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The paradox of choice
Zan Boag: It’s hard for me not to start with an obvious question, which is: with all the options available to you as a…
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Being Human
Are we free?
What’s your view on free will? Do you have one – and, if so, how much confidence do you have in it? Does it…
Ideas to change your life
Are we the barbarians?
The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which you shouldn’t), and more…
Philosophy and you
Is there a cafe philo near you?
Following in the footsteps of Marc Sautet’s café philosophique – which was set up in 1992 and is widely credited with bringing philosophy back…
Slumbering energies
At 2:00 pm on August 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine collapsed in the Atacama Desert, and 33 miners were instantly trapped 700…
Death
What makes a good death?
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Last year my 92-year-old grandmother, April, wrote a letter to The Times of London: “Sir, Why do we have to announce,…
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We're pleased to announce that our online store is now open. OK, so it's more like a stall - you can only buy three…
Being Human
Doing away with death
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned…
Being Human
Heartspace
I’ve recently become aware that my friendship group is shrinking. And not by design. It’s that classic middle-aged, caught-between-two-poles dilemma that is to blame.…
Being Human
Virtual identity
Times are changing fast enough that it’s hard to know where to start unspooling the question of modern identity. Questions to answer are breeding…
Life
Medicating the masses
In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed – was that: “Psychiatrists…
Ideas to change your life
New Philosopher #42 ‘Loss’
“Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.” - William Shakespeare If being…