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Max Black

1909 - 1988

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Max Black (24 February 1909 – 27 August 1988) was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War II. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, and the philosophy of art, also publishing studies of the work of philosophers such as Frege. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Black has received more than 146,432 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Max Black is the 1,107th most popular philosopher (down from 1,040th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Azerbaijani Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Max Black ranks 1,107 out of 1,081Before him are Ralph Cudworth, Pritilata Waddedar, Walter Burley, William Alston, Michael Hardt, and Stanley Jaki. After him are Judith Jarvis Thomson, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Edward Abramowski, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Volker Zotz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Max Black ranks 292Before him are Eduardo Astengo, Jean Taris, Ernesto Belis, Mohamed Latif, Mohammad Ali Bogra, and Katherine Dunham. After him are William Gemmell Cochran, Koichi Kudo, André Bonin, Olivér Halassy, Adolf Šimperský, and Colin Munro MacLeod. Among people deceased in 1988, Max Black ranks 183Before him are Heather O'Rourke, Lazarus Salii, Louis L'Amour, Guillermo Haro, Hilda Gobbi, and John Loder. After him are José María Peña, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Ray Barbuti, Roy Kinnear, Colin Higgins, and Hermann Volk.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Max Black ranks 111 out of 189Before him are Huseyn Arablinski (1881), John M. Stahl (1886), Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov (1873), Sara Ashurbeyli (1906), Larisa Dolina (1955), and Sergei Adian (1931). After him are Rasim Balayev (1948), Elmar Mammadyarov (1960), Arkady Andreasyan (1947), Armen Ohanian (1887), Leyla Yunus (1955), and Chingiz Mustafayev (1960).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Azerbaijan

Among philosophers born in Azerbaijan, Max Black ranks 2Before him are Pavel Florensky (1882).