Philosopher

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A philosopher is someone devoted to and producing results in philosophy, ethics, or one of the closely related disciplines.

Centuries ago, all kinds of thinkers and scholars were called "philosophers", such as Galileo, Copernicus and Newton, among others, until Universities began separating Philosophy out among the current departments in the Humanities, Social sciences, and Science. Philosophers may hold academic posts or work as independent writers or scholars, and philosophers are more recently doing philosophy through alternative media and styles.

Also see:

• Philosophical movement
• Philosophers
• Philosophy
• History of philosophy
• List of philosophical topics

• Ethicists
• Mathematicians
• Political scientists
• Scientists

• Eastern philosophy
• Epistemology
• Ethics
• Metaphysics
• Aesthetics
• Ontology
• Reason

The Philosopher is also the nickname of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 22.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Philosopher" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher January 3, 2004