PHILOSOPHER

Stanley Cavell

1926 - 2018

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Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Cavell has received more than 329,827 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Stanley Cavell is the 1,007th most popular philosopher (down from 986th in 2019), the 4,762nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,094th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 20

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  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Stanley Cavell ranks 1,007 out of 1,267. Before him are Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Isidore of Alexandria, Arulenus Rusticus, Tariq Ramadan, Amelius, and Ogyū Sorai. After him are Lon L. Fuller, Androcles, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Heinrich Khunrath, Alfonso Reyes, and Jacques Cujas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Stanley Cavell ranks 249. Before him are Driss Chraïbi, Richard Yates, Fernando J. Corbató, Theo Adam, Janet Asimov, and Heriberto Herrera. After him are Tadeusz Konwicki, Ladislav Pavlovič, Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Borys Romanchenko, Revaz Chkheidze, and Sven Axbom. Among people deceased in 2018, Stanley Cavell ranks 221. Before him are Sabahudin Kurt, Stan Mikita, Arie den Hartog, Luis Posada Carriles, Sergey Litvinov, and Juan Bautista Agüero. After him are Kim Yong-chun, Mrinal Sen, Shehu Shagari, Inge Borkh, Domenico Losurdo, and Otis Rush.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Cavell ranks 4,762 out of 20,380. Before him are Loretta Lynn (1932), Kay Ivey (1944), Janet Asimov (1926), Betsy Blair (1923), Robert Barro (1944), and Cheryl Ladd (1951). After him are Alice Coachman (1923), Edward Chamberlin (1899), Elvin Hayes (1945), Christopher Atkins (1961), Prodigy (1974), and Charlie Haden (1937).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Stanley Cavell ranks 44. Before him are Robert Anton Wilson (1932), Lysander Spooner (1808), Edmund Gettier (1927), Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Harry Frankfurt (1929), and Ram Dass (1931). After him are Lon L. Fuller (1902), Josiah Royce (1855), Mary Daly (1928), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Paul Kurtz (1925), and Amina Wadud (1952).

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