PHILOSOPHER

G. E. Moore

1873 - 1958

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George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began deemphasizing the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have an "exceptional personality and moral character". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. E. Moore has received more than 668,665 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. G. E. Moore is the 288th most popular philosopher (down from 275th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 485th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Philosopher.

G. E. Moore is most famous for his work in ethics and philosophy of mind. He is also the founder of the school of analytic philosophy.

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    Page Views (PV)

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year G. E. Moore has had the most page views in the with 76,859 views, followed by Spanish (16,117), and Russian (10,749). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (97.51%), Croatian (60.98%), and Armenian (58.71%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, G. E. Moore ranks 288 out of 1,267. Before him are François Fénelon, Synesius, Bruno Bauer, Bruno Latour, Mazdak, and Paramahansa Yogananda. After him are Francisco Suárez, Johann Reuchlin, Crates of Thebes, Roscellinus, Alain Badiou, and Thomas Carlyle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, G. E. Moore ranks 18. Before him are Alfred Jarry, Otto Loewi, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Julius Martov. After him are Max Reger, Spyridon Louis, Sándor Ferenczi, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, William McMaster Murdoch, and Francisco I. Madero. Among people deceased in 1958, G. E. Moore ranks 18. Before him are Milutin Milanković, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rudolf von Laban, Maurice de Vlaminck, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Maurice Gamelin. After him are Georges Rouault, Giacomo Balla, Abul Kalam Azad, Ernst Heinkel, Alfred Weber, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. E. Moore ranks 477 out of 8,785. Before him are Denis Law (1940), Brook Taylor (1685), Æthelflæd (869), Saint Boniface (680), Alexander Pope (1688), and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545). After him are Muriel Spark (1918), Kate Winslet (1975), Robert Robinson (1886), Diana Rigg (1938), Nick Mason (1944), and Margot Fonteyn (1919).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, G. E. Moore ranks 16. Before him are John Venn (1834), Joseph Priestley (1733), Duns Scotus (1265), John Wycliffe (1324), Pelagius (360), and William Godwin (1756). After him are Thomas Carlyle (1795), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), A. S. Neill (1883), Francis Hutcheson (1694), John of Salisbury (1110), and J. L. Austin (1911).

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