- plural of philosopher.
philosophers
Example Sentences
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However, it has not solved what philosophers call the "hard problem" of consciousness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 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
In discovering the Big Bang, in other words, science itself has walked us to the doorstep of what philosophers called the Prime Mover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Scientific Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolt by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
