Ideas to change your life Wisdom and philosophy Wisdom is a word that features in book titles in the ‘Self-help’ section of bookshops, but not so much in […]
Being Human Akin to mindfulness Ellen J. Langer is a social psychologist, writer, and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, widely regarded as the founder […]
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Being Human Lessons from stupidity It is unclear just how the “Man from Song” (Songren) acquired his reputation, but classical literature is replete with stories […]
Ideas to change your life Fixing the living to make a killing Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […]
Death Being mortal Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]
Death Learning not to die It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to […]
Ideas to change your life Word to the wise The 21st century has created a whole range of new types of professional that we have never had before – […]
Being Human NP51 Noise digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […]
Ideas to change your life A clear look “What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is […]
Health Showing off that shiny red rump I despise gyms. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it is the nauseating funk emanating from dozens of perspiring bodies […]
Ideas to change your life Observation is all we have Nicholas Humphrey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics and Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. […]
Being Human NFN: A form of power “No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — Niels Bohr In quantum physics, […]
Ideas to change your life NP50: Wisdom digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […]
Competitions Can we make love stay? The breakup of a high-profile Hollywood couple in 2004 was an underappreciated moment. When asked about it in an interview, […]
Ideas to change your life The invisible gorilla Daniel J. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois where he heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory. […]
Ideas to change your life Life without anger It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) […]
Happiness NFN: Mixed feelings “To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance […]
Happiness The meaning of moods When we ask people how they are, we are, in essence, asking them about their mood because moods are how […]
Being Human Impossible choices There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine […]
