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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#4951

William C. Knowler

#84242

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#4952

Rachana Kamtekar

#83283

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Rachana Kamtekar is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is known for her works on ancient philosophy. She is the current editor of the Journal Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

#4953

Takashi Kadowaki

#84249

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#4954

Jordan S Pober

#84272

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#4955

Adriana Cavarero

#42479

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Adriana Cavarero is an Italian philosopher and feminist thinker. She holds the title of Professor of Political Philosophy at the Università degli studi di Verona. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara, at the New York University and Harvard. Cavarero is widely recognized in Italy, Europe and the English-speaking world for her writings on feminism and theories of sexual difference, on Plato, on Hannah Arendt, on theories of narration and on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and literature.

#4956

Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya

Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya

1875 - 1949 (74 years)

Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, commonly referred to as K.C. Bhattacharyya, , was a modern Indian philosopher affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He gained renown for his method of "constructive interpretation," a scholarly approach employed to elucidate and elaborate upon the interrelationships and intricacies inherent in ancient Indian philosophical systems. This method facilitated an examination of these systems akin to the scrutiny applied to contemporary philosophical problems. Bhattacharyya dedicated particular attention to the inquiry into the manner in which the mind engenders what appears to be a material universe.

#4957

Wilhelm Dietler

Wilhelm Dietler was a German philosopher and early animal rights writer. Dietler was a Master of Philosophy and in 1791 received a professorship of logic and metaphysics at the University of Mainz. He is best known for his book Gerechtigkeit gegen Thiere in 1787. The book is the oldest work to use the German term "thierrechte" . Dietler argued that the irrationality or incapability of animals to lodge claims was an insufficient reason to deny the existence of rights to animals as children showed the same characteristics in this respect yet nobody would deny that a child has certain rights. T...

#4958

Alan Trounson

#16888

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Alan Osborne Trounson is an Australian embryologist with expertise in stem cell research. Trounson was the President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine between 2007 and 2014, a former Professor of Stem Cell Sciences and the Director of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories at Monash University, and retains the title of emeritus professor.

#4959

Bernard Ramm

#11592

Overall Influence

1916 - 1992 (76 years)

Bernard L. Ramm was a Baptist theologian and apologist within the broad evangelical tradition. He wrote prolifically on topics concerned with biblical hermeneutics, religion and science, Christology, and apologetics. The hermeneutical principles presented in his 1956 book Protestant Biblical Interpretation influenced a wide spectrum of Baptist theologians. During the 1970s he was widely regarded as a leading evangelical theologian as well known as Carl F.H. Henry. His equally celebrated and criticized 1954 book The Christian View of Science and Scripture was the theme of a 1979 issue of th...

#4960

Peter Simmonds

#4961

Franz Jakob Clemens

1815 - 1862 (47 years)

Franz Jacob Clemens was a German Catholic philosopher, a layman who defended the Catholic Church even on theological questions. Life Clemens was born in Koblenz. After spending some time in an educational institution in Metz, he entered, at the age of sixteen, the Jesuit College of Fribourg, Switzerland, attended the Gymnasium at Koblenz, and thence passed to the University of Bonn. In 1835 he matriculated at the University of Berlin, where he devoted special attention to the study of philosophy and received the doctorate in philosophy in 1839 with a dissertation titled De philosophia Anaxago...

#4962

Erwin w. Gelfand

#84486

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#4963

Pasicles of Thebes

#79138

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Pasicles of Thebes was a Greek philosopher and brother of the Cynic philosopher Crates of Thebes. He attended the lectures of his brother Crates, but he is otherwise connected with the Megarian school of philosophy, because Diogenes Laërtius calls him a pupil of Euclid of Megara, and the Suda calls him a pupil of an unknown "Dioclides the Megarian." Pasicles is said to have been the teacher of Stilpo, who became leader of the Megarian school. Thus we have the implausible situation of Pasicles teaching Stilpo, Stilpo teaching Crates, and Crates teaching Pasicles. Crates named his son Pasicles...

#4964

Andreas Speiser

Andreas Speiser

1885 - 1970 (85 years)

Andreas Speiser was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science. Life and work Speiser studied in Göttingen, starting in 1904, notably with David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkowski. In 1917 he became full-time professor at the University of Zurich but later relocated in Basel. During 1924/25 he was president of the Swiss Mathematical Association.

#4965

Karl E. Rickels

#84518

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#4966

Colin Ward

#48849

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1924 - 2010 (86 years)

Colin Ward was a British anarchist writer and editor. He has been called "one of the greatest anarchist thinkers of the past half century, and a pioneering social historian." Life Ward was born in Wanstead, Essex, to Arnold and Ruby Ward . Arnold was a teacher and Ruby a clerical worker. His parents were active Labour Party supporters. Ward attended Ilford County High School, leaving school aged 15. After leaving school he worked as an assistant to a builder, then for West Ham Council, before working as a draughtsman at Sidney Caulfield's architectural practice.

#4967

Aristotle of Mytilene

Aristotle of Mytilene was a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher in the time of Galen. It has been argued that he was a teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias. Galen referred to him as "a leading figure in Peripatetic scholarship." According to Galen, Aristotle of Mytilene never drank cold water because it gave him spasms, but he was attacked with a disease in which it was thought necessary for him to take it. He drank the cold water and died.

#4968

Herminus

Herminus was a Peripatetic philosopher. He lived in the first half of the 2nd century. He appears to have written commentaries on most of the works of Aristotle. Simplicius says he was the teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias. We learn from Alexander's commentary on the Prior Analytics that Herminus had worked on Aristotle's syllogistic system, adding innovations which Alexander disapproved of. His writings, of which nothing remains, are frequently referred to by Boethius, who mentions a treatise by him, On Interpretation , as also Analytics and Topics.

#4969

A. Bernard Ackerman

#24766

Overall Influence

1936 - 2008 (72 years)

Albert Bernard Ackerman, M.D. was an American dermatologist and pathologist who was "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology." Early life and education Ackerman was born on November 22, 1936, one of three children of an orthodontist in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy and theology from Princeton University, he received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He had his residency training in dermatology at Columbia University, the University o...

#4970

Lars Gule

#21161

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Lars Gule is a Norwegian philosopher. He has graduated with a doctorate in philosophy, and is an associate professor . From 2000 to 2005 he was secretary general of the Norwegian Humanist Association. Gule became known to the general public in 1977 when after having joined the DFLP group, Gule was arrested in Beirut, Lebanon with Semtex in his luggage intended for Israeli targets leading to a six-month conviction and subsequent deportation. He remains active as a anti-Israel activist. Gule is often used by Norwegian media as an authority on questions regarding the Middle East, Islam and extre...

#4971

Robert Arp

#48716

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Robert Arp is an American philosopher known for his work in ethics, modern philosophy, ontology, philosophy of biology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, religious studies, and philosophy and popular culture. He currently works as an adjunct professor teaching philosophy courses in the classroom and online at numerous schools in the Kansas City, Missouri area and other areas of the United States.

#4972

Anne Manne

#52667

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Anne Manne is an Australian journalist and social philosopher. Her 2005 book Motherhood: How should we care for our children? was short-listed in 2006 for Australian journalism's Walkley Award. Anne Manne has been married to Australian political science professor Robert Manne since 1983. They have two children, including Cornell University philosophy professor Kate Manne.

#4973

Vasile Conta

1845 - 1882 (37 years)

Vasile Conta was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and politician. The son of a priest, he was born in Ghindăoani, a village in Bălțătești commune, Neamț County. He attended primary school in Târgu Neamț , and graduated from the Academia Mihăileană in Iași in 1868. Beneficiary of a fellowship, he went to study in 1871 in Belgium, first in Antwerp, and then at the Free University of Bruxelles, from which he graduated with a law degree in 1872. Upon returning to Romania, he was appointed professor at the University of Iași's Law School.

#4974

Gaetano Thiene

#75071

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Gaetano Thiene is an Italian Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Pathology at the University of Padua. His professional interests include cardiology and pathology. Education and career Thiene received a degree in medicine in 1972, and performed specialized post-graduate work in cardiology and pathology from 1975 to 1978. His subsequent professional positions included Professor of Pathology, director of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Institute of Pathological Anatomy, vice-dean of the Department of Medico-Diagnostic Sciences and Special Therapies , and in 2002 was an Honorary Fellow of the R...

#4975

Hans-Martin Sass

#64169

Overall Influence

1935 - 2023 (88 years)

Hans-Martin Sass , is a bioethicist. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and a Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

#4976

Greg Restall

#82419

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Greg Restall is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Restall is known for his research on logic and theories of meaning. After working at the University of Melbourne for years he was appointed the Shelby Cullom David Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.

