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Michael Ruse

1940 - 2024

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Michael Escott Ruse (21 June 1940 – 1 November 2024) was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse began his career teaching at The University of Guelph and spent many years at Florida State University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Ruse is the 1,116th most popular philosopher (up from 1,177th in 2019), the 3,635th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,016th in 2019) and the 78th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michael Ruse ranks 1,116 out of 1,267. Before him are Egon Bondy, Maitreyi, Aleksei Losev, W. D. Ross, Dimitri Kitsikis, and Josef Pieper. After him are Michał Heller, Dugald Stewart, William Lane Craig, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Marsilius of Inghen, and David Chalmers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Michael Ruse ranks 352. Before him are Rajendra K. Pachauri, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Sue Grafton, Wolf Kahler, Ole Ernst, and Bill Medley. After him are Władysław Komar, Ignacio Milam Tang, Jerzy Kulej, Jozef Štibrányi, Osamu Watanabe, and Warren Cole. Among people deceased in 2024, Michael Ruse ranks 332. Before him are Akebono Tarō, Linda Lavin, Dieter Burdenski, Richard Lewis, Luciano Sušanj, and Bennie Muller. After him are Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem, Ron Ely, Ivan Charota, Eliyahu Rips, Franciszek Smuda, and Francisco Jara.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Ruse ranks 3,636 out of 8,785. Before him are Cherie Blair (1954), George Finlay (1799), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), Nat Lofthouse (1925), Jean Shrimpton (1942), and Richard de Bury (1287). After him are Adrian Edmondson (1957), Robert Bolt (1924), Andrew Fisher (1862), Phil Brown (1959), Lady Arbella Stuart (1575), and Freddie Bartholomew (1924).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Michael Ruse ranks 78. Before him are Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Carole Pateman (1940), John Scott Haldane (1860), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), John Hick (1922), and W. D. Ross (1877). After him are Dugald Stewart (1753), Ernest Belfort Bax (1854), Walter Burley (1275), Nick Land (1962), Ralph Cudworth (1617), and Bernard Bosanquet (1848).

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