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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#3551

Divna M. Vuksanović

#87982

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Divna M. Vuksanović is a Serbian philosopher, writer, media theorist and the president of the Aesthetic Society of Serbia. Biography She graduated from the Department of Performing and Organizing Cultural and Artistic Activities of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in 1988 and the Department of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 1992. She holds a MA in theater studies and a Doctor of Philosophy of Science in the field of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics .

#3552

Joseph E. Parrillo

#94442

Overall Influence

#3553

Stanley T. Crooke

#94452

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

#3554

Ludwig Kappos

#94454

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#3555

Toyoaki Murohara

#94473

Overall Influence

#3556

Paul Devroey

#94501

Overall Influence

#3557

Viktoria Suchantseva

Viktoria Suchantseva

#71587

Overall Influence

1949 - 2019 (70 years)

Viktoria Suchantseva was a Ukrainian philosopher, aesthetician, culturologist, poet and writer, founder of Ukrainian philosophy of music school of thought. Biography Viktoria Suchantseva was born in Luhansk . Her father was a deputy Editor in chief of “Voroshilovgrad truth” newspaper, mother was a music teacher. From 1964 to 1968 she was a student of Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music . From 1968–1973 she was a student of Piano Department of Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. From 1969–1973 she was a student of Maxim Gorky Literature Institute . Her poems were published in “Iynost’” magaz...

#3558

G. Michael Besser

#94517

Overall Influence

#3559

Kuldeep Dhama

#94554

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3560

Carmine Pariante

#92234

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Carmine Maria Pariante FRCPsych is professor of biological psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, and consultant perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He also works as the lead for the Affective Disorders and Interface with Medicine theme at the National Institute for Health and Care Research Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre .

#3561

Christian Rätsch

Christian Rätsch

#14817

Overall Influence

1957 - 2022 (65 years)

Christian Rätsch was a German anthropologist and writer on topics like ethnopharmacology, psychoactive plants and animals. Life Rätsch was born in 1957 in a Bohemian community in Hamburg, Germany. His father was an opera singer, his mother a ballet dancer. He started learning about shamanism and sacred plants at 10 and had his first drug experience at 12.

#3562

E. Wesley Ely

#87432

Overall Influence

Eugene Wesley Ely is an American physician specialized in critical care and pulmonary medicine. He is a professor of medicine at the school of medicine of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

#3563

Gerald L. Mandell

#94608

Overall Influence

#3564

Brian Holmes

#32124

Overall Influence

Brian Holmes is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive summer seminar. He has worked with the French graphics collective Ne Pas Plier from 1999 to 2001 and the French cartography collective Bureau d'Études.

#3565

Nancy Hartsock

#60136

Overall Influence

1943 - 2015 (72 years)

Nancy C. M. Hartsock was a professor of Political Science and Women Studies at the University of Washington from 1984 to 2009. Personal life and education Hartsock was born in 1943 in a Methodist lower-middle class family, in Ogden, Utah. She attended Wellesley College. While there, Hartsock was involved in the Wellesley Civil Rights Group. This group provided tutoring in Roxbury and Boston, Massachusetts, as well as working with the Boston NAACP.

#3566

Eric Schwitzgebel

#78583

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Eric Schwitzgebel is an American philosopher and professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philosophy of mind and the nature of belief. He received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Alison Gopnik, and John Searle.

#3567

Asbjørn Hróbjartsson

#27210

Overall Influence

Asbjørn Hróbjartsson is a Danish medical researcher. He is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Research Methodology at the University of Southern Denmark, as well as head of research at Odense University Hospital's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine. He is the former editor-in-chief of the Danish journal Bibliotek for Læger. He is also affiliated with the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen. He received his Ph.D. in June 2001 from the University of Copenhagen, with a thesis entitled Are placebo interventions associated with clinically important effects? He is best-known for a 2001 article he co-authored with Peter C.

#3568

Denis J. Gospodarowicz

#94674

Overall Influence

#3569

Alan Wayne Partin

#94687

Overall Influence

#3570

P. Parameswaran

P. Parameswaran

#37744

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

P. Parameswaran , often referred to as Parameswarji, was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak from Kerala, India who was erstwhile Vice‑President of the Jan Sangh. He was president of Vivekananda Kendra, and has been conferred with Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2018. He died on 9 February 2020 due to age-related illnesses

#3571

Piers Benn

#42627

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Piers Benn is a British philosopher. His research interests include medical ethics, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of psychiatry. Life and career Benn grew up in Blackheath, southeast London, with parents June, a romantic novelist, and David Wedgwood Benn, a BBC producer and Russian specialist. David was a brother of Labour politician Tony Benn. Piers was educated at Eltham College in Mottingham until 1980 and gained his B.A. Hons. degree in Philosophy & Modern Languages from the University of Oxford . He received his PhD in philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 1992.

#3572

Adil Shamoo

#49059

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Adil E. Shamoo is an Iraqi biochemist with an interest in biomedical ethics and foreign policy. He is currently a professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland.

#3573

George R. Knight

#24301

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

George Raymond Knight is a leading Seventh-day Adventist historian, author, and educator. He is emeritus professor of church history at Andrews University. As of 2014 he is considered to be the best-selling and influential voice for the past three decades within the denomination.

#3574

Michael Selgelid

Michael Selgelid

#75013

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Michael J. Selgelid is a bioethicist and moral philosopher who has written on ethics and public health, biotechnology, and infectious diseases. He is the current director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University and of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics therein.