#4977

William Drennan

1754 - 1820 (66 years)

William Drennan was an Irish physician and writer who moved the formation in Belfast and Dublin of the Society of United Irishmen. He was the author of the Society's original "test" which, in the cause of representative government, committed "Irishmen of every religious persuasion" to a "brotherhood of affection". Drennan had been active in the Irish Volunteer movement and achieved renown with addresses to the public as his "fellow slaves" and to the British Viceroy urging "full and final" Catholic emancipation. After the suppression of the 1798 Rebellion, he sought to advance democratic reform through his continued journalism and through education.

#4978

Jeremy Weate

#54923

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jeremy Weate studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in European philosophy from Warwick in 1998. His PhD thesis was and Difference: the Body, Architecture and Race

#4979

Viktor Žmegač

#30720

Overall Influence

1929 - 2022 (93 years)

Viktor Žmegač was a Croatian musicologist and scholar. He authored a number of books, articles and essays in the areas of cultural history, literary theory, musicology, art history, and German studies.

#4980

Bill Brewer

#77112

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Bill Brewer is a British philosopher and Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was previously the Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was a scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, reading Maths and Philosophy and graduating B. Phil. and D. Phil in Philosophy, supervised by P. F. Strawson, David Pears, Jennifer Hornsby, and John Campbell. He was then a research fellow at King's College, Cambridge, a tutorial fellow and university lecturer at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and next a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick. He has also be...

#4981

Barry L. Gan

#37005

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Barry L. Gan is an American academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at St. Bonaventure University. From 1986 until 2020 he directed the Center for Nonviolence, formerly the Peace Studies program at St. Bonaventure University. For twenty-six years, from 1990 to 2016, he was editor of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, now called The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. For two years in the 1990s he served as program committee chair of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the oldest and largest interfaith peace group in the United States, and also serv...

#4982

Appayya Dikshita

1520 - 1593 (73 years)

Appayya Dikshita , 1520–1593 CE, was a performer of yajñas as well as an expositor and practitioner of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy but with a focus on Shiva or Shiva Advaita. Life Appayya Dikshitar was born as Vinayaka Subramanian in Adayapalam, near Arani in the Tiruvannamalai district, in the Krishna Paksha of the Kanya month of Pramateecha Varsha under the Uttara Proushthapada constellation of the Hindu calendar.

#4983

Silvio Funtowicz

Silvio Funtowicz

#23850

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Silvio O. Funtowicz is a philosopher of science active in the field of science and technology studies. He created the NUSAP, a notational system for characterising uncertainty and quality in quantitative expressions, and together with Jerome R. Ravetz he introduced the concept of post-normal science. He is currently a guest researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities , University of Bergen .

#4984

Mori Ōgai

1862 - 1922 (60 years)

Lieutenant-General Mori Rintarō, known by his pen name Mori Ōgai, was a Japanese Army Surgeon general officer, translator, novelist, poet and father of famed author Mari Mori. He obtained his medical license at a very young age and introduced translated German language literary works to the Japanese public. Mori Ōgai also was considered the first to successfully express the art of western poetry in Japanese. He wrote many works and created many writing styles. The Wild Geese is considered his major work. After his death, he was considered one of the leading writers who modernized Japanese lit...

#4985

Howard Stein

#61976

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Howard Stein is an American philosopher and historian of science. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. Biography Stein was born on January 21, 1929, in New York City. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1947, where he studied under John Herman Randall Jr., Irwin Edman, and Ernest Nagel, before obtaining a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1958, and an MS from the University of Michigan in 1959. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1951 before teaching at Brandeis University, Case Western Reserve University and Columbia University. He also worked for Honeywell as a mathematician and engineer in between his teaching career.

#4986

Bernard Mayo

#64421

Overall Influence

1921 - 2000 (79 years)

Bernard Mayo was an English philosopher. He worked at University of Birmingham until 1968, when he joined University of St. Andrews as professor of moral philosophy, from which he retired in 1983. He was editor of Analysis and The Philosophical Quarterly .

#4987

Alessandro Ferrara

Alessandro Ferrara

#34152

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Alessandro Ferrara is an Italian philosopher, professor of political philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and former president of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy. He also teaches legal theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.

#4988

Brian Orend

#46003

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Brian Orend is the Director of International Studies and a professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Orend's works focus on just war theory and human rights. He is best known for his discussions of jus post bellum , which deals with the termination phase of war.

