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| Rank |
Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Thomas Hobbes |
7,284 |
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| 2 |
Bertrand Russell |
5,958 |
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| 3 |
Francis Bacon |
5,236 |
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| 4 |
Alan Turing |
4,749 |
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| 5 |
John Stuart Mill |
3,985 |
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| 6 |
Jeremy Bentham |
3,276 |
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| 7 |
Charles Babbage |
3,268 |
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| 8 |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
2,456 |
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| 9 |
John Ruskin |
1,884 |
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| 10 |
Robert Boyle |
1,827 |
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| 11 |
Herbert Spencer |
1,811 |
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| 12 |
Alan Watts |
1,472 |
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| 13 |
John Dee |
1,248 |
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| 14 |
Joseph Priestley |
1,089 |
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| 15 |
Iris Murdoch |
952 |
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| 16 |
George Boole |
903 |
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| 17 |
Roger Bacon |
842 |
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| 18 |
Alfred North Whitehead |
792 |
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| 19 |
William of Ockham |
727 |
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| 20 |
Alfred Jules Ayer |
697 |
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| 21 |
G. E. Moore |
601 |
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| 22 |
John Venn |
377 |
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| 23 |
Bernard Williams |
344 |
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| 24 |
Gilbert Ryle |
318 |
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| 25 |
Richard Swinburne |
294 |
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| 26 |
R. G. Collingwood |
282 |
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| 27 |
Derek Parfit |
250 |
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| 28 |
Olaf Stapledon |
233 |
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| 29 |
Mary Midgley |
231 |
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| 30 |
Philippa Foot |
208 |
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| 31 |
William Whewell |
204 |
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| 32 |
Robert Grosseteste |
202 |
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| 33 |
William Kingdon Clifford |
202 |
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| 34 |
Henry Sidgwick |
191 |
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| 35 |
Simon Critchley |
183 |
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| 36 |
Bernard Mandeville |
177 |
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| 37 |
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
174 |
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| 38 |
Anthony Kenny |
156 |
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| 39 |
Thomas Hill Green |
154 |
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| 40 |
William Petty |
143 |
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| 41 |
Richard Price |
141 |
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| 42 |
Charles Kay Ogden |
126 |
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| 43 |
Henry More |
125 |
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| 44 |
George Henry Lewes |
120 |
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| 45 |
John Cowper Powys |
119 |
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| 46 |
Phillip Blond |
109 |
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| 47 |
James Hinton |
104 |
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| 48 |
Roy Bhaskar |
103 |
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| 49 |
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury |
88 |
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| 50 |
Stephen Law |
88 |
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| 51 |
Kallistos Ware |
84 |
 |
| 52 |
Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher) |
82 |
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| 53 |
Susan Haack |
73 |
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| 54 |
David Hartley (philosopher) |
64 |
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| 55 |
John Lucas (philosopher) |
61 |
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| 56 |
R. B. Braithwaite |
61 |
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| 57 |
William Wollaston |
56 |
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| 58 |
Jack Copeland |
55 |
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| 59 |
Peter Vardy (theologian) |
54 |
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| 60 |
Anthony Collins |
53 |
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| 61 |
Jonathan Dancy |
49 |
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| 62 |
Ahmad Thomson |
47 |
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| 63 |
Thomas Elyot |
44 |
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| 64 |
Raymond Tallis |
43 |
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| 65 |
Henry Aldrich |
42 |
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| 66 |
William Nicholson (chemist) |
40 |
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| 67 |
Jonathan Rée |
39 |
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| 68 |
Douglas Harding |
39 |
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| 69 |
Auberon Herbert |
38 |
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| 70 |
Stuart Hampshire |
37 |
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| 71 |
Myles Burnyeat |
37 |
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| 72 |
Thomas Gisborne |
36 |
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| 73 |
Michael Scholar |
33 |
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| 74 |
John Raven |
32 |
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| 75 |
Walking Stewart |
31 |
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| 76 |
James Martineau |
30 |
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| 77 |
Mabel Besant-Scott |
29 |
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| 78 |
Samuel Danforth |
28 |
