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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4251

Alia Al-Saji

#64606

Overall Influence

Alia Al-Saji is an associate professor of philosophy at McGill University. Her work focuses on bringing 20th century phenomenology and French philosophy into dialogue with critical race and feminist theories. Al-Saji believes that feminist phenomenology must take an intersectional approach to its work, one that accounts for the fact that gender cannot be treated in a vacuum apart from other axes of oppression.

#4252

Charis Eng

#53529

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Charis Eng is a Singapore-born physician-scientist and geneticist at the Cleveland Clinic, notable for identifying the PTEN gene. She is the Chairwoman and founding Director of the Genomic Medicine Institute of the Cleveland Clinic, founding Director and attending clinical cancer geneticist of the institute’s clinical component, the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, and Professor and Vice Chairwoman of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

#4253

René Maheu

1905 - 1975 (70 years)

René Gabriel Eugene Maheu was a French professor of philosophy and the sixth Director-General of UNESCO. He was a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He was head of the French Information Office in London and after teaching in Morocco during World War II, he occupied a managerial post in the France-Afrique press agency in Algiers, before joining the Executive Office of the Resident-General in Rabat. In 1946 he entered UNESCO as Chief, Division of Free Flow of Information. In 1949 Jaime Torres Bodet appointed him Director of his Executive Office. In 1954 he became Assistant Director-General and was UNESCO's representative at UN Headquarters from 1955 to 1958.

#4254

Ali H. Mokdad

#74633

Overall Influence

#4255

Sydney M. Finegold

#41600

Overall Influence

1921 - 2018 (97 years)

Sydney "Sid" Martin Finegold was an American physician, medical school professor, and medical researcher, specializing in anaerobic bacteriology. Biography Born in New York City to Russian, Jewish immigrant parents who worked as pharmacists, Sydney Finegold had a sister and an older brother. The family moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. Sydney Finegold graduated in 1943 from the University of California, Los Angeles with a bacteriology major and served from 1943 to 1945 in the US Marine Corps. After WWII ended, he matriculated at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he graduated in 1949 with an M.D.

#4256

Nancy J. Nersessian

#34064

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Nancy J. Nersessian is the Regents' Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work tends to be in the areas of the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the psychology of science.

#4257

Pierre-Sylvain Régis

Pierre-Sylvain Régis

1632 - 1707 (75 years)

Pierre Sylvain Régis was a French Cartesian philosopher and a prominent critic of Spinoza. Known as a philosopher, he was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences in 1699. Life Born at La Salvetat de Blanquefort, near Agen, he had a classical education, and then went to Paris. He attended the lectures of Jacques Rohault, and became a follower of the philosophy of René Descartes. He then taught the principles of Cartesianism at Toulouse , Aigues-Mortes, Montpellier , and Paris . The prohibition issued against the teaching of Cartesianism put an end to his lectures.

#4258

Jonathan D. Moreno

Jonathan D. Moreno

#16454

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jonathan D. Moreno is an American philosopher and historian who specializes in the intersection of bioethics, culture, science, and national security, and has published seminal works on the history, sociology and politics of biology and medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#4259

Nijaz Ibrulj

#55532

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Nijaz Ibrulj is a Bosnian philosopher and a professor at the University of Sarajevo's Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He lectures on logic, analytic philosophy, methodology of social sciences, theory of knowledge, and cognitive science. His interests also extend to the field of social ontology. Ibrulj was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship during the 2000-2001 academic years to visit the University of California, Berkeley. His application was sponsored by John Searle and Donald Davidson.

#4260

David Sobel

#19020

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

David Sobel is an American educator and academic, responsible for developing the philosophy of place-based education. He has written extensively on the topic in books and numerous articles. He is currently a Core Faculty member and Director of Certificate Programs at Antioch University New England.

#4261

Ferdinand Sauerbruch

Ferdinand Sauerbruch

1875 - 1951 (76 years)

Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery. Biography Sauerbruch was born in Barmen , Germany. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg, the University of Greifswald, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, and the University of Leipzig, from the last of which he graduated in 1902. He went to Breslau in 1903, where he developed the Sauerbruch chamber, a pressure chamber for operating on the open thorax, which he demonstrated in 1904. This invention was a breakthrough in thorax medicine and allowed heart and lung operations to take place at greatly reduced risk.

#4262

Helmut Kohlenberger

#51021

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Helmut Kohlenberger is a German philosopher, translator, editor and university lecturer at both the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg. He is the author of several works, including The European Idea and Culture, Theoretical issues of the Middle Ages and Modernism.

#4263

Nythamar de Oliveira

#62452

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Nythamar de Oliveira is a Brazilian philosopher, theologian, and university teacher. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he is full professor at the School of Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre.

#4264

Shao Yong

1011 - 1077 (66 years)

Shao Yong , courtesy name Yaofu , named Shào Kāngjié was a Chinese cosmologist, historian, philosopher, and poet who greatly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism across China during the Song dynasty.

