philosopher
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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
Smith and his friend David Hume, the great irreligious Edinburgh philosopher, were among the leading lights in the Scottish Enlightenment of the late 18th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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
Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
He runs his business by the “humanistic capitalism” he derived from ancient philosophers whose names he casually drops in conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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