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| 79 |
Geoffrey Warnock |
27 |
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| 80 |
Alan Musgrave |
26 |
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| 81 |
Alan Carter (philosopher) |
26 |
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| 82 |
Walter Charleton |
25 |
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| 83 |
Richard Sorabji |
25 |
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| 84 |
Martin Hollis (philosopher) |
25 |
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| 85 |
Walter Burley |
24 |
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| 86 |
John Gough (natural philosopher) |
24 |
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| 87 |
Shadworth Hodgson |
23 |
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| 88 |
Robert Charles Zaehner |
23 |
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| 89 |
John Lewis (philosopher) |
22 |
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| 90 |
Dorothy Maud Wrinch |
22 |
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| 91 |
Norman Robert Campbell |
22 |
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| 92 |
Victoria, Lady Welby |
21 |
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| 93 |
Edwyn Bevan |
20 |
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| 94 |
Ullin Place |
20 |
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| 95 |
Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) |
20 |
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| 96 |
Maurice Cranston |
20 |
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| 97 |
Samuel Bailey |
19 |
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| 98 |
Emanuel Mendez da Costa |
19 |
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| 99 |
A. W. Benn |
19 |
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| 100 |
Elaine Storkey |
18 |
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| 101 |
Glen Newey |
17 |
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| 102 |
Henry Longueville Mansel |
16 |
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| 103 |
Brad Hooker |
16 |
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| 104 |
Andrew Pyle (philosopher) |
16 |
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| 105 |
George Hourani |
16 |
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| 106 |
Michael Palmer (Philosopher) |
16 |
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| 107 |
Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway |
15 |
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| 108 |
James Ward (psychologist) |
15 |
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| 109 |
Harold Arthur Prichard |
14 |
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| 110 |
Alexander Bryan Johnson |
14 |
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| 111 |
Henry Harclay |
14 |
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| 112 |
Edward Spencer Beesly |
13 |
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| 113 |
John O'Neill (philosopher) |
13 |
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| 114 |
Illtyd Trethowan |
13 |
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| 115 |
Simon Glendinning |
13 |
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| 116 |
Bernard Mayo |
12 |
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| 117 |
John Hoppus |
12 |
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| 118 |
Hilary Lawson |
12 |
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| 119 |
Richard Sault |
12 |
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| 120 |
Peter Dawkins (FBRT) |
11 |
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| 121 |
Richard Swineshead |
11 |
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| 122 |
Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones |
11 |
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| 123 |
Charles Blount (deist) |
10 |
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| 124 |
Howard Robinson |
10 |
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| 125 |
Alan of Lynn |
10 |
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| 126 |
E E Speight |
10 |
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| 127 |
Constance Naden |
9 |
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| 128 |
Arthur Collier |
9 |
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| 129 |
Richard Hall Gower |
9 |
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| 130 |
Benjamin Whichcote |
8 |
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| 131 |
Daniel of Morley |
8 |
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| 132 |
Leonard Hodgson |
8 |
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| 133 |
William Backhouse |
8 |
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| 134 |
Nicholas Hill (scientist) |
8 |
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| 135 |
Richard Lewis Nettleship |
7 |
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| 136 |
Richard Brinkley |
7 |
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| 137 |
John Grote |
7 |
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| 138 |
John Heydon |
6 |
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| 139 |
William Crathorn |
6 |
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| 140 |
Ebenezer Cooke (art education reformer) |
less than 5 views |
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| 141 |
Humphry Ditton |
less than 5 views |
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| 142 |
Abraham Tucker |
less than 5 views |
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| 143 |
Stanley Eveling |
less than 5 views |
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| 144 |
Richard Burthogge |
less than 5 views |
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| 145 |
Robert Alyngton |
less than 5 views |
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| 146 |
L. P. Jacks |
less than 5 views |
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| 147 |
Thomas White (scholar) |
less than 5 views |
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| 148 |
William Martin (philosopher) |
less than 5 views |
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| 149 |
Thomas Dewar Weldon |
less than 5 views |
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| 150 |
Everard Digby (scholar) |
less than 5 views |
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| 151 |
Mark Vernon |
less than 5 views |
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| 152 |
John Bargel |
less than 5 views |
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