We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […]

In his most recent novel, Seveneves, sci-fi author Neal Stephenson coins an intriguing term: “Amistics”. Amistics describes “the choices that […]

If philosophy is good at one thing, it’s pointing out things that seem so obvious we don’t even notice them […]

“Life,” the American journalist and author Elbert Hubbard once quipped, “is just one damned thing after another.” Like many of […]

1. What is your demon? Laziness. And fear of failure. Luckily, they usually cancel each other out, but it’s a […]

People think that philosophy is about pondering, and ideally answering, questions like the following ones: Does life have meaning? What […]

Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]

It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to […]

David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […]

We frequently change our minds – most often about trivial things like the evening’s dinner plans, but sometimes about ideas […]

Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […]

Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […]

In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda […]

Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […]

You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […]

So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […]

We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […]

Rhys Bevan-Jones works and researches in the field of psychiatry in Cardiff. He is interested in the relationship between psychology/ […]

In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […]

Thomas Piketty’s recent work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, provides disturbing evidence about the increasing inequality of income and wealth […]