People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What […]

Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]

Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to access […]

Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […]

It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to […]

I despise gyms. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it is the nauseating funk emanating from dozens of perspiring bodies […]

David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […]

We frequently change our minds – most often about trivial things like the evening’s dinner plans, but sometimes about ideas […]

Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […]

So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […]

The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […]

We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […]

Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ […]

By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […]

You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […]

Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […]

Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]

“An evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse […]

The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […]

The office man runs his ‘security pass’ through the turnstiles of the corporate building and clocks on for the day; […]