# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-giere
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:24:35.121Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-giere"
name: "Ronald Giere"
slug: "ronald-giere"
description: "Ronald Giere was an American philosopher of science who was an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He was a Fellow of The AAAS, a long-time member of the editorial board of the journal Philosophy of Science, and a past president of the Philosophy of Science Association. His research focused on agent-based accounts of models and scientific representation, and on connections between naturalism and secularism."
tagline: "American philosopher (1938–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1938-11-29"
deathDate: "2020-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump