Making hard choices
Zan Boag: When you first started out making decisions about what you were going to do with your life, you had to make a difficult choice…
Choice
Essays and ideas exploring choice, freedom, responsibility, indecision, and the forces that influence the decisions we make.
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Impossible choices
There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine an ass which is extremely hungry.…
13 questions with ChatGPT
ChatGPT in conversation with Kelly Truelove, based on the "13 questions" section in each edition of New Philosopher magazine. Kelly Truelove: Provide an impression of…
Mindset and manifestation
But the Stoic endorsement of mindset ends there. They would have us put more space between input and output; that is to say, they didn’t think…
The paradox of choice
Zan Boag: It’s hard for me not to start with an obvious question, which is: with all the options available to you as a psychologist –…
Are we free?
What’s your view on free will? Do you have one – and, if so, how much confidence do you have in it? Does it matter what…
