NP45 Novelty edition

  “And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.” – Ovid     I recently re-read Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical […]

“Novelty has a tendency to make us philosophers.” – Virginia Woolf Constantly looking outwards, humans have crossed continents and oceans, […]

Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […]

Imagine you were given the chance to become a superhero. Let’s say a genie pops out of an old urn […]

“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary […]

  From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store     Existence is suffering. We don’t have to look […]

For much of my early adult life, I viewed flourishing as a state of being that necessitated certain ingredients, much […]

I recently visited Japan for the first time. When I got back, and people asked me what I had found […]

Interview by NP’s editor Zan Boag with Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of […]

At 2:00 pm on August 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine collapsed in the Atacama Desert, and 33 miners […]

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we […]

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