New Philosopher celebrates 10 years

After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online […]

The New Philosopher Writers’ Award is open for submissions (note that you must be a subscriber to New Philosopher or […]

You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending […]

Zan Boag interviewed Abhijeet Paul, coordinator of the ‘Labor, Philosophy, And Change’ working group at the University Of California, Berkeley. […]

1. The question you’d most like to ask others? What are you doing? 2. How free are you? I’ll be […]

To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that […]

“Over a certain wealth level, particularly if you are Bill Gates, if you have several dozen billion dollars, you know […]

We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […]

It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, […]

In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […]

In the lead-up to the general election in the UK this year, everyone was talking about property. In the crowded […]

Dr Jane Goodall interviewed by New Philosopher’s editor Zan Boag in the ‘Nature‘ edition. Photo by Michael Neugebauer. Zan Boag: […]

Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]

Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […]

David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […]

It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission […]

Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […]

Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […]

In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda […]

Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […]

You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […]

So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […]

The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […]

We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […]

In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […]

Thomas Piketty’s recent work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, provides disturbing evidence about the increasing inequality of income and wealth […]

It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […]

Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […]

“Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […]

You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […]

Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […]

Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]

The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […]

Interview with Adam Magyar What prompted you to do the “stainless” series, as well as your earlier work “squares” and […]

By Damon Young “I work, God how I work… I have reduced it to a method and exalted it to […]

Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […]

Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […]

I have been happy. I hope to be happy again. But I am yet to feel something I’d call “happiness”. […]

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By George Orwell Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist […]

In July 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. He […]

To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few […]

It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […]

Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world. […]

How well do you understand the world? Do you think you’ve got a good grasp of reality or not? Greek […]

1. What is the biggest threat to our minds? Our minds. 2. What is freedom? Non-compliance and creativity. 3. What […]

Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […]

If I were to ask people around the world what they admire, I am confident that high on the list […]

The original scene: Paris, 1900‚ La Belle Epoque. The city fathers approached a talented psychologist named Alfred Binet with an […]

By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek I woke up my son Jan (9) for school, as I do every morning. He was […]

Set by Gizmogenes Across     1  Take to be hypothetical (8)     5  Perhaps Carol’s volte-face is secret knowledge (6) […]

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Genís Carreras, a Spanish graphic designer based in London, produced the acclaimed “Philographics” series. 1. What prompted […]

Please answer True or False: 1. During World War I, the Germans ran a factory to boil down the battlefield […]

The path laid out for Australian-born Tim Cope was to go to university, get a job, a career, a house […]

The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of […]

In the perfect prison, I am bathed in light. I don’t languish in the dark – I am put to […]

Think of the earliest memory you have. For me, it’s looking at the sea through a glass door at about […]

THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN ITS MYRIAD FORMS – BE IT FREE WILL, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, PHYSICAL OR PERSONAL FREEDOM […]

It’s a dismal affair when the faces of people we don’t wish to remember – such as modern-day celebrities – […]

Ideas are powerful things. Even a little one can change the way you look at the world. And the big […]

“Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and […]

Think about what usually makes you angry, frustrated, anxious; most likely it has something to do with external events that […]

Every night at 6.00 pm, I want you to sit in a room for half an hour. During that time […]

We sometimes joke about the world conspiring against us. For instance, I might suggest that it will rain today because […]

Have you ever wondered why conversations with some people leave you feeling depleted while with others you feel liberated and […]

I have long been intrigued by the claim, attributed to Socrates, that the ‘unexamined life is not worth living’. For […]

The Republic, Plato, Book VII AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is […]

EPICTETUS: The Discourses Book One, Chapter 1 Of all the faculties, you will find not one which is capable of […]

Following my recent work on the possibilities of radical democracy, but most of all, in light of the historical demand […]

Following in the footsteps of Marc Sautet’s café philosophique – which was set up in 1992 and is widely credited […]

I really shouldn’t let myself watch Q&A. Don’t get me wrong, the ABC’s flagship weekly panel show is usually compelling […]

Bailed after what he claimed was the accidental gunshot homicide of his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer (“Come on, Bill, let’s […]

“Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of […]

By Dr Wolfgang Gillier Death is always a family affair. When you have one family, or two. But then who […]

By Marina Benjamin When the British Museum in London was in the process of acquiring its spectacular wave-form roof in […]

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Last year my 92-year-old grandmother, April, wrote a letter to The Times of London: “Sir, Why do […]

When Italian handbag and luggage maker Guccio Gucci retired, handing over to his sons a fortune and the reins of […]

Once, when Zhong Ni was unoccupied, and his disciple Zeng was sitting by in attendance on him, the Master said, […]

“People always said that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was […]

Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, left us to interpret and apply his often-cryptic aphorisms. One of the fragments that survives from […]

Gao Rongguo is an artist based in Beijing. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Quai Branly Museum in […]

A friend of mine recently sat in a waiting room in Singapore. The room was only large enough to hold […]

“Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.” Martial […]

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By Tim Olds There’s nothing more democratic than time. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama, […]

In March 2018, a man named Mike Hughes climbed into a homemade, steam-powered rocket, and launched himself 700 metres above […]

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By William Watkin   Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge […]

By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured […]

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking […]

By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […]

By Antonia Case   “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […]

By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer […]

Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years. What does it mean to be philosophical […]

In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging […]

Physicists are not sure what time is or how it works. The dominant position is the one articulated recently by […]

No one can really know how much time they have left to live, though some have a better idea than […]

Carlo Rovelli, Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille University and the author of The Order of Time, is interviewed by Zan […]

There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the […]

By Mark Colyvan & Brian Hedden Most of us have great faith in democracy. Such is this faith that when […]

“From this we learn that a wise prince sees to it that never, in order to attack someone, does he […]

Zan Boag: Have you arrived at your own definition of power? Keith Dowding: No, I don’t really have one, actually, […]

Interviewee: Simon Critchley. Interview by Nigel Warburton.   Nigel Warburton: You’ve just written a book called ‘What We Think About […]

Any new entertainment technology worth its salt is greeted as a portent of impending doom. In the 18th and 19th […]

If you go to the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, you will find that it has been transformed into […]

Issued May 2021 MAP is the second NFT physical gallery in the world, after Superchief Gallery opened in Union Square, […]

We’re pleased to announce that the Arabic edition of New Philosopher has launched, thanks to the wonderful work of our […]

London, December 2019: We’re thrilled to announce that New Philosopher has been named ‘Magazine of the Decade‘ by the UK’s […]

To celebrate six years of sending New Philosopher to curious and interesting people around the world, we gave subscribers the […]

Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine, which is available only to subscribers. As a subscriber, you can […]

As we kicked off 2020, we industrious humans of the Anthropocene had successfully completed a run of the five hottest […]

The following 198 scientific organisations hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action: Academia Chilena de […]

“The only plots against us are within our own walls,—the danger is within,—the enemy is within. We must war with […]

In 1896 Svante Arrhenius built a CO2 climate model; 99 years later the IPCC noted that CO2 remained the most […]

“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record. Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been […]

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” […]

When friends asked me why I left my job as a reporter in Beijing to move to Sydney, I would always […]

Accepting the natural world is breakable took us centuries. Accepting we ourselves could break it took even longer. Thomas Jefferson, […]

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, we published submissions about from our readers on NewPhilosopher.com in the hope that it could […]

Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that […]

#1, 2009: Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change […]

Interviewee / Photographer: Jason deCaires Taylor Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: You’re dealing on such a grand scale here that’s […]

“O! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!” Hamlet, […]

Interviewee: James Thornton Interviewer: Zan Boag ClientEarth is an environmental law charity that you founded 12 years ago, now with […]

“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and […]

“It’s real … And the great irony and tragedy of our time, is a lot of the general public thinks […]

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 per cent […]

“Small steps will no longer do. The biggest steps need to be taken by those with the biggest boots.” – […]

Dilemma: I like to think that I care for the environment and for the future of the planet, and I’m […]

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” – […]

What does climate change mean to humans? Here are six thinkers’ views on the climate. The Physicist Stephen Hawking 1942 […]

Interviewee: Charley Lineweaver Interviewer: Tim Dean Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How […]

When the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the […]

Image: Blind monks examining an elephant, Hanabusa Itchō, 1652–1724. Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. […]

Image: Democritus and Heraclitus, Richard Gaywood, ca. 1630-1680, The Met Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award […]

Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Arrhenius was the first […]

A climate of mind Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade […]

Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world. […]

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov […]

Narda Lepes is an Argentinian TV producer, chef, and author. What is your demon? Trying to solve problems that are […]

Charley Lineweaver Charley Lineweaver is the convenor of ANU’s Planetary Science Institute and holds a joint appointment as an associate […]

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Before John Major’s government converted Britain’s erstwhile polytechnics into universities in the 1990s, higher education in Britain was strictly a […]

What is your demon? Imbalance. What is the most important part of your education? How to think, not what to […]

Interviewee: Gregg D. Caruso Interviewer: Zan Boag   Zan Boag: Before we delve into your ideas about free will, I […]

Interviewee: Susanna Siegel; interview: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Philosophers and the lay person have very different ideas of what perception […]

After reading moral philosophy for a while, you may come to suspect that being a moral philosopher must be utterly […]

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Interviewee: Günther Hasinger, Director of Science and Head of the European Space Astronomy Centre Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: As […]

When it comes to measuring the vastness of outer space, you need to talk about time in order to talk […]

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The south of England doesn’t get particularly cold in winter, but temperatures do sometimes lurk below freezing for a few […]

Nigel Warburton: What is energy? Caspar Henderson: Energy is eternal delight, according to William Blake! Or to take another view, […]

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Can you lose your identity while still being alive? Yes. I saw my mother lose hers, then regain something of […]

Times are changing fast enough that it’s hard to know where to start unspooling the question of modern identity. Questions […]

Truth-telling is a virtue, isn’t it? That’s what we’re told. You should be an honest person, and honesty involves telling […]

Zan Boag: To start with, could you explain a little bit about what deepfakes are, how the technology works, when […]

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A few philosophers are famous enough that their names become everyday adjectives – but not always in a way that […]

Here’s a fun little thought-experiment, derived from the work of Ernest Gellner. Try jotting down a list of all the […]

When I spotted my husband, he was talking to a pre-schooler. My first thought was that we’d have to abort […]

Interview with Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge Zan Boag: […]

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According to medieval Jewish texts, the Roman emperor Hadrian once asked Rabbi Joshua ben Chanania about the doctrine of bodily […]

Zan Boag: It has been some nine years since you’ve published Running with the Pack, and 14 years since The […]

When Griffin had fully digested the fact that his body had disappeared for good, his mood suddenly shifted from one […]

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Juvenal Most people love to be […]

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If Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard were alive today, and had his own social media account, he probably wouldn’t get many […]

There is a remarkable photograph taken in Hamburg in 1936. It shows a crowd of shipyard workers gathered for the […]

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“Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly […]

Despite his short life, the nineteenth century American author Henry David Thoreau has become an enduring symbol of not one, […]

In a laboratory at Runwell Hospital near London, researcher Kathleen Montagu discovered something that explains a lot about you, and […]

“All the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own […]

At the tail end of breakfast at a hotel in Lourdes, France, a man enters the room accompanied by a […]

Last year, I attended a conference at a country house hotel that boasted a slightly battered baby grand in its […]

“It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion […]

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