Environment Divorced from nature: interview with Jane Goodall Dr Jane Goodall interviewed by New Philosopher’s editor Zan Boag in the ‘Nature‘ edition. Photo by Michael Neugebauer. Zan Boag: […]
Environment The end of progress David C. Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Interview by […]
Environment An app for an ailing planet It is often said that the first full image of the ‘blue planet’, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission […]
Ideas to change your life The call to your own true adventure Think, for a moment, of who you are today, right now, reading this wherever you are – waiting in an […]
Philosophy and you Are we getting smarter? Your typical adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them through […]
Philosophy and you Does the future matter? In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda […]
Money & Consumerism Alternative hedonism Imagine if we all wore the same clothes, lived in the same sort of house and drove the same sort […]
Life Human engineering You know the situation is getting desperate when three bioethicists propose genetically modifying humans to reduce our environmental impact. In […]
Death Rat race to the afterlife So you’ve spent your life accumulating money – you’ve worked hard, invested wisely; every waking moment has been devoted to […]
On Progress On progress John Gray, one of Britain’s most provocative philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss the ideas raised in The […]
Ideas to change your life Are we the barbarians? The ancient Greeks invented a whole bunch of important stuff: democracy, tragedy, philosophy (if you ignore India and China, which […]
Ideas to change your life The fourth revolution We live in amazing times. Digital media and the Internet have transformed how we exchange ideas, how we learn, how […]
Being Human Who are we behind closed doors? In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […]
Philosophy and you Piketty: unequal selves Thomas Piketty’s recent work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, provides disturbing evidence about the increasing inequality of income and wealth […]
Being Human The commercial self It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […]
Death Dying for your beliefs Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […]
Being Human Do you really know yourself? “Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […]
Being Human You are not who you think you are You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […]
Ideas to change your life Losing ourselves to technology Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […]
Being Human Invest in your masterpiece – yourself Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]
