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Peter Geach

1916 - 2013

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Peter Thomas Geach (29 March 1916 – 21 December 2013) was a British philosopher who was Professor of Logic at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and the theory of identity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Peter Geach is the 1,238th most popular philosopher (down from 1,225th in 2024), the 5,275th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,962nd in 2019) and the 98th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Peter Geach ranks 1,238 out of 1,267. Before him are Susan Haack, J. J. C. Smart, Ned Block, Mary Kay Letourneau, James Dunn, and Stephen Walt. After him are Roderick Chisholm, Peter Kreeft, Richard David Precht, Christine Korsgaard, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Will Kymlicka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Peter Geach ranks 286. Before him are Spark Matsunaga, Ruy de Freitas, Paul Felix Schmidt, Gene Mako, Giuseppe Tosi, and Kanan Devi. After him are Richard Hofstadter, Roderick Chisholm, Martha Raye, George Montgomery, Ruth Warrick, and Virginia Gregg. Among people deceased in 2013, Peter Geach ranks 446. Before him are Bryan Forbes, James Herbert, Hugh Huxley, Annette Funicello, Aisha Rateb, and Phạm Duy. After him are Chokri Belaid, Ruth Patrick, Aaron Swartz, Valérie Benguigui, Stanisław Szozda, and Tatyana Zaslavskaya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Geach ranks 5,277 out of 8,785. Before him are Ray Thomas (1941), John Belchier (1706), James Dunn (1939), Don Finlay (1909), Yvonne Mitchell (1915), and Dorothy Wordsworth (1771). After him are Edmund Rubbra (1901), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Thomas Button (1575), David Robb (1947), Olivia d'Abo (1969), and Susan Cooper (1935).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Peter Geach ranks 98. Before him are C. H. Dodd (1884), William Ames (1576), Eric A. Havelock (1903), Susan Haack (1945), J. J. C. Smart (1920), and James Dunn (1939). After him are Richard Crashaw (1612), Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954), Colin McGinn (1950), Nigel Warburton (1962), and Julian Baggini (1968).

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