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 […] NP38: Courage
Happiness NP38 ‘Courage’ Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP38: Courage
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 […] NP38: Courage
Ideas to change your life NP37 ‘Body’ Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP36: Uncertainty
coronavirus Uncertainty: Taking risks Interview with Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge Zan Boag: […] NP36: Uncertainty
Ideas to change your life NP36 ‘Uncertainty’ Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] Issue #02: Mind
Being Human 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 […] NP35: Love
Being Human NP35 ‘Love’ Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP35: Love
Ideas to change your life NP34 ‘Truth’ edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP33: Identity
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 […] NP33: Identity
Ideas to change your life NP33 ‘Identity’ edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP32: Energy
Ideas to change your life The vastness of outer space When it comes to measuring the vastness of outer space, you need to talk about time in order to talk […] NP31: Space
Being Human NP31 ‘Space’ digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […] NP31: Space
Balance 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 […] Issue #024: balance
Ideas to change your life Entrenched perceptions Interviewee: Susanna Siegel; interview: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Philosophers and the lay person have very different ideas of what perception […] NP30: Perception
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 […] NP29: Purpose
Being Human On purpose Interviewee: Gregg D. Caruso Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: Before we delve into your ideas about free will, I […] NP29: Purpose
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 […] NP26 digital: Change
coronavirus Unexpected change Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, left us to interpret and apply his often-cryptic aphorisms. One of the fragments that survives from […] Issue #024: balance
Ideas to change your life Grandstander in the family When Italian handbag and luggage maker Guccio Gucci retired, handing over to his sons a fortune and the reins of […] NP27: Family (digital)
