By William Watkin   Now Take one last look at your smartphone. You probably regard it as the cutting edge […]

By Roy Scranton. You can walk to the beach from where we are staying. It’s a long peel of dun-coloured […]

By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore A man walks into a mall. His eyes scan the crowds. Finally, he spots what he’s looking […]

By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use […]

By Antonia Case   “Can anyone doubt today that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and […]

“From this we learn that a wise prince sees to it that never, in order to attack someone, does he […]

Zan Boag: Have you arrived at your own definition of power? Keith Dowding: No, I don’t really have one, actually, […]

“Over a certain wealth level, particularly if you are Bill Gates, if you have several dozen billion dollars, you know […]

We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […]

Earth has lost half of its wild animals in the last forty years. What does it mean to be philosophical […]

It was a time of deep divisions, much like our day. Hatred seemed intractable and the curse of bias rife, […]

In November of last year I took part in a public debate in London; the motion – which I proposed […]

In the lead-up to the general election in the UK this year, everyone was talking about property. In the crowded […]

Dr Jane Goodall interviewed by New Philosopher’s editor Zan Boag in the ‘Nature‘ edition. Photo by Michael Neugebauer. Zan Boag: […]

Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]

Do you trust your doctor? Should you trust your doctor? A recent op-ed in The New York Times suggests that […]

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 […]

Your typical Australian adult from 1900 was pretty dumb, by today’s standards. Yank one off the street and run them […]

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 […]

In the midst of a nuclear war, an evacuation plane from England crash lands on a deserted, paradisiacal island in […]

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

A friend of mine recently sat in a waiting room in Singapore. The room was only large enough to hold […]

It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s […]

Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a […]

“Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – […]

You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been […]

Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into […]

I once had an introverted student who painted his fingernails black and doodled lines from Marilyn Manson songs in his […]

Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance […]

The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What […]

Interview with Adam Magyar What prompted you to do the “stainless” series, as well as your earlier work “squares” and […]

Why do we work so much? Why do we even work at all? For a great chunk of human history […]

Picture for a moment a world where technological innovation and industrial automation have finally brought us an era of unprecedented […]

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Some months ago I cut out of a shiny magazine some paragraphs written by a female journalist and describing the […]

In July 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. He […]

To see a person taking in the wonders of the sky is a rare sight when all but a few […]

It’s not the first time that a movie has been shown to a vegetative audience but for some reason the […]

We’re in perpetual motion; we can go anywhere, at any time, and the momentum builds. Before long, we’re planning another […]

Existentialist philosophers teach us that we alone are responsible for creating a meaningful life in an absurd and unfair world. […]

How well do you understand the world? Do you think you’ve got a good grasp of reality or not? Greek […]

1. What is the biggest threat to our minds? Our minds. 2. What is freedom? Non-compliance and creativity. 3. What […]

Sum yourself up in a couple of words. Users of social media do it to introduce themselves online. “Surfer, father, […]

Please answer True or False: 1. During World War I, the Germans ran a factory to boil down the battlefield […]

The path laid out for Australian-born Tim Cope was to go to university, get a job, a career, a house […]

The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of […]

By Patrick Stokes, Deakin University The announcement that Woolworths will phase out the selling of cage eggs seems like pretty […]

By Patrick Stokes, Deakin University And so now we officially know: philosophy is a waste. How can we be sure? […]

THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN ITS MYRIAD FORMS – BE IT FREE WILL, FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, PHYSICAL OR PERSONAL FREEDOM […]

It’s a dismal affair when the faces of people we don’t wish to remember – such as modern-day celebrities – […]

Every night at 6.00 pm, I want you to sit in a room for half an hour. During that time […]

By John Daley, Grattan Institute Many are puzzled by the political theory of carbon markets. Why does the Institute for […]

We sometimes joke about the world conspiring against us. For instance, I might suggest that it will rain today because […]

By Patrick Stokes, Deakin University Late one night recently I got a very frustrated email from a close friend. He’d […]

The Republic, Plato, Book VII AND now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is […]

The environmental crisis has never loomed so large nor been so extensively debated as in the last few years. But […]

Following my recent work on the possibilities of radical democracy, but most of all, in light of the historical demand […]

Greenpeace’s attempt to stop a ship carrying Australian coal is an opening shot in what is likely to be an […]

I really shouldn’t let myself watch Q&A. Don’t get me wrong, the ABC’s flagship weekly panel show is usually compelling […]