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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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Quoting the Greek philosopher Epicurus, Mr. Lieberman encourages us to “be moderate to taste the joys of life in abundance.”

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

Lee, who saw himself not only as an actor but also as a poet and philosopher, encountered repeated barriers.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

“Seek simplicity, but distrust it,” Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

James develops his argument using a "physicalist" framework associated with philosophers such as Daniel Dennett.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

However, it has not solved what philosophers call the "hard problem" of consciousness.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.

From Salon May 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

Greece would defeat the Persians; Greek philosophy would never quite defeat Zeno—for Zeno had a paradox, a logical puzzle that seemed intractable to the reasoning of Greek philosophers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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