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Peter Kreeft

1937 - Today

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Peter John Kreeft (; born March 16, 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. A convert to Catholicism, he is the author of over eighty books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Kreeft has received more than 600,673 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Kreeft is the 1,241st most popular philosopher (down from 1,145th in 2019), the 11,575th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,673rd in 2019) and the 87th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 600k

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  • 49.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Kreeft ranks 1,241 out of 1,267. Before him are Will Kymlicka, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Stephen Walt, James Dunn, William Ames, and David Benatar. After him are Richard Crashaw, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Nel Noddings, Leonard Peikoff, Paul Churchland, and Alex Callinicos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Peter Kreeft ranks 520. Before him are Dee Palmer, Alv Gjestvang, Benjamin Whitrow, Arthur Kopit, Tom Paxton, and George Steele. After him are Oleg Kopayev, Tony Waiters, Peter Ueberroth, Maryvonne Dupureur, Robert Paul, and Farooq Abdullah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Kreeft ranks 11,575 out of 20,380. Before him are Ira Davenport (1887), Colman Domingo (1969), Chris Hedges (1956), Peter Ho (1975), Gretchen Carlson (1966), and Mackenzie Foy (2000). After him are Kaye Hall (1951), Grace Cunard (1893), Mike Gravel (1930), Twyla Tharp (1941), Gaylord Nelson (1916), and Erik Spoelstra (1970).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Peter Kreeft ranks 87. Before him are Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), C. I. Lewis (1883), Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921), Norman Malcolm (1911), Christine Korsgaard (1952), and Stephen Walt (1955). After him are Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936), Nel Noddings (1929), Stanley Hauerwas (1940), Stanley Fish (1938), William A. Dembski (1960), and Richard Carrier (1969).

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