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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

Future Fund was run by a small band of effective altruists that included MacAskill, the philosopher, and Avital Balwit, Aschenbrenner’s future wife.

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

From the point of view of a conventional seventeenth-century philosopher, this was a peculiar sort of explanation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Otherwise they would not be philosophers and mathematicians.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

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

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 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

Twenty years later, in 1612, Galileo found himself in a dispute with Aristotelian philosophers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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