the Catholic University of Brussels.

#2977

Yves Roucaute

#19304

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Yves Roucaute is a French philosopher , Phd , Phd , writer, professeur agrégé in philosophy, professeur agrégé in political science, teaching at Paris X University Nanterre, Previous President of the scientific Council of the "Institut National des Hautes Etudes de Securité et de Justice" , director of the review "Cahiers de la Sécurité", counsellor of the "réformateurs" group at the French National Assembly. He has held a number of positions in cabinet ministers of right-wing governments, and is a close friend of Alain Madelin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and Nicolas Sarkozy. He is also a journali...

#2978

Kenneth Mayer

#81815

Overall Influence

Kenneth Hugh Mayer is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Medical Research Director and the co-chair of the Fenway Institute. Mayer is also a professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Director of HIV Prevention Research and Attending Physician at Beth Israel Lahey Health, and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown University.

#2979

Brendan Sweetman

Brendan Sweetman

#61461

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Brendan Sweetman is an Irish philosopher whose research interests are in philosophy of religion, contemporary European philosophy, political philosophy, and business ethics. He is a specialist on the work of French philosopher, Gabriel Marcel. He holds the Sullivan Chair of Philosophy and is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

#2980

Carol Cleland

#57434

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Carol Edith Cleland is an American philosopher of science known for her work on the definition of life and the shadow biosphere, on the classification of minerals by their geological history, on the distinction between historical and experimental approaches to science, and on the Church–Turing thesis on theoretical limits to physical computation. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder, holds affiliations with the NASA Astrobiology Institute, the SETI Institute, and the CU Boulder Center for Astrobiology, and directs the Center for Study of Origins.

#2981

George K. Aghajanian

#83872

Overall Influence

#2982

David Auerbach

#15794

Overall Influence

David Auerbach is an American writer and former Microsoft and Google software engineer. He has written on a variety of subjects, including social issues and popular culture, the environment, computer games, philosophy and literature. His 2018 book Bitwise: A Life in Code was well received, and chosen by Popular Mechanics as one of its 30 "Best Sci/Tech Books of 2018".

#2983

James C. Hogg

#47005

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

James C. Hogg is a Canadian physician and one of Canada's leading pulmonary pathologists. Hogg has been recognized for his research into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. He received the Canada Gairdner Wightman Award in 2013. He became an officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and was named to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2010. He also received the Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

#2984

Louis Marin

#30845

Overall Influence

1931 - 1992 (61 years)

Louis Marin was a French philosopher, historian, semiotician, and art critic. He was born in La Tronche, France. He is a French post-structuralistic thinker. He attended the University of Paris, Sorbonne and graduated with a Licence in Philosophy in 1952. His degree was followed in 1953 with an Agrégé in Philosophy and with a Docteur d'Etat in 1973. Marin taught at the University of Nanterre, Paris from 1967 to 1970, the University of California, San Diego from 1970 to 1974, Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1977, and finally at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1977 to 1992.

#2985

Aramesh Dustdar

#66440

Overall Influence

1931 - 2021 (90 years)

Aramesh Dustdar was an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar, and philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. Dustdar received a Ph.D. degree in philosophy from the University of Bonn. He is known in n as a secular Heideggerian philosopher .

#2986

Truman G. Madsen

Truman G. Madsen

#60299

Overall Influence

1926 - 2009 (83 years)

Truman Grant Madsen was a professor of religion and philosophy at Brigham Young University and director of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. He was a prolific author, a recognized authority on Joseph Smith, and a popular lecturer among Latter-day Saints. At one point, Madsen was an instructor at the LDS Institute of Religion in Berkeley, California.

#2987

Joseph R. Bertino

#69046

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Joseph Rocco Bertino was an American researcher in the cancer pharmacology program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and professor of medicine and pharmacology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. His research focused on the treatment of lymphoma.

#2988

Robert Nola

#38309

Overall Influence

1940 - 2022 (82 years)

Robert Nola was a New Zealand philosophy academic, and was an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. His work focussed on the philosophy and history of science, on epistemology and on metaphysics.

#2989

Pema Chödrön

#8406

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Pema Chödrön is an American Tibetan-Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia.

#2990

Gerhard Opelz

#84000

Overall Influence

#2991

Takashi Tsuruo

#84001

Overall Influence

#2992

Erin I. Kelly

#45666

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Erin I. Kelly is an American philosopher and author. She is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University. Her book Chasing Me to My Grave, which she co-wrote with the subject Winfred Rembert, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.

#2993

Riitta Hari

#28975

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Riitta Kyllikki Hari is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University. She has led the Brain Research Unit at the Low Temperature Laboratory since 1982. Hari was appointed as Academician of Science on 26 November 2010.

#2994

Dirk Schadendorf

#84024

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

#2995

Heidi Ledford

#84031

Overall Influence

#2996

Laurent Poirel

#84058

Overall Influence

#2997

Ernest A. Mcculloch

#84066

Overall Influence

#2998

Daniel Stoljar

#58426

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Daniel Stoljar is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He was the President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy . Stoljar is known for his works on physicalism and philosophical progress.

#2999

Antonio Gasbarrini

#84134

Overall Influence

#3000

Étienne Klein

#18481

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Étienne Klein is a French physicist and philosopher of science, born in 1958. A graduate of École Centrale Paris, he holds a DEA in theoretical physics, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and an accreditation to supervise research .

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