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- ↑ "Philosophy Family Tree (Josh Dever)" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-06.
- ↑ "Susan Feagin named 2016 Richard Wollheim Lecturer - American Society For Aesthetics". aesthetics-online.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
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