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#4351

Andrew B. Newberg

#6691

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Andrew Newberg is an American neuroscientist who is a professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences and the director of research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, previously an adjunct professor of religious studies and a lecturer in psychology in the Biological Basis of Behavior Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

#4352

Terry Flew

#8330

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Terry Flew is an Australian media and communications scholar, and Professor of Digital Communication and Culture in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney, Australia. He was formerly the Professor and Assistant Dean in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology. He has produced award-winning research in creative industries, media and communications, and online journalism. He is primarily known for his publication, New Media: An Introduction, which is currently in its fourth edition . His research interests include digital media,...

#4353

Susan Redline

#73746

Overall Influence

Susan Redline is an American pulmonary specialist. She is the Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Early life and education Redline completed her medical degree in 1979 at Boston University School of Medicine and her Master's degree in public health in 1984 from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

#4354

Lê Quát

#40178

Overall Influence

Lê Quát was a 14th-century Vietnamese Confucian mandarin of the Trần dynasty. He is best known for his proposal in 1370 to have Buddhism in Vietnam, the favoured religion of the Trần dynasty, deemed as heretical. This was the first such attempt, and it failed, although Confucianism came to be the ruling doctrine under the subsequent Lê dynasty.

#4355

Lisa Nakamura

#14980

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Lisa Nakamura is an American professor of media and cinema studies, Asian American studies, and gender and women’s studies. She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures.

#4356

Tim Lewens

#40095

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Tim Lewens is a professor in the history and philosophy of biology, medicine, and bioethics at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Lewens is a Fellow of Clare College, where he serves as Director of Studies in Philosophy and he is a member of the academic staff and lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

#4357

James Pryor

#69179

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

James Vincent Pryor is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He is known for his expertise on epistemology and philosophy of language. Before teaching at UNC, Pryor was a faculty member in the philosophy department of New York University. He has also taught at Harvard University and Princeton University.

#4358

Li Zhi

1527 - 1602 (75 years)

Li Zhi , often known by his pseudonym Zhuowu , was a Chinese philosopher, historian and writer of the late Ming dynasty. A critic of the Neo-Confucianist views espoused by Zhu Xi, which was then the orthodoxy of the Ming government, he was persecuted and committed suicide in prison.

#4359

Simon Soloveychik

Simon Soloveychik

#22373

Overall Influence

1930 - 1996 (66 years)

Simon L'vovich Soloveychik was a Russian publicist, educator and social philosopher. Brief biography Simon Soloveychik was born in a Jewish family. His father, Lev I. Soloveychik, was editor, writer and administrator at the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, and later managed the Moscow-based Voienizdat publishing house. After graduating from the Philology Department of Moscow State University in 1953 Simon worked as a boys and girls scouts leader, a secondary school teacher, and a correspondent of Pioneer magazine. In 1960 he worked for the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, where he launched a wide t...

#4360

Clay Shirky

#3434

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism. In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost of Educational Technologies of New York University , after serving as Chief Information Officer at NYU Shanghai from 2014 to 2017. He also is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Associate Arts Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program. His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technologi...

#4361

Enrique Herrera Viedma

#75225

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Enrique Herrera Viedma is the Vice-Rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Granada , Spain. He is also Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the same university since 1994.

#4362

Dan Roden

#62380

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dan Roden is a Canadian-born American medical researcher known for his work in personalized medicine. He is Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he holds the Sam L. Clark Endowed Chair and serves at the Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine. He is also the director of Vanderbilt University's BioVU project, which is a biobank linking individuals' DNA samples to their medical records.

#4363

Henry S. Richardson

#53833

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Henry Shattuck Richardson is an American philosopher, author, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Early life and education Henry Shattuck Richardson is the son of Anne Richardson, who was once the chair of Reading is Fundamental, and the politician and lawyer Elliot Richardson, who served as United States Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and Secretary of Commerce.

#4364

Louis Narens

#9791

Overall Influence

Louis Narens was the Graduate Director of Mathematical Behavioral Science, Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.

#4365

Werner Creutzfeldt

Werner Creutzfeldt

#44052

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Werner Otto Carl Creutzfeldt was a German professor of internal medicine and an expert in gastrointestinal endocrinology. Biography Creutzfeldt was born in Berlin and raised in Kiel. During the Second World War, he served in the German Navy from 1942 to 1945. He studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg before completing an MD at the University of Kiel's Institute of Anatomy in 1950.

#4366

Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller

1708 - 1777 (69 years)

Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology."

#4367

Victor D. Herbert

#76326

Overall Influence

#4368

Marcelo Dascal

#56852

Overall Influence

1940 - 2019 (79 years)

Marcelo Dascal was a Brazilian-born Israeli philosopher and linguist, who was a professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University since 1967. He also served as a Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1995 to 2000.

#4369

Dr. Donald O. Castell

#76350

Overall Influence

#4370

Ward Jones

#36092

Overall Influence

Ward E. Jones is a scholar at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he is a professor of philosophy. He joined the department in 1999. His DPhil. thesis, entitled The View from Here: A First-person Constraint on Believing was completed in 1998 at Oxford University. While finishing his thesis, Jones spent three years teaching philosophy at various colleges in Oxford.

