# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ruse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:47:26.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ruse"
name: "Michael Ruse"
slug: "michael-ruse"
description: "Michael Escott Ruse was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse began his career teaching at the University of Guelph and spent many years at Florida State University."
tagline: "British-Canadian science philosopher (1940–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Ruse_photo_scruffy_Mcgruff_and_pet_human.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-06-21"
deathDate: "2024-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.04212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2990645"
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    title: "Michael Ruse"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump