Here is my philosophical family tree:

  1. Keith Burgess-Jackson (born 1957, Lapeer, Michigan)
  2. Joel Feinberg (1926-2004, Detroit, Michigan)
  3. Charles Leslie Stevenson (1908-1979, Cincinnati, Ohio)
  4. Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957, Poultney, Vermont)
  5. Josiah Royce (1855-1916, Grass Valley, California)
  6. George Sylvester Morris (1840-1889, Norwich, Vermont)
  7. Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg (1802-1872, Eutin, Germany)
  8. Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823, Vienna, Austria)
  9. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804, Königsberg, Prussia)
  10. Martin Knutzen (1713-1751, Königsberg, Prussia)
  11. Christian Wolff (1679-1754, Wrocław, Poland)
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716, Leipzig, Saxony)

To explain: Joel Feinberg was my dissertation director; Charles Leslie Stevenson was Feinberg's dissertation director; and so on. The places are birthplaces.