#4371

Harvey Douglas White

#76373

Overall Influence

#4372

Helen Steward

#68442

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Helen Catherine Steward, is a British philosopher and academic. She is currently Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds. Her research focusses on Philosophy of Action, Free Will, Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics.

#4373

Margaret Morrison

#46935

Overall Influence

1954 - 2021 (67 years)

Margaret C. "Margie" Morrison was a Canadian philosopher. She worked in the philosophy of science. She was elected to the Leopoldina in 2004, the Royal Society of Canada in 2015, the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences in 2016, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.

#4374

Peg Birmingham

#72399

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Peg Birmingham is an American professor of philosophy at DePaul University. Much of Birmingham's work has focused on the work of Hannah Arendt, to whose thought she is considered to have made a profound contribution, although her interest has also ranged widely through other subjects, primarily in modern social and political philosophy, as well as feminist theory.

#4375

Djamila Ribeiro

Djamila Ribeiro

#32890

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos is a Brazilian Black feminist philosopher and journalist. She graduated in political philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo, where she also earned a master's degree on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler. Ribeiro is a collaborating editor of weekly magazine CartaCapital, as well as a columnist for CartaCapital and Folha de S.Paulo.

#4376

Rachelle Yarros

1869 - 1946 (77 years)

Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros was an American physician who supported the use of birth control and the social hygiene movement. A graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Yarros resided at Hull House for many years and opened the second birth control clinic in the nation there. She was an obstetrician/gynecologist affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Lying-in Hospital.

#4377

Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin

1748 - 1804 (56 years)

Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Education Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen. He studied medicine under his father at University of Tübingen and graduated with a Master's degree in 1768, with a thesis entitled: , defended under the presidency of Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger, whom he thanks with the words .

#4378

James R. Griesemer

#23407

Overall Influence

James R. Griesemer is an American professor of philosophy at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California specializing in philosophy of biology. Education and career Griesemer received his PhD in 1983 in the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago under the supervision of William C. Wimsatt. He joined the faculty at University of California, Davis in 1984, and has taught there ever since. He is currently a "Distinguished Professor."

#4379

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

#36376

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh is an Iranian-American physician doing research in nephrology, kidney dialysis, nutrition, and epidemiology. He is best known as a specialist in kidney disease nutrition and chronic kidney disease and for his hypothesis about the longevity of individuals with chronic disease states, also known as reverse epidemiology including obesity paradox. According to this hypothesis, obesity or hypercholesterolemia may counterintuitively be protective and associated with greater survival in certain groups of people, such as elderly individuals, dialysis patients, or those with chro...

#4380

Radim Palouš

#21320

Overall Influence

1924 - 2015 (91 years)

Radim Palouš was a Czech dissident, philosopher, educator, and former spokesman for Charter 77, and from 1990 to 1994, was the rector of Charles University in Prague. Life Palouš was born into a family of journalists and active athletes. After graduating in Prague, he was placed in forced labor during World War II. From 1945 onwards, he studied philosophy at Charles University , and in 1948 he defended his doctoral thesis on Masarykss philosophy of youth. He worked as a teacher and studied chemistry at the pedagogical branch in Charles University, where, since 1957, he worked as an assistant....

#4381

Justin Oakley

#66258

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Justin Oakley is a bioethicist and moral philosopher. He has been part of the revival of the ethical doctrine known as virtue ethics, an Aristotelian doctrine which has received renewed interest in the past few decades.

#4382

Lucio Fontana

1899 - 1968 (69 years)

Lucio Fontana was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, to Italian immigrant parents, he was the son of the sculptor Luigi Fontana . Fontana spent the first years of his life in Argentina and then was sent to Italy in 1905, where he stayed until 1922, working as a sculptor with his father, and then on his own. Already in 1926, he participated in the first exhibition of Nexus, a group of young Argentine artists working in Rosario de Santa Fé.

#4383

Walter Berns

#13065

Overall Influence

1919 - 2015 (96 years)

Walter Berns was an American constitutional law and political philosophy professor. He was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor emeritus at Georgetown University. Early life and career Berns was raised in Chicago, where, as late as 1926, he was impressed by "Union soldiers in the [Memorial Day] parade feebly carrying the standard." He attended Reed College and the General Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science, "where [he] learned little, other than to love London," and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa. World...

#4384

Hein J. J. Wellens

#76503

Overall Influence

#4385

Jean Philibert Damiron

1794 - 1862 (68 years)

Jean-Philibert Damiron was a French philosopher. Biography Damiron was born at Belleville. At nineteen he entered the École Normale, where he studied under Eugène Burnouf, Abel-Francois Villemain, and Victor Cousin. After teaching for several years in provincial towns, he came to Paris, where he lectured on philosophy in various institutions, and finally became professor in the normal school, and titular professor at the Sorbonne. In 1824 he joined Paul-François Dubois and Théodore Simon Jouffroy in establishing Le Globe; and he was also a member of the committee of the society which took for its motto Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

#4386

Albert Schwegler

1819 - 1857 (38 years)

Albert Schwegler was a German philosopher and Protestant theologian. Biography Schwegler was born at Michelbach in Württemberg, the son of a country pastor. He entered the University of Tübingen in 1836, and was one of the earliest pupils of F. C. Baur, under whose influence he devoted himself to church history. His first work was Der Montanismus und die christliche Kirche des Zweiten Jahrhunderts , in which he pointed out for the first time that Montanism was much more than an isolated outbreak of eccentric fanaticism in the early church, though he himself introduced fresh misconceptions by connecting it with Ebionitism as he conceived the latter.

