philosopher
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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
This is the theory that the original meaning of the Constitution embodies the thinking of a particular philosopher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
There is the famous example of the philosopher Cremonini, who, despite being a close friend of Galileo, refused to look through his telescope.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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As AI worries grew, EA philosophers such as MacAskill were "kind of thinking about the future of humanity," said Brian Berkey of the University of Pennsylvania.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 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
The mind-body question that has perplexed philosophers for millennia has acquired added resonance in the digital era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
A central concept in the paper is what philosophers call "substrate flexibility."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
But, try as they might, the philosophers could not get such models to fit what actually happens in the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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