# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-c-wimsatt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:22:01.286Z

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name: "William C. Wimsatt"
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description: "William C. Wimsatt is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Winton Professor of the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and a Residential Fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He specializes in the philosophy of biology, where his areas of interest include reductionism, heuristics, emergence, scientific modeling, heredity, and cultural evolution."
tagline: "American philosopher"
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birthDate: "1941-05-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump