philosophy

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The Air Force general represents an entirely different philosophy that has, it must be said, always existed in American life and must be acknowledged in any discussion of American exceptionalism: outright nihilism.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

An analysis of Back's online activity also matches up with that of Satoshi's disappearance shortly after Bitcoin's white paper - the manifesto outlining its philosophy - was published online.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Her third husband, Charles Kahn, a longtime philosophy professor at Penn, died in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

In the video above, Cook explains his philosophy of success and failure, reflects on a “man-on-the-moon” project from Steve Jobs—and gets a surprise from The Wall Street Journal’s archives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife