PHILOSOPHER

Harry Frankfurt

1929 - 2023

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Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Frankfurt has received more than 456,941 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Frankfurt is the 992nd most popular philosopher (down from 975th in 2019), the 4,605th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,956th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Harry Frankfurt ranks 992 out of 1,267. Before him are Achille Mbembe, Ernst Tugendhat, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dimitri Kitsikis, Athenodorus Cananites, and Abdolkarim Soroush. After him are Merab Mamardashvili, Sphaerus, Jean Rostand, Nana Asmaʼu, Thomas Arnold, and Ram Dass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Harry Frankfurt ranks 259. Before him are Adrienne Rich, Link Wray, Rutka Laskier, Slavko Avsenik, Hermann Prey, and Ken McGregor. After him are Maarten Schmidt, Barbara Walters, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Stanisław Mikulski, Rudi Glöckner, and Vija Artmane. Among people deceased in 2023, Harry Frankfurt ranks 311. Before him are Kadriye Nurmambet, Arsenio Iglesias, Alma Adamkienė, Gérard Collomb, Greta Andersen, and Danilo Astori. After him are Bernie Marsden, Willis Reed, Fathima Beevi, Murat Karayılan, Josef Vojta, and Peter Brötzmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Frankfurt ranks 4,605 out of 20,380. Before him are Emma Lazarus (1849), Julia Grant (1826), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Francis Lane (1874), Adam Lambert (1982), and Beau Biden (1969). After him are Keith David (1956), Yusuf Estes (1944), Olive Thomas (1894), Bob Crane (1928), Nate Thurmond (1941), and Willis Reed (1942).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Harry Frankfurt ranks 42. Before him are David Lewis (1941), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), Edmund Gettier (1927), and Wilfrid Sellars (1912). After him are Ram Dass (1931), Stanley Cavell (1926), Lon L. Fuller (1902), Josiah Royce (1855), Mary Daly (1928), and Hubert Dreyfus (1929).

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