The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Panama
This page contains a list of the greatest Panamanian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Panama. This makes Panama the birth place of the 84th most number of Philosophers behind Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Panamanian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Panamanian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Linda Martín Alcoff (b. 1955)
With an HPI of 45.31, Linda Martín Alcoff is the most famous Panamanian Philosopher. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Linda Martín Alcoff is a Panamanian American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Alcoff specializes in social epistemology, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, decolonial theory and continental philosophy, especially the work of Michel Foucault. She has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (2006), The Future of Whiteness (2015), and Rape and Resistance (2018). Her public philosophy writing has been published in The Guardian and The New York Times. Alcoff has called for greater inclusion of historically underrepresented groups in philosophy. She notes that philosophers from these groups have created new fields of inquiry, including feminist philosophy, critical race theory, Latino philosophy, and LGBTQ philosophy. From 2012 to 2013, she served as president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. In February 2018 she was appointed president of the board of directors of Hypatia, Inc., the non-profit corporation that owns the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Panamanian philosophers born between 1955 and 1955. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Panamanian philosophers include Linda Martín Alcoff. As of April 2024, 1 new Panamanian philosophers have been added to Pantheon including Linda Martín Alcoff.
