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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 309,663 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Cavell is the 986th most popular philosopher (down from 917th in 2019), the 5,106th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,244th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Stanley Cavell ranks 986 out of 1,081. Before him are Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Sedulius Scottus, Metrocles, Rémi Brague, Polemon of Athens, and Anna Kingsford. After him are Egon Bondy, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Ladislav Klíma, Martin Lings, Karl Ludwig von Haller, and Michał Heller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Stanley Cavell ranks 244. Before him are Alfred Körner, James Krüss, Ian Paisley, Veikko Karvonen, Salvador Jorge Blanco, and George C. Williams. After him are Shinichi Hoshi, Alfred Pfaff, Julio César Britos, Juan Hohberg, Pascual Pérez, and Geoffrey Howe. Among people deceased in 2018, Stanley Cavell ranks 236. Before him are Geoff Emerick, Tony Joe White, Connie Sawyer, Edgar Hilsenrath, Evelyn Berezin, and Michael Harner. After him are Nelson Pereira dos Santos, María Dolores Pradera, Fernando del Paso, Robert Spaemann, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, and Lucian Pintilie.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Cavell ranks 5,106 out of 18,182. Before him are Pamela Tiffin (1942), Mark Pellegrino (1965), Paula Patton (1975), Tony Williams (1945), Belle Starr (1848), and Billy Cox (1939). After him are Eileen Heckart (1919), Horace Mann (1796), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Moses Gunn (1929), and Mary Agnes Chase (1869).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Stanley Cavell ranks 48. Before him are Wilfrid Sellars (1912), Susan George (1934), Ram Dass (1931), Mary Daly (1928), Harry Frankfurt (1929), and Amos Bronson Alcott (1799). After him are Barrington Moore Jr. (1913), Allan Bloom (1930), Hubert Dreyfus (1929), William Lane Craig (1949), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787), and Richard Posner (1939).

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