Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher.
Interview with Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, award-winning neuroscientist, musician, and best-selling author. 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 sound’.…
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Emotions can hijack our minds. They prepare us for action, and they neighbour our perception. But they also reveal what matters to us most.…
Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Emeritus Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College and since 2016 has been visiting professor…
“If you can in one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.” These words were reportedly…
Imagine you were given the chance to become a superhero. Let’s say a genie pops out of an old urn you purchased at a…
From the Flourishing edition, available from our online store Existence is suffering. We don’t have to look far to see the…
I recently visited Japan for the first time. When I got back, and people asked me what I had found most interesting or surprising,…
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion… that we exist in order to be happy.” - Arthur Schopenhauer It’s not uncommon for people…
“Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man,” contends the Jesuit saying, which was popularised by the…
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
Last year, I attended a conference at a country house hotel that boasted a slightly battered baby grand in its lounge. From the moment…
