Ideas to change your life
Get a life!
“Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of the best one-liners, it’s…
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Happiness
13 questions: Ricky Gervais
1. What is your demon? Laziness. And fear of failure. Luckily, they usually cancel each other out, but it’s a constant war. 2. What…
Happiness
How to live (like a Stoic)
People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What is a life worth…
Society & Culture
The real digital revolution
The Internet has transformed our economies, our culture and politics, and our very way of life to such an extent over the past four…
Society & Culture
Why school must change
New Philosopher‘s editor Zan Boag interviews Jane Roland Martin, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Zan Boag: Your research has…
Society & Culture
The classroom of the future
Here’s one of my favourite neologisms: “hangry.” It’s a punning portmanteau. To be hangry is to be angry because you’re hungry; a phenomenon that…
Environment
The end of progress
David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by Zan Boag, editor of…
Environment
An app for an ailing planet
It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission in December 1972, revealed…
Ideas to change your life
Why not change your mind?
We frequently change our minds – most often about trivial things like the evening’s dinner plans, but sometimes about ideas of great importance to…
Ideas to change your life
The call to your own true adventure
Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an airport, sprawled across a…
Philosophy and you
Are we getting smarter?
Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through a modern standardised intelligence…
Philosophy and you
Does the future matter?
In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda and was met by…