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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#3651

Mariarosaria Taddeo

#54542

Overall Influence

Mariarosaria Taddeo is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, and deputy director of the Digital Ethics Lab. Taddeo is also an associate scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford.

#3652

Esmail Khoi

#42764

Overall Influence

1938 - 2021 (83 years)

Esmail Khoi or Esmail Khoyi was an Iranian poet and writer. He was living in the United Kingdom after being exiled from Iran during the 1980s. Khoi was originally a lecturer in Philosophy before the Iranian Revolution. He was a member of the Iranian Writers' Association. His poems have been translated in many languages, including English, French, Russian, German and Ukrainian. He wrote a poetry book in English called "Voice of Exile", "What is shall be what is not". He is the first Iranian writer to be awarded the Coburg Rückert Prizen for literature, which he received in 2010.

#3653

Pierre Magistretti

Pierre Magistretti

#75114

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Pierre J. Magistretti is an Italian and Swiss neuroscientist and physician. He is a professor emeritus of neuroscience at EPFL , University of Geneva and University of Lausanne . Until 2012, he was the director of the EPFL's Brain Mind Institute and director of the Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience of the University of Lausanne and Lausanne University Hospital. Since 2012 he has been distinguished professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology where he was dean of the division of biological and environmental sciences and engineering between 2012 and 2020.

#3654

W. Ian Mcdonald

#96229

Overall Influence

#3655

Simon Hailwood

#95266

Overall Influence

Simon Hailwood is a British philosopher whose research concerns moral philosophy, political philosophy, environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, political realism, and pragmatism. He is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, which he joined in 2004 as a lecturer.

#3656

Peter Pál Pelbart

#96246

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Peter Pál Pelbart is a Hungarian-born Brazilian philosopher and essayist. He is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and an essayist of Deleuzian orientation.

#3657

Karl‑heinz Kuck

#96268

Overall Influence

#3658

Dennis Anthony Carson

#96286

Overall Influence

#3659

Valerie Rusch

#54856

Overall Influence

Valerie W Rusch, MD, FACS, is an American thoracic surgeon who is currently the Miner Family Chair for Intrathoracic Cancers and Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Surgery, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

#3660

George W. Comstock

George W. Comstock

#26240

Overall Influence

1915 - 2007 (92 years)

George Wills Comstock was a public health physician, epidemiologist, and educator. He was known for significant contributions to public health, specifically in the fields of micronutrient deficiencies, tuberculosis, and cardiovascular disease. He served as the editor-in-chief for the American Journal of Epidemiology.

#3661

Imre Lakatos

#96360

Overall Influence

#3662

Mark T Gladwin

#96377

Overall Influence

#3663

Wayne Norman

#73117

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Wayne Norman is the Mike and Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics in the Philosophy Department and Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He specializes in political philosophy and business ethics.

#3664

Nathaniel Reichek

#96405

Overall Influence

#3665

Ding-Shinn Chen

#36944

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Ding-Shinn Chen was a Taiwanese hepatologist. He was born on 6 July 1943, in what became Yingge District, New Taipei City. Chen's mother became sick when he was a child, and needed surgical intervention. As such, Chen was around medical professionals at a young age, which sparked his interest in the field. Upon high school graduation, Chen was accepted into the National Taiwan University College of Medicine. During his fourth year of medical school, Chen's father died of liver cancer, inspiring him to study hepatology. He completed medical studies in 1968. Chen became a resident at National Taiwan University Hospital and later joined the NTU medical faculty, working closely with .

#3666

Ashish Jha

#12280

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ashish Kumar Jha is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator from 2022-2023. He has been Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020. Prior to Brown, he was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation. Jha's role at Brown University focuses on improving the quality and cos...

#3667

Allan Mark Lefer

#96472

Overall Influence

#3668

Edwin D. Kilbourne

#41143

Overall Influence

1920 - 2011 (91 years)

Edwin Dennis Kilbourne was an American research scientist. Born in Buffalo, New York, he received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell University. After completion of service in the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States at the end of World War II, he trained in virus research at The Rockefeller Institute. Subsequently, he has taught successively on the faculties of four medical schools: Tulane, Cornell, Mount Sinai , and New York Medical College. .

