Carlo Rovelli, Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille University and the author of The Order of Time, is interviewed by Zan […]

By Mark Colyvan & Brian Hedden Most of us have great faith in democracy. Such is this faith that when […]

“From this we learn that a wise prince sees to it that never, in order to attack someone, does he […]

Any new entertainment technology worth its salt is greeted as a portent of impending doom. In the 18th and 19th […]

Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity […]

Zan Boag interviews Peter Singer on the ethical issues that arise from travelling. Peter Singer AC is Professor of Bioethics […]

“The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false […]

“Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of […]

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 […]