# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-n-zalta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:50.907Z

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name: "Edward N. Zalta"
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description: "Edward Nouri Zalta is an American philosopher who is a senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He received his BA from Rice University in 1975 and his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981, both in philosophy. Zalta has taught courses at Stanford University, Rice University, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Auckland. Zalta is also the Principal Editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump