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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#3701

Matthew Fuller

#26615

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Matthew Fuller is an author and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is known for his writings in media theory, software studies, critical theory and cultural studies, and contemporary fiction.

#3702

Joseph P. Broderick

#96944

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#3703

Robert Charles Moellering

#96989

Overall Influence

#3704

Jeffrey Mehlman

#23754

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Jeffrey Mehlman is a literary critic and a historian of ideas. He has taught at Cornell University, Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University, and is currently University Professor and Professor of French Literature at Boston University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, CUNY Graduate Center, Washington University in St. Louis, and MIT. Over a number of years, he has been writing an implicit history of speculative interpretation in France in the form of a series of readings of canonical literary works.

#3705

Peter H. Forsham

#97021

Overall Influence

#3706

Kaja Silverman

#19848

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Kaja Silverman is an American art historian and critical theorist. She is currently the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in English from Brown University. Thereafter, she taught at Yale University, Trinity College, Simon Fraser University, Brown University, the University of Rochester and for many years was the Class of 1940 Professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, and is currently the holder of an Andrew W.

#3707

Brian I. Rini

#97051

Overall Influence

#3708

Robert M. Wachter

#14412

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Robert M. "Bob" Wachter is an academic physician and author. He is on the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine. He is generally regarded as the academic leader of the hospitalist movement, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He and a colleague, Lee Goldman, are known for coining the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article.

#3709

Michael Neumann

#31658

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of What's Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche , The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics and The Case Against Israel , and has published papers on utilitarianism and rationality.

#3710

Giuseppe Scaraffia

#25499

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Giuseppe Scaraffia is an Italian writer and professor. Biography Giuseppe Scaraffia was born in Turin, Italy, in 1950. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan with a thesis on the idea of happiness in Diderot. He has taught French Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1976. Over the years his research has focused in particular on the great myths of seduction of the 19th century, from the figure of the femme fatale to that of the tall dark stranger.

#3711

Roy Sydney Porter

#97124

Overall Influence

#3712

Chakradhar Swami

#19997

Overall Influence

Chakradhara , also known as Sarvadnya Shri Chakradhar Swami or Kunwar Haripaladeva was an Indian saint and philosopher, who is considered as an avatara of Krishna by his disciples and one of the most important exponents of the Dvaita tradition within Hinduism. He is the founder of Mahanubhava Sampradaya of Krishnaism. Shri Chakradhar Swami advocated worship of Lord Krishna and preached a distinct philosophy based on Bhakti. He did not recognize caste distinctions, and like Buddha had only two others viz the householder and recluses. Some sources claim that Chakrapani Prabhu and Govinda Prabhu ...

#3713

Zarmanochegas

#14125

Overall Influence

Zarmanochegas or Zarmarus was a gymnosophist , a monk of the Sramana tradition who, according to ancient historians such as Strabo and Dio Cassius, met Nicholas of Damascus in Antioch in the first years of Augustus' rule over the Roman Empire, and shortly thereafter proceeded to Athens where he burnt himself to death. He is estimated to have died in 19 BC.

#3714

Raffaele De Caterina

#97218

Overall Influence

#3715

Patrick Marcellin

#97226

Overall Influence

#3716

Nicla Vassallo

#76685

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Nicla Vassallo , is an Italian analytic philosopher with research and teaching interests in epistemology, philosophy of knowledge, theoretical philosophy, as well as gender studies and feminist epistemology. She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, a Research Associate of National Research Council, and on List of alumni of King's College London. She also is a poet and lives in Rome.

#3717

John T. Jr. Potts

#97262

Overall Influence

#3718

Fortunato Ciardiello

#97266

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#3719

Gil Omenn

#62320

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Gilbert S. Omenn is an American medical doctor and researcher. He currently is the Harold T. Shapiro Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan; professor of Computational medicine & bioinformatics, Molecular medicine & genetics, Human genetics, and Public health; and the Director of the UM Center for Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics. He is the discover of Omenn syndrome, a genetic disorder that is fatal in infancy unless treated. Omenn has served as editor of the Annual Review of Public Health from 1990–1996. and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

#3720

Kenneth M. Kent

#97323

Overall Influence

#3721

Dan Kimball

#35468

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Dan Kimball is an author and was a leading voice in the beginning years of the Emerging Church movement in the United States. Kimball's writings focus on encouraging churches and Christians to creatively make any changes needed in order to break the negative stereotypes of church and Christianity that inaccurately may exist. Kimball focuses on doing this through the arts, apologetics and Christians removing themselves from the Christian subculture. Kimball began using phrases such as "Vintage Faith" and "Vintage Christianity" which are used to express the desire to be returning to the historic...

#3722

Werner R. Loewenstein

#97353

Overall Influence

#3723

Denis Anthony Mitchison

#97380

Overall Influence

#3724

Andrew C. Novick

#97414

Overall Influence

#3725

Anthony Price

#84968

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Anthony William Price is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London where he taught philosophy from 1995 until 2016. His research relates to Greek ethics and moral psychology, and contemporary ethics. Price was educated at Winchester College and the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of York from 1972 to 1995.

#3726

Margret Grebowicz

#62648

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Margret Grebowicz is a Polish philosopher, author, and former jazz vocalist. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. In addition to peer-reviewed academic publications, Grebowicz, a proponent of public humanities, also publishes many works for the lay audience.

#3727

Bart Schultz

#75329

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Bart Schultz is an American philosopher who is Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Director of the Civic Knowledge Project at the University of Chicago. Career Schultz has taught in the College at the University of Chicago since October 1, 1987, having designed a wide range of core courses as well as courses on Teaching Precollegiate Philosophy, Consequentialism from Bentham to Singer, Philosophy and Public Education, The Philosophy of Poverty, John Dewey, The Chicago School of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Philosophies of Environmentalism and Sustainability, and P...

