Being Human
New Philosopher China launches
“Believe me, wise men don’t say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow’s life is too late; live today.” Martial 新哲人 中文版: After more…
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Entrenched perceptions
Interviewee: Susanna Siegel; interview: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Philosophers and the lay person have very different ideas of what perception means. What does it…
Philosophy and you
Seeing the good
After reading moral philosophy for a while, you may come to suspect that being a moral philosopher must be utterly exhausting. Not just because…
Happiness
Does having a purpose in life make us happy?
Before John Major’s government converted Britain’s erstwhile polytechnics into universities in the 1990s, higher education in Britain was strictly a two-tier affair. Universities, channelling…
Being Human
On purpose
Interviewee: Gregg D. Caruso Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Before we delve into your ideas about free will, I think it would be…
Ideas to change your life
Why we fight for change
“People always said that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or…
Being Human
Power scripts
There were scripts I learned very early while growing up in an African-American community in the urban South. In the 1960s and ‘70s, civil…
Environment
Climate: editor’s letter
As we kicked off 2020, we industrious humans of the Anthropocene had successfully completed a run of the five hottest years on record. And…
Environment
Scientific consensus
The following 198 scientific organisations hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action: Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Chile Academia das…
Environment
News from nowhere
“The only plots against us are within our own walls,—the danger is within,—the enemy is within. We must war with luxury, with madness, with…
Environment
A century of climate change
In 1896 Svante Arrhenius built a CO2 climate model; 99 years later the IPCC noted that CO2 remained the most important contributor to climate…
Environment
Apocaloptimism
“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record. Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been warmer than the one…