# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-w-n-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:02:08.884Z

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name: "John W. N. Watkins"
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description: "John William Nevill Watkins was an English philosopher, a professor at the London School of Economics from 1966 until his retirement in 1989 and a prominent proponent of critical rationalism."
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deathDate: "1999-07-26"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump