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PHILOSOPHER

G. A. Cohen

1941 - 2009

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Gerald Allan Cohen ( KOH-ən; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. A. Cohen has received more than 205,693 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). G. A. Cohen is the 1,023rd most popular philosopher (down from 971st in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Canada (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Philosopher.

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  • 20

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  • 3.76

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  • 2.92

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, G. A. Cohen ranks 1,023 out of 1,081Before him are Northrop Frye, Hubert Dreyfus, Michael Oakeshott, Philip of Opus, Derek Parfit, and Harald Høffding. After him are P. C. Chang, Paul Deussen, Eugenio Garin, Ivan Merz, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and William Lane Craig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, G. A. Cohen ranks 337Before him are Eberhard Diepgen, Pepetela, Youcef Yousfi, Christine Delphy, Jesús Moncada, and Arie den Hartog. After him are Anatoly Levchenko, Pat Patterson, Georges Heylens, John Thomas, Rina Zaripova, and Laura Mulvey. Among people deceased in 2009, G. A. Cohen ranks 204Before him are Juan Carlos Muñoz, Anna Yegorova, Zena Marshall, Juvenal Amarijo, Corín Tellado, and Giacomo Bulgarelli. After him are Richard Todd, Elisabeth Söderström, Otar Chiladze, Alexis Argüello, José Torres, and Barry Flanagan.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, G. A. Cohen ranks 291 out of 1,350Before him are Susan Clark (1943), Guy Lafleur (1951), George Chuvalo (1937), Philip Guston (1913), Jessalyn Gilsig (1971), and Bob Ezrin (1949). After him are Joe Clark (1939), Peaches (1966), Donal Logue (1966), Georges Vézina (1887), William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (1847), and Bobby Orr (1948).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, G. A. Cohen ranks 7Before him are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Charles Taylor (1931), Ian Stevenson (1918), Ian Hacking (1936), Patricia Churchland (1943), and Northrop Frye (1912). After him are Bernard Lonergan (1904), Leonard Peikoff (1933), Paul Churchland (1942), and Will Kymlicka (1962).