#3575

Mark Stephen Tremblay

#94844

Overall Influence

#3576

Marie-Dominique Philippe

Marie-Dominique Philippe

#37460

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Marie-Dominique Philippe, OP was a Dominican philosopher and theologian. He was ordained in 1936. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg from 1945 to 1982 where he held the chair of Metaphysics. Before becoming the subject of sexual allegations, he was considered one of the most important French Catholic theologians after Vatican II. While remaining a Dominican friar, he founded the Community of St. John in 1975. In 2013, the community's prior general, Br. Thomas Joachim, made known the first complaints of sexual abuse against Philippe.

#3577

Elizabeth Grosz

#49878

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Elizabeth A. Grosz is an Australian philosopher, feminist theorist, and professor working in the U.S. She is Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor at Duke University. She has written on 20th-century French philosophers Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze, as well as on gender, sexuality, temporality, and Darwinian evolutionary theory.

#3578

Barry Bozeman

#44208

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Barry Bozeman is a professor emeritus at Arizona State University where he was founding Director, Center for Organization Research and Design, Regents' Professor and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management. He specializes in two disparate fields, organization theory and science and technology policy.

#3579

Joel S. Schuman

Joel S. Schuman

#56941

Overall Influence

Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS is Professor of Ophthalmology, the Kenneth L. Roper Endowed Chair, Vice Chair for Research Innovation and co-director of the Glaucoma Service at Wills Eye Hospital. Prior to this he was the Elaine Langone Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at NYU Langone Medical Center, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Professor of Neural Science in the Center for Neural Science at NYU College of Arts and Sciences. He chaired the ophth...

#3580

Edward Ruscha

#6983

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California.

#3581

Thrasymachus of Corinth

#93870

Overall Influence

Thrasymachus of Corinth, was a philosopher of the Megarian school. Little is known about him except that he was colleague and friend of Ichthyas, and he had presumably been taught by Euclid of Megara, the founder of the school. He was said to have been the teacher of Stilpo.

#3582

Peter Bieri

#57300

Overall Influence

1944 - 2023 (79 years)

Peter Bieri , better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher. Academic background Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg. He took his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1971 after studies with Dieter Henrich and Ernst Tugendhat on the philosophy of time, with reference to the work of J. M. E. McTaggart. After the conferral of his doctorate, Bieri followed an academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

#3583

Claus Goerg Roehrborn

#94964

Overall Influence

#3584

Mark S. Soloway

#94981

Overall Influence

#3585

David O. Carpenter

#79184

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

David O. Carpenter is a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he is the director of the Institute for Health and the Environment. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Reviews on Environmental Health; and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Pollution.

#3586

William F. Lawhead

#87605

Overall Influence

William F. Lawhead is an American philosopher. Lawhead is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Mississippi having taught there since 1970 and served as the Chair of Department of Philosophy and Religion between 2005 and 2012. His main research interest has been in the history of philosophy.

#3587

Paul J. Olscamp

#42009

Overall Influence

1937 - 2014 (77 years)

Paul J. Olscamp was a Canadian-American academic and university administrator, born in Montreal, Quebec. While attending the University of Western Ontario, Olscamp was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in 1958 and 1960, respectively. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1962, the first such degree awarded there. His continuing love of the subject was evident during his time at Bowling Green State University because he taught a philosophy course almost every semester, despite managing all his duties as president.

#3588

Richard D. Klausner

#95022

Overall Influence

#3589

Deborah C. Poff

#35947

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Deborah C. Poff is a Canadian philosopher, educator, and journal editor. Deborah C. Poff is the former President and Vice-Chancellor at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba. She serves as editor of two major publications in the field of ethics. She was the Vice-President for Strategic Development at the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences, Canada, before retiring.

#3590

Robert Bartlett

#47488

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Robert Bartlett is an American physician and medical researcher who is credited with developing a lifesaving heart-lung technology known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation . He is an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.

#3591

Zev Rosenwaks

#95129

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

#3592

Christopher Robichaud

#75963

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Christopher Robichaud is a Philosopher and Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He received his doctorate in philosophy from MIT. His areas of research include ethics, political philosophy, and social epistemology. He also teaches at the Harvard Extension School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and in the past has taught at Texas A&M University, the University of Vermont, and Tufts University.

#3593

Robert Y. Moore

#77303

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Robert Y. Moore is an American neurologist with interests in disorders of biological rhythms, movement disorders, and behavioral neurology. He is credited with discovering the function of the suprachiasmatic nucleus as the circadian clock, as well as, describing its organization. He is also credited with establishing the role of the mammalian retinohypothalamic tract as a photic entrainment pathway. Moore cin 2017 serves as a professor of neurology, with a secondary in psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, and as co-director of the National Parkinson Foundation Center...

#3594

Werner Kalow

#95215

Overall Influence

#3595

Richard F. Spaide

#95252

Overall Influence

#3596

Mark Kingwell

#48950

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Mark Gerald Kingwell is a Canadian professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy. Kingwell is a fellow of Trinity College. He specialises in theories of politics and culture.

#3597

John Kelsay

#45370

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Kelsay is an author and a Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1985 in Ethics from University of Virginia. He mainly focuses on religious ethics, particularly in relation to the Islamic and Christian traditions. His research interests include comparative religious ethics, political ethics, and religion and war.

#3598

Hidesaburo Hanafusa

#12227

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Hidesaburo Hanafusa was a Japanese virologist. He shared the 1982 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research with Harold E. Varmus and J. Michael Bishop for demonstrating how RNA tumor viruses cause cancer, and elucidating their role in combining, rescuing and maintaining oncogenes in the viral genome.

#3599

John Holdren

#14095

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Paul Holdren is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology .

#3600

Stephen M. Drance

#62479

Overall Influence

1925 - 2020 (95 years)

Stephen Michael Drance was emeritus professor of ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia. He was the head of glaucoma service at the Eye Care centre of Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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