Ideas to change your life A clear look “What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is […]
Philosophy and you Seen and unseen There’s something deflating about the first time you spot a nebula through a telescope. You’re standing outside in the dark […]
Being Human Invisible experience In our current cultural moment, when the boundaries between public and private have been largely erased, Calle’s investigations are […]
News NFN: To see or not to see “So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its […]
Being Human The fourth wall It seems that Erving Goffman was not a nice man. He liked to ruffle feathers and watch the fallout. One […]
News NFN: The bystander effect “If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a […]
Being Human NFN: Seeing “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant […]
Being Human NFN: A blink of an eye “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun […]
Ideas to change your life Observation is all we have Nicholas Humphrey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics and Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. […]
Being Human NFN: A form of power “No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — Niels Bohr In quantum physics, […]
Ideas to change your life The invisible gorilla Daniel J. Simons is a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois where he heads the Visual Cognition Laboratory. […]
Being Human NP49: Observation digital edition Welcome to the digital version of New Philosopher magazine. Current digital and digital+print subscribers have been sent a password to […]
