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Jeremy Butterfield

British philosopher of scienceborn 1954

Supervised 4 doctoral students at University of Cambridge between 2019 and 2024; Wikidata names D. H. Mellor and David Malament as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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Jeremy Butterfield, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata3

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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.

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