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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4201

Prof. P. Rutgeerts

#73800

Overall Influence

#4202

Mary Leng

#42553

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Mary Leng is a British philosopher specialising in the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. She is a professor at the University of York. Career Leng studied as an undergraduate at Balliol College, University of Oxford and as postgraduate student at the University of Toronto. She worked at the University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2006, and then the University of Liverpool from 2006 to 2011. In 2007, she co-edited a collection called Mathematical Knowledge with Alexander Paseau and Michael Potter, which was published by Oxford University Press, and, in 2010, she published a monograph called Mathematics and Reality, again with Oxford University Press.

#4203

Barton Haynes

#58211

Overall Influence

Barton Ford Haynes is an American physician and immunologist internationally recognized for work in T-cell immunology, retrovirology, and HIV vaccine development. Haynes is a Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology at Duke University Medical Center. He is the director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Duke Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Discovery , which was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 2012. In addition, Haynes directs the B-cell Lineage Envelope Design Study, the Centralized Envelope Phase I Study, and...

#4204

Louis Eugène Marie Bautain

Louis Eugène Marie Bautain

1796 - 1867 (71 years)

Louis Eugène Marie Bautain , was a French philosopher and theologian. Life Bautain was born at Paris. At the École Normale he came under the influence of Victor Cousin. In 1816 he adopted the profession of higher teaching, and was soon after called to the chair of philosophy in the University of Strasbourg. He held this position for many years, and gave a parallel course of lectures as professor of the literary faculty in the same city. The reaction against speculative philosophy, which carried away De Maistre and Lamennais, influenced him also.

#4205

Lynne Tirrell

#56310

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Lynne Tirrell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, where she is also affiliated with the Human Rights Institute. Much of the body of her work focuses on hate speech, especially the practical effects of linguistic practices in shaping the social conditions that make genocide and other significant acts of oppression possible. Her research started in the United States but quickly branched in to other regions of the world, and now focuses on Rwanda and the surrounding region. From 2014 to 2017, she also served as the chair of the APA Committee on Public Philosophy. Her cur...

#4206

Mark Wallinger

#4861

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Mark Wallinger is an English artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Labyrinth , a permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work Writ in Water was realized for the National Trust to celebrate the Magna Carta at Runnymede.

#4207

Paul Glasziou

#47954

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Paul Philip Glasziou is an Australian academic physician known for his research in evidence-based medicine. He is Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University, where he is also Director of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine. He was the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford in England from 2003 to 2010. In July 2010, he received an NHMRC Australia Fellowship at Bond University. In March 2015, he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the...

#4208

Sherwood L. Gorbach

#73863

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#4209

Lilian Silburn

#33794

Overall Influence

1908 - 1993 (85 years)

Lilian Silburn was a French Indologist specialising in Kashmir Shaivism, Tantra and Buddhism. Silburn studied philosophy and Indology under Paul Masson-Oursel and others. During World War II, she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research and remained associated with it since. Her students included André Padoux.

#4210

Robert Peter Gale

#8647

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Robert Peter Gale is an American physician and medical researcher. He is known for research in leukemia and other bone marrow disorders . Education Gale received his A.B. degree with honors in biology and chemistry from Hobart College in 1966 and his M.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1970 . His postgraduate medical training was at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1970 to 1973. In 1976 he received a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of California at Los Angeles following doctoral work focusing on cancer immunology . His postdoctoral studies at UCLA were funded by the U.S.

#4211

Garrett Cullity

#67751

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Garrett Michael Cullity is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. He was Hughes Professor of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide between 2007 and 2020. He is known for his research on moral philosophy. Cullity is a Fellow of Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a former president of Australasian Association of Philosophy .

#4212

Martin Stokhof

#64875

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Martin Stokhof is a Dutch logician and philosopher. Stokhof wrote a joint Ph.D. dissertation with Jeroen Groenendijk on the semantics of questions, under the supervision of Renate Bartsch and Johan van Benthem. He was also an important figure in the development of dynamic semantics . He is also known for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

#4213

David Crocker

#40776

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

David A. Crocker , is Research Professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland, he is also the founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association . His work has been cited by the United Nations Human Development Report.

