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PHILOSOPHER

Edmund Gettier

1927 - 2021

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Edmund Lee Gettier III (; October 31, 1927 – March 23, 2021) was an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Gettier has received more than 245,509 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Edmund Gettier is the 859th most popular philosopher (up from 929th in 2019), the 3,654th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,425th in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Edmund Gettier ranks 859 out of 1,081Before him are G. E. M. Anscombe, Michael Baius, Aleksey Khomyakov, Zeno of Tarsus, Bahya ibn Paquda, and David Lewis. After him are Léon Brunschvicg, Anandavardhana, Franciscus Gomarus, Liu Yuxi, František Tomášek, and Antipater of Tarsus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Edmund Gettier ranks 151Before him are Marianne Fredriksson, Gisèle Halimi, Franciszek Macharski, Yitzhak Hofi, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and Halton Arp. After him are Carlos Romero, Geneviève Page, Leontyne Price, Roger Walkowiak, Theodore Maiman, and Ahmad Jannati. Among people deceased in 2021, Edmund Gettier ranks 267Before him are Judith Reisman, Sándor Puhl, Michael K. Williams, Leon Spinks, Ahmed Jibril, and Willy van der Kuijlen. After him are James Michael Tyler, Anne Buydens, Juan Rodríguez Vega, Francesco Morini, Gianluigi Saccaro, and Sylvano Bussotti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edmund Gettier ranks 3,654 out of 18,182Before him are John Wesley Hardin (1853), Steven Van Zandt (1950), Laura Bridgman (1829), Peter Hyams (1943), Alice B. Toklas (1877), and Kathleen Freeman (1919). After him are Evelyn Nesbit (1884), Chrissie Hynde (1951), Fulton J. Sheen (1895), Tuesday Weld (1943), James Rebhorn (1948), and Ron Silver (1946).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Edmund Gettier ranks 35Before him are Eric Hoffer (1898), Donald Davidson (1917), Michael J. Sandel (1953), Nancy Fraser (1947), Mortimer J. Adler (1902), and David Lewis (1941). After him are Susanne Langer (1895), James Mark Baldwin (1861), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Lysander Spooner (1808), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945).