coronavirus Virus views: collective fear We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]
coronavirus Virus views: discombobulated We will be publishing submissions about the COVID-19 crisis from readers daily on New Philosopher in the hope that it […]
coronavirus COVID-19 You hardly need to be told that life has changed over the past few weeks. We are experiencing an upending […]
Ideas to change your life Balance: what is the Goldilocks day? By Tim Olds There’s nothing more democratic than time. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama, […]
Illusions False media balance In March 2018, a man named Mike Hughes climbed into a homemade, steam-powered rocket, and launched himself 700 metres above […]
Ideas to change your life The obsolete human being By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge […]
Being Human Caught in the web By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […]
Ideas to change your life How much time do I have left? No one can really know how much time they have left to live, though some have a better idea than […]
Ideas to change your life The mystery of time Carlo Rovelli, Professor of Physics at Aix-Marseille University and the author of The Order of Time, is interviewed by Zan […]
Illusions The art of Amistics In his most recent novel, Seveneves, sci-fi author Neal Stephenson coins an intriguing term: “Amistics”. Amistics describes “the choices that […]
Illusions Dumb luck and entitlement There’s a certain disappointment – maybe there’s a word for it in German – that comes from realising a quote […]
Illusions Are your best days ahead? If philosophy is good at one thing, it’s pointing out things that seem so obvious we don’t even notice them […]
Illusions The price of immortality The Continental adventure was not going to plan for John Polidori. A young English doctor dreaming of literary acclaim and […]
Illusions Thinking ahead Søren Kierkegaard famously pointed out that the only way we can understand life is backwards – we are compelled to […]
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 […]
Ideas to change your life The Media Effect Sociologists have long known that most of us are pretty nice. We work well in groups and take care of […]
Death On the shortness of life It is a general complaint among mankind, Paulinus, that Nature is niggardly: our allotted span is brief, and the term […]
Illusions Perception and reality By Keith Wilson Taken at face value, the picture of reality suggested by modern science seems radically opposed to the […]
Illusions Superhero of the mind To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few […]
Illusions Do you really exist online? There’s a cartoon you’ve probably seen before: two dogs are sitting at a computer, with one telling the other that […]
