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Rudolf Carnap

1891 - 1970

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Rudolf Carnap (; German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Carnap is the 205th most popular philosopher (up from 213th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Germany (up from 380th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Philosopher.

Rudolf Carnap is most famous for his work on logic and the philosophy of science.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Rudolf Carnap ranks 205 out of 1,267. Before him are Diotima of Mantinea, Slavoj Žižek, Karl Kautsky, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Diogenes of Apollonia, and Jean-François Lyotard. After him are Hasan al-Basri, Alcmaeon of Croton, Moses Mendelssohn, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vasishtha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Rudolf Carnap ranks 16. Before him are Walter Model, Edith Stein, Pär Lagerkvist, John Howard Northrop, Walther Bothe, and Henry Miller. After him are Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, Fritz Todt, Genrikh Yagoda, and Ilya Ehrenburg. Among people deceased in 1970, Rudolf Carnap ranks 23. Before him are François Mauriac, Paul Celan, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, C. V. Raman, and Semyon Timoshenko. After him are Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, Napoleon Hill, Eric Berne, and Artem Mikoyan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Carnap ranks 360 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Hindemith (1895), Klaus Meine (1948), Hermann Hoth (1885), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Streicher (1885), and Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850). After him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ludwig Beck (1880), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and August von Mackensen (1849).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Rudolf Carnap ranks 32. Before him are Oswald Spengler (1880), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Athanasius Kircher (1602), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Carl Schmitt (1888), and Max Horkheimer (1895). After him are Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Ernst Bloch (1885), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Franz Brentano (1838), Adam Weishaupt (1748), and Johann Reuchlin (1455).

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