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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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At 88, Scott remains the cinema’s uneasy philosopher, continually fretting about the technological and societal tools we’ve developed to destroy ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

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

He was a thinker and philosopher more in the style of the Ancient Greeks than a modern scientist.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

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

Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

The exception was the Parisian philosophers, for whom the centre of gravity of both the earth and the water remained coincident with the centre of the universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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