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philosophy

[fi-los-uh-fee] / fɪˈlɒs ə fi /


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In his 2024 book, “A New Philosophy of Opera,” the American director Yuval Sharon offered a radical vision for an art form that is often mired in convention and conformity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

He holds a PhD in Western Philosophy from the University of Tehran.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Benjamin Matheson, assistant professor at the University of Bern’s Institute on Philosophy, studies collective shame and writes on celebrity apology.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

When it comes to insect cyborgs, though, Kristin Andrews, York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, thinks the research is already clear enough to go further.

From Salon • May 13, 2025

The first book claiming to present a ‘new philosophy’ would seem to be Francesco Patrizi’s anti-Aristotelian Nova de universis philosophia, or A New Universal Philosophy, of 1591.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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