#4214

George Sher

#46469

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

George Sher is a moral philosopher and political philosopher who has taught at Rice University since 1991. Education and career Sher earned his bachelor's degree at Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1972. He taught at the University of Vermont before moving to Rice.

#4215

Søren Gosvig Olesen

#63611

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Søren Gosvig Olesen is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and has written extensively in the tradition of continental philosophy as well as translating a number of philosophers central to this tradition: Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Olesen is a graduate from Université de Paris I-Sorbonne, and defended his doctorate degree with Wissen und Phänomen from Université de Nice. Olesen has notably advanced the notion of transcendental history.

#4216

Emanuel Rádl

1873 - 1942 (69 years)

Emanuel Rádl was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masaryk´s pre-war democratic Czechoslovakia. He earned international renown by his works on the evolution of neural system and as historian of evolution theories.

#4217

Louis R. Caplan

#38817

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Louis R. Caplan is an American physician who is a senior member of the Division of Cerebrovascular Disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. He is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the founder of the Harvard Stroke Registry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Caplan is the author or editor of 51 books and more than 700 articles in medical journals.

#4218

Franklin I. Gamwell

#35370

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Franklin I. Gamwell is a scholar of the philosophy of religion, Christian theology, and philosophical ethics. He is the Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religions, and Theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he also has served as dean. He is a Presbyterian minister with a strong interest in democracy and justice.

#4219

Peggy DesAutels

#56156

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Peggy DesAutels is an American academic working as a professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton. Her research focuses on moral psychology, feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

#4220

Dario Antiseri

#38209

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Dario Antiseri is a Philosophy professor. He holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Perugia and for many years he has been Full Professor of Methodology of the Social Sciences at LUISS, in Rome. He taught in Siena, Padova and Rome, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. He retired from academia in 2010. He is an important scholar of Karl R. Popper and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and in many works he tries to show the links between fallibilism and hermeneutics. In 1996, he published a book about Gianni Vattimo's weak thought. With the Italian philosoph...

#4221

Pierre‐alain Clavien

#73974

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#4222

Jonathan Craig

#73995

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#4223

Huberto Rohden

1893 - 1981 (88 years)

Huberto Rohden Sobrinho, known as Huberto Rohden, was a Brazilian philosopher, educator and theologist. He was born in São Ludgero. A pioneer of transcendentalism in Brazil who wrote more than 100 works, where he taught ecumenical lecture of spiritual approach towards Education, Philosophy, Science, emphasizing self-knowledge.

#4224

Alex Comfort

#36739

Overall Influence

1920 - 2000 (80 years)

Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex . He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.

#4225

Momtazuddin Ahmed

1903 - 1971 (68 years)

Momtazuddin Ahmed was a Bangladeshi philosopher and educationist. Early life and education Ahmed was born to a Bengali Muslim family from Brahmanbaria in the erstwhile Tippera District of eastern Bengal. He studied in Dhaka University and obtained MA in philosophy in 1927. In 1937 he earned his PhD degree in philosophy from University College London. His research for dissertation was on metaphysics and logic under the advisers John Cook Wilson and Bradley Stamp.

#4226

Paul Häberlin

1878 - 1960 (82 years)

Paul Haeberlin was a Swiss philosopher who at different times in his career took the standpoint that either religion or theoretical knowledge was the answer to human problems. He always gave philosophy an important role, but religion was to him the only way man could understand his real position in existence. Haeberlin made contributions to characterology and psychotherapeutics, and was especially successful in treating psychopathic youth and teens. Made a full professor of philosophy, psychology and pedagogics at the University of Basel.

#4227

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

1743 - 1803 (60 years)

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu , the name under which his works were published; he was an influential of the mystic and human mind evolution and became the inspiration for the founding of the Martinist Order.

#4228

Gabriel Nuchelmans

#61238

Overall Influence

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

Gabriel Nuchelmans was a Dutch philosopher, who focused on the history of philosophy as well as on logic and the philosophy of language more in particular. Biography After completing high school at the Episcopal School of Roermond, Nuchelmans studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he also earned his PhD in 1950. During the PhD he spent a year in Freiburg/Switzerland with Olof Gigon and Joseph Maria Bocheński. In 1947/48 he attended courses by Alfred Ayer and Stuart Hampshire, at University College London. He also heard, at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper and J.O.Wisdom.

#4229

Donald Phillip Verene

#46232

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Donald Phillip Verene is an American philosophy professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University. Early life and education Donald Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He studied at Knox College in his hometown, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1959. He earned his doctorate in philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1964.

#4230

Richard Sugarman

#20570

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Richard Sugarman is an American academic and political consultant. He is a professor of religion at the University of Vermont and "a world-renowned expert on the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas." He was an advisor to presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on his 2016 presidential campaign.

#4231

Hans Eppinger

1879 - 1946 (67 years)

Hans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician of part-Jewish descent who performed experiments upon concentration camp prisoners. Early years Hans Eppinger was born in Prague, the son of the physician Professor Hans Eppinger [Sr] [1848-1916] a son of Heinrich Eppinger , notary and chancellery director in the monastery of Braunau in Bohemia and his wife Aloisia Salomon. Hans Eppinger Sr married Georgine Zetter in Klagenfurt and had two daughters and a son, Hans Eppinger junior. Hans Eppinger Jr received an education in Graz and Strasbourg. In 1903, he became a medical doctor in Graz, working at a medical clinic.

#4232

Phanto of Phlius

#51160

Overall Influence

Phanto of Phlius, was a Pythagorean philosopher, and one of the last of the school until the Neopythagorean revival in the Roman era. He was a disciple of Philolaus and Eurytus, and, probably in his old age, contemporary with Aristoxenus, the Peripatetic philosopher, c. 320 BC.

#4233

Aresas

#51159

Overall Influence

Aresas of Lucania, and probably of Croton in Magna Graecia, was the head of the Pythagorean school, and the sixth head of the school in succession from Pythagoras himself. Diodorus of Aspendus was one of his students. He lived around the 4th or 5th century BCE.

#4234

Albert Lautman

1908 - 1944 (36 years)

Albert Lautman was a French philosopher of mathematics, born in Paris. An escaped prisoner of war, he was shot by the Nazi authorities in Toulouse on 1 August 1944. Family His father was a Jewish emigrant from Vienna who became a medical doctor after he was seriously wounded in the First World War.

#4235

Klaus Pantel

#74157

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#4236

Justus Buchler

#49691

Overall Influence

1914 - 1991 (77 years)

Justus Buchler was an American philosopher, author and professor. He made contributions to the subjects of naturalism and metaphysics, introducing the concept of the natural complex. Biography Buchler was born in New York City, the eldest of three children of rabbi Samuel Buchler and Ida Frost Buchler. Buchler's sister, Beatrice Buchler Gotthold, was the founding editor of Working Woman magazine, and the first female vice president of the New York Times Company.

#4237

Piotr Chmielowski

Piotr Chmielowski

1848 - 1904 (56 years)

Piotr Chmielowski was a Polish philosopher, literary historian and critic. Life After studying at Warsaw's Main School in Russian Poland and at Leipzig University , Chmielowski taught till 1898 in Warsaw private schools. From 1903 he was a professor at Lwów University in Austrian Poland.

#4238

Jeffrey Bishop

#46766

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Jeffrey Paul Bishop is a philosopher, bioethicist, author and the Tenet Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. The director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, he is most widely recognized and cited for work in medical ethics as relating to death and dying in addition to contributions in the field of medical humanities. Bishop is a physician, holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Dallas and serves on the editorial boards of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the Journal of Christian Bioethics for Oxford University Press.

