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Ian Stevenson

1918 - 2007

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Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American psychiatrist, the founder and director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine for fifty years. He was chair of their 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 in 2007. He was founder and director of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Division of Perceptual Studies and helped to found the Society for Scientific Exploration in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ian Stevenson is the 672nd most popular philosopher (up from 749th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Canada (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ian Stevenson ranks 672 out of 1,267. Before him are Reinhold Niebuhr, Liu Bowen, Frithjof Schuon, Shen Buhai, Diogenes of Oenoanda, and Hippo. After him are Dharmakirti, Paul Nizan, Bernard of Chartres, Maximus of Tyre, Paul Virilio, and Pyotr Lavrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ian Stevenson ranks 93. Before him are Cicely Saunders, Lucian Pulvermacher, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Philip José Farmer, Thomas Gordon, and Jean-Marie Loret. After him are Dora Ratjen, Gara Garayev, Antonín Mrkos, Huber Matos, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Ben Johnson. Among people deceased in 2007, Ian Stevenson ranks 107. Before him are Julien Gracq, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Edward Yang, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Raymond Barre, and Kisho Kurokawa. After him are François-Xavier Ortoli, Teddy Kollek, Michel Lotito, Wally Schirra, Gordon Scott, and Karel Svoboda.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ian Stevenson ranks 131 out of 1,622. Before him are Martin Short (1950), Joshua Jackson (1978), Linda Evangelista (1965), Avril Lavigne (1984), Norman Bethune (1890), and Bonar Law (1858). After him are Walter Huston (1883), David Morrell (1943), Bruce Greenwood (1956), Rocky Johnson (1944), Tommy Burns (1881), and William Osler (1849).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Canada

Among philosophers born in Canada, Ian Stevenson ranks 4. Before him are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Charles Taylor (1931), and G. A. Cohen (1941). After him are Ian Hacking (1936), Patricia Churchland (1943), Northrop Frye (1912), Bernard Lonergan (1904), Paul Churchland (1942), Will Kymlicka (1962), and Leonard Peikoff (1933).

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