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This list is a pretty good measure of "influence in mainstream Anglophone philosophy" and also a pretty good indication of a large part of my own philosophical background (which is supplemented by a lot of reading in religious studies and scientific works). I won't say I've read them all (*) but the first hundred or so are quite familiar to me and I can cite a good selection of the rest of them. (* I once said "I've read them all" to someone who was looking at the books on my office shelves. It was obviously untrue and I was obviously caught out and I've regretted it ever since. I don't know why I said it and I guess it reflects a character flew wherein I pretend to be more knowledgeable than I am. Anyhow, not making the same mistake twice.)

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