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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4151

Ľudovít Štúr

1815 - 1856 (41 years)

Ludevít Štúr , also known as Ľudovít Velislav Štúr, was a Slovak revolutionary, politician, and writer. As a leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, and the author of the Slovak language standard, he is lauded as one of the most important figures in Slovak history.

#4152

Shalva Nutsubidze

1888 - 1969 (81 years)

Shalva Nutsubidze was a Georgian philosopher, cultural historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, public figure, one of the founders of scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy, one of the founders and prorector of the Tbilisi State University, Director of the Fundamental Library of the TSU, Dean of the Department of History of World Literature, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, elected member of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR , Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia .

#4153

Božidar Knežević

1862 - 1905 (43 years)

Božidar Knežević was a Serbian philosopher, writer, and literary critic. Despite being educated for the priesthood, he abandoned the Orthodox religion, and began to develop his career in science and topics of social regeneration. He rejected dogmatism, believing instead that neither religious nor historical nor scientific knowledge could be wholly accurate.

#4154

Abd al-Razzaq Lahiji

#54528

Overall Influence

ʿAbd-Al-Razzāq B. ʿAlī B. Al-Hosayn Lāhījī was an Iranian theologian, poet and philosopher. His mentor in philosophy was his father-in-law Mulla Sadra. Life Hailing from Lahijan in Gilan, he spent most of his life in Qom. Abd al-Razzaq was a son-in-law of Mulla Sadra along with Molla Mohsen Fayz Kashani. His son Hasan would become another prominent theologian and philosopher of the Safavid dynasty. Seyyed Hossein Nasr knows him among the intellectual figures in Persia. Abd al-Razzaq was in agreement with Molla Sadra as to the contrast between primacy of quiddity and primacy of existence.

#4155

Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak

Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak

#64097

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Adriaan Theodoor Basilius Peperzak is a Dutch educator, editor and author. Biography Peperzak was born on the island of Java as a Dutch citizen. He studied philosophy at the Franciscan monastery schools in Venray, and theology in La Verna and Weert . He obtained a licentiate in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain and a Ph.D. in the Humanities at the University of Paris in Paris. His Ph.D. dissertation Le jeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde , was published in 1960 and republished in 1969.

#4156

Silvio Ceccato

#17801

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Silvio Ceccato was an Italian philosopher and linguist. Born in Montecchio Maggiore, he studied law and music. In 1949 he founded the international magazine Methodos, which was published until 1964.

#4157

Ali ibn Ridwan

988 - 1061 (73 years)

Abu'l Hassan Ali ibn Ridwan Al-Misri was an Arab of Egyptian origin who was a physician, astrologer and astronomer, born in Giza. He was a commentator on ancient Greek medicine, and in particular on Galen; his commentary on Galen's Ars Parva was translated by Gerardo Cremonese. However, he is better known for providing the most detailed description of the supernova now known as SN 1006, the brightest stellar event in recorded history, which he observed in the year 1006. This was written in a commentary on Ptolemy's work Tetrabiblos.

#4158

I. Bernard Weinstein

#51010

Overall Influence

1930 - 2008 (78 years)

I. Bernard Weinstein was an American physician and researcher who studied the effect of pollutants and other environmental factors in causing cancer and headed the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University. He has been credited with helping create the field of molecular epidemiology, which studies how genetic and environmental risk factors are related to the spread of disease in populations.

#4159

Anne Dufourmantelle

#25309

Overall Influence

1964 - 2017 (53 years)

Anne Dufourmantelle was a French philosopher and psychoanalyst. Education and career Dufourmantelle was educated at Brown University and at Paris-Sorbonne University, where she earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1994. She practised psychoanalysis and was a professor at the European Graduate School and a contributor to the French daily newspaper Libération.

#4160

Firmin Abauzit

1679 - 1767 (88 years)

Firmin Abauzit was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva during his final 40 years. Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

#4161

Ian F. Tannock

#73040

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#4162

Quentin Blake

#1806

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001, he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

#4163

Democrates

#49122

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Democrates was a Pythagorean philosopher about whom little is known. It is said that he was the founder of the basic concepts of the modern era of democracy. Apollonius of Tyana authored at least one letter to a Democrates, Epistle 88.

#4164

Lisa Guenther

#58185

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Lisa Guenther is a Canadian philosopher and activist, known for her work on solitary confinement, prison torture, reproductive injustice, and the carceral state. Education and career Cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Lisa Guenther is currently Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to 2018, she served as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her first academic position was at the University of Auckland. Guenther receiv...

#4165

David the Invincible

David the Invincible

600 - 600 (0 years)

David the Invincible was a neoplatonist philosopher of the 6th century. David was a pupil of Olympiodorus in Alexandria. His works, originally written in Greek, survive in medieval Armenian translation, and he was given the byname of "invincible" in the Armenian tradition, which considers David himself an Armenian.

