Ian Stevenson

Ian Stevenson

Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist. He worked for the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years, as chair of the department of psychiatry from 1957 to 1967, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry from 1967 to 2001, and Research Professor of Psychiatry from 2002 until his death.As founder and director of the university's Division of Perceptual Studies, which investigates the paranormal, Stevenson became known for his research into cases he considered suggestive of reincarnation, the idea that emotions, memories, and even physical bodily features can be transferred from one life to another. Over a period of forty years in international fieldwork, he investigated three thousand cases of children who claimed to remember past lives. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Stevenson has received more than 387,382 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ian Stevenson is the 619th most popular philosopher (down from 618th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Canada (up from 89th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Philosopher.