# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/t-m-scanlon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:21:16.169Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/t-m-scanlon"
name: "T. M. Scanlon"
slug: "t-m-scanlon"
description: "Thomas Michael \"Tim\" Scanlon, usually cited as T. M. Scanlon, is an American philosopher. At the time of his retirement in 2016, he was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy, where he had taught since 1984. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018."
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birthDate: "1940-06-28"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump