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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4051

Sam Parnia

#5970

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Sam Parnia is a British associate professor of Medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center where he is also director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In the United Kingdom, he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

#4052

Henk A. M. J. ten Have

Henk A. M. J. ten Have

#72546

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Henk Antonius Maria Johannes ten Have is Professor emeritus at the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. where he has been Director since 2010. Previously, he served in UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology . His recent works are: Global Bioethics—An Introduction , Vulnerability—Challenging Bioethics , Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics , and Wounded Planet .

#4053

Augusto Ponzio

#66890

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Augusto Ponzio is an Italian semiologist and philosopher. Since 1980 is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language at Bari University, Italy and since 2015 is Professor Emeritus at the same university.

#4054

Michael Davis

#28744

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Michael Davis is an American philosopher specializing in professional ethics. He is Professor of Philosophy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Senior Fellow at its Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions.

#4055

Marian Hillar

#58050

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Marian Hillar is an American philosopher, theologian, linguist, and scientist. He is a recognized authority on Michael Servetus and together with classicist and political theorist, C. A. Hoffman, translated the major works of Michael Servetus from Latin into English for the first time. He identified the radical search for truth and the right for freedom of conscience as Servetus' main legacies, rather than his theology and scientific discovery. He studied the influence of Servetus in the world and the development and ideas of the Socinian movement in the 16th and 17th centuries, precursors of the Enlightenment and modern era.

#4056

Kathrin Koslicki

#50552

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Kathrin Koslicki is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her primary research areas are metaphysics, ancient Greek philosophy and philosophy of language. Since 2018 Koslicki is visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland.

#4057

J. Thomas Grayston

#102530

Overall Influence

#4058

Alain F. Carpentier

#102537

Overall Influence

#4059

Simin Liu

#57954

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Simin Liu is an American physician researcher. He holds leadership positions internationally in the research of nutrition, genetics, epidemiology, and environmental and biological influences of complex diseases related to cardiometabolic health in diverse population. His research team has uncovered new mechanisms and risk-factors as well as developed research frameworks for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Liu's laboratory conducts research mainly in the United States, though the group has had research collaborations, teaching, and service activities in six of the Seven Continents.

#4060

Jean-Claude Tardif

#96414

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Jean-Claude Tardif is the Director of the Research Center at the Montreal Heart Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal. He received his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Montreal and specialized in cardiology and research in Montreal and Boston until 1994. Dr. Tardif holds the Canada Research Chair in personalized medicine and the University of Montreal endowed research chair in atherosclerosis. He is also the Scientific Director of the Montreal Health Innovations Coordinating Center .

#4061

Vivette Denise D'agati

#102562

Overall Influence

#4062

Ronald J. Racine

#102565

Overall Influence

#4063

George Erik Rupp

#20905

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

George Erik Rupp is an American educator and theologian, who served successively as president of Rice University, Columbia University, and the International Rescue Committee. Biography Rupp was born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of German immigrant parents, and was raised in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey. He studied in Germany before graduating from Princeton University with an A.B. in English in 1964 after completing a senior thesis titled "A Theatre of Ideas: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century German and English Drama." He then received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School and, after studying for a year in Sri Lanka, a Ph.D.

#4064

Eileen White

#88840

Overall Influence

Eileen White is an American professor and scientist who currently serves as deputy director, chief scientific officer, and associate director for basic science at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. She is also the distinguished professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University. White was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

#4065

Berthold Hoeckner

#63221

Overall Influence

Berthold Hoeckner is a German musicologist who serves as the J. W. Van Gorkom Professor and Department Chair of Music at the University of Notre Dame. He was educated at the Musikhochschule Cologne, University of Cologne, and King's College London before earning his doctorate from Cornell University in 1994. Hoeckner grew up in Olpe, Germany.

#4066

Keith Reemtsma

#36954

Overall Influence

1925 - 2000 (75 years)

Keith Reemtsma was an American transplant surgeon, best known for the cross-species kidney transplantation operation from chimpanzee to human in 1964. With only the early immunosuppressants and no long-term dialysis, the female recipient survived nine months, long enough to return to work.

#4067

Martin Davies

#83362

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Martin Davies is a British philosopher who is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he taught from 2006 until 2017. He works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.

#4068

Steven Mark Southwick

#102701

Overall Influence

#4069

Graeme Milbourne Clark

#102727

Overall Influence

#4070

Dwight C. Mcgoon

#102745

Overall Influence

#4071

Oron Shagrir

#60959

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Professor Oron Shagrir is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist. Oron Shagrir is Schulman Chair of Philosophy and professor of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel.

#4072

Stanley Kauffmann

#4495

Overall Influence

1916 - 2013 (97 years)

Stanley Kauffmann was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater. Career Kauffmann started with The New Republic in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next 55 years, publishing his last review in 2013. He had one brief break in his New Republic tenure, when he served as the drama critic for the New York Times for eight months in 1966.

#4073

Jack H. Mendelson

#102765

Overall Influence

#4074

William B. Schwartz

#102768

Overall Influence

#4075

Fabio Parazzini

#102772

Overall Influence

#4076

Patricia D'Amore

#68426

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Patricia Ann D'Amore is a professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology, and Professor of Pathology. Early life and career D'Amore grew up in Everett, Massachusetts and graduated from Matignon High School in Cambridge. After a 1973 BA at Regis College , she received a PhD in biology at Boston University in 1977 under the direction David Shepro.