#4387

Richard Raatzsch

#57372

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Richard Raatzsch is a German philosopher. Since 2008, he has been Chair of Ethics within the European Business School at Reichartshausen Castle in Oestrich-Winkel/Rheingau . Life Raatzsch studied philosophy and history at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg . After earning his Ph.D. at that institution, he pursued a teaching and research career at the University of Leipzig, first at the Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science , and subsequently at the Institute for Philosophy . In 1999, he earned the habilitation degree for a study of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations; the study was published in book form under the title Eigentlich Seltsames.

#4388

Menachem Brinker

#27909

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Menachem Brinker was an Israeli philosopher, literary scholar and activist. Background Menachem Brinker was born in Jerusalem in 1935. Before entering university, Brinker worked as a shepherd in a left-wing kibbutz. In 1956, he received his B.A. in literature and philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1960, he earned his M.A. in philosophy at Hebrew University, and in 1973, he received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. Brinker's early academic career included teaching in the philosophy and literature departments at Tel Aviv University, editing an Israeli literary journal , and founding and editing a journal for culture and social affairs .

#4389

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil

#17420

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Gökhan S. Hotamisligil is a Turkish-American physician scientist; James Stevens Simmons Chair of Genetics and Metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Director of the Sabri Ülker Center for Metabolic Research and associate member of Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Joslin Diabetes Center.

#4390

Erik Wielenberg

#48947

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Erik J. Wielenberg is an American author and professor of philosophy at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. As an atheist, Wielenberg defends nontheistic moral realism. Selected publications Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, .God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University Press, 2008, .New Waves in Philosophy of Religion with Yujin Nagasawa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, .Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism, Oxford University Press, 2014, .A Debate on God and M...

#4391

Isaac ben Moses Arama

1420 - 1494 (74 years)

Isaac ben Moses Arama was a Spanish rabbi and author. He was at first principal of a rabbinical academy at Zamora ; then he received a call as rabbi and preacher from the community at Tarragona, and later from that of Fraga in Aragon. He officiated finally in Calatayud as rabbi and head of the Talmudical academy. Upon the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Arama settled in Naples, where he died in 1494.

#4392

Emily Grosholz

#39615

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American poet and philosopher. She is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English, and a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory / Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, at the Pennsylvania State University.

#4393

Larry Temkin

#36983

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Larry Temkin is an American philosopher specializing in normative ethics and political philosophy. His research into equality, practical reason, and the nature of the good has been very influential. His work on the intransitivity of the "all things considered better than"-relation is groundbreaking and challenges deeply held assumptions about value, practical reasoning, and the goodness of outcomes. His 1993 book Inequality was described by the Times Literary Supplement as "brilliant and fascinating," and as offering the reader more than any other book on the same subject.

#4394

David Denning

#75570

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

David W. Denning is a British retired professor of infectious diseases and global health and medical mycology at the University of Manchester. He was the founding president, executive director and chief executive of Global Action For Fungal Infections , which focusses on the global impact of fungal disease.

#4395

David O. Brink

#62083

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

David O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He works in the areas of moral, political, and legal philosophy. Education and career He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University where he worked with Terence Irwin and David Lyons. He taught for two years at Case Western Reserve University, and then from 1987 to 1994 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at UCSD.

#4396

Graham R. .v. Hughes

#76652

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#4397

Maitreyi

1000 BC - 1000 BC (0 years)

Maitreyi was an Indian philosopher who lived during the later Vedic period in ancient India. She is mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as one of two wives of the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya; she is estimated to have lived around the 8th century BCE. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata and the Gṛhyasūtras, however, Maitreyi is described as an Advaita philosopher who never married. In ancient Sanskrit literature, she is known as a brahmavadini .

#4398

Kathleen Dean Moore

#35355

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Kathleen Dean Moore is a philosopher, writer, and environmental activist from Oregon State University. Her early creative nonfiction writing focused on the cultural and spiritual values of the natural world, especially shorelines and islands. Her more recent work is about the moral issues of climate change.

#4399

Pietro Bembo

1470 - 1547 (77 years)

Pietro Bembo, was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance , Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques ...

#4400

Jean-Louis Chrétien

Jean-Louis Chrétien

#40008

Overall Influence

1952 - 2019 (67 years)

Jean-Louis Chrétien was a French philosopher in the tradition of phenomenology as well as a poet and religious thinker. Author of over thirty books, he was the 2012 winner of the Cardinal Lustiger Prize for his life’s work in philosophy. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne at the end of his career. The study of Chrétien increased widely after his death, a posthumous recognition that contrasts with his modest and solitary attitude.

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