PHILOSOPHER

William Paley

1743 - 1805

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William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Paley has received more than 507,578 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. William Paley is the 863rd most popular philosopher (down from 671st in 2019), the 2,055th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,521st in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Philosopher.

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  • 53.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, William Paley ranks 863 out of 1,267. Before him are Musaeus of Athens, Arethas of Caesarea, Perry Anderson, Domingo de Soto, Emer de Vattel, and Pierre Daniel Huet. After him are Tao Hongjing, André Glucksmann, Bahya ibn Paquda, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Lubna of Córdoba, and Sarah Kofman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, William Paley ranks 24. Before him are Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau. After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Johannes Ewald, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Johann David Wyss, and José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa. Among people deceased in 1805, William Paley ranks 19. Before him are Conrad Moench, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Pehr Osbeck, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and Franz Xaver von Wulfen. After him are Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, and John Robison.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Paley ranks 2,055 out of 8,785. Before him are Alfred Edwards (1850), Eddie the Eagle (1963), Damien Hirst (1965), George Albert Smith (1864), William Foulke (1874), and John Profumo (1915). After him are Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883), Tim Hunt (1943), Rick Parfitt (1948), Thomas Gray (1716), Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), and Arthur Sullivan (1842).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, William Paley ranks 55. Before him are Stephen Toulmin (1922), Frederick Copleston (1907), F. H. Bradley (1846), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Michael Dummett (1925), and Perry Anderson (1938). After him are Bernard Williams (1929), John Scott Haldane (1860), Richard Swinburne (1934), Martin Lings (1909), Samuel Clarke (1675), and Anna Kingsford (1846).

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