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Brian Skyrms

American philosopherborn 1938

Wikidata names Nicholas Rescher as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata16

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 37 people: 37 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Coauthors in OpenAlex80

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

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    Persi W. Diaconis

    22 shared works
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    Louis Narens

    18 shared works
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    Robin Pemantle

    9 shared works
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    Francisco C. Santos

    6 shared works
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    Jeffrey Alan Barrett

    6 shared works
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    William Harper

    6 shared works
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    Simon M. Huttegger

    5 shared works
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    Jorge M. Pacheco

    4 shared works
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    Richard C. Jeffrey

    4 shared works
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    Ellery Eells

    4 shared works

OpenAlex lists 70 more people who share a work with them.