philosopher
noun
phi·los·o·pher
fə-ˈlä-s(ə-)fər 
1
b
: a student of philosophy
2
a
: a person whose philosophical perspective makes meeting trouble with equanimity easier
b
: an expounder of a theory in a particular area of experience
c
: one who philosophizes
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On Tuesday afternoon, Gyan Prakash, Princeton’s Dayton-Stockton professor of history, stopped by before a rally to which the 80-year-old activist and philosopher Angela Davis had sent a note of encouragement.
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Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 10 May 2024
As the philosopher Ian Hacking observed, labelling people is very different from labelling quarks or microbes.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
The same man who had pierced nature’s hidden order and revealed the rainbow of colors encrypted within white light had devoted millions of words to topics including astrology, gematria, the cosmic significance of the number seven, and the philosopher’s stone.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
Now, for the first time since the publication of A Theory of Justice just over half a century ago, there is an urgent need and appetite for systematic political thinking on a scale that only a philosopher like Rawls can provide.
—Daniel Chandler, TIME, 14 May 2024
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Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 10 May 2024
As the philosopher Ian Hacking observed, labelling people is very different from labelling quarks or microbes.
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
The same man who had pierced nature’s hidden order and revealed the rainbow of colors encrypted within white light had devoted millions of words to topics including astrology, gematria, the cosmic significance of the number seven, and the philosopher’s stone.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
Now, for the first time since the publication of A Theory of Justice just over half a century ago, there is an urgent need and appetite for systematic political thinking on a scale that only a philosopher like Rawls can provide.
—Daniel Chandler, TIME, 14 May 2024
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