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P. F. Strawson

1919 - 2006

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Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1968 to 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of P. F. Strawson has received more than 322,820 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). P. F. Strawson is the 744th most popular philosopher (down from 676th in 2019), the 1,632nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,536th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Philosopher.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, P. F. Strawson ranks 744 out of 1,267. Before him are Gilbert de la Porrée, William Heard Kilpatrick, Metrocles, Theodor Lessing, Philippa Foot, and Mykhailo Drahomanov. After him are Li Zhi, Hemachandra, John Argyropoulos, Glaucon, Ian Stevenson, and Paolo Sarpi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, P. F. Strawson ranks 94. Before him are Edoardo Mangiarotti, Ginette Neveu, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Teruo Nakamura, and Amrita Pritam. After him are Mitja Ribičič, Ahmed Abdallah, Silva Kaputikyan, Jean Lefebvre, Gérard Oury, and Joseph Serchuk. Among people deceased in 2006, P. F. Strawson ranks 108. Before him are Trevor Berbick, Igor Sergeyev, Ibolya Csák, Peter Boyle, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, and Marek Grechuta. After him are Malcolm Arnold, Basil Poledouris, Bismillah Khan, Silva Kaputikyan, Ali Farka Touré, and Gérard Oury.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, P. F. Strawson ranks 1,632 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Macintosh (1766), Chris Martin (1977), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Malo (487), Pasquale Anfossi (1727), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903). After him are Princess Mary of Great Britain (1723), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), William Etty (1787), Arnold Toynbee (1852), Malcolm Arnold (1921), and Helen Allingham (1848).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, P. F. Strawson ranks 46. Before him are Anne Conway (1631), Gilbert Ryle (1900), Richard of Saint Victor (1110), Thomas Hill Green (1836), Robert Filmer (1588), and Philippa Foot (1920). After him are Henry More (1614), Raymond Williams (1921), Stephen Toulmin (1922), Frederick Copleston (1907), F. H. Bradley (1846), and Charles Kay Ogden (1889).

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