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philosopher

[fi-los-uh-fer] / fɪˈlɒs ə fər /
NOUN
deep thinker
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Rossen Ventzislavov is a philosopher and cultural critic from Bulgaria who lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Woodbury University.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

From my perspective as a political philosopher, these and other similar claims indicate he is speaking falsely as a way of demeaning or taunting his detractors.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

God had found a voice,” wrote philosopher Roger Scruton, “and the voice was English.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

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

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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