Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David Chalmers

Australian philosopher and cognitive scientistborn 1966

Supervised 1 doctoral student at University of Arizona; Wikidata names Douglas Hofstadter and Jon Michael Dunn as doctoral advisors and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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David Chalmers, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students1

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Brian Rabern

    born 1979

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 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

Education and career7

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

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor