NP49 Observation

  Nicholas Humphrey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics and Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. […]

It seems that Erving Goffman was not a nice man. He liked to ruffle feathers and watch the fallout. One […]

“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — Niels Bohr     In quantum physics, […]

The breakup of a high-profile Hollywood couple in 2004 was an underappreciated moment. When asked about it in an interview, […]

Daniel J. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois where he heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory. […]

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

It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) […]

“To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance […]

When we ask people how they are, we are, in essence, asking them about their mood because moods are how […]

Emotions can hijack our minds. They prepare us for action, and they neighbour our perception. But they also reveal what […]

“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He […]

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the […]