#3728

Harvey S. Levin

#97475

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#3729

Andreas Hochhaus

#97485

Overall Influence

#3730

John Julian Fung

#97547

Overall Influence

#3731

Rosa María Rodríguez Magda

Rosa María Rodríguez Magda

#97531

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Rosa María Rodríguez Magda is a Spanish philosopher and writer. In 1989, she introduced the concept of transmodernity.

#3732

John Witte Jr.

#27384

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

John Witte Jr. is a Canadian-American academic. He is a Robert W. Woodruff University Professor and a McDonald Distinguished Professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion there.

#3733

Stephen O'Rahilly

Stephen O'Rahilly

#41746

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Sir Stephen Patrick O'Rahilly is an Irish-British physician and scientist known for his research into the molecular pathogenesis of human obesity, insulin resistance and related metabolic and endocrine disorders.

#3734

Pierpaolo Donati

Pierpaolo Donati

#37459

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

#3735

Bernard Li

#38706

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Professor Bernard Li, KSG , KHS is a Taiwanese philosopher and former president of Fu Jen Catholic University. He is known for the official founder of Fu Jen School and Fu Jen Academia Catholica. He obtained the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree at Fu Jen Catholic University.

#3736

David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

#2717

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. Three of his works—M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power—have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

#3737

Herman D. Suit

#97707

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

#3738

Monica Morrow

#33847

Overall Influence

Monica Morrow is a breast cancer surgeon and Chief of Breast Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, NY. Her first day seeing patients in clinic as Chief at MSKCC was Tuesday, February 19, 2008. She formerly served as the chairman of surgical oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She is the President-elect of the Society for Surgical Oncology.

#3739

Siegfried Zielinski

Siegfried Zielinski

#43138

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Siegfried Zielinski is a German media theorist. He held the chair for Media Theory: Archaeology and Variantology of the Media at Berlin University of the Arts, he is Michel Foucault Professor for Techno-Culture and Media Archaeology at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, and he is director of the International Vilém-Flusser-Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2016 until March 2018, he succeeded Peter Sloterdijk as head of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

#3740

Daniel J. Mccarty

#97788

Overall Influence

#3741

Philippe Froguel

Philippe Froguel

#97811

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#3742

David Handelsman

#77769

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Joshua Handelsman, is trained in Medicine and Endocrinology. His expertise is in testicular function and androgen physiology, pharmacology, and toxicology. His experience spans basic, clinical, and public health domains including a recent focus on genetic models of androgen action, steroid mass spectrometry, and anti-doping science. He was Australia's first Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Andrology. He has worked in the US, Australia, and Germany. His professional involvement includes the World Health Organisation Human Reproduction Programme's Male Task Force, WHO Human Re...

#3743

Farshid Guilak

#29309

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Farshid Guilak is an American engineer and orthopedic researcher. He is the Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis and director of research at Shriners Hospitals for Children. He is also on the faculty of the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Developmental Biology at Washington University.

#3744

Timothy Chambers

#93516

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Timothy Chambers is a philosopher who has written a number of articles which have appeared in the journals Mind , the Monist , Philosophy , the Aristotelian Society Proceedings, and Ratio . His research interests include Hilary Putnam, time travel, the Ontological Argument, the Doomsday Argument and the semantics of vagueness. His work on Putnam included a logical formula—the Chambers Conditional—which figures in Crispin Wright's recent work on vagueness.

#3745

Alp Ikizler

#10793

Overall Influence

T. Alp Ikizler is a nephrologist, currently holding the Catherine McLaughlin Hakim chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he does clinical work and heads a research lab. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he received his M.D. from the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine.

#3746

John Olubi Sodipo

#84885

Overall Influence

1935 - 1999 (64 years)

John Olubi Sodipo , was a Nigerian philosopher. Early life and education He went to Remo Secondary School, Sagamu from 1948 to 1953 and also to University of Ibadan from 1956 to 1960 and at the Durham University, England from 1961 to 1964.Lectured University Ibadan from 1964 to 1966 Sodipo lectured in philosophy at the University of Lagos from 1966 and taught at Obafemi Awolowo University from 1968 to 1982, where he became the first professor in African philosophy and served as first head of department of philosophy. He became the first vice-chancellor of Ogun State University when it opened in 1982.

#3747

Allen Steere

#19875

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Allen Caruthers Steere is an American rheumatologist. He is a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University and previously at Tufts University and Yale University. Steere and his mentor, Stephen Malawista of Yale University, are credited with discovering and naming Lyme disease, and he has published almost 300 scholarly articles on Lyme disease during his more than 40 years of studies of this infection. At a ceremony in Hartford, Connecticut in 1998, Governor John G. Rowland declared September 24 to be "Allen C. Steere Day."

#3748

Frantz Fanon

#97927

Overall Influence

#3749

Ricardo Forster

Ricardo Forster

#74682

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ricardo Forster is an Argentine philosopher, historian of ideas and political critic. He is professor and researcher at Universidad de Buenos Aires and University of Maryland. He is also member of the editorial board of Pensamiento de los Confines magazine. Along with Horacio Verbitsky, Nicolás Casullo and others created Espacio Carta Abierta , a propagandistic group in defense of the Kirchner government, in 2008, after an attempt to raise taxes on agricultural exports led to large street protests.

#3750

Laxmaiah Manchikanti

#64721

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Laxmaiah Manchikanti is an Indian American physician and anesthesiologist specializing in interventional pain management, professor, philanthropist, and author. He is the founder of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians , the Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers and the Pain Physician, a newspaper owned by his organization, Manchikanti has served as clinical professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He has served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of ASIPP since 1998. He h...

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