philosopher

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Jospin, who has two children with his first wife, also remarried that year, to feminist philosopher Sylviane Agacinski.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, David Hume, for example, argued that suicide did not transgress a person's duty "to God, our neighbour, or ourselves".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

If David Nihill was a philosopher, his credo might be “I digress, therefore I am.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Another candidate, Ayatollah Mohammad Mehdi Mirbagheri, is an Islamic philosopher and theoretician.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton