PHILOSOPHER

Peter Geach

1916 - 2013

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Peter Thomas Geach (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher who was Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Geach has received more than 217,025 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Geach is the 1,225th most popular philosopher (down from 1,132nd in 2019), the 4,962nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,587th in 2019) and the 94th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

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  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Geach ranks 1,225 out of 1,267Before him are Mary Midgley, Nick Land, Catherine Malabou, Charles Hartshorne, Roderick Chisholm, and Michael Novak. After him are Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Richard David Precht, C. I. Lewis, Alice von Hildebrand, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Raya Dunayevskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Peter Geach ranks 279Before him are Spark Matsunaga, Richard K. Guy, Shobhna Samarth, Jeannette Campbell, Marie Wilson, and Roderick Chisholm. After him are Rupert Davies, Lalita Pawar, Bohumil Modrý, Vivian McGrath, Clare Dennis, and Walker Percy. Among people deceased in 2013, Peter Geach ranks 429Before him are Michel Knuysen, Mohamed Brahmi, Sayan Sanya, Yvonne Brill, Stan Vickers, and Sharon Stouder. After him are Milo O'Shea, Ronnie Ray Smith, Robert Byrne, Gordon Thomas, Taisia Chenchik, and Ebbe Parsner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Geach ranks 4,962 out of 8,785Before him are Tommy Flowers (1905), Sheila Lerwill (1928), David Bedford (1937), James Cleverly (1969), Denise Levertov (1923), and Harry Ricardo (1885). After him are Sarah Gilbert (1962), Ralph McTell (1944), Tanya Tate (1979), Nicky Butt (1975), Caroline Bliss (1961), and John Aldridge (1958).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Peter Geach ranks 94Before him are Alister McGrath (1953), George Henry Lewes (1817), John Gray (1948), C. H. Dodd (1884), Mary Midgley (1919), and Nick Land (1962). After him are James Dunn (1939), William Ames (1576), Richard Crashaw (1612), Colin McGinn (1950), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), and Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954).