philosopher
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Mr. Korman traces the origins of AI doomerism to a 2014 book, “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
The term is often linked to the author and philosopher Nick Bostrom, who more than a decade ago defined the idea as an "intellect" that is superior to humans in all forms.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The German philosopher Hegel considered Sophocles’ “Antigone” the high-water mark of tragedy for the way it dramatizes the collision between two equally justified moral positions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Two years later, Oxford University philosophers William MacAskill and Toby Ord launched "Giving What We Can," encouraging people to donate at least 10 percent of their income to tackling global poverty.
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
He was close friends with virtually all of Russia’s pre-eminent philosophers, historians and literary critics, among them Vissarion Belinsky, Timofei Granovsky, Nikolai Stankevich and Petr Chaadayev.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Yet, although the philosophers understood him perfectly well, some of them continued to insist that what he and other astronomers claimed to see couldn’t possibly be there.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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