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PHILOSOPHER

Lon L. Fuller

1902 - 1978

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Lon Luvois Fuller (June 15, 1902 – April 8, 1978) was an American legal philosopher best known as a proponent of a secular and procedural form of natural law theory. Fuller was a professor of law at Harvard Law School for many years, and is noted in American law for his contributions to both jurisprudence and the law of contracts. His debate in 1958 with the prominent British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart in the Harvard Law Review (the Hart–Fuller debate) was important in framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and natural law theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lon L. Fuller has received more than 347,013 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lon L. Fuller is the 906th most popular philosopher (down from 861st in 2019), the 4,118th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,679th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Lon L. Fuller ranks 906 out of 1,081Before him are Ian Hacking, Leo Baeck, Boris Parygin, Cineas, Georges Florovsky, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg. After him are Albrecht Ritschl, Lars Gustafsson, Ber Borochov, Anathon Aall, Pierre Nicole, and Feng Youlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Lon L. Fuller ranks 158Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ferdinand Marian, Nikolay Kamov, Margaret Hamilton, and Louis Beel. After him are Max Abegglen, Shen Congwen, Emanuel Feuermann, Moderato Wisintainer, Erik Eriksen, and Boris Barnet. Among people deceased in 1978, Lon L. Fuller ranks 114Before him are Ivan Tyulenev, Julio Jaramillo, Bernhard Karlgren, Ángel Bossio, Zivia Lubetkin, and Nancy Spungen. After him are Alexander Gerschenkron, Raymond Braine, Leo Genn, Franz Bäke, John D. Rockefeller III, and Carlos Riolfo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 4,118 out of 18,182Before him are James Ingram (1952), Richard C. Tolman (1881), George Segal (1924), Wayne Rainey (1960), Marlon Wayans (1972), and Charles Evans Hughes (1862). After him are Michael Weatherly (1968), Mark Donohue (1937), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Tommy Mottola (1949), Roy Jones Jr. (1969), and Paul Gilbert (1966).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Lon L. Fuller ranks 39Before him are Mortimer J. Adler (1902), David Lewis (1941), Edmund Gettier (1927), Susanne Langer (1895), James Mark Baldwin (1861), and Robert Anton Wilson (1932). After him are Lysander Spooner (1808), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Susan George (1934), Ram Dass (1931), and Mary Daly (1928).