# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-boyd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:51:50.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-boyd"
name: "Richard Boyd"
slug: "richard-boyd"
description: "Richard Newell Boyd was an American philosopher, who spent most of his career teaching philosophy at Cornell University where he was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters. He specialized in epistemology, the philosophy of science, language, and mind."
tagline: "American philosopher (1942-2021)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/NOT_FOR_REUSE_-_COPYRIGHTED_FAMILY_PHOTOGRAPH_OF_PHILOSOPHER_RICHARD_BOYD_%281942-2001%29_KINDLY_PROVIDED_FOR_WIKIPEDIA_USE_ONLY.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-05-19"
deathDate: "2021-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump