Academic Ancestry

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Michel Foucault

French philosopher1926 to 1984

Wikidata names Georges Canguilhem as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 5 other registers.

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Michel Foucault, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors6

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

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

    Jacques Derrida

    born 1930

The line above and below2 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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career11

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