#4166

William of Saint-Amour

1202 - 1272 (70 years)

William of Saint-Amour was an early figure in thirteenth-century scholasticism, chiefly notable for his withering attacks on the friars. Biography William was born in Saint-Amour, Jura, then part of the Duchy of Burgundy, in c. 1200. Under the patronage of the Count of Savoy, he was active at the University of Paris from the 1220s, becoming master of arts in 1228. From a reference in a letter by Gregory IX, it is evident that he had become a doctor of Canon law by 1238. By 1250 he had been made master of theology.

#4167

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

#14101

Overall Influence

1951 - 2016 (65 years)

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk was a Turkish Islamic scholar, university professor of Islamic philosophy, lawyer, columnist and a former member of Turkish parliament. He has been described as a Quranist and has given many conferences on Islamic thought, humanity and human rights in Turkey, the USA, Europe, the Middle East and the Balkans. In 1999, members of a violent extremist group called Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front confessed that they had planned an assassination attempt that never took place.

#4168

J. Mark Davis

#73235

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#4169

Mauro Carbone

#35544

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Mauro Carbone is an Italian philosopher. Since 2009, he has been a full professor at the Faculté de Philosophie of the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in Lyon, France. From 2012 to 2017, he has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

#4170

Willet F. Jr. Whitmore

#73302

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#4171

Hamid Vahid-Dastjerdi

#69261

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Hamid Vahid-Dastjerdi also known as Hamid Vahid is an Iranian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and the Head of the Analytic Philosophy Faculty at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. He is known for his expertise on epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic. His works have been published in distinguished journals such as Philosophical Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Synthese, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Philosophy, Kant-Studien, Metaphilosophy and Ratio.

#4172

John Wall

#38329

Overall Influence

John Wall is an American educator and theoretical ethicist who teaches at Rutgers University Camden. He is Director of the Childism Institute and Co-Director of the Children's Voting Colloquium. Research Wall's research focuses on "the groundworks of moral life, particularly their relations to language, power, and childhood" and theoretical work where he argues that "ethical life is fundamentally creative," as well as for his concept of childism, or the empowerment of children by transforming norms".

#4173

Théophile de Giraud

Théophile de Giraud

#59203

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Théophile de Giraud is a Belgian writer, philosopher and activist of French language. Literary work Published in 2000, Giraud's first book, The Impertinence of Procreation, is a plea against human reproduction, using a mixture of humor and provocation. Noted for his many eccentricities, Giraud was listed in the anthology Les Fous Littéraires by the pataphysician André Blavier.

#4174

Gary Legenhausen

#46180

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Gary Carl Legenhausen is an American philosopher who teaches at the Imam Khomeini's Educational and Research Institute, which was directed by Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. Life He converted to Islam in 1983. He wrote a book entitled Islam and Religious Pluralism in which he advocates "non-reductive religious pluralism". He has been an advocate of interfaith dialogue, and serves on the advisory board of the Society for Religious Studies in Qom. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Rice University .

#4175

Walda Heywat

1599 - 1692 (93 years)

Walda Heywat , also called Mitku, was an Ethiopian philosopher. He was the beloved student of Zara Yacob, who wrote a well regarded work on the nature of truth and reason. Heywat took his mentor’s work and expanded upon it, turning it into a more practical guide

#4176

Espen Hammer

#33836

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Focusing on modern European thought from Kant and Hegel to Adorno and Heidegger, Hammer’s research includes critical theory, Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy, phenomenology, German idealism, social and political theory, and aesthetics. He has also written widely on the philosophy of literature and taken a special interest in the question of temporality.

#4177

Lawrence Steinman

#65615

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Lawrence Steinman is an immunologist and neurologist professor of pediatrics at Stanford University. Since 2015, he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

#4178

Samuel Zachary Goldhaber

#73446

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#4179

Frederick Schauer

#16452

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Frederick Schauer is an American legal scholar who serves as David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is also the Frank Stanton Professor emeritus of the First Amendment at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is well known for his work on American constitutional law, especially free speech, and on legal reasoning, especially the nature and value of legal formalism.

#4180

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

1900 - 1986 (86 years)

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov , the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

#4181

Kamlesh Khunti

#40447

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Kamlesh Khunti is a British physician who is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester. His research considers diabetes and public health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Khunti studied the impact of COVID-19 on people living with diabetes. He served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies . He is the director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands.

#4182

George Hourani

1913 - 1984 (71 years)

George Fadlo Hourani was a British philosopher, historian, and classicist. He is best known for his work in Islamic philosophy, which focused on classical Islamic rationalism and ethics. Biography George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese Christian extraction in Didsbury, Manchester. He was the fourth of six children, having three older sisters and two younger brothers. His brothers were Albert Hourani and Cecil Hourani.

#4183

Adam Drewnowski

#73554

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#4184

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple

#5302

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#4185

Stephen F. Barker

#60239

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Stephen Francis Barker was an American Philosopher of Mathematics, a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He was also a faculty member at the University of Southern California, the University of Virginia and Ohio State University.

#4186

Valeria de Paiva

#48362

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist. Her work includes research on logical approaches to computation, especially using category theory, knowledge representation and natural language semantics, and functional programming with a focus on foundations and type theories.

#4187

Stephen G. Post

#39170

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stephen Garrard Post has served on the Board of the John Templeton Foundation , which focuses on virtue and public life. He is a researcher, opinion leader, medical school professor, and best-selling author who has taught at the University of Chicago Medical School, Fordham University-Marymount, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Stony Brook University School of Medicine . He is widely known for his research on the ways in which giving can enhance the health and happiness of the giver, how empathy and compassionate care contribute to patient outcomes, ethical issues in ca...

#4188

Joseph Sung

#8323

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Joseph Sung Jao-yiu is a Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist, and the current Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University , also serving as the Senior Vice President of NTU. Previously, he was the Vice-Chancellor and President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong .

#4189

Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

#65273

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Samantha J. Brennan is a British-born philosopher and scholar of women's studies who is currently dean of the College of Arts and faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. She was previously a professor in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western University, Canada. She remains a member of Western's Rotman Institute of Philosophy and the graduate faculty of the Departments of Political Science and of Philosophy. Brennan was Department Chair of Philosophy at Western from 2002 to 2007, and 2008–2011. She is a past president of the Canad...

#4190

Lajos Fülep

1885 - 1970 (85 years)

Lajos Fülep was a Hungarian art historian, philosopher of art, pastor of the Reformed Church in Hungary and university professor. Life and career He was born in to the family of a veterinarian. Fülep received his primary education in the countryside and later returned to Budapest for university studies. During this period he wrote on art and history for various newspaper such as Népszava which made him well known in intellectual circles.

#4191

Kathleen Lennon

#57703

Overall Influence

Kathleen Lennon, a former Ferens Professor of Philosophy, is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hull, England. Career After studying for her undergraduate degree at the University of Kent, Lennon obtained her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Oxford. In 1979, she was employed as a lecturer by the University of Hull. Lennon was a founder of the university's Centre for Gender Studies in 1986, and of the Society for Women in Philosophy in 1989.

#4192

Igor Yefimov

#43802

Overall Influence

1937 - 2020 (83 years)

Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov was an American philosopher, historian, writer and publisher of Russian origin. Some of his works were published under the pen name Andrei Moscovit. Together with , Sergei Dovlatov, , and , he founded the Leningrad writers' group "Townspeople" , whose works circulated in samizdat. He was also the founder of Hermitage Publishers; a company specializing in Russian writers.

#4193

Edward H. Kass

#73733

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#4194

William Herbert Sweet

#4195

Pierre Scheuer

1872 - 1957 (85 years)

Pierre Scheuer was a Belgian Jesuit priest, metaphysician and mystic. Life and works Scheuer made his first profession in the Society of Jesus in 1901. In 1916 he completed his formation and began teaching.

#4196

Robert Jensen

#22740

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Robert William Jensen is a former professor of journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1992 to 2018 he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He has focused much of his work on the critique of pornography and of masculinity, developed in his 2017 book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men. He also has written about white privilege and institutional racism. He also sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Sexualization, Media, and Society.

#4197

Raja Halwani

#46442

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Raja Fouad Halwani is an American-Lebanese philosopher and professor of philosophy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is known for his works on philosophy of sex. Philosophy Being gay, he started with some ethical questions related to homosexuality and some sexual acts related to gay men - unrestrained, casual sex and open relationships. In fact, his first two publications, in the days when he was a graduate student, were: “Are One Night Stands Morally Problematic?” and “The Morality of Adultery.” Convinced by the work of Alan Soble that thinking about sex is one of the most ...

#4198

Felicia Nimue Ackerman

#44499

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Felicia Nimue Ackerman is an American author, poet, and philosopher and professor of philosophy at Brown University. She is a prolific writer of letters to the editor of The New York Times. Early life and education Ackerman, the daughter of Willis and Rachel Ackerman, was born in Ohio in 1947.

#4199

Tore Nordenstam

#70311

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Tore Nordenstam is a Swedish philosopher, with higher degrees from Gothenburg and the University of Khartoum ; he also studied at Uppsala and Oxford. Between 1961 and 1998, Nordenstam held teaching positions at the Universities of Khartoum, Umeå, and Bergen. In Bergen, he was first Reader in Philosophy and later Professor of Philosophy . He is currently Professor Emeritus from Bergen.

#4200

Peter Glassen

1920 - 1986 (66 years)

Peter Glassen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1949 until his death in 1986. He was an analytic moral philosopher, publishing several articles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was also known for his arguments against metaphysical materialism, and spent a year in the psychology department at the University of Saskatchewan.

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