# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mcdowell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:48:09.929Z

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name: "John McDowell"
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description: "John Henry McDowell is a South African philosopher, formerly a fellow of University College, Oxford, and now Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Although he has written on metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy, nature, and meta-ethics, McDowell's most influential work has been in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. McDowell was one of three recipients of the 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the British Academy."
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birthDate: "1942-03-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump