philosopher
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Future Fund was run by a small band of effective altruists that included MacAskill, the philosopher, and Avital Balwit, Aschenbrenner’s future wife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Godin's target of choice over the years was the flamboyant French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy, hit no fewer than eight times between 1985 and 2015, not counting copycat attacks by others around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
On July 21, 2026, Nathan Cofnas, an American philosopher working at Ghent University in Belgium, wrote a Substack post detailing how he submitted Arday’s 2015 dissertation to Copyleaks, a plagiarism detection platform.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Writing during Anna Hazare's anti-corruption fast in 2011, political philosopher Pratap Bhanu Mehta argued , externalthat such protests can become "deeply coercive".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Have I told you about the philosopher David Hume?”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The philosophers are not claiming that such exotic life definitely exists.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Since we—the authors of this essay—are philosophers, maybe you’d expect us to say it’s important to do all these virtuous things for the right reasons.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
These world-historical individuals were “practical, political men” of action, not philosophers.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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