philosopher

Many of those texts were works by Philodemus, an Epicurean philosopher who lived in Herculaneum roughly a century before Vesuvius erupted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

As long ago as 2003, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom invented a thought experiment he dubbed a "paperclip maximiser", in which a superintelligent AI is told to manufacture as many paperclips as it can.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

He thinks that Locke is the greatest philosopher who has ever lived and Newton the greatest scientist.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In Chicago, ACT UP’s Gregg Bordowitz became her mentor and professor, and for three years, Rosales immersed herself in learning, becoming obsessed with Gertrude Stein and philosophers like Gilles Deleuze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The book’s style is more professorial than memoirist, and deals with themes from Aristotle and Plato to Hobbes, Nietzsche, Hegel and other more arcane philosophers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 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

The Scientific Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolt by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton