philosopher
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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
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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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