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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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"We may be using mental terms to refer to AI, but this may only be because we lack better words," says Ophelia Deroy, philosopher and a senior author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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

Its intellectual roots can be traced to Australian philosopher Peter Singer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

And even though I knew I was named after my grandfather, I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

And so the philosophers turned their minds to other things; later, no one could even remember the year in which they had performed this experiment, and no one wrote about it at the time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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