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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Being Human Invest in your masterpiece – yourself Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]
Ideas to change your life The fly that rouses “An evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse […]
Ideas to change your life Factory Earth The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […]
Ideas to change your life Working against the clock The office man runs his ‘security pass’ through the turnstiles of the corporate building and clocks on for the day; […]
Ideas to change your life Masters and servants We are not exactly wage slaves, but most of us have to work for a living throughout the prime decades […]
Happiness In pursuit of selflessness Empathy and greed in the context of the workplace might seem too disparate to be discussed in tandem. One might […]
Ideas to change your life Dirty thoughts on civilised leisure By Damon Young “I work, God how I work… I have reduced it to a method and exalted it to […]
Ideas to change your life Work less, live more Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […]
Ideas to change your life Prosperity paradox Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […]
