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Linda Martín Alcoff

1955 - Today

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Linda Martín Alcoff has received more than 138,472 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Linda Martín Alcoff is the 1,256th most popular philosopher, the 42nd most popular biography from Panama and the most popular Panamanian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 1,256 out of 1,267. Before her are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Stanley Hauerwas, N. T. Wright, Stanley Fish, Miranda Fricker, and A. C. Grayling. After her are William A. Dembski, Alenka Zupančič, Michel Weber, Alberto Jori, Taraneh Javanbakht, and Richard Carrier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 675. Before her are Gulshan Grover, Pete Shelley, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Eric Allman, Raghubar Das, and Catherine Asaro. After her are Raymond Benson, Darrell Hammond, David J. Tholen, Sheldon Whitehouse, René Valenzuela, and José Pilar Reyes.

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In Panama

Among people born in Panama, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 42 out of 71. Before her are Rosa María Britton (1936), Rolando Blackman (1959), Irving Saladino (1983), Alfredo Anderson (1978), Felipe Baloy (1981), and Jaime Penedo (1981). After her are Lilian Garcia (1966), Gabriel Enrique Gómez (1984), Blas Pérez (1981), Michael Amir Murillo (1996), Román Torres (1986), and Álex Rodríguez (1990).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Panama

Among philosophers born in Panama, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 1. 

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