#4265

Roger S. Gottlieb

#53611

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Roger S. Gottlieb is professor of philosophy and Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has written and edited 21 books, including two Nautilus Book Awards winners, and over 150 papers on philosophy, political theory, environmental ethics, religious studies, religious environmentalism, religious life, contemporary spirituality, the Holocaust, and disability. He is internationally known for his work as a leading analyst and exponent of religious environmentalism, for his passionate and moving account of spirituality in an age of environm...

#4266

S. Debono

#69750

Overall Influence

S. Debono was a Maltese scientist, linguist and minor philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised in ontology. His exact Christian name is unknown. Neither do we possess as yet a portrait of him.

#4267

Hugo Junkers

1859 - 1935 (76 years)

Hugo Junkers was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG , was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II. His multi-engined, all-metal passenger- and freight planes helped establish airlines in Germany and around the world.

#4268

Susannah Heschel

#20115

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Susannah Heschel is an American scholar and professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, she is a Guggenheim Fellow Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

#4269

Hubert Schleichert

#39398

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Hubert Schleichert was an Austrian emeritus philosopher . His works have emphasized political philosophy, theory of argument and non-European philosophy, especially Chinese philosophy. Working with Urs Egli, Schleichert contributed to erotetics by assembling an annotated bibliography of works in philosophy, linguistics, automatic answering, and psychology/pedagogy.

#4270

Augustus John

1878 - 1961 (83 years)

Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.

#4271

Josef Mitterer

#45493

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Josef Mitterer is an Austrian philosopher, and a retired professor at the University of Klagenfurt Department of Philosophy. Mitterer studied psychology and sociology in Innsbruck and Linz and philosophy in Graz. His studies also took him to the London School of Economics , to Heidelberg University , IUC Dubrovnik and in 1976 to Berkeley where he studied with Paul Feyerabend. Mitterer received his doctorate at the University of Graz in 1978. He then worked as a Tour Director in Europe and Asia and as a Management Consultant for the Travel Industry in the USA. Since 1990 Mitterer has been tea...

#4272

Michael Wyschogrod

Michael Wyschogrod

#37210

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Michael Wyschogrod was a Jewish German-American philosopher of religion, Jewish theologian, and activist for Jewish–Christian interfaith dialogue. During his academic career he taught in philosophy and religion departments of several universities in the United States, Europe and Israel.

#4273

Craig Bartholomew

Craig Bartholomew

#51585

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Craig G. Bartholomew is the director of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology. He was senior research fellow at the University of Gloucestershire and H. Evan Runner Professor of philosophy at Redeemer University.

#4274

D. P. Chattopadhyaya

#35663

Overall Influence

1933 - 2022 (89 years)

Professor Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya , was educated at the University of Calcutta and was Deputy Minister of Health of India and Union Minister of Commerce and Industry. He founded the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, and served as its Chairman. Till the end of his life, he served as the Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations, and General Editor of the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, which produced a multi-volume cultural history of India.

#4275

Ingrid Robeyns

#42595

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ingrid A.M. Robeyns holds the Chair Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities and the associated Ethics Institute. Robeyns is also a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association and was elected the associations eighth president in April 2017. She is a notable advocate of economic limitarianism .

#4276

Liang-pei Zhang

#74927

Overall Influence

#4277

Victor Skumin

#10037

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Victor Andreevich Skumin is a Russian and Soviet scientist, psychiatrist, philosopher and writer. After graduating from the Kharkiv National Medical University in 1973, he became a psychotherapist in Kiev Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1978, he described a new disease, the Skumin syndrome. He introduced a method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion for psychological rehabilitation of cardiosurgical patients .

#4278

Thomas Beddoes

1760 - 1808 (48 years)

Thomas Beddoes was an English physician and scientific writer. He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire and died in Bristol fifteen years after opening his medical practice there. He was a reforming practitioner and teacher of medicine, and an associate of leading scientific figures. He worked to treat tuberculosis.

#4279

Rita Charon

#12946

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Rita Charon , is a physician, literary scholar and the founder and executive director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She currently practices as a general internist at the Associates in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and is a professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

#4280

John Wyndham

1903 - 1969 (66 years)

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids , filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos , which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.

#4281

Soren Holm

#65255

Overall Influence

Søren Holm is a bioethicist and philosopher of medicine. He holds a chair in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo. With Professor John Harris Holm served as co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics from 2004-2011. Holm holds a master's degree in health care ethics from the University of Manchester and two doctoral degrees in medical ethics from the University of Copenhagen. He was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2006 to 2012 and a member of the Co...

#4282

Leon Knopoff

#32758

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Leon Knopoff was an American geophysicist and musicologist. He received his education at Caltech, graduating in 1949 with a PhD in physics, and came to UCLA the following year. He served on the UCLA faculty for 60 years. His research interests spanned a wide variety of fields and included the physics and statistics of earthquakes, earthquake prediction, the interior structure of the Earth, plate tectonics, pattern recognition, non-linear earthquake dynamics and several other areas of solid Earth geophysics. He also made contributions to the fields of musical perception and archaeology.

#4283

Alf Brodal

#75127

Overall Influence

#4284

Theodore George

#62391

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Theodore D. George is an American philosopher and professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy and hermeneutics, in particular, his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer. George is the editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy. He was the president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics between 2013 and 2016.

