# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alphonso-lingis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:17.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alphonso-lingis"
name: "Alphonso Lingis"
slug: "alphonso-lingis"
description: "Alphonso Lingis was an American philosopher, writer and translator, with Lithuanian roots, and professor emeritus of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization included phenomenology, existentialism, and ethics. Lingis is also known as a photographer, and he complemented the philosophical themes of many of his books with his own photography. After a brief illness he died in Maryland on May 8, 2025, at the age of 91."
tagline: "American philosopher (1933-2025)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-11-23"
deathDate: "2025-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "الفونسو لينجيس"
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    title: "Alphonso Lingis"
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    title: "Alphonso Lingis"
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    title: "アルフォンソ・リンギス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_Lingis"
    title: "Alphonso Lingis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_Lingis"
    title: "Alphonso Lingis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE"
    title: "Лингис, Альфонсо"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump