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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). Her public philosophy writing has been published in The Guardian and The New York Times. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Linda Martín Alcoff is the 1,255th most popular philosopher (up from 1,256th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Panama (up from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Panamanian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 1,255 out of 1,267. Before her are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michel Weber, Colin McGinn, Stanley Hauerwas, Alex Callinicos, and Stanley Fish. After her are A. C. Grayling, Miranda Fricker, Taraneh Javanbakht, Alenka Zupančič, William A. Dembski, and Alberto Jori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 656. Before her are Susie Essman, Christopher Lawford, Anthony Dod Mantle, Ben Wijnstekers, Janina Ochojska, and Steve Roach. After her are Carol Ann Duffy, Nikolay Solodukhin, John Paulson, Ann Bancroft, Rohini Hattangadi, and Butch Johnson.

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In Panama

Among people born in Panama, Linda Martín Alcoff ranks 38 out of 71. Before her are Mariano Rivera (1969), Clara González (1898), Alfredo Anderson (1978), Rosa María Britton (1936), Ricardo J. Alfaro (1882), and Felipe Baloy (1981). After her are Rolando Blackman (1959), Lilian Garcia (1966), Jaime Penedo (1981), Luis Tejada (1982), Irving Saladino (1983), and Gabriel Enrique Gómez (1984).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Panama

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

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