#3669

Russell Hoban

#8414

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Russell Conwell Hoban was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London from 1969 until his death.

#3670

Armando Silva

#80190

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Armando Silva is a Colombian philosopher, semiotician and writer, who is best known for his work on Urban Imaginaries, which was developed in several cities in Latin America, Spain, the United States and other European cities.

#3671

Donald Palmer

#91660

Overall Influence

Donald D. Palmer is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. He is known for writing introductory books on philosophy and philosophers which attempt to make philosophical ideas accessible to novices. He also illustrates his own books. Currently he is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

#3672

Emil Iii Frei

#96545

Overall Influence

#3673

Haralampos Moutsopoulos

#96585

Overall Influence

#3674

Mark Coeckelbergh

Mark Coeckelbergh

#77729

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Mark Coeckelbergh is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and former President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He was previously Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, and a member of the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente. Before moving to Austria, he has lived and worked in Belgium, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of sev...

#3675

Joseph Morton Ransdell

#84969

Overall Influence

1931 - 2010 (79 years)

Joseph Morton Ransdell was an associate professor of philosophy from 1974 to 2000 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. A native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Ransdell in 1961 received his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California. He subsequently obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in New York City, where he wrote his dissertation on Peirce. Before coming to Texas Tech, Ransdell taught philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara and then spent a year in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to write his book Pursuit of Wisdom.

#3676

Graham A. Macgregor

#96617

Overall Influence

#3677

James B. Meigs

#96621

Overall Influence

#3678

Andrea Prader

#9372

Overall Influence

1919 - 2001 (82 years)

Andrea Prader was a Swiss scientist, physician, and pediatric endocrinologist. He co-discovered Prader–Willi syndrome and created two physiological sex development scales, the Prader scale and the orchidometer.

#3679

Joseph Xerri

#94087

Overall Influence

Joseph Xerri was a Maltese theologian and minor philosopher. Almost nothing is known about the personal life of Xerri. He might have been a priest. In 1773, Xerri was appointed to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Malta, the second since its establishment two years earlier, in 1771, by the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, Manuel Pinto da Fonseca. However, Xerri was unfortunate enough to be in office when in that same year the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, Francisco Ximénez de Tejada, brought the activities of the university to a complete stop due to presumed overspending and restrictions in budgetary resources.

#3680

Purana Kassapa

#24934

Overall Influence

Purana Kassapa was an Indian ascetic teacher who lived around the 6th century BCE, contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha. Biography Purana taught a theory of "non-action" whereby the body acts independent of the soul, merit or demerit. In the Pali Canon, Purana is identified as an ahetuvadin, "denier of a cause" .

#3681

Nanette Wenger

#80059

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Nanette Kass Wenger is an American clinical cardiologist and professor emerita at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Early life and education Nanette Wenger was born September 3, 1930, in New York City to parents who had emigrated from Russia to the United States and settled in New York. Her early education was in the New York City public schools. In 1951 she graduated summa cum laude from Hunter College in New York. She received her doctor of medicine degree from Harvard Medical School in 1954 as one of their first female graduates, and began her postgraduate work at Mo...

#3682

Liaw Yun-fan

#91218

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Liaw Yun-fan is a Taiwanese hepatologist. He attended Hsinchu Senior High School and earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University in 1967. Liaw completed his residency in internal medicine at National Taiwan University, where he became chief resident. After Liaw's residency, he began teaching as a clinical assistant professor at the National Defense Medical Center. He joined the Chang Gung University Medical College faculty in 1987, having served as director of the affiliated Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology and the Liver Research Unit at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital since 1976.

#3683

J. John Alta Loma Rossi

#96699

Overall Influence

#3684

Michel Guiomar

#79681

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Michel Guiomar was a French writer and philosopher who was a Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics at the University of Paris IV. Guiomar was Director of Research in Philosophy and Aesthetics at CNRS before taking the chair in aesthetics at the University.

