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Callipers Kofi

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So I decided to rank the races. In particular, I wanted to see just how many more white philosophers there are on the list of the 376 Most Cited Recent Philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopaedia compiled  by Eric Schwitzgabel.  I didn't have any way of telling more sophisticated than using my background knowledge plus google images search to examine the exact shape of people's brows to work out their ethnic background. So I am sure I made some mistakes (is Richard J. Arneson just really swarthy or what? And no link to ethnicity but shout out to Will Kymlicka's moustache it's great) -- but on the whole I think I am at least roughly correct. So I think there are 8* non white philosophers on the list:  Jaegwon Kim, 59th most cited. Amartya K. Sen, 83rd most cited. Richard Sorabji, 111th most cited. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 158th most cited. Linda Martín Alcoff, 260th most cited. Mohan Matthen, 272nd most cited. Charles W. Mills 335th most cited. Sahotra Sarkar, tied for 335t