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PHILOSOPHER

C. I. Lewis

1883 - 1964

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Clarence Irving Lewis (April 12, 1883 – February 3, 1964), usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher. He is considered the progenitor of modern modal logic and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. I. Lewis has received more than 92,880 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). C. I. Lewis is the 1,135th most popular philosopher (down from 1,062nd in 2019), the 9,498th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,998th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

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  • 3.12

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, C. I. Lewis ranks 1,135 out of 1,081. Before her are Walter Kaufmann, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Richard David Precht, Peter Geach, Alexander Tarasov, and Susan Haack. After her are Homi K. Bhabha, J. J. C. Smart, Roderick Chisholm, Mary Midgley, Wendy Brown, and Stanley Fish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, C. I. Lewis ranks 236. Before her are Hjalmar Cedercrona, Ole Lilloe-Olsen, Gösta Olson, Edna May Oliver, Raymond Basset, and Oscar Osthoff. After her are S. Z. Sakall, John Taylor, Ercole Olgeni, Dorothy Holman, Lesley Ashburner, and Erik Granfelt. Among people deceased in 1964, C. I. Lewis ranks 184. Before her are Milton Margai, José María Belauste, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Meade Lux Lewis, Lucky Dube, and Montgomery Wilson. After her are Fred Tootell, Branislav Hrnjiček, Diana Wynyard, Anna J. Cooper, Art Ross, and Frank Albertson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, C. I. Lewis ranks 9,498 out of 18,182. Before her are Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795), Terry Branstad (1946), Clu Gulager (1928), James Daly (1918), Gillian Flynn (1971), and Gene Ammons (1925). After her are Juliet Landau (1965), Marc Blucas (1972), Torrey DeVitto (1984), Moira Kelly (1968), Eddie Harris (1934), and Sean Paul Lockhart (1986).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, C. I. Lewis ranks 75. Before her are Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Alexander Berzin (1944), R. C. Sproul (1939), Charles Hartshorne (1897), Patricia Hill Collins (1948), and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825). After her are Roderick Chisholm (1916), Stanley Fish (1938), Michael Novak (1933), Cornel West (1953), Peter Kreeft (1937), and Christine Korsgaard (1952).

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