Being Human Being outside yourself Interviewee: Simon Critchley. Interview by Nigel Warburton. Nigel Warburton: You’ve just written a book called ‘What We Think About […]
Illusions NP32 ‘Energy’ edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […]
Ideas to change your life Eternity projects By Marina Benjamin When the British Museum in London was in the process of acquiring its spectacular wave-form roof in […]
Life Medicating the masses In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […]
Life I should be so lucky Bailed after what he claimed was the accidental gunshot homicide of his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer (“Come on, Bill, let’s […]
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 […]
Happiness 13 questions: Ricky Gervais 1. What is your demon? Laziness. And fear of failure. Luckily, they usually cancel each other out, but it’s a […]
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 […]
Life Human engineering You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […]
Happiness A life worth living In 2006, scientists found a quahog clam living off the coast of Iceland that, on examination, turned out to be […]
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 […]
Life The project of being alive It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […]
Illusions You are your life, and nothing else Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world. […]
Life Game theory We sometimes joke about the world conspiring against us. For instance, I might suggest that it will rain today because […]
