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Pierre Lévy

1956 - Today

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Pierre Lévy (French: [levi]; born 1956) is a Tunisian-born French philosopher, cultural theorist and media scholar who specializes in the understanding of the cultural and cognitive implications of digital technologies and the phenomenon of human collective intelligence. He introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book L'intelligence collective: Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace (Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace). Lévy's 1995 book, Qu'est-ce que le virtuel? (translated as Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age) develops philosopher Gilles Deleuze's conception of "the virtual" as a dimension of reality that subsists with the actual but is irreducible to it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Lévy is the 1,135th most popular philosopher (down from 1,014th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Tunisia (down from 80th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Tunisian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pierre Lévy ranks 1,135 out of 1,267. Before him are Anna Tumarkin, Adolf Grünbaum, Pritilata Waddedar, Derek Prince, Allan Bloom, and Ecphantus the Pythagorean. After him are Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Aesara, Eino Kaila, Thomas van Erpe, and Harry Frankfurt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Pierre Lévy ranks 320. Before him are Joe Montana, Michael Hoffman, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Edson Tavares, and David E. Kelley. After him are Andy Goldsworthy, László Kiss, Gary Ross, Jeremy Wade, Alina Fernández, and Raimundo Pereira.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Pierre Lévy ranks 90 out of 210. Before him are Anouar Brahem (1957), Ahmed Hachani (1956), Jean Vuarnet (1933), Silvan Shalom (1958), Ahlam Mosteghanemi (1953), and Bahi Ladgham (1913). After him are Taos Amrouche (1913), Tarak Dhiab (1954), Moufida Tlatli (1947), Carlos Marcello (1910), Faouzi Benzarti (1950), and Tommaso Costantino (1885).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Tunisia

Among philosophers born in Tunisia, Pierre Lévy ranks 5. Before him are Tertullian (155), Macrobius (370), Arnobius (255), and Clitomachus (-187).

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