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Allan Silverman

American philosopher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ57998874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allan Jay Silverman (born 1955) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Silverman is known for his expertise on ancient philosophy.

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“Allan Silverman” enters the record as american philosopher. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Allan, Silverman and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Allan, Silverman and American.
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“Allan Silverman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Allan, Silverman and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q57998874. VIAF identifies the subject as 27295660. The Library of Congress control number is n90687178. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allan Silverman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.