PHILOSOPHER

William A. Dembski

1960 - Today

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William Albert Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). On September 23, 2016, he officially retired from intelligent design, resigning all his "formal associations with the ID community, including [his] Discovery Institute fellowship of 20 years". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William A. Dembski has received more than 237,095 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). William A. Dembski is the 1,257th most popular philosopher (down from 1,163rd in 2019), the 14,687th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,951st in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Philosopher.

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  • 45.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, William A. Dembski ranks 1,257 out of 1,267. Before him are Stanley Hauerwas, N. T. Wright, Stanley Fish, Miranda Fricker, A. C. Grayling, and Linda Martín Alcoff. After him are Alenka Zupančič, Michel Weber, Alberto Jori, Taraneh Javanbakht, and Richard Carrier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, William A. Dembski ranks 708. Before him are Buck Williams, Martina Schröter, Tecla Marinescu, Isabelle Boéri-Bégard, Jayne Brook, and Martina Jäschke. After him are Shinji Kobayashi, Amanda Wyss, Patrick Breen, Osvaldo Escudero, Robert Glenister, and Luiz Carlos Pereira.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William A. Dembski ranks 14,687 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Peters (1967), Nanci Griffith (1953), Michael Everson (1963), Sydney Penny (1971), Raymond Benson (1955), and Darryl Dawkins (1957). After him are Andrew Luck (1989), Kimberly Peirce (1967), Lincoln Chafee (1953), Paul Walter Hauser (1986), Leigh-Allyn Baker (1972), and Ruth Donnelly (1896).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, William A. Dembski ranks 92. Before him are Stephen Walt (1955), Peter Kreeft (1937), Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936), Nel Noddings (1929), Stanley Hauerwas (1940), and Stanley Fish (1938). After him are Richard Carrier (1969).

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