#4077

Anne Greenough

#97916

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Anne Greenough is a British neonatologist and is most notable for research into clinical and academic neonatology through work relating to the origins, markers and management of chronic lung disease following preterm birth. Greenough is Professor of Neonatology and Clinical Respiratory Physiology at King's College London.

#4078

Marina Frolova-Walker

#74897

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is a Russian-born British musicologist and music historian, who specialises in German Romanticism, Russian and Soviet music, and nationalism in music. She is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Music at Clare College, Cambridge. In June 2019 it was announced that she would be the 36th Professor of Music at Gresham College. She has authored several books and a number of academic articles.

#4079

Stefan Hans Hohnloser

#102815

Overall Influence

#4080

Dario Salas Sommer

#64523

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Darío Salas Sommer was a Chilean philosopher, scientist and humanist. He is known especially for his exploration of moral aspects of human life and personal development, described in his notable books ‘Morals of the XXI Century’ and ‘Cosmic Currency, the Greatest Wealth’

#4081

Anders Hamsten

#102850

Overall Influence

#4082

Dan Krewski

#98299

Overall Influence

Daniel Krewski is an Academic who is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, where his focus is health risk assessment in the Institute of Population Health.

#4083

William Gerald G. Austen

#102909

Overall Influence

#4084

Max S. Wicha

#102912

Overall Influence

#4085

Norbert Bolz

#45549

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Norbert Bolz is a German media theorist. He served as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin until his retirement in 2018. Bolz developed a media theory, the "", that is influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Marshall McLuhan.

#4086

Manlio Sgalambro

Manlio Sgalambro

#30453

Overall Influence

1924 - 2014 (90 years)

Manlio Sgalambro was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini. Biography Philosophical production Sgalambro did not have certificates or degrees as business cards: how he became a writer of philosophy – whose books are translated into French, German and Spanish – is a mystery that he was not able to explain.

#4087

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

#32684

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona.

#4088

Daya Krishna

#87912

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Daya Krishna was an Indian philosopher. He was Pro Vice Chancellor of Rajasthan University and editor of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research for over three decades. He has published works in the fields of Indian philosophy, Western philosophy and aesthetics. His doctoral thesis published as The Nature of Philosophy is said to have been acclaimed by the British philosopher, Gilbert Ryle, as an outstanding work. His work explores the possibility of looking at Indian traditions through resources drawn from Indian concepts and categories. He has attempted to bring about "a dia...

#4089

Michel Kazatchkine

Michel Kazatchkine

#20651

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Michel Kazatchkine is a French physician, diplomat and advocate who is best known for his work in international AIDS treatment issues. From February 2007 to March 2012 he was director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. On July 20, 2012, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as his United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

#4090

Samuel Klein

#100355

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Samuel Klein is a doctor and nutritional specialist known for his research into weight loss and the causes of obesity. He is currently the Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His brother, Morton Klein is the president of ZOA.

#4091

Stephen Shalet

#95320

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Stephen Michael Shalet is an English endocrinologist, and a former professor at the University of Manchester. Early life He was born in Bedford, where his mother had been evacuated from London. His father was a GP in the East End of London, and serving as an army doctor. At the age of nine he moved to Stoke Newington. He attended Westminster City Grammar School. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, since 1990 the Royal London Hospital, qualifying in 1969.

#4092

Yehoshua Yakhot

#93031

Overall Influence

1919 - 2003 (84 years)

Yehoshua Yakhot was a professor of philosophy in the Soviet Union. In 1975 he was forced to emigrate to Israel. Works What is dialectical materialism?The basic principles of dialectical and historical materialismMaterialist view on realityPhilosophy of the new worldThe Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR

#4093

J. Carl Barrett

#103049

Overall Influence

#4094

Ralph C. S. Walker

Ralph C. S. Walker

#76657

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Ralph Charles Sutherland Walker is a philosopher at Magdalen College, Oxford and an expert on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Professional life Walker received his secondary education at Aberdeen Grammar School, Selwyn House School and Trinity College School. He was then educated at McGill and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, before entering academia as a fellow at Merton College in 1968. He moved to Magdalen in 1972, where he has worked since. From 1984–85, he served as the Junior Proctor, with disciplinary oversight for the University. From 1993–2003 he was a deleg...

#4095

Lee McIntyre

#37635

Overall Influence

Lee Cameron McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He has published books and articles on the philosophy of the social sciences, as well as attempts to undermine science and the appropriate response to these attempts to scientists.

#4096

Danah boyd

#30934

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

danah boyd is a technology and social media scholar. She is a partner researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society Research Institute, and a distinguished visiting professor at Georgetown University.

#4097

Alfred J. Freddoso

#92461

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alfred J. Freddoso is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and John and Jean Oesterle Professor Emeritus of Thomistic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the father of David Freddoso.

#4098

Alexis Shotwell

#86662

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Alexis Shotwell is a Canadian philosopher, currently employed as Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she is cross-appointed with the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy. Educated at University of California, Santa Cruz , Dalhousie University and McGill University , Shotwell has also taught at Laurentian University.

#4099

Claus Pias

#74982

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Claus Pias is a German media theorist and media historian. He is a professor for history and epistemology of media at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University in Lueneburg., Germany.

#4100

Scheffer C. G. Tseng

#103103

Overall Influence

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