philosopher
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Who has a solid grasp on the ideas of a single philosopher, let alone a comprehensive grasp of philosophy across all its manifestations?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, as well as philosopher Jason Stanley, left their jobs at Yale University to take positions at the University of Toronto.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Maresca has been reading French philosopher Rene Descartes and, fittingly, the book Football and Chess by Adam Wells, while on his family holidays.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
And in early March, he paid tribute to the philosopher and to "The Mother", who he said brought "a new spiritual vision to the entire world".
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
“There is a magnetic field between the anchors and the citadel,” Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, was telling Kether, artist of siege engines, in the guildhall dining room.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Otherwise they would not be philosophers and mathematicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
A central concept in the paper is what philosophers call "substrate flexibility."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Since we—the authors of this essay—are philosophers, maybe you’d expect us to say it’s important to do all these virtuous things for the right reasons.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
These world-historical individuals were “practical, political men” of action, not philosophers.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
Greek philosophers were unable to untie that bundle; therefore, they were ill-equipped to solve Zeno’s puzzle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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