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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4251

Georgina Long

#94619

Overall Influence

Georgina Venetia Long is Co-Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia , and Chair of Melanoma Medical Oncology and Translational Research at MIA and Royal North Shore Hospital, The University of Sydney.

#4252

Daniel Barbu

#29149

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel-Constantin Barbu is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991–1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a membe...

#4253

Atul Butte

#5944

Overall Influence

Atul J. Butte is a biomedical informatics researcher and biotechnology entrepreneur. He is currently the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Since April 2015, Butte has serves as inaugural director of UCSF's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

#4254

Fabian Freyenhagen

#87839

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Fabian Freyenhagen is a British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is known for his expertise on critical theory and Kantian ethics. Books Adorno's Practical Philosophy: Living Less Wrongly, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political, Fabian Freyenhagen and Gordon Finlayson, Routledge, 2010 The Legacy of John Rawls, edited by Fabian Freyenhagen and Thom Brooks, London: Continuum, 2005

#4255

Anders Ahlbom

#105689

Overall Influence

#4256

Dale N. Gerding

#105695

Overall Influence

#4257

J. E. L. Pepys

#105704

Overall Influence

#4258

Jafar Shahidi

#9883

Overall Influence

1918 - 2008 (90 years)

Jafar Shahidi known as Seyed Jafar Shahidi was a distinguished scholar of the Persian language and literature, and a renowned historian of Islam. Born in Boroujerd, Lorestan Province, Iran, Shahidi dedicated his life to Persian studies, acting as the director of the Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute and International Center for Persian Studies , serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the University of Tehran , and mastering the fields of jurisprudence and Islamic history. As a member of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at the University of Tehran, Shahidi speci...

#4259

Tiny Jaarsma

#105752

Overall Influence

#4260

E. Stasnley Crawford

#105760

Overall Influence

#4261

Eugenio Picano

#105777

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#4262

Peter Openshaw

#53101

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Peter John Morland Openshaw, is a British clinician and scientist specialising in lung immunology, particularly defence against viral infections. He trained in lung diseases and undertook a PhD in immunology before establishing a laboratory at St Mary's Hospital Medical School . He created the academic department of Respiratory Medicine and the Centre for Respiratory Infection at Imperial College and was elected President of the British Society for Immunology in 2014.

#4263

Åke Senning

#105795

Overall Influence

#4264

Donald Henderson

Donald Henderson

#7920

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Donald Ainslie Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launched international childhood vaccination programs. From 1977 to 1990, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Later, he played a leading role in instigating national programs for public health preparedness and response following biological attacks and national disasters. At the time of his death, he was Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Pro...

#4265

Izchak Miller

#62157

Overall Influence

1935 - 1994 (59 years)

Izchak Miller was a philosopher and author, known, among other things, for his scholarly writings on Edmund Husserl and his contributions to Husserlian phenomenology. Miller was a coordinator of the Cognitive Science Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1986, and was an assistant professor in the Philosophy department from 1982 to 1988. He later joined the faculty of Yeshiva University in 1993, and also taught at Stanford University, UCLA, Brandeis University, and the MIT, where he held his first professorship from 1973 to 1977. In addition, he was employed at the Xer...

#4266

Salvatore Pizzo

#102284

Overall Influence

Salvatore Vincent Pizzo is an American scientist, currently Distinguished Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#4267

Carmen Puliafito

Carmen Puliafito

#7255

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Carmen Anthony Puliafito is an American ophthalmologist and former academic administrator. From 2007 until March 2016, he was dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Puliafito had engaged in parties with young recreational drug users and prostitutes, including at the Keck School's offices, and that Puliafito had smoked methamphetamine at these events.

#4268

Gerald A. Larue

#27134

Overall Influence

1916 - 2014 (98 years)

Gerald Alexander Larue was an American scholar of religion and professor emeritus of gerontology, a former ordained minister who became an agnostic, archaeologist, debunker of biblical stories and accounts of miracles, and humanist.

#4269

Taede A. Smedes

#62374

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Taede Anne Smedes is a Dutch philosopher of religion specializing in the relationship between religion and science. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Groningen in 2004 for a thesis on Avoiding Balaam's Mistake: Exploring Divine Action in an Age of Scientism.

#4270

Allan S. Detsky

#46670

Overall Influence

Allan Steven Detsky is a Canadian physician and health policy expert. He is the ex-Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Division of Clinical Investigation and Human Physiology, Toronto General Research Institute.

#4271

Kris V. Kowdley

#105867

Overall Influence

#4272

James Howard Shaw

#105894

Overall Influence

#4273

Rikard Holmdahl

#94875

Overall Influence

Rikard Holmdahl is a Swedish physician and immunologist. He was appointed as a full professor and the head of Medical Inflammation Research unit at Lund University in 1993. In 2008, Rikard and his whole research group were recruited to Karolinska Institute. His team was the first to discover and positionally clone a single nucleotide polymorphism at the Ncf1 gene causing susceptibility to autoimmune diseases in rat models. Rikard was an adjunct member of the Nobel Committee for physiology or medicine between 2016 and 2021, and was ranked 2nd among the top immunology scientists in Sweden in 20...

#4274

Eli Friedman

#27344

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Eli A. Friedman is an American nephrologist. Education Friedman attended New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn College, and the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center where he received an M.D. degree in 1957. In 1957, Friedman married Mildred Barrett-Lennard with whom he fathered three daughters: Amy Louise, Rebecca Alica, and Sara Jo. He served as Intern, Nephrology Fellow, and Senior Medical Resident at Harvard Medical School's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1957 to 1961. After two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the United States Public Health Service's Communic...

