# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-margolis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:27.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-margolis"
name: "Joseph Margolis"
slug: "joseph-margolis"
description: "Joseph Zalman Margolis was an American philosopher. A radical historicist, he authored many books critical of the central assumptions of Western philosophy, and elaborated a robust form of relativism."
tagline: "American philosopher (1924–2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-05-16"
deathDate: "2021-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Joseph Margolis"
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    title: "جوزيف مارغوليس"
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    title: "Марголис, Джозеф"
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    title: "Joseph Margolis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump