There’s never been a better time in history to be the kind of person who enjoys not eating things. In […]

Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to access […]

The Internet has transformed our economies, our culture and politics, and our very way of life to such an extent […]

New Philosopher‘s editor Zan Boag interviews Jane Roland Martin, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Zan […]

Here’s one of my favourite neologisms: “hangry.” It’s a punning portmanteau. To be hangry is to be angry because you’re […]

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

It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission […]

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 […]

The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […]

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 […]

In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging […]

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