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Michel Weber

1963 - Today

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Michel Weber (born 1963) is a Belgian philosopher. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international scholarly societies and publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy. Weber criticizes contemporary academic philosophy for losing touch with its early Greek roots. Philosophy has a practical mission (rooted in Socratic discourse) to restore personal and social well-being, but it cannot do this, he argues, if it renounces its traditional metaphysical obligation (rooted in pre-Socratic speculation) to understand the cosmos. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 16 in 2024). Michel Weber is the 1,252nd most popular philosopher (up from 1,259th in 2024), the 854th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 936th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Belgian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michel Weber ranks 1,252 out of 1,267. Before him are Nancy Cartwright, Norman Malcolm, Nel Noddings, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Leonard Peikoff, and Kwame Anthony Appiah. After him are Colin McGinn, Stanley Hauerwas, Alex Callinicos, Stanley Fish, Graham Harman, and Linda Martín Alcoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Michel Weber ranks 623. Before him are Wei Wei, Elizabeth Fraser, Tasmin Archer, Sven Andersson, John Bercow, and Ian Brown. After him are Srđan Dragojević, Juan Carlos Ablanedo, Zhang Yuan, Jozef Sabovčík, Helen Sharman, and Panagiotis Fasoulas.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Michel Weber ranks 854 out of 1,190. Before him are Bart Goor (1973), Françoise Nyssen (1951), Eric Van Meir (1968), Youri Mulder (1969), Felix van Groeningen (1977), and Thierry Neuville (1988). After him are Daniel Veyt (1956), Stoffel Vandoorne (1992), François Damiens (1973), Yves Vanderhaeghe (1970), Jordan Lukaku (1994), and Adnan Januzaj (1995).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Belgium

Among philosophers born in Belgium, Michel Weber ranks 11. Before him are Arnold Geulincx (1624), Henry of Ghent (1217), Franciscus Gomarus (1563), Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813), Paul de Man (1919), and Alice von Hildebrand (1923).

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