PHILOSOPHER

Jerry Fodor

1935 - 2017

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Jerry Alan Fodor ( FOH-dər; April 22, 1935 – November 29, 2017) was an American philosopher and the author of works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Fodor has received more than 473,983 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jerry Fodor is the 693rd most popular philosopher (down from 673rd in 2019), the 2,500th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,526th in 2019) and the 26th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 470k

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  • 56.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jerry Fodor ranks 693 out of 1,267. Before him are Georges Politzer, Pyotr Lavrov, Alvin Plantinga, Hakuin Ekaku, François Bernier, and Mechthild of Magdeburg. After him are Francesco Algarotti, Helmuth Plessner, Chandrakirti, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Onesicritus, and Ludwig Klages.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jerry Fodor ranks 121. Before him are Azzedine Alaïa, Richard Kuklinski, Bruno Sammartino, Jan Saudek, André Brink, and Jerry Orbach. After him are Chaim Topol, Tsutomu Hata, Mohamed Choukri, Sergei Khrushchev, Richard Brautigan, and Franco Citti. Among people deceased in 2017, Jerry Fodor ranks 123. Before him are Jiro Taniguchi, Azzedine Alaïa, Brian Aldiss, Shadia, Robert James Waller, and Lubomyr Husar. After him are Omar Abdel-Rahman, Tsutomu Hata, Igor Shafarevich, Luis Bacalov, Lyudmila Chernykh, and Pierre Henry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Fodor ranks 2,500 out of 20,380. Before him are George Segal (1934), Bruce Nauman (1941), James Ingram (1952), Bill Finger (1914), Elijah Wood (1981), and Katherine Helmond (1929). After him are Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915), Thomas R. Marshall (1854), James Baker (1930), Steve Fossett (1944), Ernest Guiraud (1837), and Drew Weissman (1959).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Jerry Fodor ranks 26. Before him are Nancy Fraser (1947), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Mary Parker Follett (1868), Michael Walzer (1935), and Alvin Plantinga (1932). After him are James Mark Baldwin (1861), William Heard Kilpatrick (1871), Helen Parkhurst (1886), Michael J. Sandel (1953), Mortimer J. Adler (1902), and Eric Hoffer (1898).

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