philosopher
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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
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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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