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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-07 · 22 entries checked · 10 flagged · 20 issues confirmed · 10 corrected · 10 still open
Achille Mbembe — The entry states Mbembe earned his PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1988 (sometimes cited as 1989), but the 'DID YOU KNOW' section says he obtained his PhD from the 'University of Sorbonne in Paris in 1989'. The correct institution is th
Achille Mbembe — The entry states he was a visiting assistant professor of history at Columbia from 1988 to 1990 (sometimes given as 1988–1991). The established canon typically lists his Columbia appointment as 1988–1991, not 1988–1990.
Antonio Gramsci — The entry states Gramsci drew insights from thinkers including Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche, but his engagement with them is not a widely recognized or canonical part of his intellectual influences; this is a misattribution of influen
Antonio Negri — Negri did not join the Italian Socialist Party; he joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1950s.
Antonio Negri — The entry states Negri was sentenced to 30 years plus an additional four years for moral responsibility, but the claim that 'most charges were dropped' is misleading; he was acquitted of the Moro murder charge but convicted for other charges including 'insurre
Bernard Mandeville — Mandeville's father was not of Huguenot descent; he was a Roman Catholic.
Bernard Mandeville — Mandeville did not defend a thesis at Leiden University in 1689 supporting Cartesian automatism; his 1689 disputation was on medicine, and his later 1699 thesis was on the hypochondriac and hysteric passions.
Charles Horton Cooley — Cooley received his PhD in philosophy in 1894 from the University of Michigan, not Columbia University under Franklin Henry Giddings.
Charles Horton Cooley — Cooley did not play a prominent role in developing symbolic interactionism alongside John Dewey.
Cornel West — West's dissertation was titled 'Ethics, Historicism, and the Marxist Tradition,' not 'The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought'
Cornel West — West was not the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University
Donna Haraway — The entry states Haraway received the Erasmus Prize in 2025, but as of the established canon and available records, she has not been awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2025 (or at any time). This is an invented claim.
Ernest Burgess — The entry anachronistically refers to Burgess as the 24th President of the American Sociological Association, but the organization was called the American Sociological Society at the time of his 1934 presidency.
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