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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

American philosopherborn 1955

Supervised 9 doctoral students between 2012 and 2022; Wikidata names Robert Fogelin and Ruth Barcan Marcus as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 9 cited by thesis records.

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