Flourish by Antonia Case selling out fast
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is in the…
Being Human
Essays, interviews and ideas from New Philosopher on Being Human.
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New Philosopher celebrates 10 years
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at the time,…
The obsolete human being
By William Watkin Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge of technology, and those cute icons…
Humans of the Anthropocene
By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured sand bordered by tidy rainbow summer…
Human trafficking
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking for: a teenage girl. Maybe 12…
Doing away with death
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned obsolescence in…
Caught in the web
By Antonia Case “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit?…
Defining ourselves
By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer to an ancient question: What is…
A new human era
Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years. What does it mean to be philosophical about this? The last time there…
Are you just a story?
In the early 1980s, a new idea began to find its way from philosophy of history and into the raging debate over personal identity: what if…
