Issue 58: Don't Be Evil

The Networks of Control

Is virtual competition truly open to all?

Maurice E. Stucke

Article

When the Winner Takes All

Is the fear of monopolies justified?

Article

Shadow of the Golem in Silicon Valley

Is merging man and machine a dangerous fantasy?

Vincent Mosco

Article

The Memory Monopoly

In a digital age, who decides what we remember?

Taha Yasseri

Article

Trust, Technology and The Young

Digital giants have nearly unlimited access to our private data. What happens to society’s youngest and most vulnerable?

Huw Davies

Article

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Virtual Monopolies and The Workers' Voice

Do online labour platforms exploit workers?

Alex J. Wood

Article

Privacy and the Dark Side of Control

Is control over our data enough to ensure privacy?

Woodrow Hartzog

Article

Issue 57: Knowing Others and Knowing Our Selves

Issue 57: Knowing Others and Knowing Our Selves

Are our minds and others' ultimately unknowable?

Editorial

Article

The Minds of Strangers

Can we ever know the experience of others?

Anita Avramides

Article

The Secrets of Experience

Is it really impossible to know another's mind?

John Heil

Article

Smoke and Mirror Neurons

Neuroscience boasts proof of human empathy. Have we jumped to the wrong conclusion?

Parashkev Nachev

Article

Cyberspace and the Self

Should we judge others by who they are online?

Patrick Stokes

Article

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How to Read a Mind

We think we know our own minds - are we deluded?

Keith Frankish

Article

Spotting the Killers On Our Streets

How do you know when you’re facing a murderer?

Chris Carter

Article

The Riddle of the Self

Does self-understanding lie in the search itself?

Joanna Kavenna

Article

The Factory of Virtual Fantasies

Chinese workers are fabricating glamorous online identities. But is a virtual existence as dangerous as we think?

Xinyuan Wang

Article

Issue 56: Morality and Prejudice

The Future of Moral Enhancement

Could chemical enhancement defeat human prejudice?

Julian Savulescu

Article

The Gamer's Dilemma

The idea of virtual rape provokes universal disgust. So why are we comfortable with children having killed an average of 100,000 people in video games by the age of 18?

Garry Young

Article

The Moral Hazards of Money

Does money pose objective moral problems?

Adrian Walsh

Article

Morality, Neuro-myths, and the Spurious Seduction of Evolutionary Ethics

Has neuroscience sold us a lie about the nature of morality?

Steven Rose

Article

Can Prejudice Enhance Morality?

Could prejudice be essential to good judgement?

Adam Sandel

Article

Issue 55: A Tribal World

Issue 55: A Tribal World

Is the tribe to be feared or embraced?

Article

How to Create a Cult

How do cults survive in the modern world?

Eileen Barker

Article

The Tribe of Science

Science is a creed like any other.

Rupert Sheldrake

Article

Total Isolation

What isolation taught me about the need for others

Ed Stafford

Article

A New Nationalism

The left has lost its sense of community and identity. Do we need to reconnect with nationalism before its too late?

Jonathan Cruddas

Article

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Community, Tribalism and Facebook

Anthropologist Daniel Miller investigates how Facebook has transformed one community in rural Trinidad

Daniel Miller

Article

The Art of Community

Are tribes dangerous, or essential to society?

Colin Tudge

Article