PHILOSOPHER

Robert Anton Wilson

1932 - 2007

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Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson helped publicize Discordianism through his writings and interviews. In 1999 he described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Anton Wilson has received more than 1,387,437 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Robert Anton Wilson is the 941st most popular philosopher (down from 882nd in 2019), the 4,129th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,859th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Robert Anton Wilson ranks 941 out of 1,267. Before him are Anandavardhana, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Pedro da Fonseca, Paul Janet, Richard Swinburne, and Debendranath Tagore. After him are Samuel Alexander, Ibrahim al-Nazzam, Gabriel Biel, Olavo de Carvalho, Rüdiger Safranski, and Firmin Abauzit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Robert Anton Wilson ranks 220. Before him are Patsy Cline, Tony Brooks, Stefanie Zweig, Ervin László, Bruno S., and Nikolay Rukavishnikov. After him are Antti Hyvärinen, Joanna Chmielewska, Enzo Mari, Ray Cooney, Arnold Wesker, and Henri Namphy. Among people deceased in 2007, Robert Anton Wilson ranks 170. Before him are Jim Gray, Benjamin Libet, Stuart Rosenberg, Parry O'Brien, Sandro Salvadore, and Claude Pompidou. After him are Giuseppe Baldo, Michel Lotito, June Almeida, Alice Coltrane, Igor Moiseyev, and Michael Brecker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Anton Wilson ranks 4,129 out of 20,380. Before him are Harry Carey Jr. (1921), Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Charles T. Kowal (1940), George C. Homans (1910), E. G. Marshall (1914), and Allen Klein (1931). After him are Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Sally Kirkland (1941), Terry Dischinger (1940), Raymond Moody (1944), Sammy Gravano (1945), and Floyd Council (1911).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Robert Anton Wilson ranks 38. Before him are Eric Hoffer (1898), Ted Nelson (1937), Susanne Langer (1895), Donald Davidson (1917), David Lewis (1941), and Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945). After him are Lysander Spooner (1808), Edmund Gettier (1927), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Ram Dass (1931), and Stanley Cavell (1926).

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