philosopher

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

One is about the dog that accompanied—and inspired—the Cynic philosopher Diogenes; another centers on the canine companion of a Buddhist monk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

This English philosopher, a former resident of the town, is seen by scholars as one of the US Founding Fathers on account of a pamphlet he penned in 1776 that argued for the cause.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

This philosopher is certainly not Newcomen; but Desaguliers had, I think, correctly intuited the only plausible route to the invention of the Newcomen engine.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

The mind-body question that has perplexed philosophers for millennia has acquired added resonance in the digital era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

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

Each and every one of these changes weakened the position of the philosophers and strengthened the position of the mathematicians, who, unlike the philosophers, welcomed new information.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton