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Nicholas Stang

Canadian philosopher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ130147236 ↗
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Nicholas F. Stang is a Canadian-American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. Stang is known for his works on Kantian philosophy.

Books

Kant's Modal Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2016, 352pp., ISBN 9780198712626.

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The public source identifies “Nicholas Stang” as canadian philosopher. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nicholas, Stang and Canadian.

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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 Dec 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q130147236. VIAF identifies the subject as 68744847. The Library of Congress control number is no2008095637. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nicholas Stang” 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.