#4285

Hiro Sachiya

#33696

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Hiro Sachiya was a Japanese religious scholar and a popular contemporary writer of Buddhism. His birth name is Yoshihiko Masuhara. He was born in Osaka Prefecture and studied Indian philosophy at University of Tokyo, graduating in 1960. Under the pen name Hiro Sachiya , he has written more than 400 books and articles. His interest in religion is not limited to Buddhism. He is mostly known for his comparative studies in all religions including Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism.

#4286

Karl Rudolf Sohn

Karl Rudolf Sohn

1845 - 1908 (63 years)

Karl Friedrich Rudolf Sohn was a German portrait painter in the Academic style. Biography His father was the landscape painter, Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After graduating from the , he was drafted for military service, but was rejected for "physical weaknesses". In 1863, he began studying engineering at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe. He completed his studies in 1866, but never practiced as an engineer. He returned to Düsseldorf and, shortly before his father's death, he began to study art with him. From 1867 to 1870, he was a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied history painting with Karl Müller and figure painting with Julius Roeting.

#4287

Félicien Challaye

1875 - 1967 (92 years)

Félicien Robert Challaye was a French philosopher, anti-colonialist and human rights activist. Early life Félicien Challaye was born on 1 November 1875 in Lyon, France. He earned the agrégation in Philosophy in 1897.

#4288

James Edwin Creighton

1861 - 1924 (63 years)

James Edwin Creighton was an American idealist philosopher, Cornell academic, founding president of the American Philosophical Association, and president of the American Philosophical Society. Biography Creighton graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Dalhousie College, Halifax, in 1887, and became a student at the foreign universities of Leipzig and Berlin. Later he came to Cornell University as a graduate student, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy there in 1892. From 1889 to 1892, Dean Creighton was an instructor in philosophy at Cornell, being advanced during the three following years to an associate professorship.

#4289

Tad Schmaltz

#54036

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Tad M. Schmaltz is a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to that, he was a professor of philosophy at Duke University, where he began his teaching career in 1989. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in philosophy from Kalamazoo College in 1983, received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul and Radical Cartesianism . He is editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

#4290

Willem B. Drees

#42623

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Willem Bernard "Wim" Drees is a Dutch philosopher. As of the 1st of November 2014 he is professor of philosophy of the humanities at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. From 2008 until 2018 he was the editor-in-chief of Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science and professor of philosophy of religion at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

#4291

David Carr

#75212

Overall Influence

#4292

John Wendell Severinghaus

#75215

Overall Influence

#4293

Ralph Tyler Flewelling

1871 - 1960 (89 years)

Ralph Tyler Flewelling was an American philosopher. Biography Early life He was born on November 23, 1871, near De Witt, Michigan, and educated at the University of Michigan, Alma College . the Garrett Biblical Institute , and Boston University.

#4294

Dimitrios Trichopoulos

Dimitrios Trichopoulos

#20257

Overall Influence

1938 - 2014 (76 years)

Dimitrios Trichopoulos , was a Mediterranean Diet expert and tobacco harms researcher. He was Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, and a past chair of the Department of Epidemiology, in the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

#4295

Georg Ernst Stahl

Georg Ernst Stahl

1659 - 1734 (75 years)

Georg Ernst Stahl was a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an explanation for chemical processes.

#4296

Karl von Prantl

Karl von Prantl

1820 - 1888 (68 years)

Karl von Prantl was a German philosopher and philologist. Biography He was born at Landsberg on the Lech. In 1843 he became doctor of philosophy at Munich Observatory, where he was made professor in 1859. He was also a member of the Academies of Berlin and Munich. Strongly in agreement with the Hegelian tradition, he defended and amplified it in Die gegenwärtige Aufgabe der Philosophie and Verstehen und Beurteilen .

#4297

Edward S. Reed

#27884

Overall Influence

1954 - 1997 (43 years)

Edward Steven Reed was an American philosopher of science and an ecological psychologist in the vein of James J. Gibson. Reed was born in New York, New York. He died in Mohnton, Pennsylvania. Partial bibliography Reed, E.S. & Jones, R. . . Reasons for Realism: Selected essays of James J. Gibson. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.Reed, E.S. . James Gibson's ecological revolution in perceptual psychology: A case study in the transformation of scientific Ideas. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 17, 65–99.Reed, E.S. . James Gibson's Ecological Approach to Cognition . In A. Costall & A.

#4298

Kurt J Isselbacher

#4299

Jerzy Żuławski

1874 - 1915 (41 years)

Jerzy Żuławski was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and patriot whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa , written between 1901 and 1911.

#4300

Bjørn Hofmann

#57085

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Bjørn Morten Hofmann is a Norwegian researcher in philosophy of medicine and ethics with special interest for the relationship between epistemology and ethics. His main subjects in the philosophy of medicine have been the concepts of health and disease. In the philosophy of the health sciences he has studied causation, rationality, evidence, diagnosis, overdiagnosis, medicalization and futility. Reproductive technologies, biobanks and organ transplantation have been his main topics in the ethics of biotechnologies. Additionally, Hofmann has published in research ethics, ethics in health techn...

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