philosophers
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For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
A central concept in the paper is what philosophers call "substrate flexibility."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 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
Each and every one of these changes weakened the position of the philosophers and strengthened the position of the mathematicians, who, unlike the philosophers, welcomed new information.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
