PHILOSOPHER

Michael Ruse

1940 - 2024

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Michael Escott Ruse (21 June 1940 – 1 November 2024) was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Ruse has received more than 218,113 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Michael Ruse is the 1,177th most popular philosopher (down from 1,097th in 2019), the 4,016th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,900th in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 53.75

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michael Ruse ranks 1,177 out of 1,267. Before him are Helene von Druskowitz, Yuval Steinitz, Eino Kaila, Max Black, Bernard Lonergan, and Edward Abramowski. After him are Buddhapālita, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Leila Ahmed, Hermann Lietz, Iris Marion Young, and William Chittick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Michael Ruse ranks 431. Before him are Wolfgang Paul, Franco Balmamion, David Peoples, James Brady, Henri Dès, and Franco Bitossi. After him are Jerry Lawson, Jaak Lipso, Leila Ahmed, Karin Baal, Juozas Budraitis, and Pilar Miró. Among people deceased in 2024, Michael Ruse ranks 333. Before him are Duane Eddy, Josef Jelínek, Laurent Cantet, Mark Damon, James Darren, and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. After him are Karin Baal, Helen Gallagher, Ștefan Birtalan, Jean Carnahan, Jadwiga Barańska, and Amaral.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Ruse ranks 4,016 out of 8,785. Before him are David Cross (1949), Roy Bentley (1924), Ivor Allchurch (1929), Robert Whitehead (1823), David Beaton (1494), and Aaron Ramsey (1990). After him are Rick Allen (1963), Alfred Maudslay (1850), Charles Wilkins (1749), Grantley Goulding (1874), Steve McClaren (1961), and Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Michael Ruse ranks 80. Before him are Ralph Cudworth (1617), Mark Fisher (1968), John Peckham (1227), Anthony Collins (1676), Bernard Bosanquet (1848), and Eric A. Havelock (1903). After him are Richard Price (1723), John Major (1467), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), Susan Haack (1945), Dugald Stewart (1753), and Simon Blackburn (1944).

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