#3685

Lawrence M. Weiss

#96736

Overall Influence

#3686

Stuart James Connolly

#96744

Overall Influence

#3687

Catherine Verfaillie

#17452

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Catherine M. Verfaillie obtained an M.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1982. After graduation, she specialized in internal medicine and in 1987. Currently she works as a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . Her work on the ability of adult stem cells to differentiate to different cell types has garnered controversy due to accusations of poor laboratory practices and fabrication of data by members of her laboratory. In 2019, it was shown that several of her more recent papers also contained altered images and potential fraud was committed.

#3688

Alan M Jette

#96770

Overall Influence

#3689

Robert V. Farese Jr.

#96514

Overall Influence

Robert V. Farese, Jr., is an American physician-scientist and professor of Cell Biology at the Sloan Kettering Institute of Memorial Sloan Kettering. He is an internationally recognized leader in the study of cellular lipid metabolism and has made seminal contributions to our understanding of energy storage as triglycerides in cellular organelles called lipid droplets.

#3690

Everett E. Vokes

#69621

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Everett E. Vokes is an American oncologist. He is the John E. Ultmann Professor, chair of the Department of Medicine, and physician-in-chief at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In this role, he pioneered the combination radiation and chemotherapy as first-line treatment for head and neck cancer.

#3691

Richard Dien Winfield

#63058

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Richard Dien Winfield is an American philosopher and Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He has been president of the Society for Systematic Philosophy, the Hegel Society of America, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Winfield was a candidate for U.S. Representative from Georgia's 10th congressional district in 2018 and for U.S. Senate during the 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia. `in both campaigns, Winfield advocated a Federal Job Guarantee social rights agenda, for which he argues at length in his 2020 book, Democracy U...

#3692

Timothy Endicott

#15830

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Timothy Endicott is a Canadian legal scholar and philosopher specializing in constitutional law and language and law. He is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

#3693

Claude Imbert

#81240

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Claude Imbert is a French philosopher, logician, and translator of Gottlob Frege. Education and career Imbert earned an agrégation in 1955 at the École normale supérieure, and is a professor emeritus of the École normale supérieure.

#3694

Victor E. Reuter

#96832

Overall Influence

#3695

Tom Campbell

#48103

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Thomas Douglas Campbell was a Scottish philosopher and jurist. He held academic positions in Scotland and Australia, and was a professorial fellow of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Canberra.

#3696

Stanley Schultz

#32715

Overall Influence

1931 - 2014 (83 years)

Stanley G. Schultz was an American physician and scientist whose work led to the development of oral rehydration therapy. He held the Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston before becoming the center's medical school dean.

#3697

David Baskin

#60798

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

David S. Baskin is a neurosurgeon who currently works at Houston Methodist Hospital as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, the Director of the Residency Training program, and the Director of the Kenneth R. Peak Brain & Pituitary Tumor Center, and is also a professor of neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College.

#3698

Lex Doyle

#96281

Overall Influence

Lex William Doyle is an Australian paediatrician, researcher and academic, best known for his widely published neonatal research into positive long-term outcomes for premature babies. He is currently the head of clinical research development at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, having been a consultant neonatal paediatrician at the hospital from 1983 until 2006.

#3699

Antonia Trichopoulou

#60322

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Antonia Trichopoulou is a nutrition epidemiologist, specialising in the study of the health effects of the Mediterranean diet. She has been called the "mother of the Mediterranean Diet". Trichopoulou is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens and the President of the Hellenic Health Foundation. She has published more than 900 scientific papers and was president of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies . For her contributions, she was elected in December 2021 a full member of the Academy of Athens in the Chair of "Medical Sciences: Epidemiology and Public Health".

#3700

Wojciech Sadurski

Wojciech Sadurski

#17032

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Wojciech Sadurski is a Polish and Australian scholar of constitutional law. As of 2023, he is Challis Professor in Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor in the Centre for Europe in the University of Warsaw.

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