#4275

Patrick Stokes

#104186

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Patrick Stokes is an Australian philosopher, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Deakin University and a former Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a winner of Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize and is known for his research on Kierkegaard's philosophy.

#4276

Zachary Braiterman

#59230

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Zachary Braiterman is an American philosopher, best known for writing on the topics of Holocaust theology, Jewish thought, aesthetics, and Jewish art. He is also a professor of religion at Syracuse University.

#4277

Michael Steinberg

#19517

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program booklets, beginning in 1979." He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote articles for music journals and magazine, notes for CDs, and published a number of books on music, both collected published annotations and new writings.

#4278

Hope A. Olson

#40462

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Hope A. Olson is Professor Emerita at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She was previously a professor at the University of Alberta. From 2000 to 2004 Olson was the editor-in-chief for Knowledge Organization and she currently serves on its editorial board. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Library Metadata. Olson has authored or co-authored over thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has published three books: Subject Analysis in Online Catalogs, 2nd ed., co-authored by John J. Boll ; Information Sources in Women'...

#4279

Willem C. J. Hop

#105953

Overall Influence

#4280

Christopher H. Polman

#105954

Overall Influence

#4281

Gilbert Vassart

#105955

Overall Influence

#4282

Knut Erik Tranøy

#95611

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Knut Erik Tranøy was a Norwegian philosopher. During World War II Tranøy, along with 700 other Norwegian students, was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was appointed professor at the University of Bergen from 1959, and at the University of Oslo from 1978. His main contributions have been in fields of ethics, particularly in medicine and science. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1979. He was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2002.

#4283

Shabir Madhi

#100384

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Shabir Ahmed Madhi, is a South African physician who is professor of vaccinology and director of the South African Medical Research Council Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, and National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases. In January 2021, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwateratand.

#4284

Lars Svendsen

#102246

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen is a Norwegian philosopher. Biography He is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of several books, including A Philosophy of Boredom , Fashion: a Philosophy , A Philosophy of Fear , Work , and A Philosophy of Freedom . His books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

#4285

Richard J”︁ Traystman

#106031

Overall Influence

#4286

Jack Meiland

#86766

Overall Influence

1934 - 1998 (64 years)

Jack W. Meiland was an American philosopher and educator. As a philosopher, Meiland is best known for his analyses of relativism, particularly on cognitive relativism. Meiland is also known for a "salvage operation" from the "paradox of relativism", the claim that relativists are absolutists about relativism.

#4287

D. Graeme Woodfield

#106071

Overall Influence

#4288

Vianney Décarie

Vianney Décarie

#80856

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Joseph Fernand Lionel Vianney Décarie, , was a Canadian philosopher. He was born November 28, 1917, in Montreal, Canada and died there on September 6, 2009, of pneumonia. Early life Vianney Décarie was a descendant of an old Quebec family. His grandfather, Barthélémy Thélesphore Décarie, was a major landowner, whose farms stretched through the west end of present-day Montreal and the village of Notre Dame de Grace. The Décarie Expressway bears the family's name.

#4289

Stephen R Marder

#106076

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

#4290

Gazi Yaşargil

#4296

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. He is a founding member of Eurasian Academy.

#4291

Joan Moschovakis

#67065

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Joan Rand Moschovakis is a logician and mathematician focusing on intuitionistic logic and mathematics. She is professor emerita at Occidental College and a guest at UCLA. Moschovakis earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965 under the direction of Stephen Kleene, with a dissertation titled Disjunction, Existence and *-Eliminability in Formalized Intuitionistic Analysis.

#4292

Herbert W. Virgin

#93976

Overall Influence

Herbert W. "Skip" Virgin was the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for establishing murine norovirus as a model system for studying norovirus biology, for identifying host phenotypes associated with persistent viral infections, for defining alterations to the human virome in the context of different diseases, and for elucidating the roles of autophagy and interferon-stimulated genes during viral infection.

#4293

John E. Murdoch

#61183

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

John Emery Murdoch was an American academic. Educated in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Murdoch spent most of his career at Harvard University. At Harvard, he was Professor of History of Science and Chair of the Department from 1966 to 1971 and 1974 to 1975. He specialized in ancient and medieval medicine and philosophy, and published numerous materials on the topic. Murdoch was awarded the George Sarton Medal in 2009 for his scholarship.

#4294

Keith P. Klugman

#106109

Overall Influence

#4295

Joseph de Torre

#61671

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Joseph de Torre was a social and political philosopher and a Roman Catholic priest. He is the author of books on social ethics, Catholic social teaching, modern philosophy and spirituality. He is a member of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. De Torre is the author of twenty books and hundreds of essays. He had been living in the Philippines since 1968. He was fluent in Latin, Greek, Spanish and English.

#4296

Amos Yadlin

#8954

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Aluf Amos Yadlin is a former general in the Israeli Air Force , Israel Defense Forces military attaché to Washington, D.C., and head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate . Biography Amos Yadlin was born in Kibbutz Hatzerim, the son of Edah and Aharon Yadlin. In 1970, he enlisted in the IAF. Yadlin obtained a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He received a master's degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

#4297

Alan Frederick Hofmann

#106145

Overall Influence

#4298

Michael H. Alderman

#106146

Overall Influence

#4299

Robert E. Forster

#106149

Overall Influence

#4300

Alan Millar

#92907

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Alan Millar FRSE is the former Head of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge and joined the department at Stirling University in 1971. His primary research interests are philosophy of mind and the theory of knowledge. He is a member of the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly.

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