#4989

Bardaisan

154 - 222 (68 years)

Bardaisan , known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Assyrian Christian writer and teacher with a gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites. A scientist, scholar, astrologer, philosopher, hymnwriter, and poet, Bardaisan was also renowned for his knowledge of India, on which he wrote a book, now lost. According to the early Christian historian Eusebius, Bardaisan was at one time a follower of the gnostic Valentinus, but later opposed Valentinian gnosticism and also wrote against Marcionism.

#4990

Henry Jones

1852 - 1922 (70 years)

Sir Henry Jones, was a Welsh philosopher and academic. Biography Jones was born in Llangernyw, now in Conwy County Borough, the son of a shoemaker. After working as an apprentice to his father, he studied at Bangor Normal College and became a teacher at Brynamman. Having decided to enter the Presbyterian ministry, he went to the University of Glasgow on a scholarship. After graduating, he obtained a fellowship, and went on to study at Oxford and in Germany. In 1882 he married Annie Walker, a Scotswoman, and later returned to live in Scotland.

#4991

Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

#84901

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

#4992

Tasos Zembylas

#51095

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Tasos Zembylas is a philosopher and social scientist with focus in aesthetics and cultural institution studies. Life From 1991 to 1997, Zembylas studied philosophy, history of art and sociology at the University of Vienna. In 1995 he held a research grant at the "Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften" in Vienna. From 1997 to 1999 he was commissioned to carry out various studies in the field of education and vocational training. He also lectured on aesthetics and sociology of art at the University of Vienna and at the University of Applied Art in Vienna. In 1999, he was appoin...

#4993

Raimond Gaita

#43484

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Raimond Gaita is a German-born Australian philosopher and award-winning writer. He was, until 2011, foundation professor of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and professor of moral philosophy at King's College London. He is currently professorial fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and emeritus professor of moral philosophy at King's College London. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

#4994

Jason Barker

#51300

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jason Barker is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is a professor of cultural studies at Kyung Hee University in the Graduate School of British and American Language and Culture, and visiting professor at the European Graduate School, where he teaches in the Faculty of Media and Communication alongside Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Žižek, and others.

#4995

Ingolf U. Dalferth

#70765

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ingolf Ulrich Dalferth is a philosopher of religion and theologian. His work is regarded as being on the methodological borderlines between analytic philosophy, hermeneutics and phenomenology, and he is a recognized expert in issues of contemporary philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of orientation.

#4996

Maud Menten

1879 - 1960 (81 years)

Maud Leonora Menten was a Canadian physician and chemist. As a bio-medical and medical researcher, she made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, and invented a procedure that remains in use. She is primarily known for her work with Leonor Michaelis on enzyme kinetics in 1913. The paper has been translated from its written language of German into English.

#4997

Max Charlesworth

Max Charlesworth

#56680

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Maxwell John Charlesworth AO FAHA was an Australian philosopher and public intellectual. He taught and wrote on a wide range of areas including the philosophy of religion and the role of the Church in a liberal democratic society; Australian Aboriginal culture and religions; European philosophy from medieval to continental; bioethics and modern science’s role in society; and the philosophy of education. In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to Australian society in the fields of education and bioethics.

#4998

Warren Henry Cole

1898 - 1990 (92 years)

Warren Henry Cole was an American surgeon, a pioneer in the field of adjunctive treatments for surgical cancer patients. With Evarts Ambrose Graham, he co-developed in the process of visualizing the gall bladder with X-rays by using contrast media, a process used in the diagnosis of gall bladder disease, in 1924.

#4999

Artur Juncosa Carbonell

#25132

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Artur Juncosa Carbonell ; 5 October 1925 – 13 December 2010 Early years Juncosa was born in Les Borges del Camp , into a traditionalist family. He studied engineering in Madrid and graduated in philosophy and in Theology from the Faculty of San Francisco de Borja and from the University of Barcelona , where he received his PhD in 1979.

#5000

Jacob Loewenberg

1882 - 1969 (87 years)

Jacob Loewenberg was a Latvian-American philosopher. Life and career Loewenberg was born in Tukums, Russian Empire and moved to Riga at age 13. Fearing conscription by the Russian Army, he made his way to Boston in 1904 by way of Germany and England. Loewenberg was accepted into Harvard College upon arrival and began studying philosophy, earning a bachelor's degree in 1908, a master's degree in 1909, and a doctorate in 1911 . At Harvard, he was influenced by Josiah Royce and George Santayana. He taught German and Philosophy at Wellesley College before taking an appointment in the philosophy department at University of California, Berkeley in 1915.

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