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Anne Conway

1631 - 1679

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Anne Conway (also known as Viscountess Conway; née Finch; 14 December 1631 – 23 February 1679) was an English philosopher of the Enlightenment, whose work was in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy. Conway rejected Cartesian substance dualism and instead, argued that nature is constituted by one substance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Conway has received more than 6,458 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Anne Conway is the 704th most popular philosopher (up from 798th in 2019), the 1,542nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,903rd in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anne Conway ranks 704 out of 1,267. Before her are Onesicritus, Ludwig Klages, Pantaenus, Numenius of Apamea, Olaf Stapledon, and Crantor. After her are Eknath, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Joseph Albo, Julien Benda, Cristoforo Landino, and Edvard Westermarck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1631, Anne Conway ranks 8. Before her are Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, François Vatel, John Dryden, Al-Rashid of Morocco, Abraham Brueghel, and Pierre Beauchamp. After her are Marco d'Aviano, Selim I Giray, Flavio Chigi, Stanislaus Papczyński, and Magdalena Sibylla of Holstein-Gottorp. Among people deceased in 1679, Anne Conway ranks 15. Before her are Willem van Aelst, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Francesco Barberini, Margherita de' Medici, and John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg. After her are Abraham Mignon, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan van de Cappelle, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and John Mayow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Conway ranks 1,542 out of 8,785. Before her are Robert Maynard (1684), Greg Lake (1947), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Olaf Stapledon (1886), Ian Kershaw (1943), and Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840). After her are Jack W. Szostak (1952), Karen Armstrong (1944), William Walton (1902), Henry Tandey (1891), James Dyson (1947), and David Icke (1952).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Anne Conway ranks 40. Before her are Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623), Thomas Reid (1710), R. G. Collingwood (1889), Alexander of Hales (1175), David Hartley (1705), and Olaf Stapledon (1886). After her are Gilbert Ryle (1900), Richard of Saint Victor (1110), Thomas Hill Green (1836), Robert Filmer (1588), Philippa Foot (1920), and P. F. Strawson (1919).

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