#4239

Anselm Haverkamp

#43152

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Anselm Haverkamp is a German-American professor of literature and philosophy. Biography He received his academic education in Freiburg/Brsg, Zurich, Bonn and Konstanz. After his PhD in Heidelberg and his Habilitation in the Konstanz School of Criticism, he moved from Konstanz to Yale; since 1989 he has taught as professor of English at New York University, where he also founded the Poetics and Theory Program. Since 1994 he has served as founding member of the newly established European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, East of Berlin. In 2009, he was made an honorary professor of...

#4240

Ron Polansky

#69957

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ron Polansky is an American philosopher and educator. A Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, he edits the journal Ancient Philosophy. He also edits Mathesis Publications. Polansky teaches and works widely in ancient philosophy, but also has worked and taught bioethics and early modern political philosophy. He is married to Susan Polansky who teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.

#4241

Stylianos Antonarakis

Stylianos Antonarakis

#28142

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Stylianos E. Antonarakis is a Greece-born human geneticist. Antonarakis is Professor of Genetic Medicine at the University of Geneva Medical School in Switzerland. From 2012 to 2017 he was the director of the iGE3 institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva, which he co-founded. He is the President of the Human Genome Organization , a member of the scientific council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, and chair of the Genetics panel of the European Research Council. Previously he was the President of the European Society of Human Genetics.

#4242

Katherine Hawley

#69367

Overall Influence

1971 - 2021 (50 years)

Katherine Jane Hawley was a British philosopher specialising in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of physics. Hawley was a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She was the author of How Things Persist , Trust: a Very Short Introduction , and How To Be Trustworthy . Hawley was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020, and she was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship .

#4243

Alison Simmons

#57511

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Alison Simmons is an American philosopher and Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. Her primary scholarly interests are in early modern theories of mind , the relationship between mind and body, natural philosophy, and sensory perception. With Barbara Grosz, she is co-founder of the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard, which embeds ethics lessons into computer science courses.

#4244

Teo Otto

1904 - 1968 (64 years)

Teo Otto was a Swiss stage designer. He trained in Kassel and Paris and in 1926 taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1928 he became an assistant at the Berlin Staatsoper. Following the Nazis' seizure of power in Germany, he returned to Switzerland where he was resident designer at the Zürich Schauspielhaus for 25 years.

#4245

Bernard Charbonneau

Bernard Charbonneau

#25619

Overall Influence

1910 - 1996 (86 years)

Bernard Charbonneau was a French writer who authored about twenty books and numerous articles, published in La Gueule Ouverte, Foi et Vie, La République des Pyrénées. An apolitical and independent thinker, he is considered to be a major inspiration for the various French ecological movements. His name is regularly mentioned by French academics. as well French green party leaders.

#4246

Alessandro Liberati

#74490

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#4247

Fabienne Brugère

Fabienne Brugère

#44427

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Fabienne Brugère is a French philosopher specializing in aesthetics and philosophy of art, history of modern philosophy , moral and political philosophy, Anglo-American philosophy studies and feminist theory. She was a professor at the Bordeaux Montaigne University and vice-president for international relations at this university. She joined the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis since September 2014, as chair of "philosophy of modern and contemporary arts". She has been president of the Paris Lumières University Group since November 2019, after having chaired the academic council of th...

#4248

Conrad Gessner

1516 - 1565 (49 years)

Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zürich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine. He became Zürich's city physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography and zoology and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany.

#4249

Eugène Boudin

1824 - 1898 (74 years)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

#4250

Alf Ahlberg

1892 - 1979 (87 years)

Alf Ahlberg was a Swedish academic, writer, humanist and philosopher. Early life and education Ahlberg was born in 1892 in Laholm, Sweden, the son of Axel Ahlberg and Anna Lindskog, and the brother of the architect Hakon Ahlberg. He studied at Lund University and came to know in particular Sigfrid Lindstrom and Gunnar Aspelin. In the summer, he stayed in Lund to read Schopenhauer in the botanical garden of Lund at the foot of Aagardhs statue. He earned a Master of Business Administration in 1911 and his PhD in 1917 with the thesis, "Material problems of Platonism: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, ...

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