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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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The novel’s narrator, whose name and gender are not revealed, is an assistant to the renowned Oslo philosopher Alda Jónsdóttir, whose specialty is thinking outside of boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 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

Historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, as well as philosopher Jason Stanley, left their jobs at Yale University to take positions at the University of Toronto.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

And in early March, he paid tribute to the philosopher and to "The Mother", who he said brought "a new spiritual vision to the entire world".

From Barron's Jun. 25, 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

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

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 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

In discovering the Big Bang, in other words, science itself has walked us to the doorstep of what philosophers called the Prime Mover.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

These world-historical individuals were “practical, political men” of action, not philosophers.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2026

After the discovery of a new continent, however, the outmoded view of Grosseteste once again became respectable among the philosophers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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