I began reading books in 2014 pretty much without any system, over time I started sensing this foundation of ideas underlying the contemporary system of knowledge and the true authors of these ideas in their contemporary form. Sometimes the discoveries were stunning, sometimes they were pretty obvious (when you know what happened) but very rarely they coinsided with the ‘story’ known from the socially accepted version of History.
    That is why I decided to create this Genesis for myself. It reflects my process of reading too, so, I will keep adding nodes to this graph until I get bored by the idea. I view it as a Fürstenzug of sorts, that I saw in Dresden once.

The Lineage of Contemporary Philosophers

Immanuel Kant ( - 1804) | - Critique of Pure Reason.
                        | - Metaphysical Foundations
                            of Natural Science.
  Herman Helmholtz ( - 1894)
    Heinrich Hertz ( - 1894)
  Ernst Mach ( - 1916)
    Hans Reichenbach ( - 1953, Los Angeles, CA)
      Wesley C. Salmon ( - 2001, Los Angeles, CA)
        Judea Pearl, UCLA.
      Clark Glymour, Carnegie Melon U. PA.
                        | - Causation, Prediction, and Search
        Kevin Kelly,     |
        Peter Spirtes,   | Tetrad
        Richard Scheines |
        Frederick Eberhardt, Wash. U. St.Louis.
                        | - Reichenbach's Thesis
    Bertrand Russell ( - 1970)
    Ludwig Wittgenstein ( - 1951)
Bernard Bolzano ( - 1848)

The Lineage of Statisticians (the Cult of ‘Correlation’)


The Prophets of the Cult:

Francis Galton ( - 1911)
  Karl Pearson ( - 1936)
    William Sealy Gosset ( - 1937)
      Ronald Fisher ( - 1962) - had scandals with Pearson.
        Yates
        Finney
        Davies
      
 Dissidents    

      Abraham Wald ( - 1950)
        Egon Pearson ( - 1980)
        Jerzy Neyman ( - 1981)  

        
Expelled from the cult:

    Udny Yule ( - 1951) - Yule(-Simpson) effect / paradox
                          personally attacked by Pearson.
  
Never been in the cult:

  Marquis de Condorcet - "Condorcet Paradox".
  
The expanders of the Religion as a whole:

    John Tukey ( - 2000) - 1962 paper “The Future of Data Analysis.”
                           Annals of Mathematical Statistics 33: 1–79.
    Joseph Kruskal ( - 2010) -

Present day Cause and Effect relationship theory Lineage.

Path Analysis (Sewall Wright)
  Causal Inference (Judea Pearl)

Later.