# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-sperber
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:53:08.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-sperber"
name: "Dan Sperber"
slug: "dan-sperber"
description: "Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist, anthropologist and philosopher. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, psychology of reasoning, and philosophy of the social sciences. He has developed: an approach to cultural evolution known as the epidemiology of representations or cultural attraction theory as part of a naturalistic reconceptualization of the social; relevance theory; the argumentative theory of reasoning. Sperber formerly Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is Professor in the Departments of Cognitive Science and of Philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest."
tagline: "French academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Sperber_Paris_December_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.974121333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8697937/"
    handle:    "nm8697937"
sources:
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    title: "Dan Sperber"
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    title: "دان سپيربير"
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    title: "Dan Sperber"
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    title: "Dan Sperber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sperber"
    title: "Dan Sperber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sperber"
    title: "Dan Sperber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1"
    title: "دن اسپربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dan Sperber"
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    title: "ダン・スペルベル"
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    title: "Dan Sperber"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump