Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher.
What is your demon? Fear of settling for just getting by. What is the most important part of your education? Whenever I began to value uninhibited enthusiasm and curiosity – the kind that leads you to worry and…
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What is your demon? Misanthropy. Luckily I am also an introvert so I can mostly keep it obscured from view. What is the most…
What is your demon? My demon is digital distractions, serving as a modern mind’s junk food, masking the deeper malaise of societal indifference and…
“The easy thing is just to conform. If you look at the history of intellectuals back to the earliest times, every society that…
Zan Boag: You said that one regret in your life that you hadn’t taken enough risks, that you’d been too cautious in your career…
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with one of your books, This Is Your Brain on Music, in which you describe music as ‘organised…
Zan Boag: Your shots of actors, musicians and heads of state tend to attract the most attention, but you have also photographed protests and…
Zan Boag: I want to start with your definition of wisdom and why you think wisdom matters in our lives from moment to moment.…
Zan Boag: You have spent many years of your life on the road, moving from one country to the next. What does ‘travel’ mean…
Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end?…
If there were a word to sum up the human condition for South Korean artist Daehyun Kim, it would be conflict. It’s a topic…
Zan Boag: What does the word ‘observation’ evoke for you as a psychologist and a philosopher of mind, whose work has been about observing…
Zan Boag: Interestingly, my daughter has been studying your gorilla experiment at college over the last month. I’ve showed it to several people as…
