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New Philosopher celebrates 10 years
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at…
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Ideas to change your life
Distraction: Editor’s letter
“It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth.” -…
Ideas to change your life
The courage to be different
If Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard were alive today, and had his own social media account, he probably wouldn’t get many likes. The eccentric writer…
Rare and wonderful
There is a remarkable photograph taken in Hamburg in 1936. It shows a crowd of shipyard workers gathered for the launch of a ship.…
Philosophy and you
The transplant intuition
According to medieval Jewish texts, the Roman emperor Hadrian once asked Rabbi Joshua ben Chanania about the doctrine of bodily resurrection. How, the emperor…
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Running with the pack
Zan Boag: It has been some nine years since you’ve published Running with the Pack, and 14 years since The Philosopher and the Wolf.…
Philosophy and you
Disembodied delinquents
When Griffin had fully digested the fact that his body had disappeared for good, his mood suddenly shifted from one of frustration at the…
Ideas to change your life
Courage – editor’s letter
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” - Juvenal Most people love to be praised as intelligent, generous,…
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Uncertainty: Taking risks
Interview with Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge Zan Boag: You said that one…
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Platonic love
A few philosophers are famous enough that their names become everyday adjectives – but not always in a way that fits what the philosopher…
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Reasons of love
Here’s a fun little thought-experiment, derived from the work of Ernest Gellner. Try jotting down a list of all the things you love about…
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Strangers in love
When I spotted my husband, he was talking to a pre-schooler. My first thought was that we’d have to abort our little game: pretending…