NewPhilosopher.com is an independent publication devoted to exploring philosophical ideas from past and present thinkers on ways to live a more fulfilling life. Commentary on New Philosopher aims to guide readers into living a happier and freer mode of existence.

Seneca, speaking on the shortness of life says: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.”

“Life is long if you know how to use it.”

New Philosopher caters to those who have not studied philosophy, as well as philosophy students and academics. Our aim is to introduce philosophical ideas that challenge contemporary thought and conditioning. Are our thoughts and aspirations truly ours?

We will bring you some of the world’s leading minds on perspectives rarely heard – covering the technological society, consumerism, happiness, the war on your mind, an extraordinary life, and ideas to change your life.

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Foreign language editions

New Philosopher is an international publication produced in print in three languages: English, Korean, and Chinese. Digital editions are available in English, Korean, and Chinese.

Founding editors

New Philosopher’s founding editors Zan Boag and Antonia Case launched New Philosopher in 2013 at the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, at which it was the bestselling book in the Festival’s history. The publication was subsequently distributed worldwide in airports, bookstores, newsstands, and on digital platforms iTunes, Amazon Kindle, and Zinio, and is now available in English, Chinese, and Korean. Antonia Case recently published a book on human flourishing, Flourish, which is available in English, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Chinese, and Arabic. Editor-in-Chief Zan Boag and Editorial Director Antonia Case speak at conferences and events around the world, including in Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UK, the US, and Australia. Should you wish to discuss a partnership or speaking engagement, please get in touch using news |at| newphilosopher.com.

New Philosopher’s contributors

New Philosopher‘s contributors since 2013 have included some of the world’s foremost philosophers, academics, and writers. Contributors include Booker Prize-winner DBC Pierre, prominent public philosopher Nigel Warburton, award-winning British novelist and essayist Will Self, Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicholas Carr, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Leunig, Angie Hobbs, Marina Benjamin, André Dao, Tom Chatfield, Mariana Alessandri, Myisha Cherry, Tiffany Jenkins, Clive Hamilton, Robert McChesney, David Oderburg, Maggie Jackson, Howard Gardner, Stephen Law, David Spiegelhater, Clarissa Sebag-Montiefiore, Carrie Jenkins, Oliver Burkeman; and many winners of the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize: philosophers Patrick Stokes, John Armstrong, Damon Young, Matthew Beard, Russell Blackford, and Paul Biegler.

Interviewees include Noam Chomsky, David Suzuki, Daniel C. Dennett, David Chalmers, Jane Goodall, Peter Singer, Carlo Rovelli, Anita L. Allen, David C. Wood, Luciano Floridi, and John Searle. Artists and illustrators include Genís Carreras, Peter Strain, Alvaro Hidalgo, and Russel Herneman.

Awards

New Philosopher has received recognition around the world for its design and editorial content. In December 2019 it was named overall ‘Magazine of the Decade’ by Stack Magazines after being named earlier as News/Current Affairs Magazine of the Decade.

The publication was shortlisted for Best Use of Illustration in The Stack Awards 2016 and in 2017; shortlisted for Editor of the Year and Best Original Non-Fiction in The Stack Awards in 2017; it was shortlisted in the World Illustration Awards 2016; and the cover of the “happiness” edition was voted one of the coolest covers of February 2014 by Complex. Design website Abuzeedo commented that “the design is super cool and out of the box” and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) featured the magazine, referring to it as a “very popular… ad-free publication that has become a favorite amongst readers in its home country…”, a publication that takes “an approachable yet still thoughtful and intelligent tone”. The director of magazine website Magpile says “the design is calm, intelligent and very neat” and “if I needed to use just one word to sum up New Philosopher, it would be ‘smart’.” It was named one of top magazines launched for 2014 (in the US) by the Library Journal and New York Post listed it as one of six “magazines that will get you thinking”.

Partners

Since its launch in 2013, New Philosopher has partnered with a number of organisations that share the common goal of promoting debate about the fundamental problems of our time. If you’d like to discuss partnership opportunities with us, please contact Alicia Bennett via email: ab|at|newphilosopher.com.

Joint edition of New Philosopher + New York Times

Korean edition of New Philosopher produced by Bada 

Chinese edition of New Philosopher produced by CITIC 

In kind support at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and IQ2 debates