“Over a certain wealth level, particularly if you are Bill Gates, if you have several dozen billion dollars, you know […]

In the lead-up to the general election in the UK, everyone was talking about property. In the crowded south of […]

To celebrate the publication of our 50th edition, we’re giving away 50 prizes to subscribers, with first prize a 50-edition […]

Over the last few years Scott had vacationed to countries like Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia and other destinations in Asia. He […]

Many of the great artists were travellers. Gauguin travelled to the islands of Martinique and Tahiti for inspiration; Van Gogh […]

It is unclear just how the “Man from Song” (Songren) acquired his reputation, but classical literature is replete with stories […]

Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […]

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

The 21st century has created a whole range of new types of professional that we have never had before – […]

“What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is […]

There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark […]

  In our current cultural moment, when the boundaries between public and private have been largely erased, Calle’s investigations are […]

  “So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its […]

  Nicholas Humphrey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics and Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. […]

It seems that Erving Goffman was not a nice man. He liked to ruffle feathers and watch the fallout. One […]

It’s rarely a good idea to take advice from a philosopher. (And yes, I’m a philosopher offering you that advice.) […]

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There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine […]

“All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connected as it were by some […]

“Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished […]