The Philosophical Genealogy Project Has Arrived Already!
That was quick! Behold the fruit of work by my colleague Josh Dever, who invites additional information, corrections, etc. at the e-mail address given at that site.
Interesting stuff!
UPDATE: David Velleman (Philosophy, NYU) writes:
I doubt whether any philosophical genealogy project will be interesting in the way that the mathematical project is. The mathematicians are part of an intellectual tradition that has retained its identity over centuries. Here, for example, is the genealogy of the set theorist Ken Kunen at Wisconsin (in reverse chronological order):
Kenneth Kunen
Dana Scott
Alonzo Church
Oswald Veblen
E.H. Moore
H.A. Newton
Michel Chasles
Simeon Poisson
Joseph Lagrange
Leonhard Euler
Johann Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli
Gottfried Leibniz (1666)
Erhard Weigel (1650)
What are the chances that the academic genealogy of any analytic philosopher working today would reach back to 17th-century figures
who would be recognizable as philosophers, in the way that Leibniz is
recognizable as a mathematician? Pretty slight, I'd say. I'd be interested if someone could prove me wrong.

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