Ideas to change your life A recipe for disaster Western industrial civilisation is eating itself stupid. Cookery programs bloat the television schedules, cookbooks fill the bookshop windows, and celebrity […] NP23 digital: Being
Ideas to change your life Travel: making the most difference Zan Boag interviews Peter Singer on the ethical issues that arise from travelling. Peter Singer AC is Professor of Bioethics […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life Fake news “The essence of bullshit,” argued philosopher Harry Frankfurt in his 2005 book On Bullshit, “is not that it is false […] NP21 digital: Power
Ideas to change your life Get a life! “Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of […] NP19 digital: Life
Happiness How to live (like a Stoic) People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What […] NP19 digital: Life
Death Being mortal Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […] NP25 digital: Death
Ideas to change your life NP18 ‘Stuff’ digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to access […] Issue #18: stuff
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 […] NP19 digital: Life
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 […] NP25 digital: Death
Ideas to change your life 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 […] NP20 digital: Play
Environment The end of progress David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life Why not change your mind? We frequently change our minds – most often about trivial things like the evening’s dinner plans, but sometimes about ideas […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life The call to your own true adventure Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […] NP26 digital: Change
Death Rat race to the afterlife So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […] NP25 digital: Death
Ideas to change your life Are we the barbarians? The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life The fourth revolution We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […] NP26 digital: Change
Happiness Metaphors of the mind Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ […] Issue #10: fame
Being Human Would you upload yourself? By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then […] NP23 digital: Being
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […] NP26 digital: Change
Ideas to change your life Losing ourselves to technology Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […] NP26 digital: Change
