philosopher

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

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

As long ago as 2003, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom invented a thought experiment he dubbed a "paperclip maximiser", in which a superintelligent AI is told to manufacture as many paperclips as it can.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

You’ll need engineers and coders, but also prelaw and political-science majors to clear the regulatory path, philosophers and marketing majors to write press releases, designers, nutritionists, etc.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

A central concept in the paper is what philosophers call "substrate flexibility."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance—a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Stefano della Bella, for the frontispieces of plays.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton