Idea/Death What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? Francesca Minerva & Adrian Rorheim
Essay/Personality Indescribable you Can novelists or psychologists better capture the strange multitude of realities in every human self? Carlin Flora
Idea/Philosophy of Mind If I teleport from Mars, does the original me get destroyed? Charlie Huenemann
Essay/Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon
Essay/Neuroscience Now you see it, now you… Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception Vebjørn Ekroll
Essay/History America’s hidden philosophy When Cold War philosophy tied rational choice theory to scientific method, it embedded the free-market mindset in US society John McCumber
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence How we learn to read another’s mind by looking into their eyes Tobias Grossmann
Essay/Demography & Migration Law in the Jungle The ultimate ‘outsider’ space, the Jungle refugee camp in Calais became its own society, the no-borders idea made real Natasha King
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I attend, therefore I am You are only as strong as your powers of attention, and other uncomfortable truths about the self Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Essay/Economics Of money and morals Moneylending has been taboo for most of human history. So how did usury stop being a sin and become respectable finance? Alex Mayyasi
Essay/Meaning & the Good Life Do we matter in the cosmos? Humanity is nothing more than a microscopic blip in the universe. But does that mean we are insignificant? Nick Hughes
Idea/Politics & Government Even the ancient Greeks thought their best days were history Johanna Hanink
Essay/Work The future is emotional Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable Livia Gershon
Essay/Quantum Theory Quantum common sense Despite its confounding reputation, quantum mechanics both guides and helps explain human intuition Philip Ball
Idea/Stories & Literature So I exaggerate a little – am I wrong to jazz up my stories? Andrea Askowitz
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence How totalism works The brainwashing methods of isolation, engulfment and fear can lead anyone to a cult. I should know – I was in one Alexandra Stein
Essay/Cognition & Intelligence Had a good think lately? Not busy-work, ticking off to-do lists or keeping-up-with-stuff. Just sitting. And thinking. Is it so hard? André Spicer
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence fAIth The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why? Beth Singler
Idea/Economics Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Essay/Subcultures What is a cult? Cults are exploitative, weird groups with strange beliefs and practices, right? So what about regular religions then? Tara Isabella Burton
Essay/Political Philosophy Theory from the ruins The Frankfurt school argued that reason is dangerous, mass culture deadening, and the Enlightenment a disaster. Were they right? Stuart Walton
Idea/Cognition & Intelligence We could all do with learning how to improvise a little better Stephen T Asma