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The secretary’s examples of Western heroism were the Spartans at Thermopylae and the philosopher Socrates, both of whom, he said, illustrate the “Western” willingness to “pay any cost for a cause worthy of his loyalty.”

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Korman traces the origins of AI doomerism to a 2014 book, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Its intellectual roots can be traced to Australian philosopher Peter Singer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Many of those texts were works by Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher who lived in Herculaneum roughly a century before Vesuvius erupted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Nowhere in that story is anything demonstrated with the rigor that a philosopher would require.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Two years later, Oxford University philosophers William MacAskill and Toby Ord launched "Giving What We Can," encouraging people to donate at least 10 percent of their income to tackling global poverty.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The pledge was created by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and Will MacAskill, who in 2011 helped coin the term “effective altruism,” or EA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In Chicago, ACT UP’s Gregg Bordowitz became her mentor and professor, and for three years, Rosales immersed herself in learning, becoming obsessed with Gertrude Stein and philosophers like Gilles Deleuze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

And so the philosophers turned their minds to other things; later, no one could even remember the year in which they had performed this experiment, and no one wrote about it at the time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton