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Pierre Lévy

1956 - Today

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Pierre Lévy (French: [levi]; born 1956) is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence. He introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book L'intelligence collective: Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace (Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Lévy has received more than 82,812 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Lévy is the 1,014th most popular philosopher (up from 1,034th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Tunisia (down from 71st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Tunisian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pierre Lévy ranks 1,014 out of 1,267. Before him are Lon L. Fuller, Androcles, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Heinrich Khunrath, Alfonso Reyes, and Jacques Cujas. After him are Stanisław Staszic, Zhang Binglin, Northrop Frye, Friedrich Paulsen, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and Daniel Bensaïd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Pierre Lévy ranks 188. Before him are Saadeddine Othmani, Richard Curtis, Keith David, Marta Kauffman, Hanni Wenzel, and Bernd Förster. After him are Blackie Lawless, Martin Jol, Catherine Frot, Glen Matlock, Chris Carter, and Mark St. John.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Pierre Lévy ranks 80 out of 210. Before him are Sadok Sassi (1945), Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (1909), Habib Essid (1949), Hédi Amara Nouira (1911), Hédi Baccouche (1930), and Hamadi Jebali (1949). After him are Mohammed Mzali (1925), Tewhida Ben Sheikh (1909), Hamed Karoui (1927), Abdelmajid Chetali (1939), Carlos Marcello (1910), and Paul G. Comba (1926).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Tunisia

Among philosophers born in Tunisia, Pierre Lévy ranks 5. Before him are Tertullian (155), Macrobius (370), Arnobius (255), and Clitomachus (-187).

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